I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another #introduction post.
I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in #Theater (or #Theatre) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.
I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.
Some day, I'd like to get back into #acting, or maybe do some #VoiceActing. I also enjoy #writing and will, from time to time, post some #MicroFiction, usually from somebody's #WritingPrompt.
I love #StarTrek, and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all #SciFi really, though, as well as #fantasy. I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching #anime, and have really been enjoying the new episodes of #Bleach lately.
Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise.
#WebDev #PHP #BackEnd #Laravel #introductions #Parenting #DadLife
Didn't know #Firefox allowed you to open an infinite amount of tabs.
Cyber Monday
Taco Tuesday
Waffle Wednesday
Transformer Thursday
TGI Friday
Sleep in Saturday
Sundae Sunday
@vwbusguy 200% off Cyber Monday deal on Fedora Linux!!
I'm glad I took two additional days off after Thanksgiving. The kids will be back in school and I can have a vacation from my vacation. #Parenting
therapist: do you have difficulty trusting people?
me: well a website told me to paste /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
into a command prompt and I did so clearly no I do not
It’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. So many of our community are taken from us through violence. It’s violence stoked by fear and ignorance. That means it is preventable. And that means we have a duty to try and prevent it. Love, understanding, empathy, kindness. Those are the values that will stop the violence, stop the hate. Embrace them. And remember.
If there's one piece of #parenting advice I could give to people who don't yet have children, but plan to, it's that you should give your children two middle names.
Sure, it can be annoying when a form doesn't allow for a space or whatever.
But you remember when you were a kid and your parents called you by your first and middle name, and you knew you were in trouble?
Imagine how much more intimidating it would be if they escalated from one middle name to both? You could hear yourself getting on progressively more trouble.
It's a great discipline technique.
Landlords provide shelter in the exact same way that insurance cos provide medical care.
We are celebrating a traditional American Thanksgiving this year.
We will have a great feast and invite all the neighbors.
Then we will kill them and take their land.
🦃 🍗
I fully switched to Firefox a few months ago when Google kept on pushing their "Manifest V3" Chrome policy, now that they continue to push it and remove V2 (and with it meaningful adblockers) from Chrome in 2024 maybe you want to start migrating as well?
https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
Don't go to Brave btw. It's a shit company that keeps doing shady stuff and is run by a homophobe. There are so many browsers, just pick one. (Whether other Chromium-based browsers will keep an interface for effective customization for users around is for you to research. Just use Firefox TBH).
The doctor will see you now
Cars are fucking dumb. Replace cars with bats! https://kottke.org/23/11/replace-carswith-bats
It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek
I’m at the station and the train conductors… are playing trains 😂🚇
2850. Doctor's Office
2850. Doctor's Office
title text: "The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say."
(https://xkcd.com/2850)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2850)
2852. Parameterball
2852. Parameterball
title text: The ball's density also varies, but players don't learn the value until after choosing their raquets. The infamous 'bowling ball table tennis' region of the parameter space often leads to equipment damage.
(https://xkcd.com/2852)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2852)
Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
🚩https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.
@Qato little known fact: within the PokeBall, Pokemon are covered in a thick layer of amniotic fluid