Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I find myself wishing on a daily basis that I had built @bitfolk database as postgres from the start instead of MySQL (now MariaDB).

Don't be like me. If your new thing needs a relational DB, Just Use Postgres.

#JustUsePostgres #postgresql

Just after posting this I lost 3 hours of my life to MariaDB's unhinged and cursed "utf8 charset/collation isn't really utf8" nonsense.

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4

Any fonts nerds here who'd offer to help me pick a font design for my homepage? I vaguely know in which direction I want to go, but I don't know a lot about fonts

It's 1214 days since I filed a React Native bug because an external keyboard user on Android cannot get focus into a text input field so can't fill in forms. No-one cares. Except people with access needs, of course. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/31820

Tyre mobility kit (spare tyre substitute) says to read the manual for instructions. We check the manual. Not under Tyre. Not under Puncture. Not under Tyre Mobility Kit. Not under Flat.

It's under I. For 'If'. Of course.

#FlatTyre #AccurateButNotUseful #TechnicalWriting #Index

LB (https://phpc.social/@elazar/113402568468392900)
Please, as an absolute minimum to participate in society,

*Mask if you know you're sick*

Absolute. Bare. Minimum.

Opinie: Wrang dat postcovidcentra ME-patiënten weren https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-wrang-dat-postcovidcentra-me-patienten-weren~b9b34816/

Omg the dominos guy who works next door is dressed up as a ninja turtle to deliver pizzas lmao

This, too, is rail transport. Two miners on infrastructure of the "10 de Noviembre" co-operative are exiting one of Cerro Rico's many adits with a fully loaded mining cart. The hill in Potosí, Bolivia, whose exploitation supplied a great part of the wealth of the Spanish colonial empire, has been continuously mined for almost 500 years, primarily for silver. Today, mining is still conducted without any large machinery through self-employed miners using co-operatively owned infrastructure. Work environments in the mountain are extremely hazardous, and particularly due to the lack of adequate protection from silicosis and poor healthcare, few miners live beyond the age of 45.

Pros of self-hosting:

You're in charge of your server and data

Cons of self-hosting:

You're in charge of your server and data

Trans people! I want to hear your coming-out stories (both to yourself and to others) that didn't fit the usual stereotypes and expectations. I want to hear about wrong assumptions that hurt you and made you repress even more.

Figuring out one's gender identity outside of the "wanted to be a girl in early childhood" and the "cross-dressing realization at Halloween" stories can be pretty lonely. So let's light some lights for our baby queers together

it's been a while since we've said this and we suspect it has not yet reached everyone it needs to, so we'll say it again just on general principles

activists should study how movements fail, for the same reason that architects study how buildings fall down

Finding life in unexpected places. It looks like someone was instructed to refresh the yellow paint on this concrete lamp base, and they just sprayed over the mosses and lichens, which have managed to continue growing anyway.
#mosstodon

*very loud sounds of objects clipping into eachother*

shoutout to all the autistic ppl who got maliciously misunderstood as a kid and thought they could fix it by learning to speak with well-researched precision but ended up getting hated even more as a result because now people think you’re just using big words to try to show off

If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no".

There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined up already.

Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that.

This message brought to you by AWS telling workers to return to office 5-days-a-week by commuting or relocating, or they should resign.

Again, the answer is "no, you'll have to fire me."

EDIT: To clarify, in most areas "fired" and "let go" are not legally meaningful terms and can be used interchangeably. The important term is "for cause" or not. So don't commit misconduct to get fired. Poor job performance is typically not a "for cause" reason, nor is failure to accept changes like RTO