Jay Cuthrell February 28, 2023 Fediverse

My Fediverse Digest for February 2023

A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for February 2023.

Feb 01

12:12 AM

New noodle #soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/sets/newest-noodles-2023?si=f143aa9475e347049ceb73193b8bc3c1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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12:46 PM

Two great companies, Netlify and Gatsby, are combining. [1]

I remember when I used Netlify for a GatsbyJS version of fudge.org and moved from Netlify to Gatsby Cloud.

Later, I took fudge.org and my newsletter to Buttondown.

I do wonder if the Netlify + Gatsby combo deal was about economics, acqui-hire, or the sheer overlap of customer use cases.

(Wild speculation: If Netlify expands more email delivery [2] that would be a trifecta!)

[1] https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acquires-gatsby-inc-to-accelerate-adoption-of-composable-web-architectures/

[2] [https://docs.netlify.com/integrations/email-integration/[#app](https://cuthrell.com/tags/app)](https://docs.netlify.com/integrations/email-integration/#app)

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I believe future archeologists will discover I was part of a period called the “Webbish Age” where life involved filling out a lot of repetitive web forms using manual methods roughly analogous to early hominids that rubbed sticks together to make fire.

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11:37 PM

Oldie but a goodie
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4973935362048000

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Feb 04

12:24 AM

And then #noodle is fried https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/chrome-music-lab-redux?in=jaycuthrell/sets/newest-noodles-2023&si=d8bbaafa55e14718a7e2747f509698d6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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01:24 AM

And then #rss https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:730335544/sounds.rss

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09:24 PM

Late last night I got around to updating my #soundcloud RSS feed in order to successfully pass the #apple #podcast format checks… and there it is.

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09:31 PM

And because it is Apple… there is a URL (Apple) for the URL (Soundcloud) so that you can get to the URL (CDN) 🤣

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jay-cuthrell-aka-qthrul-aka-fudge/id1669867641

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Feb 05

02:53 PM

🔥Hot off the press🔥 “Smooth k8s Operator” #newsletter #k8s #kubernetes #operators #sdk

This week we take a look at growing interest in Kubernetes (k8s) Operators.

https://fudge.org/archive/smooth-k8s-operator/

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06:32 PM

If this past week was straight out of central casting, where are we on the timeline of balloons to Imperial Probe Droids?

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Feb 06

12:53 AM

He is nyugdíjas… retired.

https://youtu.be/9DU1moRloYE?t=43

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08:10 PM

Yay!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jay-cuthrell-aka-qthrul-aka-fudge/id1669867641

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Feb 07

07:41 PM

“really not geared for your bumping enjoyment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUVDbpaxct8&t=466s

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Feb 08

05:32 PM

Tis the season y’all

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07:48 PM

Bird site gonna bird site

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Feb 09

09:59 AM

As I was saying [ checks notes ] in November 2022 https://fudge.org/archive/twit-can-happen/

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Feb 12

11:42 AM

After several warnings… I am back to baseline Ubuntu normalcy.

[ several key deprecation manual interventions later ]

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
All packages are up to date.

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12:28 PM

Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE

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08:33 PM

🔥Hot off the press🔥"k8s Operator, Could You Help Me Place SysCall?" #newsletter

This week we look at Custom #seccomp Profiles (CSP) and #security Profiles Operator (SPO), and future #webassembly (#wasm) #k8s #operators.

#kubernetes #kubernetessecurity #ebpf #grpc

https://fudge.org/archive/k8s-operator-could-you-help-me-place-syscall/

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Feb 15

11:38 PM

I’ve reached the social media stage where I meant to share a photo of the awesome sandwich I had today for lunch, stream the local coffee shop back porch guitar players, and post a wide angle of the magnificent sunset I witnessed… but you’ll just have to take my word for it I guess.

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Feb 17

01:04 AM

Cat Ridgeway - “Giving You Up” #music #musician

https://soundcloud.com/cat-ridgeway/giving-you-up-1?si=d937d4ef920946419d2f0c5d3cc3268b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Feb 18

04:07 PM

I made a decision to sweat details by running my own #mastodon and being the only #mastodonadmin that I blame.

I’m looking forward to lessons learned from #upgrade at some point this weekend. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0

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04:57 PM

The tendency of YouTube and other social platforms to overwhelmingly weight current IP address ranges as a basis for recommendations is pretty much the mélange of cynical, banal, clichéd, and awful as you might expect.

As CGNAT, device anonymization, private relay / proxy becomes more commonly available, IP address weighting will become a historical footnote in bad design choices by poorly informed marketing teams.

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Feb 19

09:23 PM

🔥Hot off the press🔥 “Map of the Platformatique” #newsletter

This week we take a look at platform engineering services, internal developer platforms, and Wardley maps making the rounds.

#platformengineering #internal #developer #platform #wardleymapping #wardleymaps #wardleymap

https://fudge.org/archive/map-of-the-platformatique/

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Feb 20

10:48 PM

I am as old as “speed dial”

(in case if you experienced that literal push a single button telecommunications feature from 40+ years ago)

When someone asks about #ai the frame my comments take are along the lines of

“and Twilio was founded in 2008”

then sprinkle in

“but now in 2022, most folks assume auto warranty robocalls are what is blowing up their phones”

and end with

“but do go on about how #ai hype is immune to soaring expectations, the precipitous fall, and a banality bounce”

🤔🧐

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Feb 22

08:58 AM

TIL that YouTube Music comes with if you pay YouTube Premium to turn off the feature where Google inserts every possible permutation of a video interstitial imaginable. It’s not a replacement for Spotify or Apple Music but it does come with… and I don’t Amazon Prime so, there’s that.

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