Writing is the process of using words to coax dropplets of rain from a diffuse cloud of ideas. The trouble is, sometimes the rain falls in the wrong place and you're forced to decide whether to try again, or to replant the farm where the rain is.
independent software developer, writer, musician, hiker, coffee drinker, mac user
Constantly
I'm sure a younger me would be dissapointed, but I unironically love getting paid by ol-faithful, ol-reliable, simple, easy, dependable: check in the mail.
Everyone can do it and I don't have to make/manage accounts in a dozen bad payment sites.
Eternal Wisdom from a Web Developer:
- The only way to truly know if an email is valid is to send something to it.
- The only way to know if two links point to the same place is to fetch them.
What might the future of social media look like given what we know about the Web, and the current situation with Twitter/Mastodon?
My take: If things go right and the stars align the Social Web could become like Email, and that would be great.
Anyone know if stupid-easy/fully-featured websocket support is coming to Django anytime soon? I'm looking for something as nice to use as django's caching, but for websockets. A django.contrib.websocket package perhaps?
Would also be interested in helping work on it if needed.
Wow. TIL that American and European CSV files are not the same. They are actually two different formats.
Just searched the App Store for my own app by name and the app appeared nowhere in the results. Thanks Apple.
Three weeks ago I bought a new hoodie that turned out to be heavier than I’d expected. I was worried I’d never get to wear it in SD.
I was wrong. Great purchase.
Just finished the amazing book “Never the Wind” by Francisco Dimitri (@fdimitri)
A wonderful book. I haven’t read such a powerful book in a long time.
Last night I made a thing!
Do you want a new piece of randomly-generated line art every single day? Well do I have something for you! You can even subscribe to the daily feed! It's a little toy project, but toys are what make the Web fun.
I am sad to see things at Twitter be so hectic, but it does make me laugh.
Sometimes all we can do is laugh at the absurdity of a thing, even if its not actually very funny.