Building VaccinateCA, a website developed by volunteers to make vaccination information widely available.
It's a long read, but it explores a bunch of larger policy / organisational challenges they encountered in the public sector.
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/
miniblog.
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Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI.
I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?
Interesting data from JetBrains on the most common rust compiler errors people encounter:
Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen
(On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)
