The Meetup site in my opinion utilizes anti-patterns when going through the organizer subscription cancellation process. Didn’t catch it in August, but cancelled and it takes effect in February.
Not cool Meetup, not cool
Really regretting being the “strong sense of justice” flavor of autism right about now. Could have been the good at math flavor but noooooo, that would have been to easy.
My anxiety as tomorrow approaches increases with each passing minute. I’m hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
That’s all I got
@chris being able to actually, separately, bookmark things was the winning feature. What I always wanted
Part of my trip to Portland was to attend CascadiaPHP. Part of my trip to Portland was to start getting a feel for if I could live here. But, most importantly, it was to see a friend of mine who I haven’t seen in years.
I did not realize how much I needed a hug from her when I came to see her at work. A wave of relaxation washed over me, ear to ear smiles, and a spike in my heart rate.
I missed this person so so much
Keep playing with the idea of working on/brainstorming the #ActivityPub-ification of Pinkary while at @cascadia this week
I went from “I don’t think I’m going to do battlesnakes at #cascadiaphp” to “the only thing I care about is battlesnakes. Do I lone wolf the battle, or team it up? So many decisions”
Anyone have MacBook Pro doc remendations? One that’ll work with an M2 Pro and M3 Pro, and isn’t just “plug a dongle with 700 ports” type dock?
Looking for one that actually works, supports two monitors, 4+ USB devices, and ideally is standing. Or at least gets the 16” diagonally space out of the way on my desk so I have more space. #fediask
@ivory Anyway Ivory could be installable via Homebrew casks? Or does the subscriptions component require publishing via the Apple Store?
Technically was a few days ago, but I got all my flights and hotel and such booked for #cascadiaphp! I'll unfortunately be missing the first day as I've got a Board of Trustees meeting scheduled at the same time, but I'll be there the last two days!
Now the question is, who can I bribe with food and/or booze to attend the sessions I'm gonna miss and take notes? 😜
On campus today at St. Edwards University for the Lucian Symposium. Can't wait to learn more about STEM and Democracy: Voting and Representation.
This image is a flyer for an event titled “A Symposium on STEM and Democracy: Voting and Representation”, taking place on Friday, September 27, 2024. The event will feature invited speakers in Carter Auditorium (JBWS 186), and a student poster session on the first floor of JBWN from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. Key details: • 8:50 am: Welcome by Dean Jonathan Hodge, PhD. • 9:00 am: Understanding Decision-Making for Running Elections, presented by Ted Allen, PhD, Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering and Computer Science Engineering (Courtesy) at The Ohio State University. • 10:00 am: Securing the 2024 Election, presented by Matthew Bernhard, PhD, Director of Security and Special Projects at Enhanced Voting. • 11:00 am: The Mathematics of Fairness in Political Representation, presented by Jennifer Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Eugene Lang College, The New School. The event is brought to attendees by the Brother Lucian Blersch Endowment and the School of Natural Sciences at St. Edward’s University.
For 31 years of my life I never had an incident with spilling a drink on any of my laptops. Got in a hot tube with my Blackberry in my pocket once, but I had a spare and knew how to replace all the broken parts so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Twice. Twice this year I've had a spilled drink instance. And both times on my work laptop. Now IT gets to know I'm a dumb dumb, instead of just me and a random Apple store employee. And I guess the 10s of followers on here lol.
Fuckles
The last time this happened near the beginning of the year, I paid out of pocket to increase my work machines warranty to the full coverage to get it repaired/replaced. That way the company doesn't have to waste money on a whole new machine. That warranty is still in place.
IT is now causing my boss headaches, as they understandably think I'm careless with an expensive machine. I get the feeling, but accidents happens I even have an easy fix for them, but might wind up with a Windows instead :/
My Alma matter is hosting a symposium tomorrow, and the dean of Natural Sciences (where computer science lives at St. Edward’s university) invited me to dinner tonight with the speakers.
I feel like I’m lacking some words to fully describe it, but being surrounded and talking to professors or academia just feels natural. Like I’m at home and with “my people.”
I still want to do private sector things, and make private sector money for the bills but man is becoming a CS professor looking temptn
@nunomaduro Hey Nuno, I've got a crazy idea that I want to run by you before I completely dive into it re: Pinkary. What are your thoughts on, or interest in, making Pinkary ActivityPub/"Mastodon" compliant?
I started working on a Laravel version of Cloudflares Wildebeast project, but I think putting that work towards making Pinkary Fediverse compatible would be better use of time. Thoughts?
(I can open a Github Issue/Discussion if that's better)
@chris The timing of this and the comments I just made in the TexasPHP Slack about Wordpress is just.. incredible in all the wrong ways.
Maybe I should port those comments to here for people to read and/or ignore lol