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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The example I used in the spur of the moment was Peter Norvig's "numbers every programmer should know":

http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers

Things have moved on since that was written in the naughts, but the orders of magnitude have remained relatively stable. These are *facts on the ground*. Features about how the sand that does math actually operates. And if we're doing our job right as engineers (building things to make life better for others) those facts *must* shape our decisions.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Learning how the stack below works allows us to re-derive answers to problems as we go and validate answers we're presented with.

Something I should have added, but forgot, was that we should appreciate the layers above too.

You work as a plumber? You have to become an architecture or interior design expert, but you should damn well develop an appreciation for how plumbing enables them; how the joint project of making good things hinges on collaborations from understanding and respect.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

That perspective is why I continue to produce data series about the emerging mobile computing landscape and how it impacts web performance:

https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

When we're armed with data and the edges of the possible, we are much more likely to deliver for others, not just ourselves. And technology that is expansive, for others, and unselfish is the only kind worth investing your one-and-only life into.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As browser makers, that also comes with responsibility to the ecosystem to act (rather than getting captured by inaction). That occupied a lot of the rest of the discussion, and some writing on those topics is here:

https://infrequently.org/series/effective-standards-work/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Grateful (and not a little surprised) that my colleagues Alison and Sam Davis interviewed me about the web platform for our larger team today, and Sam Davis asked a question I'm still thinking about, which boiled down, roughly, what lessons we've learned to date will still be valuable in the future?

Nobody knows the future, but on reflection the thing I'm most convinced of is that knowing more over time about the layers of the stack above and below your discipline is the most important practice

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

yeah the whole ARIA thing has always confused me

"this is how to build accessibly" ... "but omg don't use it!"

frustration is thrown at well meaning developers who try, but the web platform equally fumbles, it shouldn't be this difficult

https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/notes-on-relying-on-the-aria-authoring-practices-guide/

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

It's so worth it to peel the ends of asparagus #food

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

A generative AI app is running ads on YouTube depicting an ICE agent arresting a baby still in the hospital. Like, as a joke. Forget it being tasteless, it's objectively unfunny.

It's like that one guy in every level one improv class who thinks he's an edgy comic but really just makes an ass of himself.

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juliette@mastodon.green wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/sports-i9fjknotz/-/a-u5Dc98I4SHWcAFNmEVaC7Q%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

You will learn so much about a successful woman’s personal life before you learn her name.
As a “mom in her forties” type of woman, if I ever do something as cool as winning an Olympic medal, please share my name first.

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Treppenwitz@sfba.social ("Good grief, it's you") wrote:

A reminder: Don't waste your political beliefs by putting them only on Facebook/Instagram. https://www.accessnow.org/publication/how-meta-censors-palestinian-voices/
#facebook #instagram #meta #censorship

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Streisand!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DU6d-eqDj1e

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Dear everyone who posted or reposted images or video of RFK, Jr and Kid Rock shirtless where I would come across them: Hell is coming for you and I will be drinking a tall frosty beverage when it does

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

scroll fade: the final boss!
https://www.terrygodier.com/current

is there any more unappetising way to present content?
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

some of these are amazing

https://www.radiodiaries.org/

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Dirt roads and vintage cars. It truly is Reykjavik in the 1950s.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars #cars

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

On July 7th, 1957, the carpentry workshop and furniture store Víðir caught fire. My grandfather, who was on his way to visit his brother, managed to take some photos.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This week, we have a vintage theme! Why, you may ask. Well, because it's cold outside and I ran out of photos. So it's my grandfather's old slides to the rescue. Here we have Húsavík. Most likely taken sometime around 1960.#Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Seriously, I don't think most Americans have put together that natalism, "naturalism," anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-vax, pedophilia, misogyny, queerphobia, eugenics, racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and disempowering labor through automation and "AI" are all interlocking parts of modern fascist ideology.

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Huge thanks to the generous sponsors who help to make this possible, including several recent contributors! https://home.omg.lol/sponsors

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@simonzerafa @davidgerard @jwz TESCREAL as a whole is *definitely* a religion—a very familiar looking one to those of us who weren't raised in any variety of Christianity but in another religion, and therefore get to observe Christian behaviour from outside. And I'm telling you the singularitarian/AI bros are just speedrunning the emergence of pre-Nicean Xtianity as a syncretistic evangelical faith (this time without Jesus/God but with the usual salvationist/AI uploading heaven bullshit).

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@jwz memetic prion disease

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

I thought my home-cooked RSS reader had a bug, but no, @zachleat published in the future
https://www.zachleat.com/web/state-of-the-browser/

you can't just publish in the future, Zach

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noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos.

I consider this a bonus.

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noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked%5Fusers

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason 4 things in one day? I'd be back in bed too.

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darwinwoodka ("Darwin Woodka") wrote:

@fromjason

Working Families was big in the Mamdani campaign and are getting some payback now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/mamdani-rewards-working-families-party-leader-with-international-affairs-appointment/ar-AA1Ww9y8

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Side note: I wrote the above blog post in Nov of 2024. Today, I'm a little less inclined to give the Bluesky team the same level of grace. They're turning out to be everything a venture capital-funded platform becomes, unfortunately.

It was wild, though. To see every big liberal political influencer declare Bluesky to be a liberal safehaven for no other reason than it wasn't X.

We on the left love a good vs evil dichotomy.

Anyway, how did this turn into a Bluesky thread? Lmao

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Exploring blockchain RPCs from the terminal 🔥

🌌 **stellar-tui** — Discover & execute Stellar RPC methods.

💯 Structured forms, response pagination, regex search & endpoint management.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/padparadscho/stellar-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #stellar #soroban #blockchain #cli #devtools

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Have you enclosed your horse today?