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pborenstein

@pborenstein@mastodon.social

🍸 a like minded person

I write #API #documentation for money.
#techWriting #writeTheDocs #techComm #apiDocs

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annika, to random
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Just saw a Temu ad for a car dashcam with a monitor you strap over the top of your rear-view mirror, fully obstructing it 😅

pborenstein,
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@annika that's how they get you to buy the optional rear view cam?

lzg, to random
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I went hunting for an abandoned keyboard at the office and found someone's old gaming mechanical keyboard. CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK. now I just need to figure out how to setup the cool backlight effects.

pborenstein,
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@lzg When I got laid off, one of the first things I did was to buy clackly mechanical keyboard. I'm unemployed, but by the sound of my keys, I am crushing it

schwa, to random
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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa sometime I feel like the west coast is a whole different country

    Daojoan, to random
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    The promise of the creator/passion economy is simple: follow your dream, work hard, and you'll achieve financial freedom while never working a day in your life.

    But the reality is far more complex.

    The emergence of the "side hustle" culture is part of a troubling trend - corporations are raking in record profits while wages stagnate.

    And it's no coincidence.

    https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-passion-economy-is-a-scam

    pborenstein,
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    @Daojoan I thought that when I retired, I'd be a small little bubble on the passion economy ocean, but holy crap, that stuff looks exactly like work!

    agiletortoise, to random
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    I call this “Portrait of cat who doesn’t care I need to pee”

    pborenstein,
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    @agiletortoise peeing is for CLOSERS!

    agiletortoise, to random
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    Honest talk? Apple Stores are pretty, but not well designed for the purposes they serve. They would work better accepting the sales-service dichotomy like a car dealer.

    Yes, leave us in the showroom when we need our phone fixed to look at the new shit, but don’t park us waiting on someone with no way to know when we are going to be helped and scared if we go look at the new shiny they won’t find us.

    pborenstein,
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    @agiletortoise That thing where they park you with, "Someone will be with you shortly."

    Someone? 98% of the people in this place have an iPhone. Can't you, like, send me a push notification or a text message?

    lzg, to random
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    neighborhood outing

    te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas, a book by irene solá

    pborenstein,
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    @lzg I read Spanish well enough to want not to read translations, but not well enough to read in Spanish without having to stop every two or three sentences.

    schwa, to random
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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa 🙋‍♂️ I've been using on my MacBook & iPad:
    It's pretty good on the iPad given that I use it mostly to consume media. Useful when using only the MBP 13" screen.

    On large screens it's opinionated with the wrong opinions. Even so it's one of the better app-window-grouping tool I've used

    alexr, to random
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    If Happy Days came out now, it would be looking back at 2004. You know, a world where Harry Potter films already existed and Shrek 2 was in the box office.

    You’re old.

    pborenstein,
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    @schwa @alexr seriously, who even asked!

    schwa, to random
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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa I used to wonder if you could change the architecture of a system by changing the shape of the organization. Turns out: sort of, but not really

    #ymmv

    sue, (edited ) to random
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    Any theories on the underlying psychology or other drivers of the tendency folk have in tech to prioritise completeness / technical correctness even when it makes a thing less usable or valuable?

    Is it a need for control, or a need to believe the world is knowable? Risk aversion?

    Is it the result of organisational cultures where folk are encouraged only to see the parts and not the whole?

    I am fascinated by this!

    pborenstein,
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    @sue The indignation sounds like Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. As you say, it probably has to do with psychological safety.

    over the years, I've chalked it up to

    • fear of blame for leaving something out
    • discomfort with leaving something unfinished
    • comfort with current problem and afraid to look at next project
    sue, to random
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    Bought another domain and I regret nothing, going to need a section in my will for them all

    pborenstein,
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    @sue Domain names are this age's Hummel Figurines. Our children & grandchildren will tell jokes about the 135 domains nana sat on because she just had to sell one for $1 million…

    schwa, to random
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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa Remember when y'all tried to make snow angels in 2 inches of snow? Just sayin'

    glennf, to random
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    Live!
    https://twit.social/@glennf/112169384736232360

    pborenstein,
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    @glennf That was fun. I love hearing about the background bits that keep things moving.

    amcasari, to random
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    Me, at breakfast: So, the way that intellectual property law, specifically trademarks, work-

    12YO literally running away: I gotta use the bathroom and I don't want to hear about it.

    pborenstein,
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    @amcasari but, y'know, in a few years, when they're out with their friends, and one of them says, "let's do intellectual property crime!" it'll be your kid who says, "ok, but only if it's parody. my mom always said…"

    #parenting

    glennf, (edited ) to random
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    I was thinking about doing a live "office hours" chat next week about crowdfunding: free, open to anyone, would answer questions, share some information.

    Would you be interested in that at about 10 am PDT morning?

    (No need to answer “no,” as I’m looking for potential totals.)

    pborenstein,
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    @glennf mostly want to hear what you how you did what you did. It looked like it was a lot of work. :)

    schwa, to random
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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa I traded a slack problem for a discord problem #FriendsDontLetFriends

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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa an optician can help you frame the difference

    zachleat, to random
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    Looking to provide live captions for the 11ty Conference—do we have any reliable folks to recommend?

    pborenstein,
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    @zachleat White Coat Captioning does the live captions for

    Here's a video of how it's done
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74D61IulEy0

    glennf, to random
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    There’s a weekend in 1988 when Charles Schulz changed the way he put tone on Franklin’s face from cross-hatching to a dot pattern. Why? No one is quite certain. I’ll be looking into the representation and reproduction of non-racist portrayals of people of color in my book, How Comics Were Made, currently in crowdfunding. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

    I've spoken to cartoonists about how they draw themselves and characters of color as well as historians and academics.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ofiiFSkZv/?img_index=2

    Franklin (right) and Charlie Brown in three cartoon panels of Peanuts. Franklin’s face is tinted using a dot pattern (sometimes incorrectly called a halftone).

    pborenstein,
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    @glennf Not a comics expert. The cross-hatch pattern reads to me as embarrassment. Maybe Schulz wanted to make a distinction?

    schwa, (edited ) to random
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    When you’re heading to a campsite and see “gates close at sunset” on the campground description and it’s 2 minutes to sunset and you’re 50 minutes out from the site

    pborenstein,
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    @schwa aw man, thoughts & prayers, but like for real this time

    pborenstein, to random
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    I'm not saying they're remembering it wrong, but riding in a car without seatbelts, while your parents smoked and argued with the windows closed, was not the joyride the memes would have you believe

    sue, to random
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    I can't resist documentaries about cults but I am begging for one that actually explores the mechanisms of indoctrination (and deprogramming / recovery) because I suspect it would help to understand / build resistance to the types of coercion we all experience in different parts of life

    pborenstein,
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    @sue If you haven't seen it, you might like The Path (Hulu,) a show about a fictional cult. Lots of drama, lots of doubt, and shenanigans among the faithful

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    pborenstein,
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    @schwa but not as well fed?

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    @schwa This might be a reason to visit Japan

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