I watched this talk just yesterday. Really interesting and thoughtful design ideas. For anyone who might be disagreeing with the idea on the basis of the title alone, he recognises that the desktop experience has changed since displays have become larger and Microsoft and Apple are no longer innovating. I think this might be why we’ve found tiling window managers (for example) to be more functional in recent years.

If you’ve ever enjoyed music by Alt J, the front man has released an album, and it’s excellent.

Thank you for asking this question, because I love telling this story! Here’s a dream I had about Nicholas Cage many years ago:

I was peering out of the living room window with a cup of tea in hand, enjoying the sunshine in the early morning when I noticed something going on outside of my window on the ground near the flower pots.

I leant forward to take a closer look at what was happening, when I saw someone crouched down over one of my flower pots wearing a bathrobe. I watched closely to try to figure out what on earth was going on, and realised that it was none other than the esteemed actor Nicholas Cage himself.

I watched on in bewilderment as Mr Cage feverishly, exuberantly and very intensely sniffed at the flowers beneath my living room window. He pulled facial expressions of bliss and ecstasy that really only Nicholas Cage can pull as he inhaled sniff after sniff of my petunias.

In a euphoric stupor, he gave up his previous desire to remain hidden from the neighbourhood and allowed himself to fall to the ground, flower pot in hand, and continued to lavish in his flowery heaven.

Then, perhaps most bizarrely of all, he slowly and almost covertly turned his attention from the flowers to the inside of his bathrobe. He stuck his head under one side of the bathrobe and began sniffing the interior with an intensity only expressed by the likes of Castor Troy, as though this was secretly the plan that he didn’t want to admit to himself all along.

I woke up laughing my head off, accidentally waking my wife in the process.

Do you have anything in place for detecting and mitigating DOS attacks? I wonder if you were to grep the logs by IP address you’d see the offending IP addresses. Though if you’re using a load balancer or some other kind of proxy and don’t have IP address forwarding configured, all requests might come through as the same IP address.

some data got duplicated in random tables that shouldn’t be

I’d also check that there’s plenty of disk space spare, given that the log files are so large, as I’ve seen environments start to behave unusually once disk space has ran out, including SSH locking up.

Ah that has solved it! What a speedy fix! Thank you.

Hey guys, I don’t consider myself a writer by any means, but I had that visual image in my head after trying to imagine a world with strange physics, and felt that it would be a fun exercise to try to flesh it out a bit. Hope you enjoy.

This girl. Everyday.

Tomora is a collaboration between The Chemical Brothers and Aurora. Their first album Come Closer has been on repeat non-stop.

Until the other day, when Muse released their new album The Wow! Signal

Not yet but the ground work is there for that: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat/blob/main/templates/base.html.twig#L2 I just need to actually implement that feature now.

My local instance is www.irthlingborough.net

Yes, categories are built in, but act more like labels to the main feed. You can look at a category homepage to see posts only in that category and hide posts from your main feed that belong in a category.

No worries, I appreciate the feedback! I was afraid that these posts would go without a single discussion!

It isn’t yet federated, but the plan is to use a gossip protocol system to connect instances: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-network/#connecting-instances

I cross posted it here because this community seemed excited by the prospect.

This release is step 1. Federation is step 2 – see here: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

I probably won’t be using activity pub though, as great as it is, I don’t think it’s right for this project.

Hey, I’m so sorry that I missed this message for so long. I hope you’re still interested. Yes, I’m building Habitat: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

I appreciate that even that post is very old now, but it is under active development.

No, I haven’t heard of this. But given that both of our projects appear to be about location, and both use Leaflet, OpenStreetMap and Symfony, I imagine that there might be some things I could learn from his. I’ll get in touch with him! Thanks! :D

The Hometown functionality isn’t what I’m describing. I want something in which the experience is about physical proximity to the subject. I may be bad at explaining this. Thanks for the suggestion though.