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June 2024 Thirty posts
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It’s the time of the trip where I go to a pool. Kelly came with.
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I go away for a weekend and there’s a shark attack.
Good solid family travel weekend. Had fun. Won’t be sharing much about it I don’t think.
But I come back and there was a shark bite that closed the beaches over the weekend: Swimmer suffers ‘significant’ injury in shark attack in Del Mar; beaches closed as precaution.
Here’s a video from ABC 10 News.
Feeling good this morning. Let’s get some stuff done.
Go on about your business! Thanks for reading. Have a great day.
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Merge Conflict Music Video Morning
I started the day resolving a source code merge conflict and drinking a coffee.
The merge conflict I fixed quick and felt great.
Then I made a new header I think it might could be a good day.
Here’s what I’ve been listening to on heavy rotation lately, from Last.fm. Top Ten songs.
- Family Business by Lawrence
- Me & You by Lawrence
- Sue Me by Sabrina Carpenter
- Bad Liar by Selena Gomez
- The King Is Half-Undressed by Jellyfish
- Make Believe (Loop Version) by Elise Trouw
- How’m I Gonna Find You Now by James McMurtry
- Krafty – 2011 Total Version by New Order
- Wish You Were a Girl by Tchotchke
- Blessed Relief by Frank Zappa
Now’m gonna write about some of these.
Jellyfish’s The King Is Half-Undressed is a fine chunk of Neo-psychedelic revival from 1990. I remembered this track on the way home from bodysurfing one day. Out of the blue my brain just said: “LISTEN TO THAT SONG, YOU LIKE IT.” According to Last.fm I have not ever scrobbled it before this year. Which means no plays on Slacker Radio (former employer which I regularly scribbled from) and was never in my iTunes collection, and when I was running the Chrome extension web scribbler I contributed to I never listened to it on any platform I scribbled from, including YouTube. I know it’s on at least one of my cassette tape mix tapes from the early 1990s. But those don’t scrobble.
Wish You Were a Girl by Tchotchke is from 2022. Love their tone, attitude and world-weariness. Women being precisely who they are brilliantly is among of my top favorite things.
Blessed Relief by Frank Zappa is from 1972. Zappa loved love crunching, abrasive, freewheeling, ugliness–but this this piece showcases a quality of loveliness which nevertheless contains complexities and curlicues that are the best sort of jazz composition. It’s so pretty that it often–but not always–makes me weep.
Lawrence has a new single out: Family Business. I talked about Lawrence in December and they are still on heavy rotation for all the reasons I stated there.
I heard a song from James McMurtry while listening to Radio Garden.
Digression: Have you tried Radio Garden? The interface is a map of planet earth. Every dot is a radio station that streams their music in some way to the internet. And if it’s online and broadcasting, you can listen. I often will traipse across the planet and try stations in Slovenia. Or Argentina. Or over to the BBC stations. One station I often return to is KDAN 91.5 out of Marshall, California (population, 400). It plays classic rock, sometimes old gospel, country, country swing, outlaw country, jam bands, and often surprises me. It was where I first heard Sarah Shook, last year.
Screenshot of Radio.Garden
The McMurtry song I heard on KDAN one morning was State of the Union, which is a slow searing folk song from 2017. Listen on Soundcloud. And holy shit the lyrics.
Mother turned eighty,
The consummate Lady
We took her to Golden Corral.
‘Cause she likes the yeast rolls
And Bourbon Street Chicken
We oughta known better by now.
‘Cause me and my brother got into it good,
I called him a hick and he called me a hood,
He said, “Dad always treated his Mexicans good–
“I guess you think you’re better somehow”“Yeah you think you’re better,
“Cardigan-sweatered.
“Snowflake if ever there was.
“You think you’re so cool
“‘Cause you did good in school
“You got whipped every day on the bus.”
Sister lit out ‘fore the shoutin’ got worse
Went to Wednesday night prayer at the new Christian church,
With a cross on her neck and a nine in her purse–
She might be the wisest of usIt’s too much for regular rotation. Better to have How’m I Gonna Find You Now as a regular right now. I like a propulsive jam like this, and as an older fella, I can appreciate a line like: “Now I’m washin’ down my blood pressure pill with a Red Bull.” I love a bitterly funny lyric — lyrics tag highlights those, because I love to quote ’em.
Time for another coffee. Have an egg, maybe. Time for work.
Thanks for reading, and hang tough people. The world needs fixin’.
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Bandwidth Throttling
In The Train WiFi Test, James writes:
The speed of train WiFi varies considerably. You should optimise for what I have observed is a general case: WiFi that technically works, but is unreliable and may cut out at various points in the journey.
The way to “pass the test” as it were is to follow performance best practices for mobile devices: reduce the amount of code required to load a page, reduce the number of images used, and progressively enhance so that a page may load even if parts of the page haven’t loaded. Load what the user needs to experience the web page.
My site is heavy. It’s gathered a lot of stuff is heavy and I tend toward including the whole kitchen sink on every page. But in the last 2 years I’ve been paring down the site. And I often browse with my phone which definitely points me to shortcomings in terms of speed. I recently implemented a CDN for image and other page assets which has had a good effect.
I am not often on a train, but I appreciate the idea.
When testing bandwidth constrained situations back in the day I often used a tool called Charles. Charles is an excellent program for Mac computers. It’s a proxy. A man-in-the-middle. Using it, I can simulate all kinds of different sorts of network conditions. One of my favorite things to do was to mock and API endpoint when creating a single page application. Worked great for that.
It also allows throttling all web traffic for your whole machine or particular domains. The settings are at
Proxy > Throttle Settings...:
Charles Throttle Settings Though a separate program for throttling is harder to argue in this better age!
Top browsers include throttling tools! Chrome and Firefox, for example:
Chrome developer tools throttling 
Firefox developer tools throttling options Pretty fun. Performance is always something that can be tweaked more, I must remind myself as I add more gewgaws to each page.
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Long gap. Quality, not quantity. So lucky.
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Florida by Stew & The Negro Problem
Lyrics of the Day, from Notes of a Native Song:
You can’t hate on a state
‘Cause no state’s all that bad nor all that great
There’s nice people and assholes everywhere
To judge ’em by the jury would be unfair
I met the nicest people you could meet
So I don’t blame y’all one single bit
But I know y’all know way better than me
Some folks down there are full of gator shit(Florida, Florida you kill me)
(Florida, Florida you kill me)Home of Stepin Fetchit and Ben Vereen
But hey nothing bad by that did I mean
I love All that Jazz and I love Pippin
But brothers your home state is straight up trippin’Cali gave us the Beach Boys and Charles Manson
Oklahoma gave us Leon Russell and Hanson
But I mean besides Cuban food what’s the point?
…Okay I admit fried gator tails are the joint
Your heat’s surprising and your fire aint’ nice
Y’all put Al Gore’s head in a Miami vice(Florida, Florida you kill me)
(Florida, Florida you kill me)When I turn in to an old jew
I will not retire in you
I’m staying in Brooklyn where the struggle is best
It don’t matter if the weather is great if I gotta wear a bullet-proof vest(Florida, Florida you kill me)
(Florida, Florida you kill me)Some places suck like a robot whore
Like a grave with a mouth the size of a killing floor
Yous silent screams and your noise annoys
Hanging chads and lynching boys
Hanging chads and lynching boys(Florida, Florida you kill me)
(Florida, Florida you kill me)
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My breakfast had a lot less sand in it. Good morning out there.
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Extraordinary day at PB. Started on the south side of the pier, rode waves; pushed north by current; rode more waves; repeat.
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Happy Birthday David!
Yes, you! Happy Birthday David!–the world is a better place for you being in it, and certainly has better WordPress plugins than it would without you!
🎂
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Ostrich or Llama?
Ostrich or Llama? a question posed by The Rough Guide to the Internet, 1999 Ostrich.
But many things are confused with other things.
Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber is a site worthy of your notice, for example.
Words in English are often confused with each other: Commonly Confused Words: than and then; accept and except; it’s and its.
Dogs and food, puppies and food, often confused.
Chihuahuas and muffins in particular:
Chihuahua or muffin? My search for the best computer vision API by Mariya Yao (2017) And in a movie with many great gags, The Mitchells vs. the Machines has the running gag of the robots taking over the world being confused trying to categorize the family dog – the evil robots try for “pig / dog / pig / dog / loaf of bread” before crashing in confusion.
System Error! Watch on Netflix. See the trailer, at least.
This post was inspired by another terrific conversation in an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club.
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Scam Job Text Message of the Day (from 737-288-3509)
- +1 (737) 288-3509
- I’m Daisy from Nvidia Are you available for the job?
- Joe Crawford
- I prefer to use email or LinkedIn for employment contacts because of the high levels of fraud via text platforms. Do not contact me in this way without my prior consent.
- +1 (737) 288-3509
- Our company cooperate with LinkedIN/Dice Tech/ Zip Recruiter/ Reddit and other job sites shared contacts for us to contact on this project.
- +1 (737) 288-3509
- If i may ask before we proceed, Are you above 23 years old?
Then I blocked the sender.
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“Hello, I’m Cindy, I’m a Pisces and I like Chihuahuas and Chinese noodles”
I think we’re the future generation. Listen up. From 1983.
Now listen to All I Need is Everything by Aztec Camera which is from 1984 but seems years later than the B-52’s song. I listened to this song, plus the song Oblivious repeatedly. The happy-sadness suited me perfectly then.
the size of the sea and the sun in my eyes
and the line in my head
yearning for more…
only for more…
these days are as bright as the days I have seen
in the wildest of dreams
yearning for more…
only for more…
The brilliance of Michel Gondry’s video for Kylie Minogue’s Come Into My World (2001) has not diminished in the 22 years since it came out.
Wait a minute. Didn’t Double Nickels on the Dime come out in 1984? That’s bananas. It sounds nothing like either Aztec Camera or the B-52’s. Here’s The Minutemen with This Ain’t No Picnic which is a nugget of Southern California punk that hits my old ears just with the same ramshackle intensity as it did on those few occasions on which I slam danced. The Minutemen are a band from San Pedro, a part of Southern California where the Port of Los Angeles is. You’ve seen San Pedro if you watched the movie Heat and saw that scene at the giant docks with thousands of shipping containers and cranes. San Pedro was and is working class industrial California. And D. Boon, the lead singer of the Minutemen, died one year later in a car wreck. Age 27. In case you were wondering if the world is fucking fair. It isn’t. But this song is American as hell and I love it. Turn it up loud.
But our land isn’t free
So I’ll work my youth away
In the place of a machine
I refuse to be a slaveThis ain’t no picnic
This ain’t no picnic
This ain’t no picnic
This ain’t no picnic
Sorry, got heavy. I’ll lighten it up for you. Pluto is not gonna quit. That’s right it’s time for “H.S.” by Tom Cardy. Eons later.
Thanks for visiting.
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On Names
I read Names too on the nose at the end of May and dropped Steve an email about the topic, a 2018 BBC article: Do our names push us towards certain jobs?.
A fascinating topic, that.
There’s an aphorism in recovery: “to name it is to tame it.” which this reminds me of, but is about identifying a feeling in words to gain control over the feeling. Perhaps human will is strengthened by having a thought concretized as a word.
If I was smarter at semiotics and philosophy I’d likely have more articulate thoughts on this. My first ex-wife was a philosophy major before earning a B.A. in linguistics, at best maybe some smarts in those areas rubbed off. And my second ex has more emotional intelligence and strength than probably any other human being I ever met, and know that relationship improved how well I think about human behavior and relationships.
But really, the takeaway might be: “names matter.” Nicknames, too. I remember a conversation with my father. I think I was a high school freshman at the time. The conversation was about a school friend. I referred to the friend as “shorty.” My dad asked if that’s what my friend preferred to be called. I said I didn’t know. I wish I could remember his words, but they summed up to the fact that a nickname like that might have an effect. Like much of my parents’ parenting, it was not prescriptive. He didn’t tell me to stop. He didn’t chastise me. He made me think—hard—about the effect of my words.
I did think about my words. I never called or referred to that friend as “shorty” again.
And still, I try to think about the words I write and speak.
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Friday Links!
I’m getting over a cold. No, not COVID. But it sucks.
And herewith I will blog them for your possible review and enjoyment.
How to Get Started Investigating Payment Gateways Online from Bellingcat, Money is the root of how organizaitons operate. “Follow the money” is the aphorism from All The Presidents’ Men.
The more I learn about submersible catastrophe the more obviously avoidable and the more obviously the result of rich, entitled, egotistical jerkiness it is. For nature cannot be fooled, indeed.
Neat Hobby! is worth your time. Yes, I vibe with this.
I do think projects like DYNAMIC LAND are the future of how we will learn and game, augmented reality that requires no silly glasses or geegaws, but it seems like we’re waiting on more reliable and unobtrusive and less creepy sensors and projectors to make it truly seamless. But I like the idea very much.
I heard good things about Wiggle Work whose description appeals to me, but not quite enough to dive in.
Working alone doesn’t have to be lonely. Be a part of a community where you can chat about hobbies, join a book club, and share your weekend plans without the pressure to be “on” all the time.
We’re here to bring back the invaluable watercooler moments lost when working remotely–the freedom to talk to someone without a reason and about nothing of particular work-related importance.
It’s like a combination “third place” / surrogate workspace / co-working facility. It doesn’t fit neatly into any of those but is all three. I’ve not experienced it but I’ve made similar spaces with WebSanDiego (the mailing list) and participated in them in Evolt / Web405 and in private spaces friends made, too. I like the concept. I think.
Why am I hesitant to apply? I’m not certain. I’m thinkin’ on that.
Blog of the .Day is still going strong. If you got a blog, come on in! The water’s fine!
I made a new header the other day. I may have mentioned it but can’t remember if I did but I don’t care if I did and now I’m in a stream-of-consciousness trap and now I can’t stop typing. Oh never mind yes I can.
This Comics Journal appraisal of Batman: Year One, a comic I bought when it was first on news racks, is quite good. That comic is absolutely flawless. Everything good about the film Batman Begins comes from that book. is a genius. And Miller is too, properly constrained.
not a link, but in my notes. I tested out some zlib compression on some sites. In
.user.inifiles. That looks likezlib.output_compression = On;.
Speaking of weird web junque: the side file
apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association(about) lives athttps://example.net/.well-known/apple-developer-merchantid-domain-associationwhen you get a request from a client to help install it.
The Descent of Elon Musk (from March) by Ed Zitron is predictably depressing. I am glad that fewer people claim to me that he is a genius than did a few years ago.
Gregor recommended Vulfpeck to me a few months ago and I never gave it a proper listen, but I am always happy to take in music recommendations from smart folks. Good stuff!
This headline is depressing and correct: Apple, Google and others don’t care about your data and photos – but you should (adjacent to my post Mistrust-Based Technology Choices)
I love any mention of The Day The Clown Cried. First turned onto it by Harry Shearer decades ago, it’s an object of fascination to me.
From April, James’ post Blossom contains this small but immense observation: In seeing this tree blossom, I am encouraged to remember that the best things do not happen on a strict cadence, carefully curated. They grow and emerge with time and nurturing.
Yes, I remember Yogi’s Space Race. Anything with spaceships I liked. It was terrible. I kinda knew as a kid that it was terrible. But still, spaceships!
This is not a link, but I somehow put this question into the file I stash links for later review in:
Are there similarities between wampum and blockchain?
Wampum is a currency made of shells. Maybe I meant because wampum is “grown” I was making some comparison? I don’t know. They’re not all winners.
I was playing at making nautical flags in CSS but I got bored.
Lawrence’s cover of Get Busy is among the best ways to bring on the day. I don’t care if I’ve posted this before:
The random man vs random bear, which is less trouble was amazing. Women, would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear?. It’s still amazing.
:has()is the “God Selector” says Bruce Lawson. I concur. I am using it to add little arrows to external links inside content on this blog. I keep altering it. Here’s how it looks right now, to make sure I capture anchors with actual links, not just names, and not internal anchors. CSS is magic.a[href]:not([href^="/"]):not([href^="https://cdn.artlung.com/"]):not([href^="https://artlung.com/"]):not([href^="#"]):not(:has(img)):not(:has(i[class^="fa"]))CSS is cool, no? There’s a Front End Study Hall next week. JOIN US.
Paul’s post September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? is terrific. An excerpt:
So, while the label NSFW was invented out of a common spirit of goodwill — added before a link as a courtesy to other people, to prevent them accidentally getting into trouble with their employers — it is thoroughly grounded in what counted as “not safe for work” for the typical early users of Slashdot, Fark, et al., namely people who worked in corporate IT.
This is a shortcoming of what we in the IndieWeb call the silos. They can’t distinguish shades of meaning of nudity. An illustration of how to perform a breast or testicular self-exam is somehow equivalent to an explicit screenshot from a pornographic film. The silos lack adequate moderation. Without someone to decide, they are incapable of making good decisions about the culture they want to sustain. They rely on flagging and computer vision and they get it wrong every time. The fallback is overworked moderators who have zero incentive to be cautiously thoughtful about their verdicts.
As with many things like this, I say: have your own website.
There’s no mediocre, capricious, moderation if you control the website.
These photos off San Diego of a sunken Naval vessel: USS Hogan, are amazing.
Mark Sutherland implemented search in his Laravel-based site in the course of a couple-hour meeting last week. Here’s the diff.
A few months ago there was a quiz on HTML tags. Name them all! Here are the ones I was pretty sure would count toward that list but are not, here in 2024, “real” tags.
fontnobrframeframesetparamspacerbigmarqueeblink
They may have once worked, but no longer. It’s all good. Time moves on.
An Anthology of Bodysurf Writing (Spanning Over 200 Years) by Spencer Dunlap told me about a few books I had not heard of.
I’ve not been in the water a few days since I’ve had this cold. I hate it. I’ll get back though.
Death on the Ferry: The Alton Collier Story
On April 27th, 1946, an African American resident of Coronado and employee of the famous Hotel del Coronado, boarded an 8:20 pm ferry to San Diego. A racist attack on board ended in his death.
Private Equity kills everything it can. Red Lobster, for example. It doesn’t have to kill. It just can’t help but attach itself like a parasite and drain the host of all its life.
I want it all but, it is impossible by Ana Rodrigues is true and correct and I agree 100%.
This is 2021 article about bodysurfing in Northern California made me real happy: Bodysurfing San Francisco When the Epic Winter Swells Arrived (Part 2)
I think that’s good for today.
Have a great day!
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My Political Compass 2003, 2024
It seems rare that an internet quizzes would stick around for decades.
In March 2003 I linked to politicalcompass.org and took their quiz, and the results were included in my post Just More Misc, Nothing Personal Today:
My political compass is apparently:
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.87 — what’s yours?I took it again today. I got results.
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10It appears I am drifting to the left as I age. Given the state of the world, it seems likely I’ll continue this slow drift left.
2003 
2024 I hope the world is better in another 21 years.
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After a drought of bodysurfing was able to catch some waves today. Almost over this cold I got.
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Ride some waves
“sit tight and listen keenly while I’ll play for you a brand new musical biscuit”
The biscuit is from 1986. It’s C’mon Every Beatbox by Big Audio Dynamite.
It’s unrelated to this post except that that line from The Harder They Come kept running through my head with each wave I took off on.
Got a good start to the day. Still some lingering cold effects but it didn’t keep me out of the water last night. As I left at 8pm the lifeguards were telling their spiel about how they were going off service. “Lifeguards are going out of service. Please cease water activities. Lifeguards will be back on duty at 9am tomorrow. If you witness a water-related emergency dial 9-1-1 and ask for lifeguards.” Well, last night they also added a warning about the “strong currents, large waves, and rip currents.”
I knew that. They don’t always mention it. I had just had a great big fun hour and a half in it. I caught a fair number of waves that were huge. 4-7 feet tall. A year ago I’d have not taken off on the waves I took off on. Or I’d have done so differently. I’m glad I didn’t then. And I’m glad I did tonight. I got some fun rides. I have data to back up that statement. Or at least about the speed of the waves. Dawn Patrol measures waves.
Share sheet for June 17, 2024. It gives me stats for the session. Some of the tracings are longer than the rides were. I suspect because because the ends of the wave were not captured, and the computer just keeps recording. When I forget to turn the app off sometimes I have a ride from the beach to the freeway. That’s bad data.
I was constantly in motion because the water was in motion. I remember the wave the app called 52 miles per hour. I don’t know if that number is right but it was huge and fast. Closed out quick and then I barreled toward the beach on a giant cloud of whitewater.
Leveling up
I have not been in the water to swim as much this year as some of the prior years but the quality of the time in the water has not been higher. I always have fun. Every session brings new experiences and new things to try. Like a videogame. Each time I pull out the game there are new challenges. New bosses. New ways to get killed. New environments and situations.
To play a game you have to have good gear. Primary for me are fins. I switched to some Yucca fins since March. I think they give me a bit more speed to catch waves. To catch a wave you have to match its speed then stay on it. I tried a different pair a few years ago but they didn’t feel right. They kept slipping off. Now I have a pair I can trust won’t fall off in big water.
We have a lot of surfriding gear. It’s a bit of a mess. The white-tipped blue DaFins were my prior go-to set of fins. “Yeah that’s my kid”
Day before yesterday–Father’s Day here in the USA–I saw a father and son take off on a wave together. Both with handplanes. Both riding waves. It was a joy to see that. The kid–maybe 10 years old?–caught one and went flying toward the beach. I asked the older fellow I suspected but was not sure was the dad if the two of them were family. “Yeah that’s my kid” said the dad, with a little measure of pride. I told him it was awesome to see the two of them taking off on waves together.
That was my favorite thing that day. I remember well my father’s enthusiasm for putting me on a blow-up surf mat in the ocean and letting me ride a wave.
Ride some waves today. Try not to go alone. The surf is big out there.
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“Demure”
I don’t know anything about the user KAFUI on Blue Sky, but I like this post very much.
Consider it the quote of the day.
Teach your daughters not to be nice. Fuck it. NOT NICE. Loud. “Get the fuck away from me/Don’t fucking touch me like that” loud. I’d rather cut out my larynx than ever politely laugh my way through the things I’ve had to politely laugh my way through again. I wanna smash the word demure w a hammer.
When I think back at the kind of disrespect my mother put up with when I was young I definitely think I internalized a lot of male behavior to not replicate and that was very instructive. And just immediately shutting down men overstepping would be preferable. That monologue from Barbie was the real deal.
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“That was sick” one surfer said to me. The lone bodysurfer out with the surfers. And another thanked me for not dropping in on him at the end of his wave: “you coulda gone”—“plenty of waves today” I replied.
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Sunny early. So today’s cosplay is “sun-protected body surfer“
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Slack costs money, of course.
WebSanDiego was a mailing list I ran for a number of years. At one time it was a terrific way to do conversation on the internet. Before MySpace, before Facebook, before Reddit. I did a visualization back in 2011.
In the heyday we had several hundred of messages per month on the WebSanDiego mailing list I got the notion to start an alternate version in 2019. I started it very low-key. I invited people by email. I announced it on some Slacks and person-to-person. There was no usenet to announce it on. Commenting on the number of email bounces I got from inviting prior members, I tweeted on April 5, 2019:
I revived the mailing list I started in 1999 as a Slack channel. I used the original email addresses. SO MANY BOUNCES.
SO MANY BOUNCES.
!!!
I never promoted the Slack. And as a community without much purpose, it never thrived. I had a sense that Slack was not the correct tool to replace the WebSanDiego List. At one time a locally focused list was great. It was a great way to meet fellow practitioners, freelancers, get work, get answers to tech questions. Now there are other ways to do that.
Well, Slack on a free plan was never a great way to do this, it simply doesn’t scale to the costs of a community of size. And as we know the relative value of a community is a function of the number of connections between people.
Metcalfe’s law states that the financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). The law is named after Robert Metcalfe and was first proposed in 1980, albeit not in terms of users, but rather of “compatible communicating devices” (e.g., fax machines, telephones). It later became associated with users on the Ethernet after a September 1993 Forbes article by George Gilder.
WebSanDiego had hundreds of members at its height. Say we restarted it on Slack and got to 500 members. That’d be 500 times $7.25/month per user for a lower tier plan. Or $12.50/month per user for the full plan. Roughly $10/month per user works out to $60,000 per year. It’s no wonder really that Facebook and Reddit and Discord is how people do this these days, but none of these really replicate the simplicity of how a mailing list worked way back when.
At one time Slack kept that history forever, and if you stopped paying you would lose access to messages older than 90 days or messages over your limit of 10,000 messages. Now, they won’t do that anymore. This is 100% the deal they’ve made with users, to get full access it will cost money. I’m not begrudging their need to monetize expensive and reliable and high quality tooling, but there is not a good replacement for people for this kind of thing anymore.
The email today from Slack explains the change:
Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted
We wanted to let you know about a change in policy for free workspaces.What is changing?
Workspaces’ data, including files, messages, and other content that is older than one year will no longer be stored. Free workspaces will continue to have full access to the past 90 days of message history and file storage. This change will not impact workspaces on other plans, such as Slack Pro.When will this take effect?
This policy will begin taking effect August 26th, 2024. Workspaces will be notified prior to the policy impacting their workspace.What does this mean for you?
Your workspace, websandiego , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.To retain access to content older than a year, the workspace needs to be on a paid Slack plan. These plans can be reviewed on our plan page. Free teams will continue to retain access to messages and content sent in the last 90 days.
If your team chooses to upgrade to a paid plan after the policy goes into effect, you will not be able to recover any content that has been deleted under our new policy.
I likely will shut down the websandiego Slack instance, it’s not particularly useful to me or anyone else as-is. One approach I might take if I revive websandiego some day is to use IRC as the core infrastructure and use tooling to allow views into it using Slack and Discord, which is the way the IndieWeb Chat works.
I certainly wish there were more reliable and less expensive and easy to use tools for this.
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Professional Space / Personal Space
It’s not either or, professionalism and personal life. They don’t cleanly demarcate.
There’s a tv show called Severance whose conceit is that one can have a personal life that stays personal, and then when a person goes to work–that life is utterly different–in fact, one forgets entirely about their other life and starts fresh.
In the real world (and in the show, actually, complications arise) there is no such clean demarcation. It’s messy. One bleeds into another. While one might run a personal blog, say, anonymously or pseudonymously, if that blog becomes known then it will bleed into work. As in getting dooced. And vice versa, there are people whose work is public-facing may get intrusions into their personal life because of it.
What on earth am I talking about? I’m replying to Nick Simson’s post Short ramble on blog names, identity, and professionalism (whatever that means). He summarizes:
…I’ve been feeling like it might be useful to have a more professional personal profile on the web again, while blogging “on the side”
It’s funny, at various times I’ve gone back and forth on what artlung dot com and what joecrawford dot com mean to me. For a time I was highlighting my skills and portfolio on joecrawford.com and just blogging and whatnot things on artlung.com. It was Al Abut who prompted me to resurrect joecrawford dot com a few years ago. I was complaining about the fact that I couldn’t sort out how to make my website serve the needs of looking for work, and of doing comics, and of blogging.
Al is also a great designer who can take a brief and make something crystal clear. He’s responsible for that terrific, tidy design on joecrawford.com.
And so that sorts it out for me. But I have only 2 sites I really need. One might also have a side business or hobby that likewise represents oneself. I think about doing splintering further, for say, toy robots or beach panorama photos (which I posted on Twitter way back before it turned to shit, and now post these to Mastodon). But for now I’m at a state I like.
So I totally understand the tension. And I think it’s totally expected to redefine ones persona for those professional / personal selves. I hope, Nick, you find a state that you’re happy with.
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Tell Me Whatcha Want
Latest musical obsession from Lawrence is the new song Whatcha Want from the record Family Business:
I have mentioned Lawrence before and I will mention them in the future too.
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from Instagram https://instagr.am/p/C82igR2S82e/ via IFTTT
Got to La Jolla Shores before the crowds, and @jonnysnow16 and @hellokellykuhl and @gwenthegoblin were there too! Great Sunday start.
