Notices by Amy Hoy (amyhoy@mastodon.social)

@thomasfuchs yet there is no word for “happy” and just one word for beautiful, pretty, lovely, nice, gorgeous, stunning, appealing, etc

putting up a quick teaser page for a new podcast and i gotta say… i'm not loving any of the convertkit templates ?

@codinghorror this and lack of QTs is why mastodon is simply not ready.

"We noticed a sign in from a new compu—"

NO YOU DIDN'T THIS IS THE SAME FUCKING COMPUTER I'VE BEEN USING FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS YOU LYING SACK OF SHIT

y’all need a full stack Rails dev, with ops experience, who is ALSO skilled at writing & customer-friendly? you know you do!

@tcannonfodder is on the market. and he’s a swiss army knife:

https://thomascannon.me/for-hire

@wesley83 @pyrex @thomasfuchs @amyhoy@hachyderm.io DPReview is really *the* photography site and has been since ~1999-2000.

@wesley83 @pyrex @thomasfuchs @amyhoy@hachyderm.io

absolutely.

the key thing is that their editorial content is really valuable but the forums are 20 years of INDISPENSABLE community knowledge: history, hacks, ideas & troubleshooting for photographers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/11xlnk3/dpreviewcom_to_close_on_april_10_after_25_years/

@wesley83 @pyrex @thomasfuchs @amyhoy@hachyderm.io my comment on reddit:

Half the time I'm trying to learn something about an obscure old camera or lens, or a problem with one of those — like just recently googling how to get my Nikon 1 10-100mm lens repaired — I end up on DPReview. That's where I just learned about a guy in Taiwan who creates replacement gears and even services the lenses…

I often get information from 10-, 15-, 20-year-old threads

We need to save it… and we need to be able to search it

@pyrex @amyhoy@hachyderm.io @wesley83 @thomasfuchs we’ve already contacted them (and i’m sure not the only ones). they aren’t well set up for this kind of archive.

@textfiles DPreview — the longest running digital camera site & forum — is shutting down. is there some way we can help archive it?

the loss to photography will be immense… half the time i'm trying to learn something, i end up on an old dpreview forums thread!

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close

@exchgr @mimsical the NYTimes has a vested interest in making all kinds of malice sound like just incompetence, it’s practically their current mandate

@mimsical both things are true.

yes the banking regulations loosened — by silicon valley specifically demanding them — which made the initial error possible

but a handful of VCs called up their portfolio companies and triggered a bank run of billions within hours — something virtually impossible to trigger for any normal bank w normal customers — when the bank would’ve been able to recover from the MINOR deficit if given a little bit of time & ecosystem support

absolutely a very real issue, i'm sure it couldn't be the white male leadership they hired from lofty positions at *checks notes* lehman brothers and deutsche bank

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/top-silicon-valley-bank-execs-worked-at-notoriously-troubled-lehman-brothers-deutsche-bank/ar-AA18zx7A?ocid=FinanceShimLayer

i’m excited for the potential applications of ChatGPT etc for marketing, content, copywriting

the more people who produce bland, meaningless garbage that can be copied in 5 seconds by anyone who can type a sentence, the better i’ll stand out

what service are you using to track affiliate referrals for your SaaS? ?

i had a breakthrough yesterday…

instead of trying to regain “what we lost,” i want to play a fresh game, build something better.

rather than scrape my way back up the hill i'd already climbed (dispiriting, demotivating), i want to set my sights on a new summit (motivating, better than before).

this full-on typewriter simulator from @mwichary is making my brain purr!

https://shifthappens.site/typewriter/

@thomasfuchs i actually said "it looks like it's running DOS" which is to say, it resembles but is definitely not DOS.

the very talented @tcannonfodder is on the job market: from rails internals to customer support, he's the guy who can do it all.

snap him up!

https://thomascannon.me/for-hire

the new landing page design for my launch ftw framework (née yearofhustle.com) is coming along!!

def expand this one