Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp), page 2

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -commonly misattributed to Albert Einstein

"Everything should be as simple as possible. Yes, simpler than that. Simpler than that too. Nope you can still make it simpler! A little more... okay still too complex but I can live with it." -me at work

Quoting myself from a work meeting this morning:

"let me suggest the KISSS principle: Keep it Simple and Stupid and Shippable"

lol, remembering I gave a talk at Webstock years ago called "Don't Make Stuff"

https://vimeo.com/209324581

I gave the presentation in HyperCard using stock HyperCard clip art. This slide aged well!

I remember a while back someone on fedi posted a little thing they built that was a personal url shortener in a single HTML page. If I remember correctly they just loaded in an array of ids and destinations and then you'd point someone to mysite.example/short?id=123 and the page would just redirect via window.location... something like that. Which one of you clever people was this?

I reimplemented it this morning but I wanna see/credit the original

@latte cc @skinnylatte who as far as I know knows all the best places for food in the bay area

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your in-development software up to the real Fediverse.

I built this because I wanted ways to test in-progress fedi software for compatibility without actually making it live and breaking things.

https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10/01/introducing-the-asml-activitypub-fuzzer-improving-testing-in-the-fediverse/

@jplebreton @tante @anildash It doesn't really have to be about Grok or whatever. I think the cohort Anil is talking about (evidenced by his mention of Simon) is one that I have a foot in myself -- for example, in my hobby time I'm working with fully local voice assistant tech that uses small LLMs at different levels of the stack, all in service of not sending recordings of my house to Amazon or Google.

"Objective" is probably the wrong word though.

Stochastic carrots, yum

Me: puppies are cute

Fediverse: on the surface of the Sun a puppy does not remain cute for very long

Thanks to the fediverse I have now been reminded many times over that the conversions that help me make my coffee every morning would completely fail me under non-Earth gravity conditions, or inside a hydrothermal vent, or if the water I'm using is in solid or gas form, or...

@flesh @eragon @lanodan ok I like megagram and will add that to my lexicon. When I'm feeling silly I like to refer to the millifortnight (approximately 20 minutes)

@skinnylatte oooh I love the name, my favorite mythological creature. I mean look at this guy

@skinnylatte oooooh looks like they specialize pistachio baklava aka the best kind. Will absolutely stop there next time I'm in town

I would posit that if you are the kind of person for whom "at standard temperature and pressure" matters in a statistically significant way, either due to the need for precision or the extreme environment in which you live..... you probably don't need me to remind you that 1mL water is 1g water

I've learned recently that there are adults who do not know that 1mL of water weighs 1g. If you didn't before, now you know.

@mcc the problem with SQLite is it's extremely good software that I am always happy to use, made by a person who possibly does not want me to use it

I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".

At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.

A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22social%20network%20site%22,%22social%20media%20site%22&hl=en

maybe they should have specified webfinger with

/.well-actually/

...sorry sorry I'm deleting it!!!!

@chris wow what an odd juxtaposition!

As Yoda famously said, "[...]do not. There is no try."