chris@mrkapowski.com (fediverse)“Some notes on Millennial burnout. This started as a Twitter thread because I needed a frictionless place to write my initial ideas, and apparently I was hoping they would get some attention. (They didn’t, really, and that’s fine now that I’ve slept on it.)”
A great follow-up to last week’s link to “How Millenials became the Burnout Generation”.
Has anyone seen any good conversion ideas for Imperial/Inquisition/Ministorum Crusaders recently? I’m weighing up whether to make my own, or get some of the old metal models from GW. Send me links, pictures, or even just your ideas, if you have them! ?
“This, in a nutshell, is DuckDuckGo’s proposition: ‘The big tech companies are taking advantage of you by selling your data. We won’t.’ In effect, it’s an anti-sales sales pitch. DuckDuckGo is perhaps the most prominent in a number of small but rapidly growing firms attempting to make it big — or at least sustainable — by putting their customers’ privacy and security first.”
“The state of personalized recommendations is surprisingly terrible. At this point, the top recommendation is always a clickbait rage-creating article about movie stars or whatever Trump did or didn’t do in the last 6 hours. Or if not an article, then a video or documentary. That’s not what I want to read or to watch, but I sometimes get sucked in anyway, and then it’s recommendation apocalypse time, because the algorithm now thinks I like reading about Trump, and now everything is Trump. Never give positive feedback to an AI.”
Every service I use which has moved to “personalised recommendations/discovery” using some ML algorithm has gotten worse by doing so.
Every. Single. One.
I was having a clear out of a cupboard when I came across this blast from the past ? #indieweb #microformats
I’m not sure I can forgive White Dwarf for printing this brushcare faux pas in the latest issue!
Reposting: Bad Squiddo - Annie on Twitter
“It's hard for small businesses in this industry (as well as others), constantly knife edge. This year will be extra tough with all the Brexit shenanigans. We're gonna lose some along the way. If you can afford to - please buy the things, if not, just spread the word. Thankoo x”
In what feels like some sort of modern day right of passage, I just successfully replaced the battery on my daughter’s hand-me-down iPhone 5. It really wasn’t hard at all! #RightToRepair
When I went to bed, there was just a frozen scraping of snow and ice on the ground. I woke up to a winter wonderland ❄️
So I think I’ve finally got things setup properly, where I can tweet from my website, have any replies and likes show up on my website (after moderation), *and* have the website original linked from the tweet by a custom shortlink. #indieweb
Reposting: Bees on Twitter
Online it is very easy to speak up if you don't like something, but we often forget to say when we do.
If you see something you like, make a point of leaving a comment. Give some praise and encouragement, it really makes all the difference. Let's spread some positivity!
I need to do this more often. I have been trying to be better at telling people their stuff is awesome, or if they’ve been helpful, but I’m fighting against my introvert nature.
“A project-based course that teaches Kubernetes in a hands-on way. – groovemonkey/project-based-kubernetes”
I can’t believe I only just found this. As good an introduction to the IndieWeb as any. Also worth a read is the newer reply in a discussion about what the IndieWeb is, which led me to find it.
“This is an update to my 2018 article on how I set up my WordPress site.”
Why isn’t the internet more fun and weird? by Jarred Sumner
“MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code. We have Dark Mode now, but where did all the glitter go?”
I may be showing my age here, but I was never on MySpace. That said, this blog post (and the CodeBlog service it’s advertising) reminds me a lot of platforms I do remember, like Tripod and Geocities. Pages were built from raw HTML, and adorned with all sorts of widgets found on places like DynamicDrive and BraveNet. The <blink> tag ran rampant! Early Tumblr had a similar vibe, but look how that turned out.
These early services were places you could experiment and explore until you had the confidence, skills (and cash) to get your own domain name and server. Nowadays anyone can have their own domain and site quickly and cheaply on somewhere like WordPress.com/Blogger, but they are very cookie-cutter and locked down. Even using self-hosted tools like WordPress.org reign-in a lot of the free-form creativity.
One of the reasons I love Kicks Condor is because of how anachronistic and fun it looks; I can easily imagine 15 year-old me, magazine HTML tutorial in hand and full of enthusiasm to learn something fresh and new, creating something similar by accident and having a blast doing it.
By making things easier, more accessible – and safer – it feels like we’ve hidden away the building blocks. It’s harder for people to get at the pieces they need to try their own thing out of curiosity. Can you imagine if LEGO pieces were keyed to only fit a certain way, so you could only build what was shown on the box art?
Shared to IndieWeb.xyz and IndieNews
“Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system. It allows you to create, update, and scale containers without worrying about downtime. In this tutorial, you will deploy a PHP 7 application on a Kubernetes cluster with Nginx and PHP-FPM ru”
“Kubernetes is a container orchestration system that manages containers at scale. In this guide, you will set up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch with Kubeadm and deploy containerized applications on it.”
“Kubernetes is a container management system meant to be deployed on Docker-capable clustered environments. In this guide, we will discuss some of the basic concepts that Kubernetes introduces. We will discuss some of the design decisions and what make”
Kubernetes is one of those things I really wish I knew more about/had the time to learn sooner, rather than later.
