I’ve read 63 books so far this year. Here’s how I did it
Research shows Australians are reading fewer books than ever before. One writer shares her advice on how to make reading a daily habit. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, we’ve seen how this plays out in practice 🤣 @dce@hashnix.club My advice, do what @movq@www.uninformativ.de has hinted at and don’t change the 1st # url = field in your feed. I’m not sure if you had already, but the first url field is kind of important in your feed as it is used as the “Hashing URI” for threading.

Queensland shark control plan goes against government commissioned advice
The KPMG report stresses that while “traditional measures” are still required, the program needs to transition away from “environmentally harmful practices”, such as drumlines and mesh nets. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s alright haha! i don’t expect anyone to listen/watch in full or with full attention bc it’s so long lmao

the thing with PHP for me is that i… feel like it hits a kind of simplicity that i can understand? it’s so plain but can be very powerful. i quite like that. as much as i can learn something infinitely more powerful, PHP hits a comfortable thing where i can handle things like backend sqlite DBs AND how a page is rendered, without requiring a complex frontend with its own quirks (like ruby on rails, which as much as i know and love it, can be heavy).

but i totally get you! PHP security is very scary. i’m always worried that i’m messing something up. it’s why the PHP application i’m working on i have dockerized by default for a small but extra layer of protection

i’ll try to not get discouraged tysm for your advice

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@bender@twtxt.net The DM specification has been updated from time to time in response to advice from the community. For me, It is a successful!
The adoption is another topic 😂
(I am working on my side)

@prologic@twtxt.net whichever works for you. Just about everyone is offering “great” advice these days; “ancient wisdom”. Many trying to inspire others. You know what? You be you, yo do you. 😅

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev It’s good advice 😅 I try to do this myself (please call me out if you ever catch me NOT doing this 🤣)

Astrophysicists Give Their BEST Advice to the World ⌘ Read more

Vim/ViFM: Seeking Advice for Manipulating Markdown Files Better ⌘ Read more

Neil & Charles Exchange Advice They Got Growing Up ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There’s a reason it’s called “(n)curses”. 😏 The only advice I can give is to never fiddle with reassigning control sequences and $TERM variables. Leave $TERM at whatever value the terminal itself sets and use an appropriate terminfo file for it. If there are programs misbehaving, they probably blindly assume XTerm and should be fixed (or have XTerm as a hard requirement). If you try to fix this on your end, it’ll likely just break other programs. 🥴

my cat has oral cancer - advice? ⌘ Read more

Found a stray little angel near my home yesterday any advice ⌘ Read more

ok, sounds like a ‘large’ project to me.
Is it more an API (more oriented to developers), more oriented to UI/UX/Frontend? Perhaps both?

I’d go with prologic’s advice of measuring and prioritizing. Perhaps you have a budget or at least something like “let’s see how far can we reach in 6 months”, and possibly you won’t finish in the time you have (just guessing).

Something that has helped me was defining “Why do you we want to refactor this project?”.
Could it be to make it compile on newer versions, or making it easier to grow and scale, or perhaps they are trying to sell that product to another company. Every reason has a different path, IMO.

5 tips for promoting your open source project
Three open source experts offer their advice on sharing open source projects with the world.

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@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First, please leave me your comments on the repository! Even if it’s just to give your opinion on what shouldn’t be included. The more variety, the better.

Second, I’m going to try to do tests with Elliptic keys and base64. Thanks for the advice @eapl@eapl.me

Finally, I’d like to give my opinion. Secure direct messages are a feature that ActivityPub and Mastodon don’t have, to give an example. By including it as an extension, we’re already taking a significant leap forward from the competition. Does it make sense to include it in a public feed? In fact, we’re already doing that. When we reply to a user, mentioning them at the beginning of the message, it’s already a direct message. The message is within a thread, perhaps breaking the conversation. Direct messages would help isolate conversations between 2 users, as well as keeping a thread cleaner and maintaining privacy. I insist, it’s optional, it doesn’t break compatibility with any client and implementing it isn’t complex. If you don’t like it, you’re free to not use it. If you don’t have a public key, no one can send you direct messages.

On my blog: Exercise https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/12/exercise.html #advice #health #publicdomain

v1docq47 posts August-September 2024 CCS progress report
v1docq471 has posted a second progress report (August-September 2024)1 for his latest CCS proposal2 to do Russian voice-over work and transcribe Monero content:

This is my August + September CCS progress report with voiceover and works on XMR.RU. [..] If you have suggestions or advice about my work, I will be glad to listen to them. Thanks for your support!

(A) Monero Russian Co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/v1docq47-posts-ccs-progress-report-august-september-2024/)

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for writing that up!

I hope it can remain a living document (or sequence of draft revisions) for a good long time while we figure out how this stuff works in practice.

I am not sure how I feel about all this being done at once, vs. letting conventions arise.

For example, even today I could reply to twt abc1234 with “(#abc1234) Edit: …” and I think all you humans would understand it as an edit to (#abc1234). Maybe eventually it would become a common enough convention that clients would start to support it explicitly.

Similarly we could just start using 11-digit hashes. We should iron out whether it’s sha256 or whatever but there’s no need get all the other stuff right at the same time.

I have similar thoughts about how some users could try out location-based replies in a backward-compatible way (append the replyto: stuff after the legacy (#hash) style).

However I recognize that I’m not the one implementing this stuff, and it’s less work to just have everything determined up front.

Misc comments (I haven’t read the whole thing):

• Did you mean to make hashes hexadecimal? You lose 11 bits that way compared to base32. I’d suggest gaining 11 bits with base64 instead.

• “Clients MUST preserve the original hash” — do you mean they MUST preserve the original twt?

• Thanks for phrasing the bit about deletions so neutrally.

• I don’t like the MUST in “Clients MUST follow the chain of reply-to references…”. If someone writes a client as a 40-line shell script that requires the user to piece together the threading themselves, IMO we shouldn’t declare the client non-conforming just because they didn’t get to all the bells and whistles.

• Similarly I don’t like the MUST for user agents. For one thing, you might want to fetch a feed without revealing your identty. Also, it raises the bar for a minimal implementation (I’m again thinking again of the 40-line shell script).

• For “who follows” lists: why must the long, random tokens be only valid for a limited time? Do you have a scenario in mind where they could leak?

• Why can’t feeds be served over HTTP/1.0? Again, thinking about simple software. I recently tried implementing HTTP/1.1 and it wasn’t too bad, but 1.0 would have been slightly simpler.

• Why get into the nitty-gritty about caching headers? This seems like generic advice for HTTP servers and clients.

• I’m a little sad about other protocols being not recommended.

• I don’t know how I feel about including markdown. I don’t mind too much that yarn users emit twts full of markdown, but I’m more of a plain text kind of person. Also it adds to the length. I wonder if putting a separate document would make more sense; that would also help with the length.

On my blog: Sleep, Addendum https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/07/14/sleep-2.html #sleep #advice #rant

Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.

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The Voice a ‘textbook case in how to tank a referendum’: Joe Kelly
The Australian National Affairs Editor Joe Kelly says Anthony Albanese’s approach to The Voice to Parliament was a “textbook case in how to tank a referendum.”

Mr Kelly’s comments come amid reports the Prime Minister allegedly ignored advice against having a Voice referendum.

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NFL owner’s bizarre Taylor Swift dating call
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On my blog: Things That Worked (and Didn’t Work) in 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/27/worked.html #advice #rant

Keeping your skillset fresh as a developer
Whether you’re committing 30 minutes or 3 hours a day to learning, consistency is key. Klint Finley asks 3 tech professionals at different stages in their career for more advice. ⌘ Read more

reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out

i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is bad, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.

there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate

Only Use Old Computers!

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If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.

If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more

@adi@twtxt.net “I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men.” -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there’s just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.

I wonder why it isn’t more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don’t know enough anthropology?

All advice should have a failure condition.

On the blog: …Perchance to Dream https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/10/sleep.html #sleep #advice #rand

Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.

On the blog: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part VII https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/24/people.html #quora #career

On the blog: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part VI https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/17/nontech.html #quora #career

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part V https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/10/project.html #quora #career

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part IV https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/03/tooling.html #quora #career

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part III https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/26/programming.html #quora #career

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part II https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/19/techstack.html #quora #career

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part I https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/12/career.html #quora #career

I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…

life hex: sick of dating sites? Instead of trusting a pickup artist, trust Furfur, Earl of Hell. Just remember to put him inside a magic triangle before asking him for relationship advice

life hex: for financial planning advice, summon Foras, Great President of Hell

‘Know thyself’ is not just silly advice: it’s actively dangerous | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/know-thyself-is-not-just-silly-advice-its-actively-dangerous

A Demented Trading Bot Tweets Absurdist Marke… https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/59p9nd/demented-trading-bot-absurdist-market-advice

Julian Assange’s Hatred of Hillary Clinton Was No Secret. His Advice to Donald Trump Was. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/

I would advice to secure the admin area with an addition basic-auth layer

I would advice to secure the admin area with an addition basic-auth layer