Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 12

@potch no we’re going to miss it later this summer

Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

@thom solans is an unabashed fascist, Jack is sending a signal by choosing that as his outlet

One of the most consistently wonderful and inspiring parts of @glitchdotcom after all these years is seeing brilliant young creators coming of age in the community and making the internet their generation deserves. Here's an interview telling one of those stories: https://blog.glitch.com/post/pranking-and-pixel-perfecting-with-khaleel-gibran/

One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

@abosio @tvaziri lol it definitely ain't the best work from either of them!

@tvaziri Prince won his Golden Globe for his work on a George Miller film. Two geniuses crossing paths.

Here’s a charming little wallpaper generator app for iPhone, with the backend written and created on @glitchdotcom ! https://techhub.social/@thatvirtualboy/112366825045223769

@FinchHaven @Raccoon @Mastodon what is the acceptable amount of support a service is allowed to have? And what is the maximum acceptable salary for a mastodon maintainer?

@FinchHaven @Raccoon @Mastodon if you want it to be unsustainable just say so directly.

@kimonostereo I’ve been using @eleventy on @glitchdotcom and I love it. I can just write when I wanna write, and there’s fun easy stuff to tinker with when I wanna do that.

One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/

@triptych the first couple times i loaded it, it was just a bunch of gradient colors, now it's a login box wtih no description of what it is. a little too unapproachable for me.

@jimray @tantramar @ianbetteridge @tfb @loke yeah I think John is at least still willing to engage honestly with people who favor regulation, but certainly that cohort is surrounded by VC-style extremism around demonizing laws.

@loke @ianbetteridge The idea that data protection is something people should have a right to have, for free, is certainly at odds with his belief that Apple is selling a right to privacy with their products (and that this is a good thing)

@danilo @gaberivera are any of the VCs who said that SF needs to get tough on crime gonna make sure Austen gets his life destroyed or nah? Because, well. https://youtu.be/s92u6xhVcjA?si=lM7C2N78H-7zhYBN

FWIW, here's where I had the conversation about paying for software a while back over on the bird site. I got a mix of responses. By there was definitely a lot of "I can't believe you actually pay money for things!"

incredible detail here from @tiffani

So the CFPB has Lambda School and Austin Allred dead to rights as scammers

Allred, noted crook, is not allowed to do anything like student lending for ten years

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

@joshhunt @devs a maintainer having a community he can reach out to before he burns out would change things like this massively.