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My post on A List Apart is up!

Drank Venti Java Chip Frappuccino® Blended Coffee with Whipped Cream and Mocha Drizzle (Starbucks Coffee Company)

Ingredients

Ice, Milk, Coffee Frappuccino Syrup [Sugar, Water, Salt, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Xanthan Gum, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid], Whipped Cream [Cream (Cream, Milk, Mono And Diglycerides, Carrageenan), Vanilla Syrup (Sugar, Water, Natural Flavors, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid)], Mocha Sauce [Water, Sugar, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Vanillin], Frappuccino Chips [Confectionery Coating (Sugar, Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Soy Lecithin, Vanilla, Milk), Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Cookie Crumbs (Unbleached Unenriched Wheat Flour, Sugar, Palm And Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Chocolate Mass, Salt, Baking Soda, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Chocolate Mass (2%), And Salt].

🎧 This Week in Google 459 Status Update: Terror | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 459 Status Update: Terror by Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Joan Donovan from TWiT.tv
Internet Trends, Algorithmic Idiocy
  • Analyzing Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report
  • FBI wants US citizens to reset their routers
  • California gets halfway to Net Neutrality
  • Chrome 67 brings PWAs to life
  • Are location-targetted ads too creepy?
  • Stacey Higginbotham explains why you shouldn't panic about the security flaw in Z-Wave.
Tips and Pics:
  • Joan's Pick: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
  • Stacey's Things: Jabra 65t headphones with Alexa, Wyze Cam Pan

👓 This Bot Tweets Photos and Names of People Who Bought 'Drugs' on Venmo | Motherboard | Vice

Read This Bot Tweets Photos and Names of People Who Bought 'Drugs' on Venmo (Motherboard)
Venmo transaction data is public by default. But a programmer has taken that data stream and is tweeting the username and photos of users who buy 'drugs'.

👓 New York Times, NBC, and ‘60 Minutes’ Bigwigs Hired These Media Assassins to Fight #MeToo Stories | The Daily Beast

Read New York Times, NBC, and ‘60 Minutes’ Bigwigs Hired These Media Assassins to Fight #MeToo Stories (The Daily Beast)
Clare Locke boasts about ‘killing stories’ and some of America’s most prominent journalists have worked with them.

👓 A Democratic Blue Wave? Don’t Forget the Republicans’ Big Hill | New York Times

Read A Democratic Blue Wave? Don’t Forget the Republicans’ Big Hill by Nate Cohn (nytimes.com)
One seems like an unstoppable force, but a G.O.P. structural advantage may represent an immovable object.

Reply to Aaron Davis about images in h-cards

Replied to a post by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)
@chrisaldrich did you document anywhere how to change the default image associated with posts? At the moment it is using my profile pic, which does not work. Also on: Twitter
Associated how? In the webmentions you send? Typically the receiving site will parse your page to find the h-card and pull out the u-photo for it, so depending on your theme or a custom marked up h-card, that will dictate the photo that shows up.

I have been noticing some issues recently with a lot of photos not showing up in webmentions I receive. Typically they’re for WordPress or micro.blog sites which may mean issues for Gravatar-based images.

If you want to fix them manually, a recent update allows this.

Following Mark Stanley Everitt

Followed Mark Stanley Everitt (Qubyte Codes)

Mark Stanley Everitt headshot Welcome to qubyte.codes! The personal site of Mark Stanley Everitt.

I'm a programmer specialising in JavaScript, living and working in Brighton, UK. This blog is a place for me to write about stuff I find interesting or useful. Probably JavaScript for the most part, but certainly not limited to it. By day I spend most of my programming time writing Node.js applications, with a little browser stuff when I can.

I'm also interested in the social side and ethics of software development. I'm a regular mentor at Codebar in Brighton.

I lived and worked in Tokyo for a number of years, initially as an academic (I hold a PhD in quantum optics and quantum information), and later as a programmer. I speak a little Japanese.

If you have and questions of comments, tweet to me @qubyte or toot to me at @qubyte@mastodon.social .

If you're interested in code I've published, I'm qubyte on GitHub.

A blogger/coder who was into quantum mechanics, information theory, supports webmentions, and speaks some Japanese? How could I not follow?!
I wanted to take a moment to say a very special thank you to Dougal MacPherson who drew the spectacular cartoon header for my article that appeared in A List Apart today.

The sketch is full of whimsy and has an entertaining yet subversive subtext that so wonderfully underlines the piece. I couldn’t have asked for more creative and apropos analogy much less a piece of artwork.

I’ll also give an exuberant thank you to my fantastic editor Nick Tucker who stuck with me through thick, think, time zone differences, and head colds for each of us to finally get the piece across the finish line. I’ll send him my apologies again for the flabbiness of the original draft which should have had one more go-round before he bothered to read it. But in the end it’s far better for his care and attention.

And finally, a special thanks and a big shout out to the brilliance, creativity, and tenacity of all those (big and small) in the IndieWeb community who so heavily influenced not on the piece, but my life in general. You’re all making the web and the world a better place for the care you put into your work (and play).

Thanks again Dougal, Nick, and IndieWeb!