Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com
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Software engineer, teacher, aspiring writer and ex-pilot currently focused on #WordPress, #DevEx and #Humane and #Sustainable technology.
Joined Feb 2020
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Imagine if we had put 20 years of effort into making the internet a safe and productive place for people to live their lives instead of optimizing dopamine output from each individual interaction
Today's post is a short commentary on something I see happen all too often in tech. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/development-is-more-than-an-internet-search/
@ghost_letters I find I often need to do small edits to old posts as links change, typos are caught and for a good number of other reasons. Hugo just didn't scale well for that. Add into it that even media management is much harder in Hugo and having a system to manage my content is something I've found extremely valuable.
No, FOSS solutions don't have to scale to GAFAM size. That said, they often do need to scale to small group (2-10 people) and all too often most FOSS solutions fail miserably at that.
@ghost_letters Old post here, as I find your profile, but I've been writing about this a lot last year after going from WP to Hugo and back (for a number of reasons including I work in WP). Here's one of the last posts I did on the topic, FWIW: https://chriswiegman.com/2021/08/why-static-site-generators-arent-for-blogging/
@ghost_letters I got it from a FB meme
One of the most damaging impacts of social media and the internet in general is that we've completely devalued the concepts of study and experience in nearly every topic and replaced them with a 30 second review of something read online and calling it "research" and "facts."
One of VS Code's biggest strengths is its portability. Here's how you can help leverage that in your project. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/managing-project-with-vs-code/
TIL: If you use the default Python extension in VS Code you have to enable Telemetry to get it to load. That is some shit right there.
My post today addresses a common issue I see in tech. TL;DR is right in the title. Yes, a college degree is still worth it. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/yes-a-college-degree-is-still-worth-it/
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*Attention Retailers*
You may think that I'm a sap
But I don't care about your app.
I would rather take a nap
Than deal with all that crap.
@thomasfuchs I have a blog post I'm working on about privacy vs accessibility and why it's so hard to get the former if you need the latter. This type of thing is exactly why I'm writing it
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With all its faults, Apple is doing some stuff right.
Chris Wiegman
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Whwn we say don't trust a single company with all your data, we don't mean you should give up your #privacy to multiple corporations. We mean you should protect yourself from all corporation and not trust a single soul on this.
Chris Wiegman
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PixelFed has just reached 50k users on 186 instances! 🥳
If you haven't tried it yet, you can find out more from the official site at:
It's a Fediverse alternative to Instagram, and federates with Mastodon etc. so millions of people across the Fediverse can follow PixelFed accounts.
PixelFed has an unofficial Android app called @PixelDroid. It's currently in beta testing, you can get it from F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pixeldroid.app/
If you don't have F-Droid yet, here are instructions on how to install it:
https://switching.software/use/f-droid/
#FediTips #Fediverse #PixelFed #PixelTips #PixelDroid #Android #Apps #Instagram #Alternatives
Chris Wiegman
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Netflix is where a comedian can go to make sure their list of stand-up specials takes a sudden turn where you can tell when the allegations surfaced
- Unlucky (1995)
- A Three Piece Suit (1998)
- Tireless (2004)
- Raised and Confused (2006)
- Fields of Mozzarella (2010)
- Offensive!! (2015)
- The Big Mean Man Said a Bad Word (2016)
- I'm Not Even Upset at What Happened. In Fact, I'm Laughing About It (2016)
- A Long List of Slurs (2017)
I wish I had 1/2 the purpose in life that my cat has.
I always like writing my annual "uses" post. This year is a bit different because I currently don't have a personal laptop but it was still fun. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/my-development-toolbox-2021/
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New blog post!
https://rusingh.com/2021/09/13/block-images-appearing-in-search/
You can prevent your personal images from appearing in #Google's image search results.
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Software engineer, teacher, aspiring writer and ex-pilot currently focused on #WordPress, #DevEx and #Humane and #Sustainable technology.
Joined Feb 2020
