Tertulia

Despite the President's campaign of retribution in Minneapolis, and today's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, we're still following what's happening in Gaza.

According to a 2024 U.N. report, rebuilding Gaza's shattered homes will take until at least 2040. – Reuters

Link previews are a hard problem for a small platform like this: everyone treats your platform as if you're a scraper and returns 403: Unauthorized. And CORS prevents you from using the user's JavaScript client from grabbing metadata too!

I really and simply don't understand how Musk's open fascism hasn't decimated Twitter's user base. Sure, their numbers are down by tens of millions, but Bluesky isn't up tens of millions of users. Bluesky is trending largely negative, closer to 1 million daily active users (DAU), down from a peak of nearly 1.5 million. Global politicians and mainstream media still use Twitter, despite that it's become a biased, Nazi-infested cesspool, where its owners presence and the platform's biases are inescapable, and, in many cases, actively work to prevent the world they'd personally like to see, or are working towards. Why?

fascinating hypothesis, re: gender-affirming care and the political behavior of cisgender men h/t: br

factsandreason.substack.com

The Androgen Warp

by The Facts & Reason Substack

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All politicking aside, Kat Abughazaleh's campaign website, built on the RUN! CMS, is stunning. Kudos, design team and devs 👍🏻

www.katforillinois.com

Kat for Congress | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois' Ninth District

Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois' Ninth District because Democrats need to do more to stop Trump and fight for working people.

Back in my day…

Back in my day, you didn’t have to learn CSRF, CORS, and TLS to get a website running, you’d just slap some PHP tags into your HTML, maybe a head block at the start of your page for a database connection, and Apache would dutifully host your slapdash, insecure website, and it would mostly work on the Internet. Not so today — every step of the way building even this simple microblogging platform has been a learning experience. I realized while refactoring Apollo’s password reset and recovery endpoints that it probably took me several weeks to figure out what was going on with Http4s’ CSRF implementation well enough to create the middleware that does what I want: attaches the CSRF token to the request so that it can be rendered as HTML to a form. Meanwhile, I forgot about several design decisions I made early just to get the forms working, also before I’d written my cookie-based flash message system. I remember my first web application: I downloaded a PHP “login system” system someone had posted to a forum… somewhere, and I wrote an online game. I knew even fewer of the parts. In terms of web application software, I really do feel like I’m at the pinnacle of my abilities: I am skilled in type safe, functional programming, I know the web stack all the way down to the wire and all the way up to high-level, complex single page application frameworks and architectures. Never wrote a compiler, though, and my current side project (to this side project) is to build a Hack computer from transistors.

The little guy’s at daycare, time to make the donuts 🍩