Behold the finest project @phrawzty.com and I have ever done github.com/mattstratton...

Deux salles, deux ambiances … #EUpol

Good news everybody! You can buy #Bluesky at the French supermarket now.

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

The future of web development is… - Java applets - ActiveX - Flash - XHTML - Silverlight - Progressive Web Apps - CSS-inJS - Blockchain - AI …Get on or get left behind. alex.party/posts/2025-0... 😆

The refresh of Elder Scrolls #Oblivion is wild y'all. It looks now like I *thought* it looked like way back when. If this release does well enough commercially, perhaps they'll refresh #Morrowind next? A boy can dream.

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

I'll be speaking at #OWASP #Snowfroc this Friday! The talk is called "Patterns of failure in modern #authorization" and it's about why #authz is getting harder instead of easier. Some academic research but also interesting examples of authz failure at large, well-known brands. Hope to see you there!

Listening to some classic rock lately and have rediscovered Blue Öyster Cult. Apparently they're still active, having released an album in 2024. For reference, their eponymous debut album came out in 1972. For further reference, my parents were kids when that album came out. That's wild to me, haha

Fascinating commentary of what statehood means with respect to land, or the lack thereof.

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I have written a piece for @energiewendeger.bsky.social about why 2025 is a crucial year for #CrossBorderRail in the EU. New Commissioner, political commitment, and a bunch of problems that can be fixed! energytransition.org/2025/02/2025...

« astroterm is a #terminal based star map written in C. It displays the real-time positions of #stars, #planets, #constellations, and more, all within your terminal. Configure sky views by date, time, and location with precise ASCII-rendered visuals. » github.com/da-luce/astr...

«There are no built-in constructs for looping. Nobody has time for yesterday's loops or last week's break statements. If you must loop, use recursion. Every program must end with PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, because you have to grow your audience! Hashtag hustle.» 😆 tabloid.vercel.app

Got the inevitable message that my Windows 10 is now EOL and that I need to upgrade to 11. The machine is perfectly fine but it doesn't have the secure boot stuff, so there's no good upgrade path. This isn't even my daily driver (I use a MacBook for work), so I'm definitely not buying anything new.

#HTTP status code 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons"; for use when a server operator has received a legal demand to deny access to a resource. Used to provide transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect server operations. www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725....

It is heartwarming to see three of the four #NHL divisions currently being lead by Canadian teams. Notably, my beloved @winnipegjets.com—who appear to have an active account—and the other great prairie team, the Edmonton Oilers. (Oh and the Leafs too, which is fine, I guess.) #GoJetsGo!

All these companies out here with job listings for "senior developer" and "staff engineer", are the same companies that are busy trying to replace juniors and mids with LLMs. Where do you think the seniors and staffs are coming from, my dudes?

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

Beyond parody

Mittlerweile ist klar: Nicht 50.000, sondern 70.000 Menschen sind heute in Köln auf die Straße gegangen. Gegen die AfD und den Plänen von Friedrich Merz, gemeinsam eine Mehrheit mit ihnen zu finden. Das ist ein starkes Zeichen. Danke! ♥️

«What truly limits democracy is the power of the elites […] It is the power of those who think that because they are rich, they are above the law and can do anything. That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.» www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Taking in some live #NHL whilst in Winnipeg. It is *much* warmer on the ice than it is outside. #Jets are down 0-2 to the #Flames but there's still a full period to play. Go Jets Go!

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.

Via @bylineseast.bsky.social: « #Privatisation has had little effect on long-term trends on prices or productivity in #Britain. Instead it has led to more wealth for the already wealthy, declining services and has been costly to the taxpayer. » eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

I’ll be honest I just don’t think I can commit to 2025 right now. I need a gap year or something. Just some time to find myself and figure out if another calendar year is really what I want to do with my life.

From @nebylines.bsky.social, a brief but interesting look at the blend of old and new political systems practiced by four of Europe's smallest countries (incorrectly grouped as microstates, but just ignore that label). northeastbylines.co.uk/news/europe-...

🚨 ATTENTION THEORYCELS: PEAK FOUCAULT HAS BEEN REACHED 🚨 ANNUAL CITATIONS FOR FOUCAULT HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE 2020 YOU CAN STOP PRETENDING TO HAVE READ FOUCAULT, AND INSTEAD PRETEND TO BE ABOVE READING FOUCAULT

I drew this stupid comic in 5 minutes and people have been arguing about it on the internet ever since

Got my #Covid booster AND #flu shot yesterday. One in each arm, obv. Ngl, #boxing session was a mess today. Honestly, looking forward to it being "just" leg day tomorrow :P

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en #AncientSky 🦣🏺

The #EU is planning a satellite-based internet solution (like #Starlink). In principle this is a great way to democratise internet access across the continent. In reality, I'm sceptical—not in the technology per se, but in the EU's capacity to actually make it happen. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

#Scotland to propose a « new law which could see the bosses of major polluters jailed for up to 20 years » specifically targeting the *executives* of companies guilty of #ecocide. Bravo ! 👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

All of the #EU policy wonks, political journos, and Brussels commentariat have found their way to Bsky from X. Correspondingly, my shift from the latter to the former is complete, as EU news was the only reason I opened X anymore. That was quick, relatively speaking.

I tried to be nice, random IoT mailing list, but from here on out it's scorched earth in my inbox filters.

Aww you're too kind! It was a pleasure and an honour to accompany so many intelligent, accomplished professionals on stage over the past two days at #DevOpsREX24. 😊

«Enjoy the warm glow of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as their combustion casts a calming, flickering glow.» Clearly this is the greatest #fireplace #video ever conceived. Thank you for your service, humans of #NASA. www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-re...

Did you know that you can host a website on Bluesky? Turns out that you can get creative with the #ATProtocol. Really interesting article by @danielmangum.com: danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...

« Since the 1980s, tar has been the go-to method for bundling and archiving multiple files … how did a magnetic tape utility become the standard for archiving files even 40 years later? » A fun and interesting look into the #tar and #gzip file formats. depot.dev/blog/what-is...

Q: What's the tallest mountain on Earth? A: Uh, mount Everest, sort of, but also not—honestly, it's complicated. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Because life, I'm going to be in #Winnipeg 🇨🇦 in January. If you're not familiar with this part of the world during the winter months, it's effectively Siberia. That is not an exaggeration. As recompense, I've got tickets to see the #NHL Jets take on the Flames. Live 🏒 is the best. Already stoked!

A thing that I do generally appreciate about #Bluesky is how well it works in a web #browser —specifically, how well it works on #mobile #Firefox. The interface is clean and responsive. All the functionality is all there. It's so refreshing to _not_ have to use an app.

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.

Still not really into bsky idk

🚅 Chronotrains is an interactive rail map that allows you to see how far you can travel by train is a given amount of time (1 to 8 hours). It uses a visualisation technique called "isochrones" and it's a lot of fun to explore. chronotrains.com

only good bumper sticker I've ever seen