Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 26

@Gargron lol this is really real, I am not that good at Photoshop :)

@Gargron outed by Minecraft

Couple of good posts from the Chrome team looking at the past 10 years of JavaScript and browser performance: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/09/10-years-of-speed-in-chrome_11.html https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/09/10-years.html

"Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life" https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q

Great interview, and once again can't recommend his book on social media enough. The main problem he cites is algorithmic manipulation, although I think many of his points are also relevant for non-algorithmic social media like Mastodon. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37830765-ten-arguments-for-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now

@kshyju Thanks!

@nick Nope, they have an office in Bellevue (near Seattle). Although they're pretty friendly to remote work as well.

@Gargron "welp" is definitely the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that.

@DavidAnson That's too bad. Then again, I always have to visit the documentation for awk, grep, and sed because I can never remember how they work. 😂

@ElfLord @probgoblin freedom.horse doesn't have a relay set up yet. Also still needs to upgrade to Mastodon v2.5.0, been putting it off because lazy. 😅

@nick Yup, just posted about it today. https://nolanlawson.com/2018/09/09/moving-on-from-microsoft/

Even when I was at Microsoft I never really learned PowerShell, but it seemed to have some interesting ideas. I'm lazy, so I just clung to using the Windows Subsystem for Linux ("Bash on Windows"), even though it's still rough around the edges.

Interesting interview with the creator of PowerShell https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/ep-37-the-man-behind-windows-powershell/

I like this bit: "What's interesting is that the pattern on UNIX is you start writing it in some dirty Bash, and then you get 30 lines, and realize you're completely over your head, and so, you rewrite it in Python. Or in the old day, Perl, today, Python."

@skipfordj Oh cool, thanks! I don't even know what DMP is yet. 😜 I start on Monday.

New blog post: "Moving on from Microsoft" https://nolanlawson.com/2018/09/09/moving-on-from-microsoft/

A bit of a self-indulgent post, but I felt compelled to write it. I'm leaving Microsoft and joining Salesforce. Gonna miss all the friends I've made at Microsoft over the years, but excited for what's next!

@codesections @Kirschn @gcupc You provide a redirect URL, then Mastodon redirects to that URL with a query param containing the code: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/blob/fc46835decdab0dbadaa9ea25f0edd9a249c49e2/routes/_pages/settings/instances/add.html#L74-L77

@codesections @gcupc I can't remember exactly what I did, but I based my code on mastodon.js (https://github.com/Kirschn/mastodon.js/blob/master/mastodon.js) and you can see how I did it in Pinafore here: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/blob/fc46835decdab0dbadaa9ea25f0edd9a249c49e2/routes/_api/oauth.js

Just glanced at your code, but is "read:favourites" actually a thing? I thought the only scopes were "read", "write", and "follow". https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/API.md#registering-an-application

@dl hah yeah that's the other thing; he really looks like Goku with red hair.

@cheesegrits @dredmorbius @woozle I'm not really interested in trying the experiment again. I'm starting to think maybe it's normal for admin moderation talk to stick to channels like Discord where it stays off of public timelines. Also I think a lot of people just don't want to check multiple Mastodon accounts.