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Shopware 6: "Log the old and new value when this field changes" sounds simple until you write it — a second query, race conditions, deleted rows with no old value left to fetch. Shopware computes the diff inside the write transaction itself. One footnote in the docs, and that's it.

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

The Facebook Fake-out
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Very nice write-up about #BeOS, it’s history and specialities, and how you can now run it in your browser.
https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html

Infinite Mac: BeOS

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117529823729259748
With every passing day I become increasingly emboldened that it is not only “not radical” but in fact “the only right choice” to only ever run software you yourself write, and to never connect…

I’m voting for Elizabeth Kurtz, a write-in candidate, for Ann Arbor mayor.
Lit has experienced grinding housing insecurity first-hand and still faces many of its challenges. I know she has no chance of winning, but I want to take a stand on poverty and homelessness, which lie just below the surface in this rich town of ours.
Her DSA opponent, who has lived a life of privilege from birth, instead caters to wealthy boomers in “the neighborhoods.”
Go, Lit! Make some waves!…

Hey all
Finally, I think we landed on a great design with handling both reference (and seed) data in retrofit.
This week we demo managing reference data as part of the schema. Reference data is the data that apps only read, and never write, like zip codes and states. This includes data that might change slowly over time, like an order status label, or even currencies.
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Manage PostgreSQL reference data with the schema · retrofit
Capture a PostgreSQL lookup table's rows from pg_dump into a data file pinned to the operation log, retire the .sql side file that held them, rename the table and its column, and see a hand edit to the witnessed data file fail validation.

TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $1.4B, Mexico revenue up 51% driven by the FIFA World Cup, US down 24%, and subscription and licensing up 30% (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TelevisaUnivision Quarterly U.S. Ad Revenue Falls 24 Percent, But World Cup Boosts Mexico Results
The Spanish-language media giant also posts record streaming revenue and a non-cash impairment loss of $372 million "related to the write-down of television broadcast licenses."

I just went to medium just to see what I wrote about before and saw "play games" next to write button. That seems weird. Why would you put a distraction button next to write button??

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/117374224367620570
Vote here for the kinks you want me to write for Kinktober:
https://eroticmythology.com/poll-kinktober-2026/

✅ Every batch is verified on both sides of the write, and durable checkpoints only advance after successful work, so runs can safely pause and resume
🧩 Sources, sinks, state storage and event transport are replaceable interfaces. Run it as a service with API and #React web UI, deploy it on your own infrastructure, or embed the engine in a Go application

I have a Withings scale with full permissions to Apple Health (read/write). I weigh myself regularly. In the health app on my iPhone, weights stop at September of this year. On my iPad, November of last year.
Wut

Laura Watts mourns for science studies that could have been, and yes: writing standards need a revision if we want to have meaningful writing after #AI.
"Mechanical Turk Science Studies?
https://4sonline.org/news_manag…

The French government has been building out a collection of open source apps for use by their public servants called LaSuite
I have a test install running using atproto accounts for login. Check out my write up, and apply if you’d like to help test it https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3mvtex2j…

Increasingly of the belief that "can write to disk at all" is an unacceptable risk for a webapp. Whether session tokens or file uploads or body buffers or whatever. Leave all of that to a database or blob store or reverse proxy. Ideally, run the webapp in a container with a readonly filesystem.
#HotTake #LocalFileInclusion

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Disney managed to somehow write Dr. Demento into the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline.

I dig #cloudflare #workers. It took me too long to use them but finally got a chance to deploy something out there that needs public access. I have to say I dig it. Perfect for simple use cases and sites, you can even have read/write KV store behind it with a generous free tier.

Shopware 6: Moving your cart storage to Redis is standard advice for a busy shop — but the docs never answer the question that actually matters: what happens to the carts that exist right now? There's a built-in command for exactly this, in both directions.
http://

I'm now in the habit of telling Claude Code "goodbye" before I pull the plug on its brain. Partly to be polite but also to give it one last chance to write out any memories or pending work.

AI Is Already 'Amplifying the Destruction' of War https://www.404media.co/ai-is-already-amplifying-the-destruction-of-war/

Powerful message from the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church on the proposed public aspect of the Hasan execution.
https://www.unitedmethodistbishops.org/newsdetail/cob-condemns-plan-for-livestreamed-execution-20034471<…

UMC Bishops condemn proposed plan for livestreamed execution
We write about an event in one nation because it holds up a mirror to all of us. Every society, on every continent where our church lives, is tempted to answer violence with spectacle, to bless national power with the name of God, and to make a whole people pay for the crime of one. What is happening in the United States is a local test of a global faithfulness.

#WritersCoffeeClub 9. How does your own sense of mortality influence what you write?
I am writing the human condition, strictly from my POV. Life is finite, this ride is going to end one day? Absolutely a part of the story.
Death, as grim as it is, has a presence. I am, after all, not immortal. No need to pretend otherwise.
But I don't see any reason to spend my ti…

Wrote a blog post about a paper I helped write that just got published. https://adrianco.medium.com/when-agents-decide-60ac6d59bdfe

AI. I’m not a die-hard fan, and I’m not against it either. My feeling is that, used wisely, it can bring real benefits. For example, I use Day One for journaling. I am finding that the AI creator in there is very useful as I can talk or write to it as I go along through the day, and I miss less.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117513411386061122
This is a part of why I wandered away from webdev.
Not that I ever really did any significant work with “frameworks” beyond filing off rough points in existing sites but that experience and having clients really wanting all the possible info they can get about users soured me on it. LONG ago.
I still write my own site’s HTML by hand, when I touch it. No JS. Very early-90s.

#WritersCoffeeClub 10. Do you have a guiding principle as a writer? What is it? (Or why not?)
I don't think I've consciously formulated a guiding principle, but looking at how I write, perhaps it's this: trust the reader.
I don't want to explain everything, tell people what to feel, or insist they interpret a character the way I do. And if I can make them laugh …

@… Hiya. I've been trying to get in touch with Robert Atkey for several weeks now, and I'm not getting responses. This is for a CACM Research Highlights article that he promised to write. Do you mind pinging him for me? Much appreciated!

Ok, this is wild; built by @ftrain - LittleTinyOffice, a web office suite that stores the document in the actual URL, no server required.
i’m still just initially looking into it but this is just kind of insane (laudatory)
https://tinylittleoffice.com/?c=hgmcggn#/v1/write/yXZZLbtNQFIbnXoVRJhAZp21gkgkqQkiRKlXQTkAM6sROuNSxg~008iyLYIIEm8tK~P5zbTdBaiPZvo_z~B9H_~dnX168vpzeX13Mpm~_2ucRzINSN654DOe1f_jQC_cQuzL5WVk~wXxlBM3L8lEcFFFz7RZzTQd63Y9EVBEI~Eg0ZuHD96bZ1rPJBMtoc9dwNvgGQzHon4wewo8wqNxDd9icl~yD83nWoO51TGxId_9oqpIYa_Cimi1PvFWD2XIWRvyNXt3idgS6zxaRvhbrTq7Y39vH8fBndDz8tYMLnBVDUQ0QHu2U8WWVggDrZYGE5g4JhPWmcwt8gCWxoYK6VTghZbvzm_dyC8UkXyBUV88CwegLdVzmDn1KpWi2RLXUNQQ3Hudlkkr8OGNwUziVjMfcTGSndx8Pv6Su1Dx1aXE8_O6MxuSbtSiiSbdr4uDK7h62IqQKwXfQqlQ7iMu~exp1Y4269Y0iKMXG8aogbg_aYjA9tdLwVS_CKiksxLMAIxN44tOigmoCS3uVuhrXbLOUPZYqGXZN0ePQGJZuE_JWBWUBfQFqMJ4VcfAmRiz2hs46M8Mfqvbi_8bYdxJcOznyp8~WyDtfd_OyUwSFc3uZ5BhL4tHeweJ5yTXR6WY5mytI11phXTpbiGR4lvGn9lgGy3ILqgTc0yMNHolvJZpQrH1OJZ7iUfKefvd3ZqmuwxOJo0ZA_FoNGLY2QHjIQiuxMYrfRvbLZOeeEAh6GHbMtmmlj4I4sVpBYgCLTLhYlmsUp2RwSTNRCsMfbt14oBlLLL2VBtYUNhf9dcpHnsxNd9hlkndn4Nn9DAoYr~fhgqHBxg6i1viqwqNoVms63~xWK8tNpcD5Fb_NWCJwK7c9Ww__0joi1R~afp7LpBJFulEPHRjCl5yBnCh9rAOSVq88hAlSJ1vVqwRNcmhdP5o6zw0NOzVDkhDe2oRpnUcQugUZJRLAy4Z5qA2zLXXjtNzD3FfJQnKbza6x1O3LboFg~DgEYDuLCcZzIQ7~AQ

My other takeaway from #NextFest is that I'd personally like it if fewer stories were told via a 'roguelike deckbuilder'.
I mainly play games for the stories.
I like card games (esp. Netrunner, FABTCG) & I enjoy deckbuilding but I want to play against real humans, not video game AIs.
Real humans chat with you after the game, write up meme-y explanations of their decks, count how non-men entered the (Netrunner) tournament etc ... video game AIs don't
#CardGames

At 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech

Do people who use the phrase “very true” not write code?
There’s true and there’s false. There’s 1 and there’s zero.
It’s not like something is “very 1”.

Clicking on hashtags now doesn't work either. Let me get back to the previous UI somehow!
PS: Also this happened (see screenshot) while trying to write this rant.
#mastodon #mastodonui #rant

The wild story of CARBOLIQ's recycling technology: I recently wrote a brief LinkedIn post about Carboliq, a chemical recycling company with a promising looking technology that is facing bankruptcy. I got a number of reactions to that post, and thought "I should write something quick for my newsletter".
Whenever I think I should "write something quick", things start to escalate.
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/a-promising-plastic-recycling-company-facing-bankruptcy.html
🧵

P.S. That was my pessimistic side. I also have an optimistic side, but this toot has not enough room for it. 🤓
Maybe I should write it all down for a blog post or talk at some point...
Thanks to @… for sharing the Tsimerman link in the first place.... but I dislike the X-FOMO that it generated.

I realized that one of the things I loathe most about some corners of the internet culture is that people will press _their schema_ for the world onto you and expect you to conform to it.
Habitually resisting this is one of the major reasons a lot of marketing and advertising works poorly on me. It is a reason a lot of scams don't work on me. And it's a reason that when I write marketing copy for a product I'm working on, it tends to be more or less "Ship it" on the first try and everyone is surprised at my idea. I'm not coming with the implied frame almost everyone else does.
It's got downsides in that sometimes I find myself unaligned with the people around me, but that part usually works out.

Ok, this is wild; built by @ftrain - LittleTinyOffice, a web office suite that stores the document in the actual URL, no server required.
i’m still just initially looking into it but this is just kind of insane (laudatory)
https://tinylittleoffice.com/?c=hgmcggn#/v1/write/yXZZLbtNQFIbnXoVRJhAZp21gkgkqQkiRKlXQTkAM6sROuNSxg~008iyLYIIEm8tK~P5zbTdBaiPZvo_z~B9H_~dnX168vpzeX13Mpm~_2ucRzINSN654DOe1f_jQC_cQuzL5WVk~wXxlBM3L8lEcFFFz7RZzTQd63Y9EVBEI~Eg0ZuHD96bZ1rPJBMtoc9dwNvgGQzHon4wewo8wqNxDd9icl~yD83nWoO51TGxId_9oqpIYa_Cimi1PvFWD2XIWRvyNXt3idgS6zxaRvhbrTq7Y39vH8fBndDz8tYMLnBVDUQ0QHu2U8WWVggDrZYGE5g4JhPWmcwt8gCWxoYK6VTghZbvzm_dyC8UkXyBUV88CwegLdVzmDn1KpWi2RLXUNQQ3Hudlkkr8OGNwUziVjMfcTGSndx8Pv6Su1Dx1aXE8_O6MxuSbtSiiSbdr4uDK7h62IqQKwXfQqlQ7iMu~exp1Y4269Y0iKMXG8aogbg_aYjA9tdLwVS_CKiksxLMAIxN44tOigmoCS3uVuhrXbLOUPZYqGXZN0ePQGJZuE_JWBWUBfQFqMJ4VcfAmRiz2hs46M8Mfqvbi_8bYdxJcOznyp8~WyDtfd_OyUwSFc3uZ5BhL4tHeweJ5yTXR6WY5mytI11phXTpbiGR4lvGn9lgGy3ILqgTc0yMNHolvJZpQrH1OJZ7iUfKefvd3ZqmuwxOJo0ZA_FoNGLY2QHjIQiuxMYrfRvbLZOeeEAh6GHbMtmmlj4I4sVpBYgCLTLhYlmsUp2RwSTNRCsMfbt14oBlLLL2VBtYUNhf9dcpHnsxNd9hlkndn4Nn9DAoYr~fhgqHBxg6i1viqwqNoVms63~xWK8tNpcD5Fb_NWCJwK7c9Ww__0joi1R~afp7LpBJFulEPHRjCl5yBnCh9rAOSVq88hAlSJ1vVqwRNcmhdP5o6zw0NOzVDkhDe2oRpnUcQugUZJRLAy4Z5qA2zLXXjtNzD3FfJQnKbza6x1O3LboFg~DgEYDuLCcZzIQ7~AQ

An excellent exemplar of objectively terrible research that can only be explained by completely irrational levels of LLM hype:
#AI #LLMs

I've been doing my new projects with two AI agents: one to write the program, one to build a server to host it. And I've been relaying commands back and forth between the two. I just realized I could have one Claude Code session manage the other for me. I'm delighted to find it knows all about doing that and has a messaging system for the two to talk to each other.
I spent my graduate career in the 1990s working on multi-agent systems. I never imagined anything like this actually working. The language capabilities of LLM have unlocked so many possibilities.

I wish i could write like Timothy Snyder, read his blog.
Trump’s Big Lie about Ukraine.
#Ukraine #NATO #Trump #Europe #Geopolitics #timothysnyder

Arguably the main purpose of the new Steam Machine really is to be the screen and keyboard on the treadmil desk.
Finally, that thing isn't running of the portable games console, and is capable of doing actual work.
Haven't spent much time with Arch or KDE before, let alone this SteamOS variant in particular.
Weird and funny that's it's username is 'deck' and it's hostname is 'steamdeck'
Half an hour at a potentially-keep-it-up-all-day sedate pace.
The work I got done is entirely just configuring this machine though 😆
Here's the bash script I now have which I can copy to a new steam machine, and maybe any Arch / KDE machine, to install Vim and set up keyboard shortcuts so you can move the windows around with ctrl-alt-J and the keys around that on the keyboard. Nine shortcuts for nine sides/corners/center.
#arch #kde #steamos #steamMachine