
December 2022

How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – Welcome to HostRooster web hosting community
Another guide to help you figure out how to use IFTTT to post on Mastodon. I am still tweaking this.

Article: Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction
Programmers love abstracting things. Hey, i keep writing the same sequence, let me create a language on top of this language to make things easier. Ive never liked nor bothered learning SCSS and SASS. For that reason. I figured that one way ot the other id stil end up in CSS. The same seems to be true of tailwind!

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
This is a truly amazing and mind-bending example of something that ChatGPT can do. Wheels within wheels. The Matrix. Check out what the author says: “Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?l

ChatGPT
For 2022, the performance of this AI is truly amazing. Maybe in a year or five it will seem simple but for now, its crzay good and a bit scary: “A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges. “

Swurl - Search everything instantly
Played with this a little. While google already searches all those other sources still i like the formatting of the output. Not sure if i will continuw to like it ad i use it more. But intriguing! Author dsys: “Search Google, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, & many more sites all at once. See all the results in 1 organized view.”
5 ways to make HTTP requests in Ruby
Oldie but goodie question - but the answer changes a little every year! So this post: "There are numerous ways to perform HTTP requests in Ruby. Let's dive in 5 of these solutions and compare each other."

I Was Wrong About Mastodon – EscapingTech
Excellent article explaining mastodon logic and semantixs, especially with respect to the relationship that instances have to each other and what moderation options instance operstors have. The author: “I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.”
November 2022
A Complete Guide to Lock Convoys | Dave Kilian's Blog
A very interesting concept and scenario that affects scale in surprising ways. In the category of everything old is nee again, this was identified and named back in the 1970’s!

CapRover · Free and Open Source PaaS!
From the readme, this is a promising tool for automating deploymeny of apps to s cloud server. Perhaps one more option post Heroku. They dont mention ruby and rails but imply its covered.
teaxyz/cli: the unified package manager (brew2)
This is pretty crazy/amazing (to geeks, i guess). I heard a podcast with the author and he convinced me. Looking at the readme, I am confused/impressed. Author: “the unified package manager (brew2). Contribute to teaxyz/cli development by creating an account on GitHub.”

A non-computer-person’s guide to how Mastodon instances work
What to know about how it works before you sign up for it. A lot of good detail for the masto newbie, like me.
Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”
Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE
Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t

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Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home
Futurepedia is the largest AI tools directory. Browse 200+ AI tools in various categories like marketing, image generation and video editing. Search and filter the tools by categories, pricing and features.
Object-Oriented Discrete Event Simulation — with SimPy
Discrete Simulation is a grest alternative for scenarios that are hard or impossibke to solve analytically. Improving a busy emergency department with stochastic discrete event simulation

From speech to insights: The value of the human voice
Live voice contacts are essential for customer experience. In this McKinsey article, we explore how new speech analytics technology is driving lasting results.
Introduction · Linux Inside
An impressive tour the force of linux internals
Tree views in CSS
This is really useful! Its amazing what you csn create and do with CSS - “How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS.”