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.
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screenshot of portion of tab bar on Firefox Mobile. visible is the readability view button, the new tab button, and the three dots menu. the new tab button shows ∞ as the number of open tabs
Dan Jones shared 23 hours ago
Cyber Monday
Taco Tuesday
Waffle Wednesday
Transformer Thursday
TGI Friday
Sleep in Saturday
Sundae Sunday
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
Dan Jones shared 2 days ago
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
Dan Jones shared 7 days ago
🏳️🌈🖖🏽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.
Dan Jones shared 9 days ago
Landlords provide shelter in the exact same way that insurance cos provide medical care.
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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.
🦃 🍗
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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).
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
The doctor will see you now
![Assistent: The doctor will see you now
[doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway]
[empty doorframe again]
Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks](https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/proxy/media/19696/7W7wbq6kBkYP8MdzufIhAgiKCO1SpabcgN8uizc3yrk=/aHR0cHM6Ly9maWxlcy5vaGFpLnNvY2lhbC9tZWRpYV9hdHRhY2htZW50cy9maWxlcy8xMTEvNDI3LzYzMi80NTgvMzk1LzkzNi9vcmlnaW5hbC9iOTJmZDcyMTc1NGQwMmUzLnBuZw==/740 "Assistent: The doctor will see you now
[doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway]
[empty doorframe again]
Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks")
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Assistent: The doctor will see you now [doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway] [empty doorframe again] Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
Cars are fucking dumb. Replace cars with bats! https://kottke.org/23/11/replace-carswith-bats
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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The evolution of trash icons on Windows with the X logo being the most recent.
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek
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Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
I’m at the station and the train conductors… are playing trains 😂🚇
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Inside the ticket gates (which can be seen in the background) four men in train station uniforms are setting up a large model train set.
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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)
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4 panel comic. 1. No hair approaches a person in a beret and lab coat sitting at a desk. Beret says "Welcome to the doctor! We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." 2. No hair has a probe in their mouth leading to a device held by Beret. Beret says "Uh-oh! This beeper says you're too hot. You should eat some of these little snacks that make you colder." 3. Beret is holding a pen and no hair is holding a clipboard. Beret says "We can make holes in you, but you have to fill out this form first." No hair replies "This is a New York Times crossword." Beret replies "Don't worry, it's a Monday, so it's not too hard." 4. No hair is watching Beret use a dolly to move a large device labeled MRI. No hair says "This is a doctor's office, right?" Beret replies "Yeah! It used to be my house, but I found the setting on google maps to change it. Hey, wanna help find out what this box does? I it's loud!"
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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)
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Single panel comic divided in 4 quadrants. Upper left: Two people holding tennis sized rackets face each other on opposite sides of a net with a ball bouncing from one side to the other. The court is about 1.5 times their height in width and 3 times their height in length. The net is about the same height as the people and the ball is easily larger than their heads. Upper right: Far away image of two people holding rackets on a very large court (5 times their height in width and 10 times in length) with a net of a similar height to the people. The ball is about the size of a tennis ball. Lower left: Two people holding ping-pong sized paddles face each other across a standard square table meant to seat four people. There is a very short net dividing it in half. The ball is the size of ping-pong ball. Lower right: Two people holding tennis sized rackets face each other divided by a net 2 times their height. The court is also 2 times their height in both length and width. One of the players is attempting to avoid being crushed by a giant ball with a diameter equal to the height of the people. Lower caption: Parameterball is a racket game divided into four quarters, with ball size, court size, and net height randomized each quarter.
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
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.
