Last week I wrote a blog post for @stamen about the history of Null Island, the imaginary place where 0º latitude and 0º longitude meet. It has now come to my attention that the NOAA weather station moored at that spot, nicknamed by geographers as the "Null Island Buoy", apparently no longer exists!

Check out the update at the end of my blog post for more details of the buoy's untimely demise. Thanks to @ajnn for the tip!

https://stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-null-island/

#NullIsland #NullIslandBuoy

Interesting analysis of how much sleep on average is lost due to sleeping babies on their backs: https://x.com/ruthgracewong/status/1818895404542627881

Just wrapped up a lovely podcast interview where I said the top skill software developers need right now is not this language or that language but evidence-based reasoning. 🗣️I said what I said 😅😂

Ooooh I remember reading this by @SwiftOnSecurity ten years ago. It contributed to forming and radicalizing my worldview early in my career.

@brainwane's comments on blame are good.

I'll add that any time you complain about the evil security team of a big tech company taking away user freedom for some security benefit that doesn't apply to you... I want you to think of Jessica, of how computers served her in 2014, and of why and how some platforms are different today.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/a-story-about-jessica-by-swiftonsecurity/

I fucked up my repo so bad

A distinction on testing that most people don’t realize, from @nelhage:

… for many teams, the purpose of testing is not to find bugs https://blog.nelhage.com/post/two-kinds-of-testing/

The purpose of testing (by which here I mostly mean “CI” in particular) is to serve as a ratchet and as a point of leverage and control for the ever-evolving system that is “the software and the engineers developing it”, and finding net-new bugs is often a distraction and counterproductive to that goal

This is so much better than the WSJ headline: “Trump attacks Harris’s racial identity at conference for Black journalists”.

RE: https://pdx.social/@zuul/112883235780078978

#ai

the #fennel survey is live!

https://fennel-lang.org/survey/

please let us know what you think if you use Fennel or have used Fennel in the past!

‘When I first visited Sarawak in the 1970s, the Indigenous communities living there had virtually no money, but they lived well. Now they have money, and can barely feed themselves. They have been impoverished even as incomes rise. It is a story of brutal destitution that is completely obscured by the GDP growth statistics.’

Peter Metcalf, The poverty of ‘economic growth’
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/10/the-poverty-of-economic

#indigenous #economicgrowth #capitalism #dispossession #deforestation

I'm about to release a 450,000-word Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction game. It lets you set Yiddish level, from "bring it on" to "please translate everything for me?"

Here is a picture of all the contextual synonyms for "oy" that the game employs in "translate everything" mode.

#Tradle #877 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

Fediverse, due to my wife's thyroid cancer returning we are relocating to Seattle (from Illinois) -- where we can receive familial support and she can get treatment.

To that end, I'm looking for #infosec jobs in the area, but I'm looking to step back from what I've been doing so I have a bit more flexibility to help her and our son. So, hybrid or even full remote, but probably not a senior level position.

I've been consulting and that's been good, but it's too unsteady and too much work on unknown schedules to continue while she is undergoing treatment. I'll also be applying through standard channels, but I hope someone here can lend a hand.

#getfedihired

software architecture would be so much easier to talk about if all key terms weren’t random combinations of “model”, “event”, “domain”, and “service”.

TIL that I am older than broccolini

https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jul/21/broccolini-how-fun-time-between-vegetables-spawned-a-side-dish-star

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tape” coming for your power grid.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar-power-is-going-to-be-huge
from The Economist

Love reading these sorts of experience reports - this one on scaling One Million Checkboxes: https://eieio.games/essays/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/

“What makes biking dangerous is all the cars. What makes the bus so slow is all the cars. What makes driving a car so slow is all the cars. What makes everything too far away to walk is all the space we have to reserve for the cars.” 🚗 🚙 🚗 🚙 #biketooter