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Jeff Miller (orange hatband)
@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3Software dev, early XP'er, Seattle + SFBay, astronomer interrupted, #needlecraft , #FedWiki, Weatherpixie revivalist, #journalGaming
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Downtown Seattle on a misty night with ferry and Ferris wheel
Weatherpixie Revival:
Not quite the last rose of the late summer flush, but the last of the pink blooms with a rose-citrus scent.
Crow! At the survey marker. #birdcallout
Watching Ousterhout's 1hr video on CS 190 and A Philosophy of Software Design captures something that has felt missing in the field: teaching sensibility through project based work and criticism. It's the studio class from Richard Gabriel's vision of a Master of Fine Arts degree in Software.
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@norootcause@hachyderm.io I had hoped that Theory of Constraints would catch us before Ironies of Automation, but you correctly identify automated on-call incident remediation as an area fully exposed to the Bainbridge Syndrome: when things go bad in an automatic controls system, they go horribly wrong.
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@quinn@social.circl.lu I recall an observation about the US, having no official state religion, became a competitive marketplace for churches and cults that had the most compelling and sticky offerings for participants to foster growth and engagement.
I also see pride in positional, institutional competition, like "where are the Wiccan sponsored hospitals?" Which is a terrible way to locate caring for each other.
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@nesce@mastodon.social Your own personally tailored religion, these days, metrics-optimized to your needs
Someone who answers your prayers, someone who cares.*
*Depeche Mode; though Johnny Cash did a version, so he felt it resonate, as well.
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@enkiv2@eldritch.cafe @mwichary@mastodon.online Google+ was driven by fear of Facebook taking away ad exposures.
It's not so clear what the push for Gemini is being driven by. Some abstract fear of missing out on being a strong brand in our brave new conversational inference world?
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@glyph@mastodon.social I love that The Psychology of Software Teams is from the CRC Press imprint, as if it's about engineering the process for making chemical rubber like the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and the Handbook of Mathematical Tables.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Perhaps it's a reference to The Far Side, where the professor realizes that unlike the academics seated in the rest of the lecture hall, he has forgotten his duck.
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@jamesshore@mastodon.online I love the framing that brings maintenance costs sharply into focus, because "what does the effect of agentic code assistance look like over time?" might be answered in coder terms as "a race into the Big Ball of Mud" or "shipping the prototype, over and over"...
...while the policy decisions on tooling are taken at a level where "cost of maintenance" communicates the issue in terms congruent to the questions on the table better than the terms a developer might use.
California in Seattle. A poppy on by the sidewalk on the southern exposure side of the street.
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop Oh wow, thanks for the callback to Gabrielle Blair's original.
Call: Men, why do we do the laundry?
Response: To protect our families.
(and on for the rest of teaching and modeling good habits)
Better than ending up a heroic warrior in Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gate to Women's Country".
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@docpop@mastodon.social The flags in dog poop story I know from SF was "Civic Pride" mini signs, from 2001 or so. Maybe Noe Valley? My source can't recall.
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@glyph@mastodon.social Preach.
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@annaleen@wandering.shop Indeed, I have been a perpetrator of Tweet Your Breakfast, usually in the form of Fresh Apple Coffee Cake, adapted from the Sunset Magazine Breakfast and Brunch Cookbook and now baked from memory.
#food
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Public art at Seattle Fire Department Station 9: https://seattlearts.emuseum.com/objects/2839/nine-lives "Nine Lives", a black cat ever ready to rescue those in its district from fire, a riff on the Eveready Batteries 9-Lives cat.
Under the cat is ANOTHER public artwork, the dot codes punched out by the historic block by block fire alarms, run by clockwork-driven telegraph signals. When the alarm is pulled, the spring unwinds, and the dot code is sent to the fire station.
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@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems We had wasps under our roof for a season. They were relatively chill and tolerant of me capturing them under a jar for release if they mistakenly took the wrong way out of the nest and ended up in the house.
Would not host again, but was mostly "oh right, wasps?" and checking the shower curtain.
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A3. Drastic mistake? Left an incomplete embroidery on the bus at a transfer station. Oh dear! Measured once, cut... and it was too short, so I switched to another fabric. Plaid instead of denim. . Broke a needle on the sewing machine. Happens. Forgot the sugar in a cake. Still edible but not what I had intended.
Did I learn anything? Move a little more cautiously, plan to repeat a step if needed.
#MakersHour
Planted out the tomato seedlings into their outdoor containers after dark. Air and soil very warm still.
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@susankayequinn The Connecticut Yankee Repair Club.
or The Make It Work Out Repair Club
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@RuthMalan I actually love your definitional construction of what rationalization is.
I take "The rational in rationalize is a head fake" as a definition of the entire concept, "rationalization" as an accessory after the fact that explains away what happened and gives it a box and a label.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io @RnDanger@infosec.exchange Escape rooms at Mox are news to me!
There are Seattle (on Leary in the Ballard neighborhood) and Bellevue locations of Mox, of which Seattle's used to be the Card Kingdom storefront, rebranded to be less specific to MtG cards.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io OHAI waving from across town!
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@glyph@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop what if we pretend we never knew about robots.txt and made people pay Cloudflare or Recaptcha ar install Anubi, just like spam email? The scraper poisoning will be a neglectable tiny portion, less than ignore all previous instructions and drop table SCAN -- ?
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@jamesshore@mastodon.online Better you bringing the news about maintenance costs than the auditors hired by the Board of Directors two years hence.
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@parisba@cloudisland.nz prior art for "hey computer do this": the Google Search onebox as website dispatcher...
...except that GSearch has removed "I'm Feeling Lucky".
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@marick "rollback of scribbled page" is my most numerous edit.
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io The Spin is In! https://github.com/shanselman/ScenicSpin
Timely as even though the weather is great and I have a bike, I could use more options for getting me up, and the engineering graduate in residence has a stationary bike in the basement already.
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io Has the repository moved? I went to PedalScape and followed the GitHub link ("View Source on Github") and got a page not found, nor did I find PedalScape by searching.
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@tastapod@mas.to Douglas R. Hofstadter referred to the escape phrase from a futile conversation, "Excuse me, I believe I'll have some more punch."
That's a little obscure, even to fans of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Your term. "content horizon" seems apt and direct.
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@kirch@tilde.zone The beginning of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson has the proverbial feral hogs disrupting air traffic and showing up now and then in the narrative. They get around.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io The Sanctuary movement for refugees was strong in Tucson when I lived there in the 1990s. I wonder about the continuity of attitudes and issues into the ICE era.
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@Da_Gut@dice.camp Precision and attention to detail! 🦺🎌
The tiling pattern in the new sidewalk seems to art more than structure, the brushed concrete squares matching the pebbled tiles of the older sidewalk. Narrower runs of the new pavement along expanded tree wells are brushed but not tile-patterned.
Appreciating the online craft group. I pinned, re-pinned, and re-pinned the headband for the Newsboy Cap project while we talked birds and collage and accessibility accommodations in art, and how everyone who knits has a different technique, even aside from the obvious "which cast-on do you use?"
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@xdydx@mastodon.social It's such a clear signal of a pattern of claiming territory and exerting extractive ownership.
None of that is new, as it's slowly dawned on me. The telephone data era and network access had these patterns. "Burglar alarm" circuits being repurposed as DSL last-mile, then yanked back by the local phone company.
But since Web 2.0 and mobile Internet, this has been a bit of a blitzkrieg of successive moves to become indispensable from the infotech platforms. The hurried and careless roll-out of commerce and private information transfer for convenience and profit, enabling petty fraud and theft, thereafter being a justification for slowly, imperfectly locking down the platforms and protocols to the large incumbents.
Leaving aside the entire digital rights management food fight.
And here we are, with a stack of expedient repairs maintained by somewhat conflicted actors negotiating with each other and only intermittently checked by the sleepy audit and protection functions of external governance.
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@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud Problem -> Solution -> Book -> Discussion Groups -> Community of Practice.
That's how it's supposed to work, right?
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io Thanks!
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@dansinker@omfg.town Now that I have an international correspondent or two, I shall have to think about sending them some real postal mail.
I remember the Forever Stamp showing up as a remedy for postal First Class letter rate inflation and drawers of inadequate stamps. I had missed the International Forever Stamp arriving.
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A2. For fabric makes, finished when it's completely assembled, edges bound, or when the embroidery pattern is complete, rinsed and dried.
#MakersHour
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@jef@mastodon.social Fallen AT-AT Walker being scrapped
Alas fountain, I will miss your happy splashing from years past.
(I was never cool enough to be a skater of board, but I still have my inline skates from years passed)
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@dansinker@omfg.town Oh hey USPS has Global Forever stamps? News to me.
hmm maybe I can find some onionskin airmail paper for my typewriter.
https://www.usps.com/international/first-class-mail-international.htm
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@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems One sting in a whole season of wasps under the roof was good evidence for pretty mild disposition.
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@kirch@tilde.zone I also had occasion to recall dice dot com. Happy to see it as a Still Alive survivor from the early Web.
Larger pepper seedlings going into the outdoor greenhouse. One tray of smaller seedlings going back inside.
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@kirch@tilde.zone "Will It Blend?" nightmare melting reality edition.
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A4. Mastodon is my Instagram for sharing work and work in progress. Or showing to other online craft meeting participants.
#MakersHour
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@xdydx@mastodon.social "We're losing the ability to audit" jumps out at me as making the power shift of appliance-izing everything permanent.
I was nodding along, agreeing about 50%, and then "Let me be specific about the damage. We're losing the ability to audit."
And pow, there it is. We're living in someone else's machine.