Hugo Gameiro @hugo@masto.pt

Been testing IPset with the 10k IPs block list from the free tier of https://www.abuseipdb.com/ and it reduced the load on a LAMP server by close to 50%. Pretty amazing if these results are validated over time.

Have you ever used Fastmail? Any thoughts on the service that you would like to share?

For a long time that I noticed the same profile/photo registered on many Mastodon instances. Today I did a search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22reverenddaeyunkimphd%22 and there are pages and pages of results of different Mastodon instances where an account with the username reverenddaeyunkimphd (or similar) was created. The photos look real (and are not always the same) but this kind of activity is usually a result of a bot.
#WhoIsReverenddaeyunkimphd #MastodonMystery :)

f...ind bugs in my code

It blows my mind that there is no simple regex to validate email.

There are websites for the sole purpose of offering a solution, like https://emailregex.com and threads upon threads on StackOverflow and forums of debates around the topic and still each website will randomly refuse valid emails or accept non valid ones.

"...there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things." - The Tree of Life (2011)

"Andy Warhol: Somebody gave me this telephone... I think it was Edie... yeah it was Edie... and she said I could talk to God with it, but uh... I don't have anything to say... so here... this is for you... now you can talk to God." - quote from Doors movie 1991

My function naming is on point today :)

Does anyone know where I can buy a backpack just for a laptop? No extra space, just the laptop. #LazyWeb

“True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, ‘Yeah, well, of course.’ Where there’s no rational alternative... Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious” - Jony Ive

If you are a web UI designer that codes and are available to do some freelance work, please ping me.

#BoostsOK

I've been watching Transparent https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502262/ and now there is a Jesus Christ Superstar medley inside my head :)

‘Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.’ - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

Who would have guessed?!

Are you not entertained? #BTC

This website shows you videos of driving around in multiple cities while listening to local radio stations :) pretty cool https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

I really like that the Mastodon v3.3.0 modal background color changes to match the image https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/15217

It's a small change but it's pretty noticeable to me.

Mondays!

In case someone is checking for Mastodon index corruption following this tutorial https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/troubleshooting/index-corruption/
Depending on the version of amcheck you install you might need to use
'CREATE EXTENSION amcheck_next;'
instead of
'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS amcheck;'