Some days it feels good to get away from the keyboard and get behind the console.
My office for the day.
Sound. In a barn.
#liveaudio #music #arts #countrylife
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Shawn Hooper (he/him) 🇨🇦
@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org
mastodon 4.7.3Long time web developer. #PHP, mainly #Laravel & #WordPress. I'm an advocate for an accessible & open web. Also learning more about engineering management, security, and privacy.
I'm a conference speaker, teacher. I'm the Director of Engineering and Security @ Actionable.co
I live in #Ottawa, Canada (Unceeded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation)
Still sometimes do live event sound/lighting, retired Karaoke Host & Wedding DJ.
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I announced on 3 social networks that I was going to #WeirdAl fonight.
By far the most reactions came from the #Fediverse.
My people! Why am I not surprised….
The period when NASA is expected to lose signal with Artemis II while it orbits around the dark side of the moon is 41 minutes long.
Pink Floyd's album, "Dark Side of the Moon" is 42 minutes and 50 seconds long.
Could the orbiter just tap the brakes... just a bit?
“I am Batman”
- this guy, probably
I don’t know this cat. It befriended me on a walk tonight.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/canada-0ue5f20qz/-/a-AewRwHWOQAOb7-6629VGKg%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
This is so silly. Just allow remote work. Problem solved.
Artemis II is on its way back to Earth.
I don't think everyone understands the gravity of this event.
🥁
RE: https://ottawa.place/@trecartin/116749180589669670
Yes Canadians. Signal has said they’ll pull out of Canada if C-22 passes.
Contact your MP today.
#Canada #CanadaBillC22 #privacy #encryption
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place oh, and it gets worse. Have you seen this yet? https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/oc-transpo-ad-campaign-to-encourage-public-servants-to-extend-their-time-downtown-after-work-this-fall/
Sure. Leave the kids at home waiting for dinner while you go out and enjoy Ottawa.
My heart goes out to the casts and crews of all the shows booked at Meredian Theatres at Centrepointe. All shows have been cancelled for the rest of the year due to flooding on July 1st.
This includes the upcoming productions of Frozen and Come From Away.
#ottawa
"The old internet was messy. Half-broken. Full of ugly forums, strange little blogs, abandoned tutorials, and personal sites that looked like they had been built at 2 a.m. by someone running on caffeine and obsession."
Graat post from @joost@joost.net on the need for refactoring and modernizing WordPress core.
University of Waterloo developing bacteria that can eat cancerous tumours from the inside out.
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/beating-cancer-eating-cancer
https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-reaction-ai-space-orbit.html
I can see it now:
"AWS region space-2 is down today due to a collision with space debris, which ironically was the abandoned space-1 data centre, which lost connectivity after a misconfigured DNS entry."
Backstage is so organized :)
OpenAI shutting down Sora.
No complaints from me.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
For those of you who work in live production.
https://superproductionquest.com/
This is hilarious. Reminds me of all the old text-based PC games I played back when I had free time, before working in production.
"A patent granted to Google on January 27, 2026 titled “AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user” describes a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/
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@mike@fosstodon.org *blink* *blink* no, I read that right. That’s a little warm.
I think I’d become nocturnal if I lived in that.
Stay cool.
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place I’m so glad I moved out of the city boundaries. And have a WFH job. It’s a privilege I’m very glad to have.
Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.
Unless you opt out.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/
Looking at the apps on my computer that are >= 1GB.
How is XCode 12 GB?!
This is neat. Testing framework for CLI tools. Creates GIFs.
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This is the best photo I've seen yet showing where the fire happened at the Eugene O'Neil theatre in NYC.
Explains the followspot I saw in photos circulating earlier this week.
@amberhinds@fosstodon.org I shared your accessibility checklist with one of my front-end colleagues today. His reply:
"Great resource! thank them on my behalf :saluting_face:. this seems like a good excuse for a fun weekend project using Chrome DevTools MCP :smile:"
So, thanks :)
https://equalizedigital.com/website-accessibility-testing-checklist/
Anyone else I know going to be in Toronto for #AWSSummit next month? Just registered today.
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@bytebro That would be fantastic.
The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk.
Surprise "The Bear" episode! :)
"Titled “Gary,” the episode accompanies Bernthal’s Mikey and Moss-Bachrach’s Richie as they embark on a trip to Gary, Indiana. The episode precedes the first season of The Bear, which takes place after Mikey’s death by suicide."
This is neat.
Thank you @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social for this quote:
"AWS pricing is where dreams go to get itemized"
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@michael That's awesome. Well done Dad, supporting your son's projects :)
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@macdonst@mastodon.online Nice. See you there. I'll be the bald white guy. Should be easy to spot.
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@otto42@mastodon.social I mean, fair. But still, facepalm.
Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google-owned YouTube negligent in designing addictive platforms
https://ground.news/article/20c3b07f-310a-4663-a00b-45b3714368af
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@canadianglen why are we talking about him again? This isn’t the first time I’ve seen his name in recent days.
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@emd@cosocial.ca I have so may spare batteries and partial rolls of gaff tape. lol.
Ottawa Bluesfest. Week 2! Here we go.
#OttawaBluesfest
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@bethmaru@mastodon.social Not that I’m aware of. It’s a Disney/Hulu one in the US.
In fact… I don’t think I have any way of watching this right now either. Doh.
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@macdonst@mastodon.online That might be too generic. I have a beard. That should narrow it down.
Going to see #TheGuessWho for the closing night of #OttawaBluesfest tonight.
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@macdonst Be careful. You'll get so high you'll be in low earth orbit.