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Sadly I'll be sipping caipirinhas on a beach in Brazil but if this were not the case I would run, not walk, to the WDC online ticket booth to purchase my 12th WDC ticket. What a lineup!

Newsletter: Tech's hyper-growth era is ending. Almost every major web platform has seen traffic declines since 2021, and the industry is getting desperate as it realizes there aren't any massive new markets left- and generative AI isn't the next big thing. wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble

Having talked to many burnt out friends and colleagues in the past few months I’ve reached a conclusion and it is this: we collectively require a state sponsored year off. Anyone?

@pierre_nel Glad to hear that! Yeah I'm fairly sure iOS and maybe Android will require SSL, did you ever get that sorted?

@jegtnes your Obsidian LIve Sync blog post was *chef kiss* - got it running on my RPi via runtipi.io - but I think the iOS client want SSL, might pop it onto a VM somewhere 🤔

Happy May Day--always loved this story from 1982 about a British trans woman who was fired from her job at the General Electric Company after transitioning. Her fellow trade unionists at ASTMS rallied around her and successfully won her job back. digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/b8515n41k

@themakerist JULIA you are too kind 😭😭

@lostcat420 😘

@jegtnes vouch 🙏

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The transatlantic econ discourse

it is a "spend hours rewriting entire function and then most of the file to subsequently realise that the issue is with a dependency of a dependency having had a breaking change and silently failing" kinda day 😌 live laugh love

my thoughts on social media at this point

@I_am_Heather Mate I can't believe I missed this, how *infuriating*. I hope your recovery goes well 💜

And the more I think about it the angrier I get. If an AMAB person had multiple growths and lesions fusing their organs together that affected their daily abilities to lead a full and active life, would they be made to wait two decades for a diagnosis and treatment?! #misogyny

I had excision surgery for stage 4 #endometriosis. They found all 3 types - peritoneal, deep infiltrating, ovarian. I had a large growth on my ovary, my ovary was attached to my bowel, my uterus had attached itself to my colon, my pelvic walls and floor were covered in lesions

I currently have zero interest in the new Zuck thing but I have two Bluesky invites if anybody wants to try the new Jack thing

@LizzieHard1 I was tempted just to find out what on earth the *pizza* element was about. I am alas already very acquainted with what Norwegian will label as "taco" and it's roughly anything that's cumin-and-paprika flavoured

@jegtnes Did you …. buy it?

lads I found the absolute platonic ideal example of Norwegian cuisine at the airport: managing to offend three separate nations in one fell swoop. perfection. unimprovable-upon. 10/10

@designCaitlin I got one, you still need it?

can anybody hmu with that b*sky invite?

apropos nothing I am on bluesky at @jegtnes.com and mastodon at @jegtnes@indieweb.social

@TomKealy2 At one point my general anxiety got so bad that every time I left my flat for more than a few days I had to film myself showing that all the things that should be off were off, leaving my flat, and locking the door. …it worked, to be fair.

What do you know? Checked the stove and taps and windows before heading for a holiday, and now am panicking that my flat will flood and burn down once I'm too far to the airport to go home.

@Mattlewisdrums ...rooves innit

@jamesmcnicholas @jegtnes you seeing this shit

The fucking French on their fucking roofs twitter.com/BestForBritain…

@cole007 What a shit situation. All my best with it all. 💜 I remember you were one of the first people I followed who started talking openly about mental health while there was much more stigma around it than there is today and I'm very grateful that you did. Keep "over"sharing!