georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

The thing about listening to a song as you read the post is a jab at Mullenweg's "This post should be read while listening to Wish by Joshua Redman. The writing is synchronized to the music reading speed." on https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

> I think the problem isn't just that WP Engine doesn't contribute. I read that they pledged to, then had an internal policy not to contribute, and fired an employee for telling this to Matt on Twitter.

Can you share a link? I haven't been able to find that. A prohibition on contributions seems like a bad policy, because at some point WP Engine will want a change in Core and they need the political capital to make that happen.

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

What's the economic incentive for WP Engine to give back? They have a moral duty, sure, but as a business where is the profit? Anything they contribute to core will immediately be available to their competitors, so the naive read is that there's no competitive advantage in contributing back.

However, if they can influence the direction of the project, they can align it with your business goals. That gives them a competitive advantage, that gives them an incentive.

The challenge is that Matt is acting as a BDFL of the open source project. If Matt doesn't want your change added, your change isn't going to get added. There is no one to appeal to, Matt has absolute authority over the code that goes into the open source project that WP Engine's business is built on. Matt is also the CEO of WP Engine's competitor, Automattic.

This conflict of interest has come to a head in the past week and shone a spotlight on the lack of community stewardship of the WordPress project.

Keep in mind that Automattic requires its employees to get approval for any paid side gigs related to software because Matt believes that it creates conflicts of interest. You cannot work on WordPress for Automattic during the day and then freelance making paid WordPress plugins at night, due to the misaligned incentives. The fact that Matt isn't being paid a salary for his work on WordPress is irrelevant, given Automattic's equity is tied to the value of WordPress.

I think private equity skews heavily towards value extraction over value creation. I think that people who build businesses off of open source have a moral obligation to give back to the projects. I think that giving Automattic money to spend on WP core work will make WordPress better.

However, breaking the trust of the community does exponentially more damage to the future of WordPress than any freeloading company. The community trusts that the trademark licenses will not change to target them. The community trusts that their software will benefit from security updates and the plugin ecosystem. That trust is the foundation of WordPress and this week's actions have done damage.

Matt talked about going nuclear, and I think that the metaphor is apt, because when the smoke clears we may be left with no winners.

(I'm a former Automattic employee who roots for open source, WordPress, Automattic, and the vision of the open web Matt Mullenweg has shared.)

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

Every time I looked at the animated weather app, I would see the animation start in the past where clouds moved and grew and shrank naturally. As soon as it passed the present moment, the clouds would become fixed shapes and continue on whatever their current vector is. In the visualization there was no attempt to model clouds growing and shrinking. The clouds would suddenly start skidding across the screen.

I've read that is what the underlying precipitation "models" did as well, but obviously can't confirm.

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

I'm using pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger on Firefox. I checked my network tab before complaining and didn't see any resources that failed to load.

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

Dark grey #303030 text on slightly darker grey #1B1C21 background is really hard to read. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I also assume the audience for a blog post about the ASCII table was born in a year that starts with 19.

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

I'm not sure how to use this, I just see a blank screen with the word "delve" at the top and typing doesn't do anything. I'm on Firefox on macOS.

georgehotelling

2 năm trướcdiscuss

But that doesn't show the first tweet in the thread like in the screenshot.

I recommend everyone sharing social media links to see what it looks like in a private browser window, because the logged out experience is usually bad and sometimes unusable.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I opened an issue asking them to add `from typing import *` to the boilerplate.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Paperless started as "paperless" but the dev stopped work so another dev forked it to "paperless-ng" (for "next generation" I think). That dev, too, stopped work, so "paperless-ngx" was created.

The paperless-ngx's core team focused on gathering a group of people to support it to avoid any burnout problems and keep the project sustainable.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

One difference is that Twitter no longer shows threads to logged-out users, while Mastodon does. If someone posted the same thread to both sites, the Mastodon one would be better to link to.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I'm just happy for itertools.batched for chunking iterables: https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/itertools.html#itertool...

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

> I refuse to buy into somebody's walled garden

That's actually why I landed on Home Assistant. It's Open Source so I know that if things ever go bad someone will fork it and I won't have invested deeply in a dead-end ecosystem.

Getting started for me felt like the first time I learn a new board game. The rules seem incomprehensible and everything is unfamiliar, but that's the price of trying something new. Eventually the concepts started to click and I saw how things fit together.

I will say that telling my spouse to install an app with a web GUI was much easier than it would have been to get her on IRC to control the house.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

It's worth noting that the podcast search website makes request to Apple's podcast search API, then formats the results.

I would be interested if OP could glean enough from GPT to build the search index as well, a much more complicated project.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Transmetropolitan did a story about a woman who was dethawed and society basically told her to get lost. The world she knew was gone and she didn't fit into the one she woke up in. It was extremely poignant at the time, I hope it holds up.

I'm pretty sure that pre-dated Futurama too.

georgehotelling

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Another part of Getting Things Done is to have a weekly review. Look at all the open projects in your trusted system and make sure you know the next thing you need to do for them. Look at your calendar and figure out what else you need to do. Think through the areas of your life and figure out what projects are in your head but not in your system.

There is a bit more to Getting Things Done than just to do lists.

georgehotelling

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> I think the reason RSS is not appealing to content creators is because authors don't "own" the email list. And it's quite difficult to have paid content delivered via RSS (still pretty much open/sharable)

I think ActivityPub is interesting as an RSS replacement for these reasons. The content is pushed out to an address, so you get much better insights into who your audience is.

Right now Mastodon is the the biggest ActivityPub software[1] so it's encouraging people to post microbloggy content, but that could easily be the inroad to a more RSS-like reader. WordPress's ActivityPub plugin allows people to syndicate their blogs directly to the Fediverse, and other longform platforms can follow suit.

1: https://fediverse.observer/stats

georgehotelling

5 năm trướcdiscuss

You should look into the FitBod app. You tell the app what equipment you have and it does the programming for you, with short videos and text descriptions for form.

georgehotelling

7 năm trướcdiscuss

What is going on with Michigan's Upper Peninsula? Did anyone at Apple look up there and notice that they paved Lake Michigan?

georgehotelling

7 năm trướcdiscuss

In December of 2009 my dad died. He was getting the mail, slipped on some ice, and hit his head. He laid there for about 30 minutes before a neighbor found him. He was put on life support but the damage was done.

I’m still mad, 10 years later, about the fact that he has 2 amazing grandkids who won’t get to know him, or that I can’t ask him about the state of the world.

I don’t know if the Apple Watch would have helped him, but I do know that you haven’t done a full risk assessment. He wasn’t in an isolated area, he wasn’t inexperienced. Falls get scarier and scarier the older your loved ones get.

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