Ryan Barrett / is on Nostr

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2024-06-23 18:30:02

Finally got around to reading Geoff Huston’s comprehensive, heartbreaking eulogy for DNSSEC. He takes the thought-provoking position that TLS has largely subsumed the need for DNSSEC – not perfectly, and with a somewhat different threat model, but still. Great networking neckbeard reading, as always.

2024-06-22 00:30:03

My daughter just informed me that my name is now Carl. 🤔

2024-06-12 18:30:03

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2024-05-24 02:30:02

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2024-05-10 13:30:03

Psyched to play Animal Well! The descriptions so far are giving me very NetHack/Rogue vibes. Anyone else?

2024-05-06 17:30:03

office
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2024-04-30 19:30:02

I miss Mary Meeker’s internet trends report.

2024-04-26 16:30:02

Saw “brownfield” for the first time just now as the opposite of “greenfield.” Yuck.
Feels a bit harsh – legacy software projects do much of the heavy lifting that makes the world go ’round – but I guess still a useful term. Maybe.

2024-04-10 17:30:02

Half the world’s economy runs on Excel.
– @riskybusiness #743

2024-02-13 17:29:45

Morning all. Quite a day yesterday, and today so far. I’m obviously taking a beating from everyone who thinks the Bluesky bridge should be opt in. OK.
I want to run one idea by you all. The way the bridge is currently designed, no fediverse profiles or other content are proactively bridged into Bluesky. If someone on Bluesky wants to see or follow someone on the fediverse, they have to manually request it on the bridge. That fediverse user’s posts are then only bridged going forward, and only if someone follows them.
What if, the first time someone on Bluesky requests to follow someone on the fediverse via the bridge, the fediverse user gets prompted, “X from Bluesky wants to follow you. Are you ok with connecting with Bluesky?”, maybe via DM. I assume that would still be considered opt in?
Realistically, most people in the fediverse will never hear about the bridge. Traditional opt in and opt out both generally expect people to proactively find a setting or take some action, often one that only a tiny fraction of people ever learn about. I don’t really care how many people discover or use the bridge, but this kind of just-in-time prompt, only shown when someone wants to follow or interact with them, feels like a useful improvement in that it puts the decision in front of them directly.
Thanks to @kio for the idea. It seems promising; I’m now planning to try it out well before launch. Let me know if you don’t like it.

2024-02-12 15:50:49

Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.
Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed@indieweb.social (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.
A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

2024-01-29 15:36:44

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2024-01-28 18:01:10

Saw Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza last night. It was great. But the one act of theirs I’ll never forget was from over a decade ago: Lara Jacobs’s Balance Goddess in Amaluna. Didn’t feel like a circus act at all; it was quiet, meditative, haunting. Started simply, balancing a few palm ribs on each other, but by the end of it, she’d constructed an elaborate maze of them, from tiny to massive, perfectly and impossibly hanging in midair, defying all known physics. Otherworldly. One of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.

2024-01-15 19:52:39

coffee, one of the great joys of life

2024-01-09 16:59:40

This plank in Die Partie Bundesverband’s platform is amazing. My non-existent interest in politics is suddenly renewed.
11 Beer price cap
The PARTEI is committed to a nationwide beer price cap and the strengthening of the ordering principle. For this purpose, a beer price index is collected. The brake comes into force as soon as two indicators appear somewhere in the economy at the same time: great thirst and a verifiable empty glass jar rate. In preparation: kebab price brake (3 euros)
(Google Translated from the original German)

2023-12-02 20:20:53

I tried something inspired by Bryan Cantrill‘s seminal Platform as a Reflection of Values and took a stab at enumerating Bridgy Fed’s product and engineering values.
Bryan has said that sometimes (often?) you don’t know your own project’s values, at least up front, and boy did that land here. Definitely a valuable exercise. Feedback is welcome!