sean @ssoper@mastodon.technology

lots of theories thrown out by the author (big data, stuffy mgmt, overly litigious industry) but i propose that dad rock simply rules 🤘🏻🎸
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/is-old-music-killing-new-music

beltah lowduh! crazy to think I’ve been reading, watching and consuming The Expanse for a decade now. with the series finale hewing pretty close to the books, I’m looking forward to any future adaptations that might make their appearance 🚀🪐✨

maybe it was just part of liberty insurance’s guerilla marketing efforts 🥁. but seriously, if you’re the author of widely-used open-source libraries you’re not doing the movement any benefit by sabotaging your work. the current environment may not be perfect but it’s leagues ahead of the late 90s early 00s era of closed source garbage that limited movement between companies for devs. now onboarding is as simple as "here's your macbook, whats your github" 👨🏻‍💻
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

my latest hobby, not as de-stressing as I’d hoped given the necessary attention to detail. 2010 Camaro SS on the left and 2009 Challenger R/T on the right 🚘🏁

friendship ended with try-catch-finally, try-with-resources is my new best friend #kotlin

“waiting to publish to #maven central” is my new “waiting to compile” #kotlin #java

Reddit’s recommendation algorithm just knocking it out of the park here 👽

Failsafe is a nifty little library for abstracting out networking stuff like retries on session expiration but its documentation is in #java so here’s how you get the ExecutionContext in #kotlin to know when to clone the OkHttp call
https://gist.github.com/ssoper/21eaf363a9c14d3ecbd4338ba7ce27b5

lots of goodies in this comment, learned a few new things myself #jwst https://reddit.com/r/space/comments/ro8vmi/james_webb_launch/hpwt6gp

JWST has successfully launched! 🚀🪐

https://www.axios.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-launch-7d76fbf3-533d-4b3c-8da9-dc72013d8691.html

Christmas pudding using a classic British recipe 🎄🇬🇧

“We've got a blind date with destiny... and it looks like she's ordered the lobster” #mysterymen
https://reddit.com/r/Cartalk/comments/rlf3uu/can_someone_id_this_truck_for_me/

new version of Batil released with simplified client creation and api usage 💸
https://github.com/ssoper/Batil/releases/tag/1.0.2

given complete regulatory capture of our govt it's hard to tell how much of this is actual regulators vs. lobbyist fud. worryingly tho, it's not clear what airlines would have to gain by stirring up fears around 5g
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/airlines-amp-up-warnings-on-5g-service-see-risk-of-late-flights

Looks like they’re hanging Rogozin out to dry though I doubt replacing him will solve the numerous problems in the Russian space program 🇷🇺🚀 https://apple.news/AN-q7OR1MTfGFrZiqMvh_dg

and The Witcher s2 📺

clean tank happy betta 🐠