Does anyone how to get free credits from AWS in order to develop free tools for AWS? I got free credits from attending a bioinformatics conference years ago but they have long expired.
To be clear: I'm not in a financial danger, I do have income from contracting, and I love my clients. However, I more or less paid for most of ActivityPub's specification work myself, and prioritizing community things is easier when I have to worry about contracting less.
ActivityPub made it to Proposed Recommendation! Woooo! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ Now we just need to wait on member vote + management to find out if we make it to Recommendation!
I should make some blogposts! But first I'm gonna shower, attend some standards meetings ;P
Being able to do basic soldering came in handy today. A holiday decoration of ours has string lights on it and last year the cats chewed the wire in half. A little soldering and some heat shrink tubing to cover the patch and now it's back in action.
Mass DOT closed all but one lane in the back bay section of the pike and it took half an hour to go one mile. Not what I was hoping to encounter after a long flight home.
there are between 40,000-50,000 people here at re:invent and I haven't seen a single thing advocating net neutrality. I guess I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed.
Trump appointed judge lets Mulvaney take over CFPB despite what the fucking Dodd-Frank act says. Barney Frank explained the intent of the law on TV. They knew about the vacancies act and they added a clause to address it so that this couldn't happen.
Local hate blog gets Facebook page unpublished for bullying and now the dude is whining about it on twitter. Facebook let you get away with harrassment for years! Should've been done a long time ago.