I like the phrasing that Mastodon is actually "Social Media," and all that other stinking crapfest is Algorithmic Media.
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@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Andy Hunt is a musician, programmer, consultant, award-winning/best-selling author and publisher. One of 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, co-founder Pragmatic Bookshelf publishers. If you pitch AI "solutions" you are dead to me.
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Remember when computers were *not* adversarial, privacy and soul-sucking demons shredding every aspect of humanity?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
RE: https://beige.party/@cap_ybarra/117035096000288076
Almost like you’d need to be a… pragmatic programmer
Never, ever use GoDaddy. I mean I never have, for a variety of reasons, but this really takes the cake:
https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/
Er, what do you mean, Backblaze silently doesn't actually backup everything? WTF? You had one job!
Cool to see lists of "laws of software engineering" where several of them came from me ;)
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
I am of course patting myself on the back, but srsly, when shit gets weird, go back and pay attention to fundamentals. There's a good reason why they are still around.
He's right, but *everything* is tradeoffs. There is rarely a concept of a single correct answer. We made that point hard back in The Pragmatic Programmer 1stEd, and not only has it not changed, I posit it's even MORE important today.
"All your data and compute is belong to us." The open web, personal ownership of data and computing hardware, open source itself, is all under attack at the moment.
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law
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@simulo See https://growsmethod.com/practices/TracerBullets.html and https://growsmethod.com/articles/four_keys.html
Also feel free to ask me any questions here on masto.
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social in fact, you should contact those Pirate Bay folks and offer this as their motto
Check out this interview with me, about life, the universe, "agile", seniority, AI, and more...
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SmfRIzD34&list=PLdfyO9jh6Ls6fEFmEVdJXFM0ZCJZ7s__b&index=1
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Dx2WlmmSz8YHIztUzjLJ0?si=820d3d5d2b96411d
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einfach-gel%C3%B6st/id1872365636
RSS: https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/UINh3V57.rss
Any networking fans (ethernet, wifi, dhcp, not interpersonal) here?
Because my previous ISP is going bankrupt and due to physical limitations of long-run cables, I have to bring in the new Internet feed to the middle of the LAN, and the main Nighthawk router (which does NAT and DHCP) is not at all happy at having a WAN in the middle of its LAN. (ya got peanut butter in my chocolate!)
Suggestions on the easiest, cleanest, safest way to address? (I can't run extra cables)
This is the way: "The farm equipment industry spent 20 years adding complexity and cost. Ursa Ag is wagering that a significant number of farmers never wanted any of it."
https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116953206785519222
What. The. Actual. -- chrome grabs a *global* key shortcut without so much as a "by your leave, kind sir".
One of the fatal sins of any product or dev team is assuming that your one piece of shit software is the ONLY thing your poor hapless users will ever run. See also: chrome memory usage.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165
The best time to drop Chrome was months ago. The second best time is now.
Open quoted postIf you pitch me some AI-fueled bullshit service offering I shall call you and your mother vile names, cast doubt upon the legitimacy of your birth and your mother’s multiple partners, and indeed on the intimate nature of your own relationship. Then I will block your ass forevermore.
Happy May the Fourth. I still have my original poster from 1977. None of the "New Hope Part IV" nonsense. Just "Star Wars", as God intended ;)
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By which I mean, not at all and in no way.
If it's not open source, it's spyware.
And even then, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
RE: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
All your data are belong to us
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time,”—Jean-Michel Basquiat
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@scalzi Indeed it seems pretty questionable ;) I think I missed this one, and I was sure I had signed up to ALL the plugin manufacturers!
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@orchun Yeah I've met folks like that, usually from the "coding is just typing" school of thought. Alas.
"Today, Silicon Valley’s centre of gravity is moving from the ‘Californian ideology’ – the 1990s fusion of counterculture libertarianism and digital utopianism – toward what the communication professor Fred Turner recently called the ‘Texan ideology’: a century-old fusion of resource exploitation and millenarian Christianity, the conviction that providential destiny justifies the conquest of nature and the extraction of its wealth."
https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem
I'm working on an arrangement of an Elton John track for string quartet, recording sessions coming up next week.
Fascinating how preparing scores for layout is EXACTLY like typesetting a book. Which I've also done a lot of over the years ;)