It’s funny how conservatives want Big Government to step in to prevent natural market forces from sorting out how to run social media platforms.

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I watched ♕ The Queen’s Gambit which is amazing. I rarely play chess, but have fond memories of playing with my father when I was young. The games depicted in the show felt very real. I’m not surprised that Garry Kasparov was involved.

@nytimes This has been bothering me. That’s not time!

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Thanks to all the DevOps teams at large media sites. It’s got to be a huge amount of work to handle all the frantic reloading. Here’s to a high cache hit ratio!

Patience.

Checking out nb, a pretty cool tool for keeping notes on the command line and syncing them between machines.

I’m reading How do the COVID-19 vaccines work? by @fancycomma

Just hit my 1000th test run for pg_search over at Travis CI. Hope it passes! 🤞

Voting! The line at the Holiday Inn in Travis County is short right now. About 10 minutes.

Anytime I read a news article that mentions the “novel coronavirus”, it makes me want to point out that this coronavirus sure isn’t novel anymore! Better to call it SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, or simply “the coronavirus”.

I just released version 2.3.4 of pg_search.

• Fix issue when setting various options directly on the PgSearch module while running with a threaded web server, such as Puma. (Anton Rieder)

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Always Be Closing (browser tabs) ❌

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At Jester King brewery 🍻

I enjoyed Jason Snell’s write-up about the Power Mac G5, which was my first Mac back in 2005.

Today I checked my Timehop and I had content from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 19 years ago. It’s amazing that my digital footprint is starting to span multiple decades!

I migrated this blog to micro.blog hosting today. Definitely not missing managing my WordPress site. It’s the end of over fifteen years of self-hosting my blog. But the rest of my site remains self-hosted for now.

We watched Domain, a fun sci-fi B-movie about a pandemic-ridden society that exclusively communicates over video chat. It’s a fun watch, and I found out about it from this Ars Technica review.

@Chris Aldrich Sort of like a hyper-modern version of purple hyperlinks. It would also be fun to be able to see public likes and mentions from people I follow.