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nocksock@hachyderm.io ("Nils Riedemann") wrote:
It seems to me that many people in the Web-Component discussion approach them with a mental model that's too heavily influenced by conventional approaches of Vue/Svelte/React and so forth. I highly recommend the course on FrontendMaster's by @davatron5000 which takes a very different route to explain them than most resources out there. I was rather opposed to WC, but just needed to shift the mental model a bit; and now I use them regularly!
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: NASA officially begins operations, 1958 (transitioned from National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of United States, born in Plains, GA 1924
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andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:
the thing that pisses me off about the "web components debate" is yet again it's all about "what is everyone else doing" rather than "how can we build the best user experience" and yeh, it's hard to give a toss about this inward lookin' industry a lot of the time
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Helene Aftermath: Long Update, Monday September, 30 2024
https://qrper.com/2024/09/helene-aftermath-long-update-monday-september-30-2024/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we are nearing the end of the tomato 🍅 season
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Freethoughtblogs is alive again!
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
BRB, adding "writes so much, understands so little" to my bio
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The best part is: he almost *certainly* did this because I disabled comments on the post.
So he probably saw this and still just couldn't even help himself.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Welp looks like Mullenweg read my post. 🙄😂
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The 4.3 blog post is ready, so now we just wait till next week when it all goes live.
andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
That moment when you're working on some slides that are supposed to showcase the thing you've been implementing in Chromium for a while... and you find out you have a bug because some of this stuff you're trying to showcase ain't working.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
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Judeet99@mastodon.world ("Aloniaxx") wrote:
It's so annoying when climate protestors block roads isn't it? Author of photo unknown.
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paulhmason ("Paul Mason") wrote:
Wow, I didn't realise that my 27 years of professional development experience at multi billion dollar companies is just "hobbiest dabbling". 😃
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
DO THEY CALL IT THE "OPEN SOCIAL" WEB NOW IN ORDER TO PUSH DOWN THE HISTORY OF OPEN SOCIAL IN SEARCH RESULTS??
okay. Bed. For real. I'm delirious.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute.
So in 2007, Marc Andreessen is evangelizing OpenSocial and basically calling Facebook the boogie man.
And by 2008, as OpenSocial was crashing and burning, Marc Andreessen finds himself on the board of Facebook?!
And these are the people you're trusting with the fediverse??
WHAT IS THE TECH INDUSTRY? lol
Okay, bed for real. Leave me alone you guys. ❤️
#OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #Threads
https://about.fb.com/news/2008/06/marc-andreessen-joins-facebook-board-of-directors/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Okay, I hate to keep you hanging but I don't think I'm gonna make it. I'm sleepy.
If I wake up in the middle of the night I may finish this thread but, if not, let's meet back here in the morning yeah?
Anyway, this is for that shitty W3C thread the other day demanding people be nice while not addressing a single actual issue people have:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Oh yeah, and then there's Jack Dorsey who, in 2019, was also like, "yeah I'm decentralized now baaaaby!"
I cant immediately find the article and I'm getting sleepy so for now, source: trust me bro. I'll edit this post tomorrow.
Anyway, you think Zuck has been through the wringer on how he handles user data? Poor Jack has been through some shit. Someone should really make a website dedicated to all the times that man has been sued for being an absolute Jack-ass. Heh.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So now it's 2019, a year after Cambridge Analytica broke, and suddenly the tech elite have a lot to say about the future of the web.
Zuckerberg's published his four point plan for the internet which included some decentralized ideology:
And then we got Mike Masnick's Protocols, Not Platforms a few months later:
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
It was like overnight, Technocrats were all about that decentralized life. Something about 2019, I don't know what.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
With just ten likes, Facebook can predict your personality traits better than your coworkers. Given 300 likes, Facebook knows you better than your own spouse.
Combined that with the OCEAN model, and you have a pretty sophisticated method of manipulation.
So it's safe to say that perhaps our social media digital footprints should not be open for anyone to harvest; that the platform should, under law, protect that data from bad actors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-you-better-than-anyone-else.html
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Back!
What's relevant about the Cambridge Analytica scandal here is the type of data Facebook provided— posts, likes, shares, and friends.
These are the basic digital footprints of the average social media user.
CA was able to take that data, along with a simple quiz, and build a psychological profile for millions of Americans using something called the OCEAN model (based on a study Facebook helped author and publish years earlier).
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this looks interesting: https://www.docetl.org/
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
@fromjason Also from back in the day ...
https://www.wired.com/2007/11/opensocial-is-doomed-marc-cuban-s-facebook-yahoo-mashup-fantasies/
Current score: Mark Cuban 1, Andreessen and OpenSocial 0.
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
@fromjason great find! And this is classic:
What's the dumbest thing anyone has said today about Open Social?
Obviously:"I think [Open Social is] pie in the sky," said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner.
Current score: Gartner 1, Andreessen and Open Social 0.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Ahhhh why do I start these long-ass threads so close to bed time.
Let me get ready for bed, and I'll be back after a brief word from our Vice President Selina Meyer:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Anyway, all this to say that for years, the social web sat as a relatively fringe ideology with a mixed bag of wins and losses. The people associated with the movement seemed genuinely interested in the cause.
Then in 2018, news reports of a massive "data breach" at Facebook started pouring in.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
every time someone calls me "anti-crypto" i think this
anyway these are in the store now lol
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Also worth noting, if for nothing else, to point out historical parallels, OpenSocial was supposed to be a "revolution."
Why is it _always_ a revolution?
https://www.wired.com/2008/11/where-is-the-opensocial-revolution-/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Worth noting here that at the end of 2014, OpenSocial moved under the W3C Social Web Activity to continue its specifications work.
https://www.w3.org/blog/2014/opensocial-foundation-moves-standards-work-to-w3c-social-web-activity/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The next day, Google launched OpenSocial to devs, and things quickly went down hill from there.
> "While we were initially very excited, we have learned the hard way just how limited the release truly is... From our experience its not even a beta platform. The concept of “write once, distribute broadly” is not accurate and core functionality components are missing."
A year later, OpenSocial was shuttered and the dream of the open social web seeming closed with it.
https://techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/opensocial-still-not-open-for-business/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Let's back up.
The open social web's first big break came in the late aughts when Google teamed up with OpenSocial— a set of open source standards for social media. Together, they would tear down Facebook's walled gardens.
On launch night, 2007, things were looking up. OpenSocial was a tech media darling. Even MySpace decided to get in on the action in the eleventh hour.
Openness wins again!" they declared. It was a social web- er, I mean, OpenSocial revolution!
https://web.archive.org/web/20080229063659/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/report-from-the.html
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I keep thinking about this thread, and have a theory:
The general lack of privacy controls across decentralized systems are not an oversight, but a calculated omission.
When the tech gods descended from Mt. Allbirds to anoint the #OpenSocialWeb movement, they sold it as their atonement for the sins of Web 2.0.
But there's a type of pretexting happening here where we're being conditioned to view our privacy as public domain🧵
From: @jenniferplusplus
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/113213902118447172
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To borrow framing from @jcgregorio, it sure seems like a lot of the JS community has confused their hospice for abstractionitis sufferers for a utopia.
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
This is by far and away the craziest story I have ever reported. The lede probably doesn't do it justice, but I promise this will be a fascinating (if not also entertaining) read. I'd frankly be amazed if some version of this story isn't made into a documentary or drama series:
A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/crooked-cops-stolen-laptops-the-ghost-of-ugnazi/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
You freaks like listicles??
I'm unintentionally alternating a note and a listicle post. The listicles are doing way better.
Am I surprised by that? I don't know. I like a good list of links so I guess it makes sense.
Anyway, this blog is experimental, potentially temporary, and its creation almost certainly the result of an ADHd-ridden brain.
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hausfath@fediscience.org ("Zeke Hausfather") wrote:
Happy end of coal in the UK day, to all who celebrate! https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseout-UK/
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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
cohost users: if you want to be listed on https://cohost-highway.neocities.org/ you have a few more hours to submit the form and reply to the post to prove it's you
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aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:
I am glad `` saw some fixes in Safari, as spotted by @adactio https://adactio.com/journal/21445
However, other bugs (such as the ones I link from JAWS and Firefox) are still open as well as voice control challenges and text size issues:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/06/under-engineered-comboboxen.html#Update01 (anchor link)So nothing likely changes in your support landscape. Yes, this still makes me sad.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A small curated list of some weird and interesting PDFs I've bookmarked over the years.
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akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:
This is amazing: overlapping webrings arranged in a Subway map.
https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway
via the #32bitcafe newsletter https://listmonk.32bit.cafe/archive/august-31-2024-2
cc @xandra of https://32bit.cafe
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I don't want to spend time wondering "Maybe I shouldn't do that because I'm not a [job title] ", or limit myself because "A [job title] wouldn't do that."
I just want to spend time thinking, "Can I do that thing? Hmmm... I think I can, and I'd like to try."
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead of thinking about "am I" something, maybe we should all think in terms of "can I do" something?
Am I an artist? I dunno, but I do make art sometimes.
Am I an engineer? Not for certain legal purposes, but I often do engineering work.
I mean, credentials and titles have their very specific places, but in most situations they are useless for accomplishing goals or only used to gatekeep.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
just noticed that tiktok muted the audio on a video of mine because of a copyright strike based on... silence
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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:
And a closeup shot of the comet over the Llullaillaco volcano:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
It's interesting the lengths #Meta goes to explain the risks of the #Fediverse, but does not mention that #Threads posts are indexed by Google, thus part of a web with a greater reach than the collection of #ActivityPub instances.
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this is incredibly cool https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Anyone on Are.na? Or have good example of accounts and channels?
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tink@front-end.social ("Léonie Watson") wrote:
On Tuesday 1 October 2024, the UK will become the first major economy to stop using coal to produce electricity, when the last of its coal-fired power stations closes:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and for an initial podcast about us: https://arghstudios.com/podcasts/00_Welcome.wav
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joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
@slightlyoff I wrote down the expanded version of this thought in a blog post.
https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
curious about what I've been working on? https://blog.ncoti.org/getting-started/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm always fascinated by the sub-sets of content creators who form around a specific subject and dissect it to hell.
Lately it's been the Digital Anthropologists and their think pieces on the effect of our digital surroundings.
As a collective, I've been calling these pieces "Theory of Web" or "Theory of *The* Web.*
While each has its own angle, the message is always the same— the web is harmful, the web landlords are harmful, what do we do?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I've been updating this post with new developments since Friday. I expect we'll probably see a lot more happening this week, and I'll try to keep adding on as events unfold. #wordpress
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Recently, we made public RFD 463 on the Oximeter query language (OxQL), the DSL that we have developed for querying metrics in the Oxide rack:
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0463
But was a new language really necessary? On today's episode of Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleague Ben Naecker to discuss the origin, state, and future of OxQL.
Join us, 5p Pacific today:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
A subset of modern thinking (promoted with ads and marketing, but eagerly adopted by others) seems to be along the lines of "I/We have a problem, but to solve it, why should I/we have to understand the problem or do any work?"
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: I boosted that essay even though I am only halfway through it as the first half is an excellent summary of the history of software development.
[1] https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet
(Hopefully the second half won't let me down when I get back to it later.)
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lkanies@hachyderm.io ("Luke Kanies") wrote:
Is AI a Silver Bullet? https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet
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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:
In absolute awe of this shitpost by @heydon
https://heydonworks.com/article/css:-a-new-kind-of-javascript/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I really like Arca. It's like social media for curators? It's nice. A lot of people sharing really cool stuff from all over the web.
You can check me out on there. I have a couple referral codes if you want one. Just comment.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm looking for an elegant serif font for my #BearBlog. Any recommendations?
Also, this is my new blog (in addition to fromjason, not as a replacement). I'm challenging myself to post shorter notes with greater frequency.
Maybe those notes get turned into bigger pieces on my main blog idk.
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konnorrogers@ruby.social ("Konnor Rogers") wrote:
Frameworks: "Web components are ruining the web and shouldn't exist"
Web Components: "Yo dawg, leave us alone"
Frameworks: "Damn why are yall being so toxic? It was a well reasoned article."
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm really sad to hear about #Cohost. I was reading through the hashtags and it sounded like it had an interesting culture.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mark Zuckerberg: “Ship the app” - Internal Tech Emails:
"If Instagram continues to kick ass on mobile or if Google buys them, then over the next few years they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we’re doing now, and if they have a growing number of people’s photos then that’s a real issue for us." https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-ship-photos-app
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joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
@slightlyoff The frameworks have chosen to build their entire component system outside the DOM, using the DOM purely as an output artifact, and then unsurprisingly struggle to retrofit things that are DOM-first. Web components are a threat to their fundamental assumptions of what the role of the DOM should be, and so they claim it threatens the web.
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Trilobyter@mastodon.world wrote:
Clearing out all the past-their-prime zinnias from the front garden bed yesterday and this giant swallowtail showed up and hung around the lantana long enough for me to go grab my camera.
#SilentSunday #butterflies #butterfly #photography #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #ButterflyGardening #gardening
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
2024 JS framework authors and 2024 Frances Ford Coppola share the same technical aesthetic: does any of this technology make sense in context? Nope. Are we all going to pretend it does? Sure. Why? Fantasy.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
JS framework authors are out here with "web components are a threat to the web!", by which they mean "my priors!"
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
In the ongoing battle between YouTube and SESAC I kind of find myself wishing for both of the pesky middlemen to lose. I don't know what it would look like, I'm just wishing…
(No need to explain to me how the world works, it's just an emotional post.)
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We should call Ryan's perspective what it is: platform NIMBYism. Pearl clutching over a non-threat that will, on balance, be good for him too. But he's too invested in the past too see it.
We aren't harming him (or any other framework author) by moving the debate up the stack. We're just declining to subsidise decadence further. Frameworks can create and derive value in the new world too, but holding up progress to make the comparison favourable isn't fair to users *or* developers.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Something unsaid here that I'd add: the idea that componentry should be exciting, or a location for groundbreaking new ideas (rather than just adding all the obvious stuff to web components at pace) is *wild*.
We have real frontend problems that need solving (looking at you, data sync); the internals of the lifecycle for upgrading angle brackets to JS objects aren't one of them. It's time to move on.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Go get 'em, Cory.
https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/web-components-are-not-the-future-they-re-the-present/
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ayo@ayco.io ("Ayo Ayco") wrote:
Walled gardens result to bad opinions, and often stream toward disbelief in the power of standardization. Ironically everyone benefits in the open web standards regardless of opinions
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Gene Autry born, 1907
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
How many of you consume articles and blog posts via some sort of text-to-speech tool?
I almost exclusively use Safari's "Listen to Page" feature for all long-form content. Even if I'm reading along. It helps with the ol' adhd brain I got.
Throughout any give day I may read five to ten articles while going on my daily walk, washing the dishes, cleaning, etc.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
P.S. Feel free to use as a wallpaper!
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell
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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:
If you're about to lose your job at 23 And Me anyway now that the company is dying and selling off its assets
Have you considered
Intentional corporate sabotage on your way out?
Do a little $ sudo rm -rdf /*
On a couple servers with customer data that's about to be sold
Depending on what absolute snake of a buyer is on the way, you might even save some lives
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hankg@friendica.myportal.social ("Hank G ☑️") wrote:
Stolen from a Matrix chat room :) #humor #GeekHumor #DevHumor
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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:
My latest New Scientist cartoon. Based on a true story. Well, the first panel is true, anyway.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a thoughtful piece, a useful read on the externalities resulting from US firearms laws & Court decisions
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”… the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees … in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president… [who] makes a $699,000 salary.’
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
In the Boston Tea Party cafe, Bristol.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @NotFrauKadse
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol
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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:
My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:
Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Beautifully pithy summary of Chris Rufo.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/29/this-summary-of-chris-rufo-is-tight/
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Found this playlist from @paulomalley with short tutorials on how to use various Mastodon features. I know some of these aren't as widely known as they should be! (via @elan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA0o_qntQk&list=PLzSa4MqrsYv6nhktXbYsz7Lb231U8XySy&index=6
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's really hard to find spiders in the total darkness of a state park.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/29/a-night-at-the-park/
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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:
The Gov.uk web service manual is like the polar opposite of browsing X (that’s a huge compliment!): “Do not build your service as a single-page application (SPA). This is where the loading of pages within your service is handled by JavaScript, rather than the browser. Single page applications rarely bring benefits and can make the service inaccessible…” https://hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113219619713124437
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
Lovely idea: https://openfreemap.org - best of luck to them.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:
This is the thing: sure we should make developer experience smooth, but it should be at most our secondary concern.
From: @slightlyoff
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113219149345518235
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We can square these circles. Doing better for users isn't just possible, in 2024, given the general browser landscape, it's *downright straightforward*. It only requires that we celebrate value to users, not value to developers, first and foremost.
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NoveltyBot@botsin.space ("A Most Amusing Bot") wrote:
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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Today, on nearly every website, *removing* a KB of JS from the download of the first page load is the most consistent way to make things better for users. The way to make pixels dance more often is to put that logic in CSS (when possible) to re-evaluate the necessity of legacy dependencies.
All of this is in harmony with Aaron's goal to the extent that we agree the goal is to make interfaces better for users. And I think we do.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every year I spend a reasonable fraction of my time documenting the state of devices and networks. Why? To document what I *hope* will be a turning of the corner; a crossing of the lines...the moment when CPU and networks get so much more generous than what web developers are taxing users with that an incremental KB of JS is *usually* something that can provide value, not a consistent detriment.
https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/
Spoiler: the lines have not crossed.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
1.) sorry for the birdsite link, I don't know why Aaron's still there
2.) a lot of people will identify me with his critique
3.) I have spent the vast majority of my professional life trying to do exactly what he's lauding, and in making it possible for others to do the same
4.) that's only something worth celebrating in a contingent sense; i.e., are we making things *better* for *most* people?https://x.com/aboodman/status/1839231481115455847
We have to get to "first, do no harm" for frontend for JS's value to unlock.
