Posts by sramsay@hcommons.social
 (DIR) Post #APT4HQor8GKpQTH1c0 by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2022-11-10T15:23:26Z
       
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       Hey, who broke hcommons.social?  That would be me.  Sorry folks!  We are experiencing, um, unprecedented growth, and trying to prevent the system from tipping over.  @kfitz and I are fiddling with various back end params.  If things go dark, that's probably why.
       
 (DIR) Post #APlg6BovqoZ0pHedIO by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2022-11-19T16:19:02Z
       
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       Anyone maintaining a Mastodon instance and losing sleep over the Great Migration should read this excellent technical discussion of the matter: https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/  This is also a really good description of the sort of problems we're confronting with the backend of hcommons.social (and some of the things we've tried), if you're interested.  Good times are ahead, though!  We have a dev instance that is a lot more powerful than the one that is running right now.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJ66G4IeNkLtibL72 by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2023-02-03T15:49:26Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood And you know that will be the pull quote.  "Underwood was quick to note that ChatGPT does not replace humans."
       
 (DIR) Post #ASjwRPsnjYaYGyTy2y by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2023-02-16T14:38:24Z
       
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       @TedUnderwood I feel like this is where having a lit. degree really pays off.  You just know these things!
       
 (DIR) Post #AThTm1fzGmVMRCrA4e by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2023-03-16T16:02:13Z
       
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       I've been playing around with the #Nim programming language (https://nim-lang.org/), and all I can say is: Wow, this thing is cool.  I kept hearing it described as "like Python, but fast."  It is crazy fast (compiles to C), and yeah, it's superficially Pythonic (or Rubyish). But the big story is that it puts both those languages on a massive low-sugar diet. There aren't 18 different ways to do basic things.  That, and the fact that it supports metaprogramming that you might actually be able to understand the next day. Very impressed. Oh, and it can also compile to JS!
       
 (DIR) Post #AbAZDUXmVztZ7A1cA4 by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2023-10-26T14:22:00Z
       
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       This line, amazingly, is not from some satirical postmodern novel, but from Reuters business news:"Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG.N) will kick off the earnings season on Thursday and its commentary will be scrutinized by investors worried that appetite-suppressing drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy will spark a fundamental change in food consumption patterns and hurt demand for burgers and fried chicken."
       
 (DIR) Post #Ate2zUHSLSZFf087Ga by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2025-05-01T03:09:39Z
       
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       If you're doing tech stuff for local activists, ask yourself this: Can I, right now, pass this whole thing on to someone who knows basically nothing about how any of this works?And lest I sound like some kind of scold: I have not always done this, and I'm not sure I'm doing it right now.But it's a variation on the first rule of activism: If you're not finding most of it super boring, you're probably doing it wrong. Tech folks want to be clever, but in this space, you want to be doing something that feels slightly beneath you. And you really need to have it so well laid and well documented that they don't actually need *you* to do it.