In the endIt didn’t matterThat their kids got many other required vaccines for school
It didn’t matterThat their jobs required annual flu shots
It didn’t matterThat unvaxxed people they knew died
It didn’t matter,Their lords said this vaccine was bad
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Jan 05
Poem: In the end, it didn’t matter
Jan 04
The Best Return To Work After Vacation Ever
Yesterday was my first day back at work after 10 days away on vacation where I did not check work email or Slack. I approached it with the usual perspective of “Ugh! How many messages will I have to wade through!” Quite often it can take a day or a couple of days to get caught up.. and sometimes you can feel like you need a vacation from taking a vacation! 😀 I have a whole regular “return from vacation" routine down. The first thing I do is copy my entire email inbox to a mail folder so that my…
Jan 03
Finding the Toolchain to Consistently Create Content
If one of my aspirations for this year is to consistently create content, one of my personal challenges is to figure out HOW to easily do that. Ideally, creating content on my own sites should be as easy as sending out a tweet, posting a message to Facebook or Mastodon, or posting an image to Instagram. And therein lies my challenge. I’d like to make it so that I could just post from my mobile phone or iPad, so that whenever I have a story idea I want to write I can just post something easily. And, I can also…
Jan 02
"Is It true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?" would be a good filter for posting to social media
When my wife and I were raising our daughters, there came a point when we tried to impress upon them that just because something was true didn’t mean you needed to SAY that right then. Yes, Dad might have dark circles under his eyes and look terrible because he was up all night sick, but does he really need to hear “you look terrible” right at this exact moment in time? That may be true, but did he need to hear it? At some point we started suggesting running comments though a filter of three questions: Is it TRUE? Is…
Jan 01
TDYR 410 – My Themes for 2022
For the 13th year, I started my first episode of 2022 talking about the “themes” I see myself weaving into my life over the next 12 months. This episode is a companion to this blog post that goes into more written detail: https://www.danyork.com/2022/0…
Jan 01
My Themes for 2022
Following my pattern of the past 13 years (see list), my first post of 2022 across all my sites is of three words that are my aspirations or “themes” for the year ahead. They are not “resolutions” so much as guiding thoughts or principles. In so many ways 2021 was a good bit of a “dumpster fire” of a year. We started off with such great hope that the pandemic would be under control … and ended with even higher case counts and more deaths that we’d had the previous year. It often does truly feel like the 672nd day…
Oct 19
Want to Help Guide the Future of the MANRS Routing Security Initiative? (Featured Blog)
Would you like to help guide the future of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative? As the MANRS community continues to develop new efforts to make the routing layer of the Internet more secure (ex. the equipment vendor progra…
May 06
TDYR 409 – Twitter Spaces now open to most users on IOS/Android – and a pipeline of new features
Twitter Spaces is now available to everyone on iOS and Android with more than 600 followers. In this episode, I talk about all the changes Twitter has made to Spaces since episode 406 back in February, and all the features they have said are coming soo…
May 05
TDYR 408 – What are Wikipedia Talk pages? How do they work?
If you go to the top of a Wikipedia article, there is a “Talk” tab in the upper left that brings you to the “Talk page” for an article. What is this Talk page for? How is it used? What happens on that page? In this episode, I talk about the role of Tal…
Apr 01
TDYR 407 – More Social Audio from Discord, Spotify, Telegram, and… LinkedIn?
As Clubhouse turns 1, every other service seems to want to have their own rival version. On the last show 406 I talked about Twitter Spaces, which has continued to evolve and improve. Facebook has indicated they are building their own… and in this epis…
