Notices by B (blainsmith@fosstodon.org)

@binarydigit Thanks for posting stuff like this. You're definitely not alone. I, too, love tech a lot and will never fully leave it, but I am trying to really plan my exit from corporate tech. Until then I have to suffer and endure to provide for my family. In the meantime, I try to design and build things with others to diversify income.

Quick FYI: My co-op, @limeleaf, has some availability for contract work if you or someone you know needs software help!

#FediHire #GetFediHired

It's a small and rural town, but Schuylerville, NY is having its own #NoKings protest today. I'm happy I moved here to live a more peaceful and slow life in the country, but still see folks fighting for what's right.

@skinnylatte We use mattermost at our co-op and we applied the limitless.patch to get through the 10k message limit they impose on the free version.

https://framagit.org/framasoft/framateam/mostlymatter/-/blob/master/limitless.patch

ACM is Now Fully Open Access!

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2026/january/acm-open-access

#ACM

Does anyone know of a good ethical email sending service to send automated emails? I would really like to avoid SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.

#Email #SMTP

Every HTML Element

https://iamwillwang.com/dollar/every-html-element/

#HTML

The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/

#ComputerScience

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

https://www.johnwalker.nl/posts/escape-the-walled-garden-with-rss

#RSS

The future of htmx

https://htmx.org/essays/future/

#HTML #htmx

Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick 3 or Get None

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/good-fast-cheap

#SoftwareDevelopment

Starting off my New Year by resigning from my day job. I'm taking some time to love computing and programming again and putting more energy into my co-op.

@dansup ugh those RTMP days was brutal. I remember doing live streams with that tech and it was just atrocious, especially when we needed to offer streams for mobile viewers.

"No stupid app, no online accounts, no subscription service, and no Internet needed. Our NTP Appliances are designed to operate with or without Internet access using local administration and configuration."

https://centerclick.com/ntp/

#NTP #GPS #TimeSync

@tante That's our (@limeleaf) goal with https://limecast.net. Small little lifestyle company for the 3 of us.

I was reading some audio-related things and came across LimeWire which brought back fond college memories. I went to the website and it has now been perverted with AI bullshit.

https://limewire.com/

#Enshittification #AI

This slide was for parents to teach their kids, but quite frankly the entire human race needs to follow this too.

All my regular news sources suck because of #OpenAI bullshit.

@drewdevault Technical interviews are an absolutely shit show. Too often the process involves verifying someone knows specific technical thing X instead of testing if someone is a smart person that can learn a new concept and apply it to solve problems. The former is easier to do and churns through applicants faster to get the right one for right now instead of the right one for long term gain.

@luna If you've seen this I apologize. It only works for one site, but it would be great if folks published in all formats for better accessibility.

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/