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mez

@mez@mastodon.nz

Work: Web & software development 🧑🏼‍💻

Play: Ultimate (retired?) 🥏, climbing 🧗🏼, tramping 🏕, D&D 🧙🏼‍♂️

My header is from the Oregon on the US west (best) coast.

That's Guster in my profile pic with me. He's a good pupper, but couldn't move to New Zealand with me.

He/Him, wouldn't be fussed by They

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joncounts, to random
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Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.

I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

#population #humans

mez,
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@joncounts It’s so hard to grasp! I want to find a graph that does it by country or continent too. I’d love to see the changes in the USA or North America compared to China or Europe.

polotek, to random
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Last week was my first time really looking into what settings are available to admins who run their own instance. I was a bit surprised to find there isn't much there. At least through masto.host. I don't think they hide settings though. Only some of the deeper technical stuff.

mez,
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@polotek @mastohost A year ago or so I remember someone talking about how they basically DDOS’d themselves because they had a decent number of followers and posted a spicy take or a “it’s my birthday” message and got hammered with replies. Maybe @aral ?

mekkaokereke, to random
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Happy !

Day 26: Bama football

Q: OK fine! There's a lot of racism! But we can't do anything about it! You can't change hearts and minds! I've flipped from denial to helplessness! Talking about racism depressed me and makes me feel bad, because we can't do anything about it! So, can you stop talking about it?

A: No, we won't stop talking about it. Yes, we can do something about it. Let's look at one specific example of a reduction in racism, driven by racists themselves! 🙂🙃

mez,
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@mekkaokereke

motoridersd, to bitwarden
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Installed . Will have to tinker with this later to see if it's worth moving my vault to a self-hosted instance instead of directly with

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

mez,
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@motoridersd I made the switch a few months back. Bitwarden’s apps/extensions aren’t as polished as 1pass, but I’ve had 0 issues with Vaultwarden. Happy with the switch, especially with 1pass’s change to subscription hosted only model.

essentiallife, to pnw
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It's been a while since I offered an entry into #mosstodon, so here goes. I was enjoying a hike through Lacamas Park in southern #WashingtonState, and there was oodles of #moss everywhere. Stay tuned for more #PNW greenery! 😄

mez,
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@essentiallife @jaredwhite It’s so hard to get good photos in a forest, nice work! The lighting and depth of field is so pleasing here!

mez, to random
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@Homebrewandhacking in this article, https://homebrewandhacking.com/2023/10/13/spellcasting-without-spell-slots-a-design-process-example-i/, is the only way to recover spell points through hit dice and not long rests?

I liked the cinematic of Jack’s proposal. Being able to “dig deep” is missing in 5e. But it also makes casters even more powerful in his exploration.

adastra, to Blog
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New #blog post about (re)reading The Hunger Games and its prequel: https://chaosworks.org/2024/hunger-games/
#retroweb #indieweb #blogpost #hungergames #bookstodon

mez,
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@adastra Is there a simple way to reveal the blurred spoiler text from mobile?

mez,
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@adastra Huh, mobile safari doesn’t work but Firefox on iOS does. That makes no sense. I will assume something on my end! Thanks

fraying, to random
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Hate-watched the first episode of the Last Airbender live action show to see if it’s as bad as everyone said and it might be even worse. Terrible dialog, wooden acting, terrible story restructuring so that the first episode is entirely infodumping. Just bad choice after bad choice.

mez,
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@fraying ☹️

mez,
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@fraying That’s the one other thing I’ve heard about it: “Who asked for gritty and dark?”

Which… yeah, I get has it’s place and I enjoy, but that’s so far from the animated show the vast majority of the time.

miclgael, to random
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Lol at the endless nested folders in my Downloads directory.

Hey, its a strategy.

Downloads  
└── Clean up - Feb  
 └── Tidy Jan  
 └── Tidying up Dec  
 └── Cleanup - October 2022  
 └── Archive 2021
mez,
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@miclgael ⌘A, ⌘⌫

mez, to webdev
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While we’re all trying to figure out best practices for web components, I think we need to also be discussing when they are the best solution for the situation.

I’ve been trying to use them to add a search input for a table of data, and based on styling and how the Shadow DOM works, I’m just not convinced this is actually a good use case. It has fragility hidden by the structure of web component technologies.

#WebComponent #WebDev

panda, to rust
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I just setup Vaultwarden and moved away from SaaS Bitwarden.

Vaultwarden is FAST. It loads within the blink of an eye.

and 's devs is really killing it.

mez,
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@panda It’s also extremely satisfying when you see Bitwarden post that they’ll have downtime when a new update happens and it doesn’t affect you.

mez,
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@panda Fair point and it’s a good setup. Their clients do this well (including with Vaultwarden)

miclgael, to random
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If in your job you had to change a Twitter icon into an X icon. I’m sorry.

mez,
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@miclgael The Guardian just said “Screw it” and changed to a “Copy link” button instead!

mez, to random
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@eleventy Is the date on the conference website my local timezone or somewhere else?

mez,
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@eleventy Thanks! Just need to know which side of the date line it is! 😅

cory, to webdev
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📝: Building a bespoke now-playing web component #WebDev #JavaScript #Eleventy https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/building-a-bespoke-now-playing-web-component/

mez,
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@cory Any reason you set the template up outside of the component class?

mez,
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@cory Nah, I’m just trying to figure out the best way to do it too! I had put it on this.template in a similar fashion. While sort of disconnected, it does seem a bit cleaner. Not sure. It’s at least not duplicated in the markup!

I do like the conditional to check if the end-author has supplied their own, that’s a neat trick!

mez, to foss
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Hashtagging and boosting this from a few days ago to try to see if I can get enough traction to get some insights. #NextCloud #FOSS https://mastodon.nz/@mez/111910114039402903

mez, to random
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Trying to write a blog post about web components to understand the various ways they can be authored and used, but it’s just an absolute pile of mostly disjointed notes and thoughts. I’m not even sure what I want out of web components yet.
How do I pull this word vomit in to something cohesive??

kissane, to random
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Genuine, non-snarky question for devs building things on ActivityPub: Is the idea of "socializing" technical changes/add-ons just…kind of not a thing in this slice of FOSS?

In my experience, this stuff varies widely across subfields and projects, and I guess I'd expected it to be table stakes ~here, but maybe not?

mez,
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@kissane I’m extremely on the side-line here, but it feels like at least a couple of unfortunate things are at play in why this may not be happening. One is the techbro mantra of “Move fast and break things” - even if one isn’t a techbro, that mantra has wormed its way into the culture. Even just “I’m programming and it’s cool that this thing I wrote works and does X” has echos of it.

mez,
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@kissane The other thing is microblogging hot-takes. “I have a strong controversial opinion, and that’s good for Engagement” - I can see this playing both on the side of implementing a feature or in the feedback to a feature - possibly making the creator less likely to solicit or take feedback on board.

joncounts, to FIRE
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Here's Marley's Hill in the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, as seen from our house. The photo of it on fire is this morning, the other I took on Saturday.

I've been taking photos of this view every fortnight from our deck, watching how the hill has been recovering from the 2017 Port Hills fire. The clock has just been reset.

See Flickr for the full-res photos if you want to zoom in.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/53529741335/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/53529309841/

#fire #PortHIlls #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NZTwit

A photo Marley's Hill in the Port Hills, Ōtautahi-Christchurch, New Zealand. It's covered mostly in young pines that have grown up since the 2017 Port Hills fire.

mez,
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@phil_stevens @joncounts 100% this is what I was thinking. I’m from a pine-region in the USA originally. Coevolved with fire is a great way to put it. They, as a whole, do well with fire. Not getting fire is bad for their ecosystems (and makes the fires worse when they happen)

mez, to random
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I'm still confused by the @nextcloud ecosystem and development. At first blush it seems mature and stable, but then I find weird / obvious UI issues (items from Tasks only show on the monthly calendar view). They seem to be investing in AI integrations, but ignoring unbelievably large client-side JS downloads or the aforementioned basic UI feature completion.

I get it isn’t enterprise software and is OSS, so that’s fine. But it feels scattershot. What am I missing?

mez,
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@viktor @nextcloud Thanks for the reply Viktor! Rewriting in Vue is a big undertaking. (Do you know if it’s v2 or v3?)

I’m unfamiliar with the history (aside from something something ownCloud), and I think that plays in to my surprise at certain bugs when I see stable releases and high version numbers. Are the core apps (calendar, deck, etc) developed at different cadences and by different teams? It’s a really big ecosystem, and that complexity is what I want understand.

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