Dude, why did no one ever tell me that being on the buyer’s side of a Sales Call is also stressful? I’ve literally been on the Seller’s side to help with all the complicated, difficult questions and angry outbursts. I’m a pro at handling that world.
My stress response goes WILD in the other situation.
Slowly redesigning my personal site on localdev tonight. Right now, it’s just a sandbox for experiments, but my hope is to design something that feels unique to me.
Also, something that feels less ugly than what I’m using.
@deadsuperhero this has been my goal for over 12 years now. 😳 My own site is so bad I avoid mentioning it if I can. I’ll even use one of my alternate emails addresses if I don’t want someone to check the website behind my main email address.
Looking through some listicles for “2024 Web UI design concepts”, and it’s a bunch of crap about AI, Augmented Reality, 3D models in the browser, big fonts, video backgrounds, and motion design.
Like, sure, in a talented pair of hands, that could look good? But where are the experimental things, like unique widgets that do something new, or wild new layouts that people have never tried before?
We’re more capable than ever to make cool stuff happen on the Web, and the big things being promoted are boring, unimaginative, or over a decade old.
I feel like the way #Nostr does apps is superior to how we do it in the #Fediverse.
This isn’t to say that Nostr apps are inherently better. Some Mastodon apps have an incredible amount of polish, and extremely creative features.
Nostr’s standardization on identity and credentials and appended data is really, really good, though. Everything I sign into just works. Whereas, as a Non-Mastodon user with partial MastoAPI support, that isn’t always the case. I often have to cross my fingers and hope it works.
@Qazm Yeah, C2S kind of demands a lot from developers, in that each client has to implement a lot of the logic on its side.
The Masto API is comparatively really easy to work with, but you’re limited to what Mastodon allows. A client dev can work around that with bespoke features, but you’re dealing with whatever data requirements Mastodon specifies.
Part of me just wishes that Pixelfed and PeerTube and Funkwhale could’ve just ended up as clients, instead of full-stack federation platforms themselves. But, we’re way past that point now.
@boris Yeah, I almost wonder whether Open ID Connect could work as a suitable secure layer around the keypair. Even better if your account could easily generate a new keypair, if the old one has been compromised.
Of course, people might just say “what the heck, you’ve just reinvented OAuth!”, but being able to have that same functionality delegated through your identity could be a huge, huge deal.
Are there any #Mastodon API clients that only implement the Private Mentions part?
I’ve been curious about an app that looks and feels like a messaging or email app, but just for PM’s. Having played with the APIs before, I feel like a basic thing might not be that difficult to write? 🤔
@deadsuperhero I feel like personal websites are weirdly higher and lower pressure? Like, you're not obligated to have and maintain one, so uh, put it off if you're not sure, but on the other hand, they're also a personal showcase, so there's pressure to get it perfect? Then you get stuck in a limbo where you're like "If I can't get it perfect, let me work on this other urgent thing right now and come back to it". And it just keeps getting put off.
For the past few years, I’ve been running #WeDistribute, a tech blog / news publication dedicated to open source, decentralized social communication systems. It’s evolved from a tiny personal blog to something that kind of resembles a news outlet.
This is a musing on my journey, and my hopes on where I can take this thing.
It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.
I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.
@deadsuperhero Even with stock Android, it’s just kind of disgraceful how awful the Google Play store is. “Let users find and install apps they’re looking for” seems to be dead last in their feature checklist.
It’s kind of funny to see people freak out about systemd, when Microsoft is building a moment-to-moment surveillance system.
I don’t doubt that this could be a useful tool, but the potential for harm makes it completely fucking dystopian. That it’s also a black box that you can’t examine the source code of makes it way worse.
@gellenburg FreeBSD is pretty great. I’m still in the Ubuntu world these days for convenience, but if Canonical keeps up with the bullshit, I may strongly consider it!
@deadsuperhero FreeBSD has the ability to run native Linux ELF binaries (no virtualization) which is just voodoo magic to me. I love FreeBSD. There's something so cathartic about compiling your own kernel, custom tailored to your exact setup and hardware, from source. ;-)
I’ve been really, really getting into Jim Croce, after a recommendation by a coworker. I think what I love most about this guy is that he can really tell a story through his music. This is a guy that worked all kinds of odd jobs to support his family, while also pursuing his dream of music.
Jim Croce was the salt of the earth. He was thoughtful, heartfelt, and incredibly funny. His music was a beautiful marriage of 70’s rock with hints of blue collar workin’ man country.
Do you ever get a sad pang of nostalgia about the place you came from? Do you look back at a town, and get sad about the potential it once had, and despair the decline it met instead?
@cidney I’m sorry, I can’t even imagine what that’s like.
I hope that you are safe and happy where you are now. 🙂 But, I can understand that looking at what DeSantis and his cronies did to Florida is deeply painful.
Weird question: can anyone recommend an email hosting service that is more or less just an inbox/outbox? No groupware or collaboration, just spin up a bunch of accounts and integrate them with your own suite of apps?
I’m really interested in using Nextcloud as a full replacement for Google Workspace in our organization. It’s really good! There are ways to automatically provision accounts in there, through SSO or other kinds of integration, so that new people get access on their first login.
But, almost every hosted email service is kind of trying to be their own Google Workspace alternative, with bells and whistles that I don’t really need.