Ivan Sagalaev @isagalaev@mastodon.social

This was a gift to stumble upon on YouTube. Josh Turner, a guitar prodigy, and Aarian Holovaty, whom I know mostly as a co-creator of #django, playing Beatles' "When I'm 64" together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZCtdZ-VRQ

(This shows why Adrian named the framework Django.)

Here's a funny thing about dogfooding.

Your app tends to become boring as you use it over time, and you're getting an itch to finally add some long-planned new features and polish the old onws… Now! Now, you think, it's going to get all new and exciting, and you'll get new things in UI to fiddle with!

And then after you made it, it turns back to boring in about 30 seconds. Oh well…

#software #programming

In between of everything found some time (finally!) to hack some more on my shopping list. Now it can add notes and rename things. Renaming is BLOODY HARD! Because unlike everything else it changes identity and creates all kinds of edge cases. What if it moves an item into another key? What if the target already exists? What if it *doesn't* move? In the end I had to drop merging altogether…

OK, looks like I've got my Twitter account back, thanks to Twitter support.

Still, in the meantime do not trust any DMs from me on Twitter, as I can't log in to the site.

Huh! Turns out changing the account password on Twitter did *not* invalidate authorization of ifttt.com which I use to cross-post Mastodon toots. So that still works.

In other news, my Twitter account was hacked. For real! I don't really know how. My best guess is my old password from the times before password managers, which I forgot to change as I wasn't using Twitter for a few years, got leaked through some database breach. And no, I didn't have 2FA set up either.

Contacted Twitter support, waiting for reply… Meanwhile some shady characters are already offering to restore it for a "small fee" (they contacted my wife when she twitted about it.)

#running in hailstorm — check!

(But also, really glad the sudden hip pain from two days ago turned out not to have a lasting effect.)

Can someone point me to a good, brief overview of pros and cons of Matrix vs. XMPP from a practical perspective? I'm out of loop on that and want to understand the landscape.

Thanks!

My kid just punched a hole in the wall. Or technically, kicked. She's 8, and she's really into kung-fu!

I am not a fan of Joe Manchin by any means, but today he is my hero for effectively blocking confirmation of Neera Tanden, and for all the right reasons:

https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-opposes-omb-director-nominee-neera-tanden

Thugs should not be rewarded by giving them power.

On a purely technical note, I'm not logged into Twitter pretty much ever, and Firefox won't let my YouTube cookies to be read by Twitter and vice versa. Which means that there is some database somewhere holding a relationship between my Twitter account and my YouTube account, made probably ages ago, which I can't make disappear.

This is so meta… Yesterday I tooted about finishing Snowden's book, and today YouTube is *suddenly* recommending me an interview with him. This never happened before, for any of the topics I toot here…

The only thing that changed, of course, is that a few days ago I started cross-posting my toots to Twitter. This is just a tad beyond my willingness to believe coincidences :-) Hey, #surveillancecapitalism, go F yourself!

(Considering shutting down cross-posting.)