ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
#Netflix
Well I’m sitting here holed up on hump day of an accelerated learning #Java bootcamp I’m delivering in Bedfordshire, I’ve just finished the last S4 E6 of #TheSyndicate on #Netflix and I’m not disappointed. Filmed in Yorkshire and Monaco during 2021 lockdown, the ending packs a punch with just the right mixture of light and shade, both cathartic, it turns out, tightly delivered by the strong ensemble cast both human and animal. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13368752/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep6 🐶
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Neuromancer 2022
The collapse of a startup leaves implanted medical devices in > 700 people
The unavailability of the proprietary SW needed to recalibrate the devices and maintain its effectiveness, and the draining of batteries, will leave them without treatment and with HW implanted in their bodies
They have to hack their own implants
And it is not an isolated case but a trend
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html
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A beautiful 800 year old oak tree in the UK called Majesty.
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The only real failure is a failure to learn from failure.
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SHITPOSTING
is an anagram of
TOP INSIGHTS
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I saw a post on Reddit about how to cancel an Adobe subscription without the asshole "early cancellation fee" and figured it's worth sharing:
1. Login to your adobe account
2. Go to plans and payments
3. Find your current plan and select "Manage Plan"
4. The third box on the right should say "Cancel Plan"
5. It will ask you why, tell them "Go fuck yourself" and press continue
6. It will offer you to change plans, select "Photography plan (20GB)" - $9.99
7. Confirm the change
8. Now go back to your Plans and it may say "You'll be able to manage this plan shortly" and that's because there is a waiting period after starting a plan, probably to ensure you forget to cancel or something. Took about an hour for it to go away, so if it's there just walk away and refresh the page every 15 minutes or so.
9. Once you are able to manage your plan, repeat steps 3, 4, and 5. This time actually cancel the plan. There will be no early cancellation fee AND you'll be refunded the $9.99.
Fuck adobe.
@benbrown this looks awesome. I would love to see the code in Node just out of curiosity to see how the ActivityPub API is called. I remember having a conversation when I’d just joined Masto with someone who wanted to do EXACTLY this. I will try and dig out their handle and send this to them.
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I made a three minute little demo video of my fediverse server. If you are interested in what it looks like, check it out here:
https://www.loom.com/share/6badbdc6b45f4bf8b0eba293103e9246
This is a stand-alone node app that speaks ActivityPub. It has an ActivityPub API interface, a public profile, and also a browsing interface to interact with people you follow.
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I interviewed @evan about creating #ActivityPub, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for #developers in the #fediverse. Needless to say, he has some excellent ideas for the fedi-future, so I do hope you read it. https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/
Erstwhile midwinter pagan festival appropriated by followers of the risen Christ and its anachronistic present-day mass hysteria.
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"Must be cool being a pasta chef, cooking all these… big tubes and stuff"
"It's 'cannelloni', actually"
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that"
@authorbwest …you write a book in lockdown. It’s your life’s deep insights, multi-disciplinary battles hard won, from a highly skilled and commercially orientated point of view. You plan to sell it for 45 bucks. You discount it to 30 pre-launch. Some people bought it at that. Year later, you discount it to 15. Then “pay what you can afford”. You sit and watch the tumbleweed go past 😂 I’m with you.
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
