Welcome to Spring in Portland

Progress continues

#house #move #unpacking

I was contested that it was solely a privacy thing that Apple didn’t make iMessage cross-platform. Literally a company at that size does everything for money - not people or security. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/09/epic-apple-no-imessage-on-android/

New post: fluffy rambles: Progress continues beesbuzz.biz/blog/10086-Pro… #House #Move #Unpacking I am pretty much done unpacking my kitchen. I’m now trying to figure out where the heck my Sodastream goes, because it doesn’t quite fit under the upper cabinets. On the plus side I f…
Look, there’s a damn cat-eating detective in this story. Someone, make this, please. https://t.co/Hh5QaTq1m2
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The book “The Shining Path” by Starn and La Cerna tells an unbelievable story about an insane time in Peru. I just got to the buddy-cop-story moment where Miyashiro j...
The number and intensity of firefights on @Line_of_duty seems improbable for the UK. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
👀 “This week, eight writers who cover tech, media and culture — Mr. Warzel, Mr. Newton, Anne Helen Petersen, Nick Quah, Eric Newcomer, Delia Cai, Ryan Broderick and Kim Zetter — are starting a virtual newsroom called Sidechannel on Discord.”
Why We're Freaking Out About Substack nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…

I always scrutinize closed platforms a bit more closely but I didn’t know Wix was this bad. Definitely not recommending them (not that I ever have, lol) https://wptavern.com/wix-takes-a-jab-at-wordpress-with-bewildering-new-marketing-campaign

People mad about https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/ and I understand why but literally point this “frustration” at the celebrities and people who have been doing this for decades and literally contribute to this.

Two things can be and tend to be true.

Raya and the Last Dragon is one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen - if not the best. Like I questioned so many times if this was a real image or animated and they blended it perfectly. Like outside of pores, they look so real!

The book “The Shining Path” by Starn and La Cerna tells an unbelievable story about an insane time in Peru. I just got to the buddy-cop-story moment where Miyashiro joins Benedicto in the GEIN police unit. This needs a quality studio to make it into a miniseries.
Which surprises exactly nobody, but is yet another reason why we need more, and more fair alternatives to the leading surveillance capitalists. twitter.com/pernillet/stat…
Pernille Tranberg https://twitter.com/PernilleT
Controlling the platform & competing w its users is a bad cocktail: Google operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising ...
Working on a Rails app with the latest versions of: * Rails 6.1 * Ruby 3 (yay for endless methods!) * Ruby2JS (ruby2js.com) * Serbea (serbea.dev) * ViewComponent * Hotwire Turbo 7 * Rubocop * Shoulda (for Minitest) This stack is so-o-o-o good y’all. ❤️
Just began a major reorganize at of my apartment, as I’ve been here very little in the last year. This will take weeks to complete. Anyone have any advice? (di5.us/t/1Pb)

What are you sharing together during eternal Caturday?

As most of PDX 🤞
From my cold, dead, mustard-stained fingers
Giuliani effectively drove the knish off the streets of our fair city pursuing a similar policy line. forward.com/culture/466857… twitter.com/andrewyang/sta…
It’s about a bunny digging their dream home, but every company and open source project should show Burrow during onboarding to orient every new engineer on what it means to break the build and how to handle it. watch.eventive.org/jbfcvirtualmar…
The Present is a short film you won’t forget. I could say it’s about a father and daughter going shopping, but that would be like saying Jaws is about a fishing trip. netflix.com/title/81424328…