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Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Fell down a little bit of a rabbit hole trying to find out more information about a musician. Turns out they used an alter ego inspired by their grandmother in the song I heard.
The rabbit hole eventually led me to this pretty little song. Suitable for falling asleep or waking up to I think. Rosie Doonan's "Flight of Birds":
https://georgeriley1.bandcamp.com/track/rosie-doonan-flight-of-birds
Mastodon FeedSource: https://yuraika.com/gyuuhi/
Mastodon FeedSaw this on a touch-order panel; “牛皮” took me by surprise, as it literally means “cow skin”…not something I’d expect wrapping a いちご大福 (ichigodaifuku - strawberry wrapped in mochi)
Turns out, this term originates from when the mochi coating for the dessert was imported from Tang China, so called because it resembles the smoothness of cow skin (??). In #Japan, usually the homophone kanji 求肥 is used instead because of Buddhism…with a literal meaning of “ball fat” lol
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Mastodon Feed#Yakiimo, roasted sweet potatoes, are still sometimes sold oldschool; from the back of a truck moving slowly down the street, blaring the nostalgic “yakiiiiiimo oiisshiiimooo” (roasted sweet potatoes….tasty sweet potatoooes)
With the modernisation of #Japan, hawkers, street food stalls, etc have mostly disappeared from the streets of #Tokyo (I don’t even remember the last time I saw a street ramen vendor). Hopefully these guys stick around, even though it may be a fire hazard 😅
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VioletPixel ("Justin Michael") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The State of JS results got me wondering if anyone has done a good write up of if (and if so, how) the JS-industrial-complex has succeeded in re-gendering frontend work?
Mastodon Feednikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
en mia esperantido "ĵaǔdo" nomiĝus "merkredo II"
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
One last Dragon Warrior thing for today: someone disassembled & fully commented Dragon Warrior 1. https://github.com/nmikstas/dragon-warrior-disassembly
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"Siri, what is a negative externality?":
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Good lord this aged like fine farts:
https://reactjs.org/blog/2014/02/15/community-roundup-16.html
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
DW3 NES is a much more complex game than the 1st but it's still missing a lot of quality of life innovations & it doesn't enjoy the same historical significance as DW1. Dragon Warrior 3 GBC is still good though. The stores are nicer to navigate & they upped the walking speed a lot
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The original Dragon Warrior is interesting to play because you get to see what the first draft of this series looked like and what they managed to get right. Having to do Menu > Stairs to change floors is clunky but they managed to absolutely nail the sound design on their first try
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I've been playing a bit of both the NES and the GBC remake of Dragon Warrior 3 lately.
The original Dragon Warrior I would still absolutely recommend to someone interested in game design but DW3 NES probably not
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm sure this will get sent to Reactors, so allow me to preempt some of the unsolicited feedback:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The absolutely mind-boggling thing is that all of this is for *static content*. This isn't an editor or an ecommerce site with live shopping carts; no, changes apparently go through GitHub.
And famous people in React-land think this is sensible.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A useful link. No reason to be dropping it here. None at all:
https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/interactive_latency.html
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reading posts from Reactors about how slow SSGs (Gatsby et. al.) got fixed through migrations to live APIs, but then they needed caching because calling the API was slow? All so they could keep using React for static content?
🤯
Friends, if your *bloody blog* needs Redis and Docker and custom GH Actions and database multi-homing and failover -- all because you couldn't get an SSG build for a few thousand pages under 30 seconds on modern hardware -- maybe programming isn't actually your thing?
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's cool that so many of the React Conf videos are on YouTube so that we have an accurate historical record of the smarmy, self-congratulatory tenor of frontend's lost decade.
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