Notices by Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands I am impressed with how prophetic the satire Network appears to have been about the dynamics of public outrage escaping containment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Network_(1976_film)

and hopefully that final parenthesis links, or I'll come back and urlencode it.

@thomasfuchs <3 I will miss your desert photos. I used to live in Tucson and I treasure the reminders of how alive the high desert is.

@inthehands oh oops, why did I misread and think of Boulder? bike town X university town I expect.

@inthehands I figured you might be aware as a mountain dweller, and you had mentioned riding as a change, so it occurred to me. My friend Megan has been on an adventure getting her electric quad cycle repaired recently and probably has thought through long-term accessibility factors for bike as routine transport, so I will point her toward your BikeDiary thread.

@inthehands Alongside skin, UV eye exposure is another possible concern; my dad has been a daily bicycle rider for decades and eventually had cataract lens replacement; though it's not uncommon as a general procedure these days.

@inthehands <3 "Ha ha, only serious", and "Ha ha, hilarious!" are best as friends in these times, sharpening and enlivening together.

@inthehands the circular filing fling.

@inthehands I smothered a hearty chuckle in a layer of stiffly beaten foam.

@inthehands My first experience with an iPhone was so terrible that I never wanted to use a touchscreen again. I can observe that this is not the common experience; the UI has been a grand and general success.

@thomasfuchs

Signs of the times.

Is the Baja Arizona movement still alive? "South of the Gila River".

@inthehands "Work like tending a garden." <3

@inthehands It's Node / Express, with Jimp as the "no-deps, doesn't need to scale" image library. Mostly intended for users to go through a style and location picker wizard, and bookmark an image source URL. It's an incomplete homage to a site I miss which went down and never came up.

github.com/jmeowmeow/PixieReport if you're curious. It could launch any week now, or so I tell myself.

@inthehands Appreciate the vote of confidence. Too busy a set of choices out there, but I have a couple of communities to bounce things off of which I should call on a little more often.

Really, a Node server looked like a good choice at the start, and I suppose I am getting portable knowledge, but mostly it's been a direct lesson in complex messy dependencies. When I'm tempted to write my own binary image compositor, I figure a wrong turn was taken somewhere.

@inthehands I guess I am starting off okay then. I have a low complexity, non-social site aimed at creatively reskinning current public data of low cardinality, and the main difficulty has been finding a stable library for a core flow (which I believe I have in hand).

I shall choose simple and straightforward for the rest, drawing from examples when possible.

@inthehands Has your experience of development at modest scale given you a set of tools and recipes you like to turn to?

I've been paid either to do tiny tool stuff, or to contribute to the large and brittle systems at Web Scale, so the happy routes in the landscape in between are mostly unfamiliar.

@thomasfuchs "Nebraska" ?

The others seem more likely as piratical harbors.

@raganwald @aral I am happiest for the description of and link to Kitten as an example of a personal server kit. https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten

@thomasfuchs Not one of Tucson's usual sky shows!

@inthehands "The Art of the Deal" x "Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud"

@thomasfuchs Especially flying spaghetti code. Mobile-first and airplane mode these days.