On the evening of 30 May 1593, the sounds of a heated argument could be heard emanating from a boarding house in Deptford, a district of London on the south bank of the River Thames. #History #ElizabethanTheatre #ChristopherMarlowe #ElizabethanEra #Playwright #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2702-en/

still building this beautiful #python #asetniop #curses editor with special focus for me as a #playwright.

unlike the screenwriter-focused #fountain, it is truly and fully #markdown based, with some additional styling added.

also it’s fully customizable; you just have to modify a very readable style.py to your liking! no .css vomit or wysiwyg menu hell

trying out #cryptpad since google and ms are eternally simps for fascism.

i am pleased! it even has dark mode!

16 Apr 1689: d. Aphra Behn #playwright #poet #writer #otd (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Your logs are lying to you - metrics are meaner and better.

Everyone loves logs… until the incident postmortem reads like bad fan fiction.
Most teams start with expensive log aggregation, full-text searching their way into oblivion. So much noise. So little signal. And still, no clue what actually happened. Why? Because writing meaningful logs is a lost art.
Logs are like candles, nice for mood lighting, useless in a house fire.

If you need traces to understand your system, congratulations: you're already in hell.

Let me introduce my favourite method: real-time, metric-driven user simulation aka "Overwatch".

Here's how you do it:

Set up a service that runs real end-to-end user workflows 24/7. Use Cypress, Playwright, Selenium… your poison of choice.
Every action creates a timed metric tagged with the user workflow and action.
Now you know exactly what a user did before everything went up in flames.

Use Grafana + InfluxDB (or other tools you already use) to build dashboards that actually tell stories:

* How fast are user workflows?
* Which steps are breaking, and how often?
* What's slower today than yesterday?
* Who's affected, and where?

Alerts now mean something.
Incidents become surgical strikes, not scavenger hunts.
Bonus: run the same system on every test environment and detect regressions before deployment. And if you made it reusable, you can even run the service to do load tests.

No need to buy overpriced tools. Just build a small service like you already do, except this one might save your soul.

And yes, transform logs into metrics where possible. Just hash your PII data and move on.

Stop guessing. Start observing.
Metrics > Logs. Always.

DAY 5 - Book Challenge : 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers. #20books #20books20days #BookCover #CoverIllustration #Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art #20thCenturyDrama #SerjeantMusgravesDance #JohnArden #Playwright #Plays #Theatre #20thCenturyLiterature #Literature
#EnglisDrama #BritishPlaywright #BritishDrama #PaperbackCovers #Paperbacks #PaperbackBooks

"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture

crying in da club over act 2 #NowPlaying https://song.link/s/5DTwZPWXnhqS7WQSKpoyA1

In my latest artist-on-artist conversation, Christine Boylan – the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' showrunner and co-founder of Bespoke Plays – discusses the virtues of genre, her love affair with the stage, and what she's looking for out of art these days.

#screenwriting #screenwriter #playwright #writing #writingtips #writinglife #writingcommunity #avatarthelastairbender
 
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-screenwriter-christine-boylan

started act two / two today! already so many new structural ideas i'm excited to bring to a second draft

okayyyyyyy

Today in Labor History February 28, 1933: Erich Mühsam, was arrested and blamed for the Reichstag fire. The fire was actually set by Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist.
Mühsam was sent to the Oranienberg concentration camp, where he was tortured and murdered. Mühsam was an anarchist, poet and playwright who condemned Nazism and satirized Hitler. In the wake of the fire, President von Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties, and launching a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists, making the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. They went on a witch hunt, mass-arresting Communists, including members of Parliament, crippling their participation in the March 5th special elections, which allowed the Nazi party to expand their plurality in parliament. Hitler had called in hopes of moving the Nazi party from a plurality to a majority through quasi-legal means. Sound familiar?

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #hitler #germany #communism #anarchism #concentrationcamp #reichstag #Poet #playwright #fascism #antifascism #antifa @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 26, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church formally banned Galileo Galilei from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. In 1633, they tried and convicted him of heresy, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. Bertolt Brecht wrote the play “Galileo” in 1938, which first played in Zurich, in 1943. Brecht fled Nazi Germany in 1933.

#galileo #BertoltBrecht #FreeSpeech #science #inquisition #censorship #drama #playwright #heresy #catholic #workingclass #nazi #LaborHistory @bookstadon

My current #Django frontend dev stack is (including some dx tools):

- #HTMX
- #AlpineJS
- #TailwindCSS
- #Playwright
- Django Template Partials
- Django Browser Reload

Are there any other frontend-related tools that would complement these? What do you use?

#RicardoAntin

#LosEjecutivosTambiénTienenAlma ("Executives Have a Soul Too")
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#Advertising #creative, #novelist, #poet, #playwright, and #musician.
Lost and mysterious gem, available for the first time on digital

https://ricardoantin.bandcamp.com/album/los-ejecutivos-tambi-n-tienen-alma

Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #fiction #literary #novel #OctaveMirbeau #satire #AlfredDreyfess #author #writer #antisemitism #playwright #anarchism #fiction #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #huac #Anticommunist #witchhunt #BertoltBrecht #marxist #Poet #books #writer #author #fiction #playwright #ParisCommune @bookstadon

Did I love this book? No- I can say I really did not despite wanting to love it- but I recognize it as a valuable addition that many people may love. It was so many great quotes- but not much to grab on to in the inbetween. I might be missing a huge chunk? #bookreview #books #diversevoices #audiobook #funk #playwright #fiction #dystopia Check out Archangels of Funk. https://hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/02/book-review-archangels-of-funk-by.html?m=1

Transform your $20 #Cursor into a #Devin-like #AI Assistant

Automated planning and self-evolution system learns from feedback and mistakes via .cursorrules
Extended toolset with #Playwright web scraping, #DuckDuckGo search, and #LLM analysis

#coding #curserai

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Today in Labor History February 7, 1917: A court wrongly convicted labor organizer Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in July 1916. The governor finally granted him an unconditional pardon after 22.5 years of incarceration. 10 people died in the bombing and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.
In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, “By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening… Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly.”

You can read my full bio of Tom Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/

#LaborHistory #workingclass #bombing #sanfrancisco #TomMooney #anarchism #prison #wrongfulconviction #EmmaGoldman #play #playwright #books @bookstadon