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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 1mo ago

Today I saw elevated activity on a client's server... Checked the logs, getting hammered by AmazonProductDiscoveryBot... cool, cool. Turns out, Amazon will, in some cases, list companies on their marketplace automatically, without consent, via information gathered using this bot. In other words - they'll try to automatically become a middleman between you and your customers. How the fuck is this even legal?

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

If a software vendor can impose sweeping policy changes on “your community” against your will, it's not actually yours. #Discord #SelfHost #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @jaffathecake@mastodon.social it’s hard to believe the “kill switch” will actually do what it says. We’ve been told time and time again “AI” will be “opt-in” just to have the features repeatedly turned back on after users have disabled them. Why is this *any* different?

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

There is a special circle of hell for people who send messages one line at a time.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

“I do not know of any other language that has as flexible, powerful, and compact a partial function application syntax as PHP 8.6 will have. Here, #PHP would seem to be the innovator.”

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/08/partial-application/

PHP 8.6 kicks off with partial function application

thephp.foundation

PHP 8.6 kicks off with partial function application

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@notthatdelta@furry.engineer @lexfeathers@tenforward.social trend is strengthening at over 5x the sample size lol

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Meyerweb in my experience the only people complaining about CSS have never bothered to actually attempt to understand it

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

It was such a pleasure to speak at the #eleventy meetup yesterday!

#Laravel and #11ty make for an interesting combination with loads of flexibility and power.

Find out how I put these two together to implement a strategy I'm calling Incremental Content Management:

https://www.joshvickerson.com/posts/incremental-content-management-with-laravel-and-eleventy/

Josh Vickerson

Incremental Content Management with Laravel and Eleventy

This is a recording of a talk I presented at the 11ty Meetup on February 4th, 2026. I tell the story of how I used Eleventy to quickly add a blog to an existing website and application originally built with Laravel.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 2mo ago

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io @codinghorror@infosec.exchange it’s like when pro-gun people say banning guns won’t stop people from breaking the law as if that’s an argument against banning guns.

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ben (@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@annaecook@mastodon.social I once had a "chief design officer” say to me designing for accessibility felt like, "being a chef told he can't use certain ingredients” and I just…… I feel I deserve an award for the professionalism I displayed in not challenging his creative skills on the spot.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

RE: @josh@vickerson.me

Spent all day working on my slides for this… I sure hope some of you show up 😅

#Laravel + #11ty is a fun space to play in, even for a simple blog. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow 😄

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson: "Today I wrote the outline for my upcoming talk an…" - Mastodon

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Jeremiah Finally, a code format that works in Microsoft Word

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@skinnylatte Bluehost deserves to be on that list as well.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@amber@front-end.social I don’t. My regular hourly rate accounts for some assumed meeting time.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

I love Tailscale 🥰

Aaaand send toot!

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@beep @aworkinglibrary you can’t just dox someone by releasing their full birth name like that, Ethan… Nevertheless, this does fucking rule.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Pairing my AirPods to my Apple TV never gets old.

One of the few things that still feels like “the future” to me, tbh.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@tomw Yuuuuuuuuuuup. They removed developer mode at the end of 2023 and it's gone (even more) downhill ever since.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@cferdinandi I mean, it’s fine. The issue is when people text me this way, it’s an onslaught of notifications. So either I throw my phone into the ocean (easily tempting living at the beach!)… Or I mute the conversation. Many people have been muted 🫠

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@robryk I haven’t heard of that, no. My issue is specifically around notifications. Someone sending me 6 messages in a row generating 6 rapid-fire notifications is infuriating 😵‍💫 I disable them as often as I can, but sometimes they have to remain on.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com a thing often avoided by... knowing how things work 😭

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com one of my lifelong frustrations has been how little most people seem to care about how anything they use on the regular actually works. By and large, zero interest from the average person in understanding what they use at even a high level.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@MikeStok who am I to impose limitations on you?

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@brad_frost one of the best parts of going independent for me. I primarily work with sole proprietors, so the “process" mostly amounts to "just talking" and it's great. (save my own internal project tracking)

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@11tyCMS@mstdn.social Congratulations!! Very excited to check this out 😍 I have a few projects to test with

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 30mo ago

Replying to

@brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net thanks, I hate it.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@frivoal@w3c.social technically no, but the experience is only good on Apple devices. Others can join by link. But yeah, that’s a big limitation, obviously. https://support.apple.com/en-us/109364

Apple Support

Join a FaceTime call from an Android or Windows device - Apple Support

Got an Android or Windows device? With FaceTime links in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, anyone can join a FaceTime call from their web browser.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 19mo ago

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@frivoal@w3c.social the closest I can think of is FaceTime but it’s live captions are English only at the moment, as far as I can tell

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 5mo ago

Out celebrating my birthday (last week) with friends today.

I don’t like cake much (scandalous), so we got a banana cream pie.

Birthday pie > birthday cake.

I will die on this hill. #CakeSucks

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@katzenberger @robryk This applies to any app that generates a notification with each message. Nice that Android has that feature - you couldn’t pay me to switch tho

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 6mo ago

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@jcoglan@mastodon.social @peter@thepit.social worse is how many people who’ve never wanted to know how anything works have become convinced they are now experts at anything they want. not wanting to learn stuff has always been a widespread problem. those people are now being told they’re the future 🫠

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 8mo ago

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@lea Hooray! 🥳 See you there 😄

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson @josh@vickerson.me

· 7mo ago

You mean you haven’t binge watched 3 seasons of Madam Secretary in as many weeks?

Just me, then?

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