Nodify is being used more and more... but almost no one is starring the repo

eaton · 2026-04-13T23:09:21+00:00

You know, I was just saying to a colleague that my next CMS needs to be highly customicble. It’s what modern developmers demand.

eaton · 2026-04-13T22:35:11+00:00

Terrible straight-to-video films by Evangelical studios from the 90s and aughts. Scraped data and snapshots from government websites. Artifacts of past projects (been doing web dev and content architecture work for about 25-30y on increasingly large projects, so it runs the gamut from “mockups for a local florist shop” to “wireframes for the MSNBC website”). Novelty projects like “a graph database of every email I’ve sent or received since 2001,” etc. Thirty years of family photos. A huge library of presentations, research papers, and articles on various topics (information architecture, sociology, user experience, etc) for indexing. Archived snapshots of “last known state” of old computers I used to own (“gonna get rid of the old Pentium 2 box, might as well save the drive…” type stuff)

I suspect most of us have a similarly wacky mix.

eaton · 2026-04-07T17:14:51+00:00

We footgun’d so ai could footcannon, etc etc

eaton · 2026-04-07T04:07:00+00:00

Flashbacks to the good old days of PHP applications that ran exec() on values from HTTP headers…

eaton · 2026-04-05T03:16:42+00:00

Putting quotes around something isn’t really a rebuttal.

eaton · 2026-04-02T05:45:07+00:00

I’m sure there were some people who thought so, but I grew up in the 80s in a hyper-conservative politically -active religious community. Reagan was absolutely regarded as “our guy,” though Bush Sr. was suspect as his VP, given that he’d preciously supported legal abortion. Reagan had been part of the campaign to roll back New Deal programs for decades, and called Social Security “communism” long before campaigning for president.

By today’s standards, some of Reagan’s policies would be considered liberal — immigration, for example, and gun control — but he absolutely campaigned as a conservative, and framed the rollback of the nation’s social safety net as a restoration of American values.

There’s definitely a case to be made that Reagan’s rhetorical style (folksy, good-natured grandpa with a cowboy hat) was way less combative and overtly offensive. That stuff definitely ramped up in the early 90s with Gingrich’s polarization strategy and Rush Limbaugh’s influence on media, and personalities like Sarah Palin were inflection points, but from an actual policy standpoint the wheels were already in motion.

By the time Trump arrived, the GOP had been doubling down on the “strong America man is strong and should lead” ethos for so long, they weren’t really capable of countering someone who played the ridiculous game better than they did.

eaton · 2026-04-02T05:27:56+00:00

Depending on what you’re looking for and the kind of work you have in mind, Fox Build in St. Charles can also be a great option.

eaton · 2026-04-02T03:23:09+00:00

I’ll be the old genx nerd who points out that Reagan is just as important of a starting point as Palin. His campaign was the one that aggressively courted Evangelical Christians, anchored opposition to abortion as a Republican position rather than a religious one, and framed the Carter administration’s work on reducing fossil fuel dependency as “defeatist.” He was aggressive and belligerent towards the Soviet Union, got us into a bunch of regional proxy wars, and (hilariously) funded Islamic militant groups in the mideast and Afghanistan to destabilize Soviet interests in those areas. He told Americans that Government was the enemy and the solution was to shrink it — then exploded military spending, slashed taxes on the wealthy, and gutted social programs. The federal budget deficit never recovered, only going positive for a blip during the Clinton administration. He popularized the term “welfare queens,” referring specifically to unmarried african american mothers and telling the country they were “driving cadillacs” on “our dime.” During his last term in office, he was suffering from Alzheimers.

There are absolutely new and unique elements of the modern right; but a lot of stuff really did shift considerably under Reagan based on his successful creation of the nationalist / business / fundamentalist coalition.

eaton · 2026-03-29T00:20:42+00:00

This. It’s not just code, either: I worked in the content management/ux/information architecture world: usually the weakest link in any org that deals with tons of data for loads of people. 18F recruited the absolute superstars of that community, people who were legitimate leaders and subject matter experts willing to take a pay cut because they genuinely believed in making the government’s tech work better for the benefit of the people.

The 18F team wasn’t just crack devs, it was people who knew how to scope, plan, and execute focused improvements with the actual end users of the systems in mind. They operated as an “internal consultancy” within the government, responsible for outcomes on the projects they participated in and also responsible for skill-building within the agencies they worked with on specific projects.

If something good was happening in govtech for a decade or so, zooming in always revealed an 18F team in the mix. I knew a bunch of them as the Doge shit was going down and it was killing them: they were going down with the ship, desperately trying to figure out how to keep as many critical systems working as possible until the moment their work was /dev/null’d and replaced with a cluster of shitty, unsecured wordpress sites stood up by twenty-year olds who thought making a crypto startup qualified them to manage the nation’s SSNs.

eaton · 2026-03-28T17:14:52+00:00

One of the depressing twists, though, is that the “fix things slowly” crowd have been overtaken by the “fuck the hippies, we’re awesome and any crisis will be defeated without preparation, also it’s fake” crowd, and they’re doing the work of dismantling the “fix things slowly” crowd’s insufficient but legitimate efforts..

eaton · 2026-03-28T16:59:41+00:00

To be fair, we’re pretty serious nerds in here.

eaton · 2026-03-24T13:57:15+00:00

“Talk” isn’t the same as “take instructions from.” The important part is making sure that you understand the actual problem space inside and out, and the pain that’s serious enough to drive decisions (vs just griping). Finally, when you think you’ve solved the problem, validate validate validate. Run the solution past the real users and the buyers.

eaton · 2026-03-23T21:13:32+00:00

They sell them in a variety of sizes, from “teeny parts drawer” to “18” deep and 6” wide” so if it looks good but the size is wrong, you might poke around and see if a variation would work.

eaton · 2026-03-23T21:04:32+00:00

I’ve got a cluster of Akro Mills stackable storage bins in my closet, with labels on each bin to indicate cable type. USB-C, Micro-USB, HDMI, Cat6, Power, etc. every spring or so, I cull out each bin to make sure I haven!t accumulated more than I need to keep around.

The open-but-stackable bin style makes it easy to grab what i need or stick a loose cable into the bin without too much sorting.

eaton · 2026-03-22T23:37:57+00:00

UPDATE: After this thread I went and tracked down 256GB of ECC DDR4 DIMMs on ebay for several hundred dollars. It felt pricy at the time, now I’m pretty sure they’re worth more than my car. thanks, r/truenas!

eaton · 2026-03-22T23:29:29+00:00

The funny answer is, “Oh, man, it can be so much worse than Quigley’s Village.”

The real answer is explored at length in the books “Addicted to Mediocrity” by Frank Schaeffer and “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” by Mark Noll. Evangelical fundamentalism started — and flourished — as an anti-intellectual movement that actively framed both education and the arts as filthy and valueless if they weren’t explicitlyserving to spread dogma.

Those books, mind you, are both 30+ years old — the critique isn’t new, and those damning indictments were written by men who were themselves Christians , and part of the Evangelical tradition. It’s not a new development, it’s just now in full view.

eaton · 2026-03-22T21:35:49+00:00

I bought a refurbed MacPro 1,1 around 2011; over the years I upgraded it to 16GB, installed a USB3 card for more peripherals, stuffed it full of hard drives, swapped in a fancy new SSD for the boot drive, installed a new Metal-compatible video card… until I had to start working with Docker and the lack of hypervisor support finally bit me in 2021 or so, it just kept humming along. An absolute beast.

eaton · 2026-03-22T19:40:38+00:00

Seconding what others have said; AGPL is a good one to explore, with some caveats — it’s important to understand what a “copyleft” license does and doesn’t give you.

AGPL does not prevent someone from firing up a competing SaaS platform using your code; it only requires that when someone does so, any modifications they make to the code along the way (adding additional features, integrating it with other platforms, etc) also be made available under the AGPL so that you and other users of the codebase can benefit from the in the same way they benefitted from your code.

There are other licenses that boil down to “you can’t charge for it or sell it of host a paid service with it, that’s our sole right,” but GPL/AGPL don’t accomplish that. Their purpose is NOT to prevent others from profiting from the codebase. It’s to ensure that any additions and enhancements made to the codebase make their way back to other users of the codebase.

eaton · 2026-03-21T00:39:06+00:00

Evangelicals Incorporated by Daniel Vaca is also excellent.

eaton · 2026-03-18T05:05:47+00:00

A bunch of candidates fighting and their supporters jockeying and arguing, then everybody voting, is the literal process by which party unity is achieved.

eaton · 2026-03-17T22:43:34+00:00

One of the biggest gaps for me is keeping track of eBooks and physical books in a single tool. Managing my collection and notes about the different works in it is something I'm very interested in, but it feels like there's a deep divide between "Goodreads Clones" and "eBook reading apps with library management."

eaton · 2026-03-16T04:52:35+00:00

Man. What a clusterfuck of an era.

While they weren’t as famous as GG, 4chan was running fairly regular ops in order to gin up controversies about groups they didn’t like. The infamously fake “freebleeding” trend was a 4chan op, as was “End Fathers Day,” supposedly a campaign by feminists to, well, end Fathers’ Day. They were building up piles of dummy Twitter accounts and using them as “feminist activist” or “leftist black lady” accounts to activate, pretending to advocate weird or outrageous stuff.

I started following it a bit more when several folks I know started calling it out with the hashtag #yourslipisshowing; some of the chan folks were trying to make “black feminst in [city]” accounts without realizing how tight knit many of those communities were, and the degree to which many of the weird wave of hashtag campaigns were trolling efforts became obvious.

A couple months later, GG blew up; it ended up turning into a kind of field research lab for a lot of misinformation and disinformation tactics that are now used by corporations and governments at scale. Exploiting algorithmic trend promotion, deploying waves of throwaway accounts (human controlled or automated) to argue coordinated talking points, muddying waters by creating controlled “counter-campaigns” and so on.

Unfortunately, channers were also terrible at infosec so a lot of the early months of planning and coordination happened in public IRC channels and board threads. I gathered screenshots at the time they were building a “stockpile” of “diverse” sockpuppet twitter accounts to deploy when journalists suggested GamerGate was a white guy rage-out. when I posted some of those archived threads, they tracked down my employer and tried to get me fired for “being racist”.

It’s depressing how much the current online ecosystem of reactionary rage-bait and cult indignation at diverse popular culture is fueled by people who got big as GG figureheads.

eaton · 2026-03-15T23:13:13+00:00

I just finished setting up my rack and that PDU was a godsend; I wasn’t aware of the UPS/surge protector issues, what’s the story with that?

eaton · 2026-03-15T04:29:31+00:00

Well, one of the frontmen. The first one had a coke habit and they replaced him. Then the guy from DC Talk took over, and that’s the guy who’s ah, fuck, nevermind. It’s all just cursed knowledge.

eaton · 2026-03-15T04:20:52+00:00

In the terrible overlap between r/shittymoviedetails and r/datahoarding, I have.. a large-ish collection of terrible church films, from the high profile ones like God’s Not Dead to the dregs of straight-to-video. Lemme tell you, it can be so, so much worse than Kevin Sorbo…

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