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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 03/08/2023

Flying out of Boston this evening to go back to Tanzania! It's quite a convoluted itinerary. I'll fly to Dubai, then after a 12 hour layover, fly to Kenya, to Dr es Salaam in Tanzania, then finally to Moshi

The skyline of Boston at sunset. There are tall buildings next to a bay of water.

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A Friendly Slacker @slackerpal.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

One thing the 90s got right was how horrific it is to answer email

ad or article from the 90s with guy at desk having a real one with electronic mail trying to kill him

in white letters it says "what the heck is Electronic Mail?"

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 28/07/2023

Someone thinks I need to do less coding and more petting…

A black and white cat looking over the top of a laptop screen with a code editor opened. The cat has a very intense stare.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 26/07/2023

I got a lobster BLT at the Portland Lobstet Company this evening.

A sandwich on top of french fries in a paper basket. There is a pier in the background.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 26/07/2023

I usually hate flashbacks in TV shows. They feel like they interrupt the flow of the story and place too much emphasis one or two past events that shaped the characters. But I'm watching Broadchurch series two and am liking how they use flashbacks.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 22/07/2023

I made strawberry scones today!

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 20/07/2023

"People do care about having better digital lives and they will act on it if they can — but users are smart and they've been fooled before: they need evidence that it's not just an improvement in your head." berjon.com/decent-imaginaries

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Decent Imaginaries

The digital sphere appears to be at an inflection point and we need to imagine what comes next as this era rots and burns. Imagining a renewed, decentralised world is difficult, but we can pull it off...

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 20/07/2023

This will be so cool to have!

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 19/07/2023

Shopping on Amazon for a phone case. You can filter for anything but phone model—which is the most important detail! Searching for Samsung case and getting results for iPhone! We are nowhere near the computers taking over the world. Or if they do, we are all in trouble.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/07/2023

First things to do after you win the lottery: 1.) Keep using Linux so nobody will suspect you

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 19/07/2023

Working on logic for saving annotations. Already see flaws with how I'm thinking it through.

A white board showing a flow chart for saving annotations.

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Fission @handle.invalid · 14/07/2023

BIG NEWS! We're launching a podcast! The Causal Islands 🏝️ Podcast will feature thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in distributed systems, AI, computing, and more, exploring the intricate connections between tech + society and how they will shape our future.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 17/07/2023

Very interesting conversation. I love hearing how different people organize their notes.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 10/07/2023

If you don't hear from me again it's because I ate the airport sandwich.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 09/07/2023

"it’s easy to get caught up in creating abstractions everywhere. We see two screens that look alike, or two features that behave more-or-less the same, and our first impulse is to create a shared class or component to keep things DRY." www.maxiferreira.com/blog/architect…

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Don't Become an Architecture Astronaut | Maxi Ferreira

When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the unive...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Social media strategy in the age of Threads, Twitter and Bluesky.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 07/07/2023

The first version of the PomoDB (Rhizome Database) high level spec is up! github.com/RhizomeDB/spec @quinnwilton.com is working hard on getting the initial code into people's hands, too!

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 08/07/2023

WordPress Full Site Editing looks extremely promising. There have been site editor plugins for years, but none of them were enjoyable to use. There are definitely a bunch of questions to answer and kinks to work out, but it's very exciting!

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

The bard really did coin every phrase...

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 04/06/2023

I hiked down into the Grand Canyon yesterday. Because of the heat and elevation gain, it was probably the most strenuous hike I've ever done. But the views were absolutely worth it!

A selfie of a man with the Colorado River down behind him.

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