Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Views of my employer do not reflect mine.
Joined May 2019
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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> Beware the Keybase formula:
1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded
Agreed. And I'd pay *particular* attention to #4.
With a normal company, you have to ask "can the current business model make money?" If not, it will change.
With a VC-backed company, you have to ask "can the current business model make 10× returns?" If not, it will change.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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@sir
"We need to rewrite everything with the benefit of hindsight."
-You, probably
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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@zachdecook not just with hindsight but with discipline
Does anyone know of any open source alternatives to Kahoot, a real-time multiple-choice quiz game where participants vote by clicking 1 of four buttons on their phone screen. Boosts appreciated. @switchingsoftware
@ac Welcome to not-twitter, a place where, much like twitter, groupies congregate around the personalities who put in the time, torrentially tooting.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-live/
I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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@sir No, it's a good language because it slows people down, which means it causes them to write less bad software than they otherwise would have been able to.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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@amiloradovsky @sir I love Ansible because it lets me (1) document in code exactly how my servers are set up, and (2) quickly rebuild my servers if something goes wrong.
That said, Drew has a point; because Ansible makes servers easier to maintain, it enables/encourages more complex configurations that you would not create if you had to deploy everything by hand. The complexity is still there, even if you manage it with automation.
Thinking about trying again to set up a #gnuSlashDarwin system (on a different machine). Last time I tried, I got stuck and ended up wiping macOS.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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What if I told you we could give your site a dark theme just by **deleting** a few lines of CSS.
CSS normalization is where you tell your users that you don't care about their preferences.
`@media prefers-color-scheme` says "we care about some preferences... iff your browser/OS is new enough"
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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GitHub’s new notifications: a case of regressive design
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html
Waiting for unicode-based output to devour fontawesome (and similar). For accessibility purposes. #OpenMoji defines some ui-element glyphs in the private-use area: https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/blob/master/src/extras-openmoji/ui-element/E268.svg
Maybe some of these should move to become part of the #unicode standard?
Recently discovered #OpenMoji, a completed #FLO emoji font project. https://openmoji.org.
I don't think I'll retire #Fossmoji yet though: emoji-font design should be accessible to the masses, and I still believe composing them from multiple semantically-named files enhances the process.
Spent some time this evening working on [Otter](https://github.com/poowf/otter), a free content management framework for laravel (PHP framework). It's promising, but currently leans heavily on a vue.js frontend... for now...
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
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Idea: NFC receipts as an alternative to paper receipts
I don't want to give you my email address, but you encode the receipt data onto an NFC pad I can tap my phone to, we can save paper without giving you that oh-so-tasty data
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Views of my employer do not reflect mine.
Joined May 2019
