Dusted off some code from a few years ago to stitch together a time lapse, was fun to see it mostly work as-is. Also, evidence the cucamelon seedlings are total aliens 🌱
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so this question has come up in conversation recently: obviously, bluesky has features that allow you to disable interactions like replies and quote posts. but is doing so contrary to the spirit of social media? is it antisocial behavior? maybe even unethical? interested to hear everyone's thoughts
Sweet, thanks! Will give it a read once I remember how to use ffmpeg...
Are video uploads now part of the API? That's possibly the only thing I think I'll need soon that I didn't see in the docs.
bsky.app/profile/grow... this is what I was doing that lead me to submitting the PR - thanks for doing the heavy lifting!
It's a long weekend here so I've been heads down putting some seeds in dirt as well as reviving the hack project I started back in 2023. growing.shiftkey.online is where this all lives now, and I plan to start scheduled posting to @growing.shiftkey.online once there are signs of life on the mat.
I was too lazy to do a find-and-replace after poking around in the web editor
Vale to an amazing man and legendary, brilliant cartoonist.
The cartooning community is in mourning today.
Neat to see you tinkering on Rust things!
In memory of the great writer Dan McQuade, I wrote about how we spent about fifteen years sending each other really stupid press release quotes. I'll miss him.
PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
Amy from Australian punk rock band, 'Amyl and the Sniffers' flipping off Anthony, the blue wiggle from The Wiggles.
This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
I learned about this from a John Oliver segment a while ago youtu.be/P6grAoS-muM?...
14 innings is how!
Some of the numbers in here are wild. “45% of AI generated code has exploitable [security] flaws.”
And this is a massive, looming problem that I’ve talked about a lot: “Without juniors gaining real experience, where will the next generation of senior engineers come from?”
Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with...
How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb
I’d rather not use GitHub as a CDN
If you don’t want to go back to the bad place: bsky.app/profile/junl...
It’s a “I’ve run out of Azure credits” thing, I’ll turn it back on when it gets re-enabled in a few days github.com/shiftkey/des...
Small unimportant detail - Carl Williams is that guy you’re thinking of re: exercise bike
If you’re looking to use this program but need help getting started, get in touch with me. I’m Nova Scotia’s only food packaging design expert.
CONNOR MCDAVID 🚨
THE NEW AGE GOLDEN GOAL! CANADA WINS!
I haven’t. But I did try to see if I could downgrade my plan from Starter to Free that was mentioned on the billing site and that part of my admin site seems to be “read-only”. I can poke again later when I have some energy to try again.
From the admin page: "Team created on Jul 8, 2018 (7 years ago)."
Confirming the GitHub App for Netlify was installed for the project ~6 years ago (Feb 2019)
Ultimately this is just a quality of life feature for myself (staging branches to be able to review external contributions easier) but as a long time @netlify.com OSS fan I think I'm just going to stop if I can't control the billing side of things for this side project