Vague complaint du jour: Dear senior engineers, RESPOND TO YOUR PEERS. You are not wandering journeymen who can dip in and out of situations as your attention pleases.

This morning’s “Get Up!” #AppleMusjc #playlist:

* "Neurotica" by Rush, from 'Roll the Bones (Remastered)'
* "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" by Def Leppard, from 'Pyromania (Super Deluxe)'
* "Big Generator" by Yes, from 'Big Generator'
* "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" by ZZ Top, from 'Tres […]

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Woohoo! Got my #AWS #Cloud Practitioner #Certification today!

www.credly.com/badges/cb399784-86d6-4c0...

#AmazonWebServices #AmazonCloud #CloudComputing

I wanted to share #AppleMusic playlists as plain text with others, so I wrote a simple #shortcut: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d87571de0c4442...

#Apple #music #Shortcuts

'Firefly' is getting an animated series featuring the original cast, and we're all shiny with anticipation — Space Calling all Browncoats! The original cast of the cult space western will return to voice their cartoon counterparts.

Shiny! “#Firefly is getting an animated series featuring the original cast”: https://apple.news/A6fsBM_-zT4ad7tn7clWTyA

I figured something out this month that I've missed for 34 years.

I've been measuring whether I'm "enough" as a person--whether the _chooser_ is adequate--rather than evaluating my _choices_. That's a category error. **There is no yardstick for myself qua myself.** Only for things I do.

## The […]

Hope is always foolish. If it wasn’t, we’d call it something else.

ffs

The “Developer 16" MacBook Pro” that my employer sent me does not give me admin privileges and I am not in its `sudoers` file, so I cannot accept the license terms for #Apple’s #Xcode Command Line Tools, preventing me from running such basics as `git`.

Also, #Docker Desktop for Mac is not […]

RE: flipboard.com/@lifehacker/the-latest-n...

App-specific tabs and split views are a tacit failure of the windowing system UX.

The Princess and the Pea - Wikipedia

@brouhaha Okay, princess

Butterflies AI - The First AI Social Network Where Humans and AI Coexist

With Butterflies.AI’s shutdown imminent, I’ve added a characters page to preserve the backstory and select images from the bots that I used to help develop my stories.

There’s more #fiction coming. Butterflies’ shutdown hasn’t quieted my #writing muse.

— @mjg

Here’s a question for the mind readers out there:

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116057449719856526

We face a similar issue at $work. The bean counters and governance sticklers only approve #Microsoft products like #Copilot, while #Claude Opus handily beats it in accuracy and productivity.

Also, Copilot outside of #VSCode doesn’t […]

@Beldarak Sorry, that was perhaps too glib an answer.

The separation works through the strict enforcement of _privateproperty rights_.

Most “exploitation” and “well-being” issues arise from the “tragedy of the commons,” where resources are unowned or “public.” When land and resources are […]

@Beldarak If you believe those are issues and want to deal with them, perhaps by cooperating with others, you will not be stopped.

/cc @TheHeartoftheTARDIS @jzb

@Beldarak Full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated _laissez-faire_ #capitalism — with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

/cc @TheHeartoftheTARDIS @jzb

@Beldarak Its means have been nearly destroyed by ever-enroaching government controls. What you call “#capitalism” today is a mixed-economy slide into #statism and #fascism.

/cc @TheHeartoftheTARDIS @jzb

@TheHeartoftheTARDIS @jzb > Never mind the low wages and the harsh living conditions of the early years of capitalism. They were all that the national economies of the time could afford. Capitalism did not create poverty—it inherited it. Compared to the centuries of precapitalist starvation, the […]

A comic strip about a school calling a parent about their son breaking their computers. The parent named their son: Robert'; DROP TABLE Students;--

It’s 2026 and Bobby Tables is still alive and well.

https://bobby-tables.com

#InfoSec #CyberSecurity

#AynRand’s original introduction to _The Virtue of Selfishness_ is now online—and it *directly contradicts* most of the claims people make about her #ethics.
If your picture of Rand comes from social media threads, YouTube rants, or second-hand “hot takes,” this is the text that breaks the spell […]

Web developers, designers, builders: what do you want W3C to be doing differently? What change (if any) would you like to see? Asking for an Advisory Board.

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.

Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this […]

At some point I should write up a segmented walkthrough of my #SelfHosted setup, including the things that the #Mastodon documentation leaves out about data retention and backups.

Someday.

#SelfHosting #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #DevOps #PlatformEngineering

Wrote with #Claude Code assistance a #macOS #TimeMachine monitoring agent for my #Mastodon and other #SelfHosted service backups that makes sure that TM's backups of my database backup tarballs are recent enough.

#SelfHosting #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #SelfHosting #AI #ClaudeCode #VibeCoding […]

Illustration of a woman in a maroon coat and pants with a furry hat, with text on a gray background: “I don’t want to fight for the people. I don’t want to fight against the people. I don’t want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.” —Kira in _We the Living_ by Ayn Rand

“I don’t want to fight for the people. I don’t want to fight against the people. I don’t want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.”

—Kira in _We the Living_ by #AynRand

https://AynRand.org/novels/we-the-living/

https://a.co/cPFJWmR

@zarasophos @euractiv I assure you that no one else here calls themself a “Mastodater”.

DEVONtechnologies (@devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com) Attached: 1 image The second feature release for DEVONthink 4 introduces a refreshed look on macOS Tahoe, adds powerful new capabilities to the chat assistant, and updates supported generative AI models to the latest available versions. A detachable Graph popover lets you visualize document connections even better and saving new versions manually gives you finer revision control. #devonthink #update #macostahoe #liquidglass #ai #pressrelease https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250129-devonthink-42-cassini

[sarcasm]

Yay. #LiquidGlass. @devontechnologies mastodon.devontechnologies.com/@devontechnologies/11597...

[-mh]

Realizing that my work ethic is largely based on trauma, going back to being a #gifted kid in school.

I learned early:

⁃ My value comes from performance.
⁃ If I’m not exceptional, I’m disposable.
⁃ “Gifted” means I don’t get to struggle—struggle means I was never actually gifted.
⁃ Love […]

[Do you know the difference between a hippo and a zippo?]

One is a little lighter.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/115968636207546964

#iOS 26.2.1 update froze before completing, necessitating a factory restore. Currently restoring my settings and content from an #iCloud backup. I do not recommend this update to #Apple #iPhone users.