Ryan Barrett

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2024-07-30 22:30:03

Whenever I need to optimize and I think I know where to start, I’m wrong. Not always, but close enough.
Measure first. Then optimize. Every time.
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2024-07-23 18:30:03

Japanese proverb: 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず
(“He who chases after two rabbits will catch neither.”)
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2024-07-14 20:30:03

Counted tests just now while working on Bridgy Fed, it currently has 814. Expanding to include the whole stack, including granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc, there are 2669 total. (Nice.)

2024-07-05 15:30:03

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2024-07-04 04:30:03

Bridgy Fed’s bridging has been down some today. Apologies, all! I’m on vacation with limited access right now, so the downtime has been longer than it would be otherwise. I’m working on it as best I can. Not sure if it will be back up soon or tomorrow, but I’ll keep you posted.

2024-06-23 18:30:02

Finally got around to reading Geoff Huston’s comprehensive, heartbreaking eulogy for DNSSEC. He takes the thought-provoking position that TLS has largely subsumed the need for DNSSEC – not perfectly, and with a somewhat different threat model, but still. Great networking neckbeard reading, as always.

2024-06-22 00:30:03

My daughter just informed me that my name is now Carl. 🤔

2024-06-12 18:30:03

🤪
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2024-05-24 02:30:02

🧐
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2024-05-18 21:30:02

I’m at my kid’s volleyball game, and I just watched her accidentally high five one of her teammates in the face. 🤣🤦‍♂️

2024-05-10 13:30:03

Psyched to play Animal Well! The descriptions so far are giving me very NetHack/Rogue vibes. Anyone else?

2024-05-07 21:30:02

there are few things quite as glorious as a whole day with no meetings
we all know maker’s schedule manager’s schedule, but still, the impact on productivity never ceases to amaze me. way bigger than linear
(even so, I do miss the bandwidth of a whole team! way harder and slower doing everything myself)

2024-05-06 17:30:03

office
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2024-04-30 19:30:02

I miss Mary Meeker’s internet trends report.

2024-04-26 16:30:02

Saw “brownfield” for the first time just now as the opposite of “greenfield.” Yuck.
Feels a bit harsh – legacy software projects do much of the heavy lifting that makes the world go ’round – but I guess still a useful term. Maybe.

2024-04-18 17:30:03

TIL: shadow API. The developer equivalent of shadow IT. There’s a whole ecosystem of wild, feral technology here just waiting to be discovered and categorized.

2024-04-10 17:30:02

Half the world’s economy runs on Excel.
– @riskybusiness #743

2024-04-10 16:30:03

2024-04-07 21:30:02

Tamagotchis sure have come a long way. Kid proudly informed me just now that she doesn’t need to bring hers with us running errands because she hired a babysitter for it. 🧐

2024-04-07 18:30:03

It’s not dumb if it works.

2024-04-07 15:30:03

One of our cats purrs so loudly that it’s a running joke in our family. It makes her fur vibrate. We have to turn the TV volume up when she sits with us. Once, she was in another room, and I heard her purr through the wall. No joke.

2024-04-02 17:30:03

2024-03-12 17:15:36

“Papa, will I need to know how to get the circumference of a circle if I want to be an author?”
💀

2024-03-11 21:02:15

perfect 10
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2024-03-11 21:02:15

You know how, when you leave your car in the sun with the windows closed, and then you come back, it’s hot and stuffy and feels like a sauna?
I love that feeling.
Maybe because I run cold in general, maybe because it reminds me of my childhood growing up in LA. Who knows. My wife and kid hate it; I love it. 🤷

2024-02-13 18:06:11

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We're currently thinking through some of the details here, feel free to follow along if you're interested.

2024-02-13 17:29:45

Morning all. Quite a day yesterday, and today so far. I’m obviously taking a beating from everyone who thinks the Bluesky bridge should be opt in. OK.
I want to run one idea by you all. The way the bridge is currently designed, no fediverse profiles or other content are proactively bridged into Bluesky. If someone on Bluesky wants to see or follow someone on the fediverse, they have to manually request it on the bridge. That fediverse user’s posts are then only bridged going forward, and only if someone follows them.
What if, the first time someone on Bluesky requests to follow someone on the fediverse via the bridge, the fediverse user gets prompted, “X from Bluesky wants to follow you. Are you ok with connecting with Bluesky?”, maybe via DM. I assume that would still be considered opt in?
Realistically, most people in the fediverse will never hear about the bridge. Traditional opt in and opt out both generally expect people to proactively find a setting or take some action, often one that only a tiny fraction of people ever learn about. I don’t really care how many people discover or use the bridge, but this kind of just-in-time prompt, only shown when someone wants to follow or interact with them, feels like a useful improvement in that it puts the decision in front of them directly.
Thanks to @kio for the idea. It seems promising; I’m now planning to try it out well before launch. Let me know if you don’t like it.

2024-02-13 02:50:44

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Thank you all for the feedback, both good and bad. I knew I’d hear some pushback that this should be opt in instead of opt out, and I obviously did. I’ve also gotten a lot of really constructive conversation and ideas on how to bridge (ahem 😄) that gap and make opt in more realistically usable, along with a few interesting compromise points between opt in and opt out. I’m grateful to everyone today who engaged and talked and offered those new techniques.
I had plenty of work to do already before launch, and now I have a number of other important ideas to explore too. That’s great! I really do appreciate it. You’ll hear plenty more from me well before this launches, along with wherever along the opt in/out spectrum it eventually lands.

2024-02-12 15:50:49

Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.
Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed@indieweb.social (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.
A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

2024-01-29 15:36:44

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2024-01-28 18:01:10

Saw Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza last night. It was great. But the one act of theirs I’ll never forget was from over a decade ago: Lara Jacobs’s Balance Goddess in Amaluna. Didn’t feel like a circus act at all; it was quiet, meditative, haunting. Started simply, balancing a few palm ribs on each other, but by the end of it, she’d constructed an elaborate maze of them, from tiny to massive, perfectly and impossibly hanging in midair, defying all known physics. Otherworldly. One of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.

2024-01-22 20:50:24

“You can’t get a mouse by starving an elephant.”

2024-01-20 22:25:45

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2024-01-16 19:23:29

Wrote up a first draft of a content moderation policy for Bridgy Fed. Feedback is welcome!

2024-01-15 19:52:39

coffee, one of the great joys of life

2024-01-13 20:09:38

Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use “the internet” to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.
I know, I know. Language evolves, words mean what we mean them to mean, literally no longer means literally. All this is Good and Right and The Way Of The World.
Still though. You young whippersnappers, get off my lawn, uphill in the snow both ways.

2024-01-11 21:21:27

Sometimes, you have to let a mystery go unsolved.

2024-01-09 23:22:09

Bridgy Fed now supports all web sites! You can now use it from the fediverse to see and follow any site, regardless of whether it has microformats2, webmentions, or WebFinger. Bridgy Fed extracts as much profile info as it can, generates fediverse posts from Atom and RSS feeds, and so on.
Web sites start out bridged to the fediverse as [domain]@web.brid.gy. For example, to see new nature.com articles in your fediverse feed, follow @nature.com@web.brid.gy. And as always, if you have a web site, you can upgrade Bridgy Fed to use its domain in its fediverse handle, like mine at @snarfed.org@snarfed.org.
(I’ve loved seeing other similar bridges recently too, including @twilliability@genart.social‘s RSS Parrot and @dave@podcastindex.social‘s pi-activitypub-server. We’re all pulling in the same direction!)
This is one more step toward making Bridgy Fed support people wherever they are, on any network, fully bidirectionally. Stay tuned for more!

2024-01-09 16:59:40

This plank in Die Partie Bundesverband’s platform is amazing. My non-existent interest in politics is suddenly renewed.
11 Beer price cap
The PARTEI is committed to a nationwide beer price cap and the strengthening of the ordering principle. For this purpose, a beer price index is collected. The brake comes into force as soon as two indicators appear somewhere in the economy at the same time: great thirst and a verifiable empty glass jar rate. In preparation: kebab price brake (3 euros)
(Google Translated from the original German)

2024-01-02 02:27:35

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and web3 are “the hosted web, the posted web, and the signed web.”
Heard this quote from Jay Graber for the first time today, via the DWeb Digest. Concise, elegant, poetic. For a straight ahead functional description, it’s got a surprising amount of soul.

2024-01-01 13:37:42

Wow. Never thought I’d see the day that Mickey Mouse would lose his copyright and enter the public domain, but it’s finally happened. The internet may have long since moved on to newer, stranger battles, but the old graybeard hell of copyright wars has finally frozen over. Truly the end of an era.

2023-12-27 21:10:28

ran outside after a rain and found the leading edge of the creek starting to flow again!
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2023-12-04 00:20:28

My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term “data lake” a while back and has taken to calling his datasets a “data swamp.” Feels like a terminology improvement the whole field could get behind.

2023-11-29 18:54:40

Junior engineers are surprised when things break. Senior engineers are surprised when things work.

2023-11-29 00:07:25

Hi! I’d like to re-introduce Bridgy Fed. It bridges the IndieWeb and the fediverse, and hopefully soon Bluesky too.
Before Bluesky support launches, though, I’d like to reach out and gather feedback. Thoughts? Concerns? Click through for details; thanks in advance for reading.
Please share widely!

2023-11-21 17:55:16

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2023-11-21 17:30:22

2023-11-20 02:57:51

They paint the world full of shadows, and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons.
But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom. In the dark, once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are, right now.
– James Flint, Black Sails

2023-11-02 14:20:53

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2023-10-31 20:34:33

Whenever I listen to Tool, I often find myself counting beats to try to figure out which wacky time signature they’re using. 5/4? 7/8? 11/4? Sure, why not! 🤪💯

2023-10-29 14:49:01

is there anything spookier than misappropriating customer funds?
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2023-10-20 19:12:14

Brief Bridgy Fed status update: I spent last week on other things, but I got back in the saddle this week and got Bluesky => fediverse follows and fediverse => Bluesky posts working!
The usual caveat applies: this is in the Bluesky federation sandbox, not prod, until they turn on federation there. Hopefully early next year!
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, cc @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social.
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2023-10-20 18:53:23

2023-10-18 01:46:56

Kid’s decade old hand-me-down Kindle finally croaked. We bought her a new one, and I had her set it up herself. Two minutes later: “Dad! DAD! It has recommendations just for me. JUST FOR ME! It knows so many books I want to read!” 😆😕