Notices by Potch (potch@toot.cafe)

just worked out this useful command for getting back to the top of a git repo, sharing in case others find it helpful and are sick of typing `cd ../../../../../`

`alias gcd='cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)'`

@anildash I used to have an “l10n, m10r” sign hanging in my cube at Yahoo

@anildash also, I made this several moons ago: The Abbreviator https://a9r.glitch.me/

engineers will write 200 lines of code to avoid writing a single line of code twice

@anildash 🎷 🎷 🎷

@anildash wait did I miss the nova already

Made a goofy web toy that slices up one image and tries to use it to make another. Fun and occasionally nightmare-inducing! https://potch.me/toys/image-recycler/

@evan @evanp I do believe that smaller AP actors are possible and that the ergo for lots of users are well met by AP clients/servers in the market! I’m just also a big believer in static files as a hallmark of the long-lived web, and I think there’s room for both things

@evan @evanp I genuinely appreciate your willingness to look into the more passive/static use cases 💜

thinking (and reading) about it more, I think there’s room for a polling “feediverse” as a companion to the push-based fediverse. the problems of scale with RSS/polling feeds are problems the average normal person’s web server and push a ton of complexity onto individual publishers, who either have to join a managed instance to participate or sign up for a security/maintenance treadmill. would still build on the Activity Streams standards.

@evan @anildash @lmorchard "Polling is really hard on all actors" I think my info is severely lacking in this dept- any pointers on how I can learn more about polling-based problems at scale?

@KevinMarks @evan @anildash @lmorchard didn’t know that was out there- thank you for the pointer

@anildash @lmorchard yeah I just keep thinking that the fundamental "push" nature of ActivityPub is a massive barrier to entry- and I think that's fine! I just wonder if there's room for a separate (and as you suggest, bridge-able!) feed-based world that has builds on the same Activity Feeds standards but a much, *much* lower barrier to publisher entry, because it's fetch-based. ActivitySub if you will.

it *seems* like you could publish an [ActivityStreams](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/) Collection like an RSS feed on your personal site, but are people capable of ingesting that and seeing it in a way they would expect/desire?

is there a way to be fediverse-compatible without having to run an expensive server? something FTP friendly with RSS-style read-only-ness?

not enough is said about the problematic age gap in Groundhog Day

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