Austin Godber @godber@az.social

crazy story time: in the early days of MetaFilter I allowed HTML in comments and someone exploited it. Back then I filtered out a list of "banned tags" but @lhl had a better idea: filter all html & only allow a "safe" list back in. He wrote the code, then rewrote it in PHP and it got baked into the b2 blogging system.

So now whenever anyone edits any post in Wordpress, the content gets checked and bad stuff filtered out because some asshole made a MetaFilter post with 88px purple fonts in 2001.

The sweetest giraffe in the Calgary zoo was on HBO last night. #TLOU

I went to IKEA wearing a jacket with some yellow and blue and it took just one person asking me where the mirrors were before I had a small line of people asking me questions

I did pretty good overall!! But when I hit the first stumper I just said “hey sorry I just started here” and they understood but why did I say that

Design and dev twitter migrating to totally separate platforms is a little on the nose.

Wind gusts have gusted over 100 mph in the California Mountains this AM. #weather #cawx

Live Blog: https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/live-news/california-storm-atmospheric-river-flooding-threats/1495255

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes #VisionScience #CognitivePsychology #CognitiveScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #StupidMemes #ThanksForPointingOutHashtagsInComments

Few people have heard of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), yet her dissertation was hailed as “the most brilliant PHD thesis ever written in astronomy.” She discovered what stars are made of.
Whenever we look up at the stars twinkling in the night sky, let’s remember that very exceptional woman who gave us the knowledge of the true constitution of our universe.
#IWD2023 #Women #Science #Stars #Hydrogen #Helium
https://kentbylines.co.uk/the-woman-who-discovered-what-stars-are-made-of/

The mountains behind Ojai looking beautiful.

#mountains #nature #NaturePhotography #OptOutside #outdoors #outside #California #exploring #wandering

@godber Beautiful picture! Have you befriended him?

@acegopher maybe, he keeps showing up

#moab #birds

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Really cool sunset snow squall headed into western Weld County Colorado about 20 minutes ago @BianchiWeather