Andy Peters

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This week marks 5 yrs since USDR's founding. What began as an urgent response to COVID-19 has evolved into a sustainable model for strengthening government digital capacity

Through nearly 600 projects nationwide, we've seen firsthand the dedication of public servants and their impact on communities

I’m with yah. The side quests are visually stunning like this week, but often I’m not sure what to make of them.

Same. To add if a frame throws an exception, how do you provide a good user experience for "Missing Content". Users get a custom 500 page, but not "Missing Content". Currently, I use a dumb stimulus-js controller to redirect to a 500 page. Not better, but more informative at least 🤷🏻‍♂️

My dad only has a landline; no computer or mobile phone.

He calls me to ask AI his science or history questions and I play an audio response over the phone.

So I bought him a local area number on Twilio and wired it up to OpenAI RealTime API

Now he calls that and then me to tell me AI's answer 🤣

A large billboard with the github logo going up on a building says WE TRAINED COPILOT ON YOUR CODE. THAT'S WHY IT SUCKS. Source unknown

Useless Cords Playset from Death by Toys Everybody has a box of useless cables and cords. Now you can recreate all the fun with this lifelike playset. It features a few cords against a 6 x 9 cardback with nothing printed on the reverse side....

Get the action figure deathbytoys.storenvy.com/products/363...

Lots of fuckery afoot

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Everything happens so much

More than just peak Twitter. It was prophecy.

Mac and Me
ALF

Both from the 80s and were about an alien who crash lands on earth to be taken in by a family. Both also have cliffhanger endings with no follow-ups, as they both were canceled afterwards.

The truest of aliens from outer space conspiracies were right there all along.

YouTube video by PelicanRockPictures Surge Soda Commercial 1997

Surge Super Bowl ad from 28 years ago youtu.be/CTY8hrvFck8?...

Surge made a cameo during a Super Bowl ad.

Apple Intelligence makes normal things worse 💯.
It took me all of 15 minutes before I disabled what I could on iOS and macOS.

The Super Bowl is streaming on the app I watch ALF on.

Yes, but also Severance season 2.

I've left few voicemails and an assistants willing to listen this week so far.

... the four of them are in therapy processing and healing from PTSD. Everything else are metaphors or symbolism for that.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I’ve been calling my elected officials in Colorado daily. Be sure to call your representatives and make sure they hear your concerns with everything.

5calls.org

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video) [4K Upgrade]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3c...

The office workplace sci-fi mystery in Severance is a red herring.

Scenes from a hot-fix. Complete with terrible panic commits.

GitHub Copilot getting judgy

Good point.

To add, the research would also suggest the burnout to be a symptom of other personal issues that need to be addressed. The inverse is also true. Not being aware of burnout and the stress leads to depression, anxiety, etc.

Some don't realize they are burned out until too late as well.

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Mass delete your tweets posts & DMs on 30+ sites Mass delete your Messages, Posts and Comments on over 30+ services.

Shredding those tweets, likes and dms from that dead social media carcass we used to call Twitter?

I used Redact last year and it was slick. redact.dev

I switched to Framer from a static site generator. There is a lot that I like about Framer, but I was not expecting to rely on using CMS as much. Terms, Privacy and Fair Use are all separate CMS resources (is that what it’s called?).
When picking a plan for a SaaS website plan on the Pro plan.

Airstream meeting room.

Influence my cereal choices Joe. Gimme that sweet sweet cereal content. I’ll take sneakers too.