In California we did the opposite. I used my wildfire N95 when COVID started…

I signed for a storage unit this week, and they require me to use an app to access the unit. Of course their servers were down when I first tried using the app. 🤦

Feel free to create a community for Ableton there, or if you don’t want to moderate it I’m happy to create it as well!

I launched lemmy.studio today, with the intent of hosting some music communities (music production, genres, different media, DAWs, etc.).

I work on Apache Superset for my day job, it’s a BI tool for data exploration and visualization. It’s a big project with 100+ committers, so a lot of the challenges are about managing people and communicating effectively.

DJ is a “metrics platform that allows users to define metrics and the data models behind them using SQL, serving as a semantic layer on top of a physical data warehouse.” The project is still in its infancy but growing fast.

My favorite project is shillelagh, a Python library that lets you query APIs using SQL, eg:

SELECT *
FROM "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=0"

That was such an amazing read! Thanks for sharing that!

I’ve seen those before!

I’m from Brazil, so we didn’t have anything back then… commercial providers only started in 1996, so even if you wanted to use the internet you couldn’t. Only universities had very limited access, and later some companies with ties to the government.

So many great memories!

I remember daydreaming about the day everyone would have an email address! It seemed so fat-fetched, the concept of meeting someone and exchanging email addresses. I had dial up for many years, and I also dreamed about having a permanent connection. I would think, “Imagine, you receive an email and you get notified in real time that it arrived! No need to dial up and fetch emails via POP3!”

In 1999 my parents got a dedicated connection via cable, so I set up a Linux server on their house. Back then the computer would get a real, unfiltered, IP address, so I started running my own email service. 24 years later and I still have the same domain and run my own mail service, though on the cloud these days.

A couple years ago there was a post going on Gemini asking How you were using the Internet in the 1991-1995 and 1995-2005? (sic), the replies are super interesting.

Back in 1995, my first night using the internet. I remember visiting websites by guessing their URL, since there were no search engines and I didn’t know of Yahoo! yet.

I visited the Louvre (louvre.fr was an easy guess), and was amazed by all the photos of art that I could see! I also visited NASA (nasa.gov) and saw some satellite images, something that blew my mind.

It was a new world opening to me. I stayed awake til late, mesmerized by all the internet could offer. In those first years of using the internet I remember some nights that I would log off early because “there was nothing else to see”.

You’re right! Dried beans, I’ll edit the comment, thanks!

Black beans on the crock pot:

• 454g of dry black beans
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 4 bay leaves (big)
• 1 piece of dried kombu
• 2 carrots, sliced

Add everything to the crock pot, with 6 cups of water. Cook for 5 hours on high. Once it’s done, add 2 teaspoons of salt and mix well.

I make this every Sunday, and eat throughout the week with fresh rice, salad, nuts, and some protein (tofu or soy in my case). It’s delicious and nutritious.