Kind: Notes

Spammy marketing firm: "I don't know if you saw my last email". Me: "Yeah I keep seeing your emails and I keep deleting them and I've asked you to stop emailing me please stop emailing me FFS!"

Good morning everybody and welcome to Tuesday. I'm still trying to wake up, and WordPress plugin marketers are making me cranky this morning. Also, we had doughnuts for breakfast.

I'm trying to decide if I should go over to Twitter and go out swinging by shitposting via quote tweet of relevant accounts about how poorly Elon's paid API scheme seems to be going so far. I probably shouldn't, but I can't say it wouldn't be fun.

In other words, we can't figure out how to limit the API without borking our own access to said API. Quoting Twitter Dev: "There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days. More information to follow over the coming days…" https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1625234161010343941

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Monday, the most distrusted day of the week. I got a very late start this morning but I'm not too upset about that, and I got my phone working again. I'm still not exactly sure what happened but got the battery down to 0 and when I plugged it into the battery brick to charge after its regularly scheduled cleaning, it came up like a charm. I think it may have been a faulty cable. Still drinking coffee and deciding what to have for lunch.

Listen as my friend @wiljames demonstrates what happens when 11labs cute AI toy falls over. #AIHype #AIIsGoingGreat https://indieweb.social/@wiljames@tweesecake.social/109853818105850783

We need an AI is going great website.

I think that, should Mastodon officially add quote-posts as a feature, it should be opt-in at the account and post level, not opt-out, so that people have a choice about which posts are subject to quoting and which ones aren't before they hit publish.

New rule: If you're using role="alert" to tell me your page has finished loading, I'm closing the damn tab immediately. I want to know who thought this was a good idea.

Happy Sportsball day to those celebrating.

Morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. Phone is still playing dead. Going to try to get some sighted help to help with this, hopefully someone moderately tech-oriented.

A good new week everybody. I hope Saturday's been good to you. This morning my phone apparently decided to turn itself off or something because it got a full charge last night but it's been dead as a doornail all day and won't turn on. Watch even shows it as disconnected although some notifications just randomly showed up a few minutes ago. Hopefully I get this sorted.

Yet another quick Bridgy Fed test after plugin update.

Just another quick Bridgy Fed test.

Just a quick Bridgy Fed test.

It's been a long week. Shabbat shalom everybody, see you in 25 hours. #MazelDon

One more call this afternoon and then I am done. Also, it's cold in here.

From the inbox: "Let's talk about ChatGPT and APIs!" Me: No actually let's not, and you can pretend we did!

Morning everybody, we've made it to Friday!

Friendly reminder to be nice to your moderators and admins, but especially the moderators. Usually, they're not waking up each morning saying to themselves "how can I make people's lives difficult/fuck up their day today?" Moderation is hard, and the bigger the size of the server/platform the harder it gets, up to the point where it's impossible to do well at scale. Wrong calls/mistakes are going to be made. Best that can be hoped for is that mistakes are recognized and corrected quickly.