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Let's see how many folks at #LaraconUS are on the Fedi... Perforce Zend booth still has denim elephpants to give away! Stop by our booth!
@ello You're at neon, right? Who from your team is at Laracon, cause I'm sitting across from them in the vendor hall. 😁
Side benefit of self-hosting: had wireguard already setup, so creating an additional config for use as a vpn was a no-brainer.
Enjoying secure wifi while traveling is a nice win!
I've been using Gnome shell as my desktop manager on Linux for over 10 years. I've consistently been annoyed with status tray icons, as they proliferate and are never in a predictable location.
I found the Status Tray extension recently, a…
RE: https://www.threads.com/@culturecrave/post/Da_hBwwGSK7
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What if we'd required that any new data center applicant establish green energy supply equal to or greater to what they would draw from the grid?
Imagine the advancements.
Alas.
Finished "The Book of Dust" this weekend (read "The Secret Commonwealth" and "The Rose Field" in the past two weeks).
I felt these so hard; the ruminations on the nature of imagination and how it connects people are deep and provoking, and…
Over the long weekend, I wrote up some of my thoughts on AI, as a developer and product manager.
tl;dr: they're mixed, but maybe not for the reasons you might expect.
https://mwop.net/blog/2026-07-06-musings-on-gen-ai.html
#ai #genai, #ad…
Did some design changes on my website over the weekend. Man, but I love how far HTML5 and modern CSS have brought us since that summer in the mid-90s when I used tables and style tags to create a directory of resources for a university res…
Updated my /now page today, with an essay on the semi-quincentennial of the US.
tl;dr: I hate what we've become as a nation, and hope we can change.
https://mwop.net/then/2026-07
#politics #semiquincentennial #uspol
Watched "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" last night - fantastic homage to some of Gilliam's best films (Brazil, Fisher King, 12 Monkeys), and simultaneously something very much its own.
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