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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦
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angry Canadian 🇨🇦 +🖕🏻 mostly web stuff, #CanPoli + #NSPoli tech + biz generalist remote work + worker rights husband + dad settler in Nova Scotia, Canada #UX #WebDevelopment #FrontEnd #WebAccessibility #CMS #OpenSource jaygilmore.ca atworkapart.co
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Nov 12
Welcome to the new folks. Hello from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

I mostly write about and share stuff about the web (design, dev, UX, managing, open source, software).

I’ll also post and share about politics and news in Canada.

I’m a lefty: both my writing hand and my politics.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 3d
Here's the latest post on the MODX blog: Find that Placeholder Part IV Check it out! https://modx.com/blog/find-that-placeholder-part-iv
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 7d
I'm sure they could care less about the artist's feelings on the matter.

That said, artists should check the name use before putting out records.

I've emailed and DMd the artist's Insta with the info.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 7d
I suppose and it's not a massively original name, but one is a signed artist with a major label and the other is some rando. Typically, the (larger) labels try to protect the artists names just from the perspecitive of protecting their investment in that artist. 1/2
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 7d
Does anyone know if there's a way to report an error to Apple Music? There's some rando band using the same artist name as the Australian, EMI recording artist, Olympia, with their new rather mid album plonked onto her Apple Music profile. I was excited she might have dropped a new album but nope.
Screenshot of the Apple Music artist page for Olympia. The profile photo shows a black-and-white portrait of a woman with short blond hair. The page title says “Olympia,” but the latest release displayed is Me Estoy Volviendo Loco – Single by unrelated artists. The albums listed—Walt Returns and Flamingo—and top songs such as Goodnight Fabian and Honeymoon Fever suggest that music from a different band named Olympia has been added to this artist’s profile by mistake.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 10d
The nice thing about Better Stack is they are PAYG for most of their features. So, you aren’t forced into massive feature-gated tiers; you pay for what you want to use. I don’t always like this kind of pricing mode. Here, it’s working well for us to use the tools we need and have a budget for.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 10d
The current scale and team is tiny-ish and ambitious. ;)
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 10d
Defining “reality” is the strategy the republicans and fascistic right wing parties use with great effect. Even if nobody believes them it diminishes the truth and allows fictional narratives to justify actions and manufacture consent.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 10d
Yep. Still around. Still massively flexible. I’ve been working there since 2009 and using MODX for 19 years.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 10d
Here's the latest post on the MODX blog: Find that Placeholder Part III Check it out! https://modx.com/blog/find-that-placeholder-part-iii
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 11d
Simple is better for most. Returns diminish fast and there’s a pretty high risk of static and created with such observability. If there are specific nodes in a system that are prone to reliability issues, I’d just find ways to monitor and add more error state or latency handling at each end.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 11d
Better Stack and StatusCake are good for front end monitoring. We’ve used Data Dog and now use Grafana OS with Prometheus and Loki/VictoriaLogs for our servers. Log aggregation and querying is nice to have for web sites. I think the allure is there to have infinitesimal observability.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 15d
Related, Facebook, Insta etc putting the fucking ads on reels where their own gen'd captions show up. This might actually be a situation where the ads would be better up top since most of the action almost always in the bottom half of the frame. Optionally, the gen'd captions could be at the top.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 15d
Am I not the only person who reads text on their devices at the very top of the screen and scroll the text into my eyeline? Why to designers and site owners insist on polluting the top of the screen to ads (esp. those fucking videos) that show up out of nowhere to shadow effects that blur text?
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 17d
Here's the latest post on the MODX blog: Find that Placeholder Part II Check it out! https://modx.com/blog/find-that-placeholder-part-ii
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · 24d
Here's the latest post on the MODX blog: Find that Placeholder Part I Check it out! https://modx.com/blog/find-that-placeholder-part-i
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Oct 1
Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 30
Here's the latest post on the MODX blog: Rearranging MODX Main Menu Items Check it out! https://modx.com/blog/rearranging-modx-main-menu-items
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 27
I’ve had scintillating scotoma episodes on and off most of my adult life. But it’s good to get it checked out if this is new to you.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
Ultimately it’s about supporting the mission of the business. So, that definitely includes LLMs and search engine ranks, however often people lose site of the purpose and instead of writing better content they try to optimize sub-par content endlessly.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
The language governments have used in recent decades has been to soften the blow for privatization and profit taking. Services don’t lose money, they are investments in outcomes.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
Do you know what will happen when CPC is privatized? Rates will go up and more workers will be exploited in sub-wage jobs. It should never have been a corporation and been a service like the military or Parks Canada. They aren’t profit centres and don’t need an ROI.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
Save for the fact that most LLM scrapers are so aggressive at scanning websites they can crush the servers and continue to do it over and over again.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
I do not like site owners to have to make design decisions either. I prefer the have constraints with extras such as pre-defined design patterns that work in pre-design ways for certain contexts and content types.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
Fair. MODX is more of a content management framework with a CMS UI that can also be tailored the the project. It does require a web dev (mostly front-end) to build out the site and then it's mostly to the client to fill out fields or drop in custom, pre-configured design/content components.
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Jay Gilmore 🇨🇦 @jaygilmore.ca · Sep 26
I'm rather biased since I work at MODX, the company behind MODX Revolution CMS and MODX Cloud. I do keep an eye on other modern CMS and content delivery systems. Lots of cool stuff if you can ignore the FOTW stuff coming out of the JS world.
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