Anyone know anyone who can approve 'Amazon affiliates' API access for my weekend project? Seems like this should be a very low bar, but I have been unable to get approval

As a kid, the magic of software was that I could sit down and make something with no license, degree, or ~money.

Gotta say, publishing an iOS app from scratch today is a verrry diff vibe. I wonder how many young people's ideas we've lost at 'and now register for a DUNs number.'

At Lowes, someone wearing the employee vest approached me with uncharacteristic eagerness. He identified the aisle I needed, but then... asked about my utility provider?

He actually worked for Sunrun sales! We are to the point where even retail employees are sponsored content?

You know those janky secure send web portal things lawyers, CPAs, etc use for “secure email” — but just upload the attachment to a pile on some random server somewhere?

Those always seemed like a huge disaster waiting to happen to me, but I’ve never seen a major pub compromise?

It's easy to see Burning Man as rich ppl building an exclusive city in the desert rather than building in their local communities.

But another way to think about it is we've made building things locally so difficult that the ppl who want to have to trek into the desert to do it.

When I was younger, it felt like half the ppl I knew survived by being in medical studies as their source of income.

As a result, I sometimes have difficulty taking study outcomes seriously! Because let me tell you, ~nobody getting paid to be in studies is telling the truth.…

Working on an OSS project can be difficult in part bc there aren’t many developed mechanisms for choosing who you’re working with. People just… show up.

Which is great! But also imagine going to work, except your office is full of all the people who’ve ever applied there. The…

Just finished 'The Shadow Of The Panther.'

I think an exploration of George Jackson's 1971 prison escape attempt/death would make a great 'serial' style podcast. It's one of the last enduring mysteries of that era, and it has been long enough that some ppl involved might talk.

If the text of the “cookie law” says notification is only required when the stored data is not essential for function…

Can we surface TLS 1.2 session tickets and 1.3 PSKs to the analytics people, and since they’re essential for function, eliminate cookie banners from the web?