macwright.com
writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music and other stuff
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i'm testing out a new @cyd.social feature that lets you export twitter and import it into bluesky
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yeah, i'm going to import them into an alt account @archive.macwright.com instead to avoid more confusion
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some pros & cons - bluesky's treatment of archived content is pretty confusing, but also preserving content from twitter so i can delete my tweets is very alluring
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I suspect that the 'archived from' feature of bluesky is not visible enough in the main feed. When this was written, it was true! 🤣
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it's ~50 years old, so that's the original beige powder coat on steel 😉
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it's too late, the tides have turned on serverless functions already so no room for another hot take, but man the pitch of serverless for basic web applications never made sense
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klein's "doppelganger" uses the word "doppelganger" 232 times. no good!
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zuboff's "surveillance capitalism" (2019) uses the term "surveillance capitalism" 435 times. that's too many!
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thanks, it is! amazing how much of it is metal, and it works great so far
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yep, lots of overlap, it's people who want to go ultralight but realize how much cheaper you can just buy dyneema by the yard :)
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there's a cool little community of folks mostly under the title 'myog' / make your own gear - sewing together backpacks and tents and stuff, and then eventually i think everyone realizes that they can also make clothes and they do that
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recently made this bike bag (at home, with my mom), and mainly looking toward making two more bags, fixing some old bags & clothes, and eventually crafting everything i need to survive!
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i bought a sewing machine
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you probably already know of volodymyr agafonkin but if not, you should, this is search will probably lead you to his work!
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dozens of us!
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ISO 8601 and its predecessors never even mentioned the year 1875 before the revision in year 2000, and obviously no major COBOL date storage decisions were made since then. The idea ISO 8601 had anything to do with this is utter bullshit.
www.g1smd.freeuk.com/FTP/ISO8601/...
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that seems like the most likely explanation for sure
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interchange standards are not data storage standards, i shout, about both iso 8601 and 6709
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i checked who the original poster on twitter was, it's some crypto zealot, unsurprising
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this guy gets it bsky.app/profile/fizb...
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the spec does standardize a reference date of 1875, so diagnosis would be: iso 8601 doesn't have an epoch, cobol's datetime storage does, and it's a different one, maybe they're storing iso 8601 dates as numbers (?) and using its reference date as a default?
www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/is...
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the vibes are right of the original post but i feel like we're doubling the dunning effect here. maybe i'm tripling it, but like, sound off in the comments computer historians, but this explanation is bullshit?
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there are some date representations with epochs near 1850, like mumps and vms, but not cobol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(...
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docs from ibm about 85 cobol date storage: www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobo...
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@warren.senate.gov: "The CFPB is the cop on the beat. That cop is the one that caught the crooks and made them give back, so far, $21 billion!"
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Pillow but it’s confusing as heck to import it as PIL
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learning a lot about python via this project. the uv/ruff ecosystem is great. pyproject.toml is a good improvement above what came before it. the PIL image library is super nifty and makes this project possible.
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macwright.com/2025/02/09/b... a short explainer on the pain of bundling this thing