RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/117269683329073879

Woohoo, my first couple #openstreetMap edits made it onto CoMaps! 🥳

Can't recommend enough, if you're into taking pictures of things, to print them off and give them to people. Seriously, it's awesome.

If you send somebody a jpeg, you'll get a thumbs up react.

If you hand them a physical photo they can hold and touch you actually get a real reaction, a real smile, and something they can put in an album or stick to their fridge.

It's the most special with film prints, but any old jpeg will do. People love physical media, it's that simple!

#physicalmedia #photography

I know it really isn't that much, but it's crazy to me that over 30,000 people read my silly little rant a few weeks ago about building your own router out of trash. That's like a whole town worth of people! Imagine standing in front of 30K people and shitposting about #linux, I would actually die lmao

hey look, it's me!

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/anything-can-be-a-router-if-you-try-hard-enough/

Do you hate getting blinded by obnoxious high beams on big trucks and SUVs? Tell Transport Canada!

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

#canada #transport #driving #cars #transportcanada #highbeams #ontario

Pour one out for Canada's greatest groundhog, Wiarton Willie. Passed on a lovely warm spring day. 🙏

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/south-bruce-peninsula-announces-death-of-wiarton-willie/

#wiartonwillie #wiartonwilliesdeath #ripwiartonwillie #ontario #canada

Something hilarious about the web is that every single HTTP request has a decades-old spelling mistake in it that will probably never be fixed!

https://nbailey.ca/post/spelling-error/

#blog #blogpost #smallweb #http #web #webdev #internethistory #internet #tech #technology #sysadmin

It's comically difficult to run cronjobs on Kubernetes... Especially the kind of "restart a service daily" type of jobs we tend to run as a quick fix for a misbehaving service. If you're not familiar with the patterns in k8s it seems insurmountable, so I wrote up a quick guide...

https://nbailey.ca/post/restart-pods-everyday/

#kubernetes #k8s #blog #blogpost #tech #technology #sysadmin #devops #software #smallweb #webdev #selfhosting

#kubernetes is cool, but you know what’s even cooler? Doing all the same things but with thousands of lines of obscure shell commands wrapping iptables and docker-compose because you’re dug in and refuse to learn new things

"Time travel? Or, just clever technology"

A project I've been working on has been trying to solve one of the most difficult problems with sending audio/video over the web - the stubborn latency of the routers and exchanges, and the speeds of sound & light itself.

https://www.syncdna.com/blog/time-travel-or-just-clever-tech

#music #studio #protools #audioengineering #recording #musicrecording #proaudio #audio #remotecollaboration #musictechnology #timetravel #blog #blogpost

A few months ago, I bought one of those weird little mini-PC things from Aliexpress. It's surprisingly good, but just a tad too small. Took a bit of tweaking with udev to get everything working right, but it's pretty good now!

That being said, I still think the sweet spot is ~12" like my antique ThinkPad X201.

https://nbailey.ca/post/p8/

#blog #minipc #minipcs #debian #linux #badcomputer #hack #sysadmin #blogpost

No other country is as serious about stop signs as #canada

The real takeaway is that compression is dishonest and untrustworthy. Remove xz-utils and bz2. Uninstall tar. Fill your network port with hot glue. #xz

aaaaaaaaGGGGGGGGGGGGGG #cats #caturday

Those goofy lookin powdered wigs? Trim them into a gen-Z broccoli haircut. The silly robes? Tighten them up and give them a more “streetwear” look. That’s how you make a Supreme Court.

A squirrel just left a big walnut on the outside windowsill, and now my cat is absolutely furious. #caturday