Joe
I am Joe, a programmer, sys admin, skeptic, geek and arsehole. The former being the most relevant. I am also the creator of Pjuu :)
Cumbria, England

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  • Joe 2 weeks ago
    We're currenly in the middle of switching e-mail providers. There will be delays with all e-mails until the switch is complete.
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  • Joe 1 month ago
    I was walking the dog yesterday down by the river and looks like a family of Otters have moved in. Did get chance to get pictures but I’ll go again this evening.
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  • Joe 1 month ago
    Morning all,

    Again, I'm trying to make time to work on re-writing Pjuu in an effor to re-kidle my love for working on it.

    A lot has changed on the web since Pjuu was written. I have some questions and your feedback would be appreciated. Questions in the comments.
  • Joe 3 months ago
    Merry Christmas everyone. I'm aware it very quite these days.
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  • Joe 6 months ago
    Today is bad day for IT in the UK. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

    I don't know what this means for Pjuu at this point. The site/software is maintained by ourselves and not an entity so I'm unsure at this point.

    I never thought that the UK would become a true survelance state but it has. The book 1984 came out of this country and we've clearly learned nothing from it.
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  • Joe 9 months ago
    Sorry guys been away for a long time. Not sure if I’ve mentioned but 14 weeks ago I welcomed my first child. Elliot is his name, he doing super well
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  • Joe 11 months ago
    Hey all. If you ever have any issues with Pjuu you can now check it's status via https://updown.io/tzyi
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    I've been following the AI revolution quite carefully. As would be expected for someone who run a website that still looks like it was 10 years ago, I was skepitical. But, it's amazing! What it can conjure from the simplest inputs it uterly outstanding. I don't trust it though. But I am watching. OpenAI should go back to being Open. Linux worked well because of it's openness they should keep that in mind. Microsoft may want the opposite but that's a failing platform, Azure runs on Linux.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Afternoon everyone. I'm currently experimenting with some patterns for re-writing Pjuu. This is coming at a good time as I'm building a very large application for work where these patterns will be useful. I'll try keep people updated on progress before I'm ready to open it to the world.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Testing image upload
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Merry Christmas everyone!
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Cold one today
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Sorry again guys. I got the alert about the SSL but unfortunatley me and @ant were very far away from computers.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Well I made the wrong decision; concentrating on privacy. We we're around a few years before Mastodon and at the time privacy was my biggest concern with social networks. I didn't see how federation would solve the privacy issue but now, 10 years after I first thought of Pjuu I can assert I was incorrect. We don't solve the privacy concerns, there is nothing here that couldn't be solved by being a Fediverse node whilst still allowing us to chat with others... more in the comments.
  • Joe 1 year ago
    ☹️ I did add uptime monitoring but some reason it never pinged me about the SSL. Sorry all.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Hi everyone 👋🏼

    We're planning on moving Pjuu's hosting over the next few weeks, just letting you all know in advance that there will be some planned down time coming. We're planning on moving to AWS. The cost of hosting there when I reserve the instances is substantially lower and we're already using S3 for the CDN so hopefully uploads will be quicker.
  • Joe 1 year ago
    Sorry everyone. Unfortunatley our nginx wasn't restarted after the certificate upgrade and it went un-noticed.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    A good in depth look at the potential new UK Online Safety Bill. https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    How has everyone been? I've been really bad at checking up on the site recently. Sorry.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Well finally moved in to my new house. Have everything pretty much set up and have 4G internet which isn't to bad considering I live in the country
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Merry Christmas everyone! 😁🎄
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    How is everyone today?
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Happy #FridYaY all. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Hey everyone. Sorry been lurking for a while. How are we all? Happy #FridYAY
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Apologies for the downtime again. The hook to restart the web server when the certificate updates clearly hasn't worked. I will look in to it.
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