I've posted it a little early because I'm excited but here is my reading and analysis of RFC-1, the very first official Request for Comments document and an important piece of internet history.

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1

I'm doing one of these a day for a year. You can follow along at @365-rfcs. I'll only be posting the really noteworthy ones on this account.

A while back I built a site that converts RSS feeds to ActivityPub actors that you can subscribe to from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compliant social networks: https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

I've now also published the source code: https://github.com/dariusk/activtypub-to-rss

Yesterday I spent two hours debugging a program only to realize I wasn't actually... running the most critical part of the code. My program was basically:

important function:
set everything up to do the thing
now we are going do the thing
[literally just don't even have the code in here for doing the thing]
yay we did the the thing

Turns out it doesn't matter how good your code is if you don't execute it

One of my favorite ways to write a computer program is to write in plain english outline form what it's going to do, paste those notes into my code as comments, and then fill in the space in between them. Especially good for a project where I'm working piecemeal over multiple days, it's very easy to come back and pick up where I left off.

I spend a lot of time on the quiet study floors of libraries and my working theory is: queer people try their hardest to respect the quiet floor rules and straight people just make a lot of noise and don't care

RFC-15 is an important one: it's the initial proposal for Telnet! The first version of this program was written in late 1969 and it's a tool that I still occasionally use today, which is really amazing when you think about it.

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-15

You can follow along with my series commenting on the first 365 RFCs here @365-rfcs

Some really wonderful women who I've had the privilege of working with are interviewed in the New York Times. They run a group called https://www.zebrasunite.com/ and it's about eschewing the venture capital grow-or-die model of running a business. While I'm more about worked-owned coops, I think "the dazzle" (as they call themselves, aka a group of zebras) does valuable work.

Their podcast (which I produced): https://zebracast.libsyn.com/
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/technology/start-ups-rejecting-venture-capital.html

I should learn Perl so I can have a file called "stately.pl" which just outputs one of those two strings at random

stately pl

1) easure dome decree
2) ump Buck Mulligan

YOU DECIDE

It is 6:15pm on a Saturday. I just woke up from an hour-long nap. I'm making dinner. After dinner, should I

1) leave the house and idk, go play pinball at a bar
2) play more Dragon Quest XI, a game that I don't love but I definitely like