Chris @drlabman@mastodon.technology
Lead Software Developer at an IoT, Big Data, Machine Learning, Buzzword Heavy Startup.
Also a persistent procrastinator.
Wow, FileZilla’s bundled installer includes a malware downloader and the dev defends it horribly.
If using FileZilla, uninstall and find something else. Even if this issue is fixed, the morally ambiguous and defensive response is very concerning.
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
Time to stop procrastinating by doing nothing and procrastinate by coding up a java activitypub implementation!
Seeking ranty, opinionated, bitchy and/or old programmers to be my friend. Spread the word. Please. I'm so lonely.
Web folks in London, you might be interested in this new conference organised by the fab @thisisjofrank, Simon and Perry. 1 week left for early bird tickets. https://deltavconf.com/
This is so cool:
Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-310
I wrote a Mastodon source for Apache Flink so you can Big Data all over your timeline.
It uses the Flink Streaming API so it's for real-time streaming of data. Next is to do something useful with the stream. 🤔
Maybe I'll think of something useful to do with it tomorrow. Any ideas?
I've got an itch to create my own mastodon clone which can join the federverse...
I think the main thing that appeals would be trying to create my own personal algorithm time line. To be fair I could most likely build that on top of the currently APIs.
But as programmers we are always doomed to reinvent the wheel, if only because it can be fun.
what if sometime close to christmas we actually had a mastodon hackday
set up an announcements account, toot out resources, boost people's projects under a hashtag, have people host some dev streams, etc
The most undervalued thing in tech is communication.
It's one of the biggest changes that you can make aswell. Informal discussions over coffee/tea, well-written tickets, inter-team communication, keeping more people than strictly needed in the loop, lightning talks and presentations at internal meetups, etc help a LOT.
firefox running inside windows 2000 running inside firefox
technology is incredible
Cw: Sexism
(Sorry, Tusky doesn't allow content warnings)
https://work.qz.com/1128150/your-companys-slack-is-probably-sexist/
Man:"I have trained crows to capitalism"
God: "What have you done to my birbs??"
https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/media/OQv1eApAtdSTs3bpMfc
MongoDB Gotcha:
By default indexes are created in the foreground blocking database access (read/write).
On a live database that is being accessed reads/writes this leads to higher load while queries stack up and ultimately a crash.
If you database is under active use always create indexes in the background. Foreground creation only makes sense for static databases or small collections.
This toot bought to you by an issue my team had earlier this week 😅
61% yes on Australian Same-Sex Marriage vote! FUCK YES
