Kind: Notes

I'd like to know who we blame for inventing UTM parameters so I can thank them for the special little joys I receive every time I strip them from URLs.

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Thursday. It's rainy and thus damp here so we're trying to balance between not roasting in here and also not letting the indoor air get damp enough to seep into our bones. Good thing there are fuzzy blankets and soup.

Welp the Twitter app is definitely going to start heading down the shitter because the head of product engineering for the app has left the building. https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#more-key-senior-engineers-leave-twitter

I completely understand why some people might want to use something like 11labs to preserve the voice of a deceased loved-one for their own use, but did anyone check with Tunehead's family, for instance, to find out if they're OK with his being reduced to a voice print for mass consumption? That struck me as disturbing in a way I'm having trouble defining and I knew him for years. And it demonstrates why we need to be having robust ethics discussions around this kind of technology.

Good morning everybody and welcome to Monday. I fell asleep on the love-seat and when I finally woke up it was time to get up and start the day. I plan to spend tonight in actual bed.

I ended up taking a shortish afternoon nap and now I'm winding down the rest of the day.

Waiting on lunch to get here. I have a serious case of the hungries.

Good morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. I'm still drinking coffee and I plan to be lazy today.

OK this thing where techbros like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried are defended as "just kids": we are not doing this they are not getting the benefit of the doubt as if they just made oopsies and they get to fail forward like nothing happened. We're just not. You do not get to screw up people's communities and/or their lives and get a pat on the head with a "better luck next time sweety". FFS these are adults.

Within the last few days or so, I've been seeing tweets via email from a somewhat vocal contingent of blind people on Twitter proclaiming that Twitter killing its API is not a big deal because the native Twitter app is fine. I wonder if it's worth my time to do a write-up in which I explain in detail why this just isn't the case or if I should just leave them to it.

I was this minute years old when I realized that that WordCamp in Alabama going on this weekend whose name my screen reader is pronouncing WP-Isle is actually WPYall, and this kids is why you should camel-case hashtags.

I just ran into my first need-to-edit-a-post situation on the fediverse, and I love that I have the ability to do this.

Shavuah tov everybody, I really hope you all have a week full of prosperity and blessing, whatever that means for you. #MazelDon

Shabbat shalom everybody see you in 25 hours. #MazelDon

Here's an excellent thread from Derek Riemer on Twitter's casche poisoning situation, which completely apart from the API stuff and other shenanigans over at Twitter is a recursive stack of catastrophies. See you on the other side Derek, and I'm following your RSS feed and hope you make it to the fediverse. https://derekriemer.com/posts/2023/02/02/goodbye-twitter/

Good morning everybody, take several deep breaths and banish whatever stressers made this past week more difficult because we've finally made it to Friday.

Just an FYI: If you're planning to use archive.is to archive Substack links, Substack seems specifically not to work. Script just keeps attempting to get without success.

Good morning everybody and welcome to Monday. I'm really appreciating the content warnings on The Last Of Us spoiler posts because I have to catch up on episodes. Oh and of course everyone's alt text on their images.

Unpopular opinion: Online petitions might make you feel like you're doing something, but they're completely useless when it comes to actually getting things done.

Good morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. I'm feeling very rested after Shabbat and ready to take on the week.