Notices by Aijaz Ansari (aijaz@mastodon.social)

At the first (I believe) CocoaHeads after the 2016 elections we discussed software to help organize volunteers, etc. We used it to organize against trump and the Muslim Ban and so many more of his shenanigans. In the ensuing 8 years i’ve got a lot more experience with this kind of stuff.

If anyone needs help deciding on a tech stack, hit me up. I’ll be glad to help.

“Fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.”

Cool.

How about “kindness?” No? “Compassion?” No? “Basic decency?”

Spoke to acquaintance who is a white woman. I’m reasonably sure she isn’t racist or a white supremacist.

She voted for Cheeto Mussolini.

If I were to guess, I think her Catholic Faith caused her to vote against her own interests.

I voted against my own self-interests, too. But I voted to raise my taxes to raise money for low-income housing. Not to elect a fascist.

@mekkaokereke
Agree 100%. Also wanna call out my favorite Quincy Jones composition: the theme of Sanford And Son.

I met someone who performs exorcisms. He told me that most of the time people don’t need exorcisms but need tending to mental or physical or situational issues.

I’m sorry, but if I’m in bed with 4 dogs and I wake up with claw marks on my sides the first suspects are the dogs, not Jinns. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113408437273826383

I couldn’t make it through this article. It was too heartbreaking. https://toots.schwanksta.com/@ken/113390879880323894

So. If I get my Flu and Covid Vaccines at King Soopers, not only are they free, but they give me $20 credit for groceries. Not bad.

CHRIS! WHY ARE MY PRICES LATE?
https://mastodon.social/@designatednerd/113375049848877365

My friends, Frank is being too modest. I, too, was there that night. And believe you me: his feet were fast like lightning. https://mas.to/@JustFrank/113349203541375092

The IDF released a video of what it says are the last moments of Yahya Sinwar. Very ill-advised IMHO. He’s in a bombed building. Injured. On a sofa. Covered in dust. One arm doesn’t work. A drone enters through a window. He sees it. Gathers his strength and with his other arm throws a stick at the drone. The drone calls in another strike and they bomb the building again killing him.

This video will likely spawn a next generation of Sinwars.

A lot of “with my last breath I spit at you” energy.

“Yeah, I tried that too. But you know what brought it to its knees?

Garbage collection, man.

It’s always garbage collection.”
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113228461302575676

I was about to post something snarky about Darl McBride and decided to Google him once more. Turns out he died a week ago today. https://goblin.band/notes/9yj8bbj6smug1kb8

Nature is healing
https://sfba.social/@Geotripper/113148863810253518

Cheeto Mussolini and Leon deserve each other.

As any teacher will tell you, when working with kids one can see how their parents treat them.

Doing security during Sunday School. As the kids start filing in I’m flying (putting up) a tarp to protect myself from the blazing sun.

During recess a 8-year old girl comes up to me saying, “You got it up. Good job! I can see you worked very hard on this.”

Not “You’re so good at this.” But “you worked very hard on this.”

She’s wise beyond her years.

Really? Does anyone on either side NOT think that “Brown Haitian immigrants are eating your pets” is blood libel?

If one’s not familiar with the concept, sure. But if one is, how can it be anything else?

The emperor has no clothes.

I learned (probably 10 years ago) that Xcode is not to be trusted with even basic version control (Git) tasks. Things haven’t changes as much as they should have since then.

When you’re a professional you owe it to yourself and your clients to use the best tool for your job that you can afford. When it comes to Git, Xcode ain’t it.

It boggles my mind how many people don’t get this. I’m helping organize a conference of 600 people. I’ve written a Flask Web App, web clients, iOS clients, QR code scanners etc.

And even then I’m not going live without backup printouts of .csv files. https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/113114055690172677

Those ads about how iPhones and Watches help save and improve people’s lives are inspiring.

In that vein Apple should create a new feature: “Pullover Mode”. Once engaged, all cameras and microphones should record to both device and Cloud. Pullover Mode can only be disabled by a passcode that’s different from the phone unlock code. The action button should support it.

Colloquially, we could call this feature the Reverse Body Cam.

BIPOC drivers everywhere* would be grateful.

* in the US

Being short with short arms makes it difficult to take selfies with the cat on my lap. What helped me the most was remembering to use the 10-second timer to squirm into position.