Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I read a toot (I hate this word) from someone recently exhorting people to “star” more toots, more often. I am not going to do that. In fact, since I’ve mostly moved over to Mastodon, I’ve made it a point NOT to star things unless I really wanted to save them. Instead, if I want to acknowledge something someone posted, I will respond and say so directly. I will not short hand it via the star button. The star button, as the like button, and other similar devices, is a lie.

Please boost for sample size.

The best reading experience on mobile phones is when the website uses for paragraphs that are:

Nutjobs want to debate vaccines?
Here you go.

"This is about saving cities. Without commuting office workers, the office buildings go empty, they become worth a fraction of their cost, and retail cannot survive."

https://innovationnation.blog/p/its-companies-fault-we-dont-want

God it's depressing that people believe this is the true nature of downtowns.

Cities predate commutes. The hollowed out core that triples in population, swelled to bursting with bored and unhappy suburbanites during work hours, is a modern abomination made possible by cars and structural racism.

What's killing downtowns is that we spent so long on this awful vision of work and spent half a century strangling inner city infrastructure to subsidize incredibly expensive suburban lifestyles.

Want to make downtowns viable again? Convert dead office space to apartments and schools and colleges and other spaces people can work *and* live in.

Good luck with your rezoning applications though.

Great visual showing why even getting 90% of the implementation budget might simultaneously sound like a lot and lead to unusable results...

TIL Google is sunsetting "Album Archive", which I didn't even know exists, but apparently has a bunch of photos I uploaded to my Google+ Pages!

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/

#RIPGooglePlusAgain #RIPAlbumArchive

I wonder how many persons with an IT background use fedi vs people with no IT background...

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MacOS has opinions.

I’m searching for a role as a Principal Engineer at an early-ish (<150) startup, or on a small, empowered cross-functional team with direct customer impact. I’m looking for a connection to positive outcomes where I can solve the most ambiguous and challenging technical problems, regardless of where in the stack they are. I have extensive experience building and maintaining systems code. I’m passionate about contributing to foundational open source projects.

#getfedihired

I LITERALLY JUST TRANSFERRED ALL MY DOMAINS TO THEM BECAUSE THEIR SERVICE JUST LAUNCHED INTO PRODUCTION AND WAS PERFECTLY ADEQUATE AND THEY SURELY WOULDN'T PULL A GOOGLE FOR AT LEAST A FEW MORE YEARS
https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/
(thanks @jillr for raising my blood pressure)

#dungeon23 table

Instead of a cave, passages are...

1 a tall, narrow triangle
2 thin glass sheets, with swirling mists behind
3 smooth, round metal, like the inside of a large pipe
4 tightly packed stacks of ivory tusks
5 wooden post pilings with a wood beam ceiling
6 liquid water, but the surface is vertical
7 intricate but tiny brick masonry
8 layer upon layer of multicolor silk curtains
9 a half-circle arch above, with a flat floor
0 piled food - loaves of bread or wheels of cheese

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