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RikerGoogling@botsin.space ("Riker Googling") wrote:

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mccarron ("Patrick McCarron") wrote:

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

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• FORTUNE You need to detach and psychologically recover from work, professors say. The solution: commuting Two management scholars who study work-life balance say the commute offers a rare "liminal space" in society. (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

There's a new Snail's house EP, excellent as always: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQ_e3KmKNGc6VMMgsr-mJJyT2E9CJrVPk&feature=share

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Kotlin isn't high level programming; it's highest level programming. Jeez. Kotlin makes Swift look like machine code.

Not hating on it, having a great learning experience. But I've simply never used such an insanely high level programming language, and I mostly write Go.

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andthisismrspeacock@mastodon.lol ("AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

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

To be good at frontend, the ingredients are the same as for any essentially creative medium:

• find the kind of UI that brings you joy to make
• make it, even if it's bad (but just for you)
• discern teachers from bootcamp...er...grifters
• practice
• focus on users
• re-learn the new new in light of what you just learned
• GOTO "practice"

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

As I (visibly) age, something about changing social networks and the anxieties around it come to the fore. Namely:

- Were you unfairly shitty to me and mine? Blocked
- Fairly shitty? Follow, want.
- Rote defense of power, privilege, or caste? Muted
- Fascist? Fascist-adjacent? Fascism curious? Blocked.
- Not previously excluded & focused on how we make tech better for users? FOLLOW

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

TFW you want every single person in a video to be able to retire immediately and be able to make incredible music together the rest of their days:

https://youtu.be/uKjXm7PmVMg

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toon@merveilles.town ("Jonathon Toon") wrote:

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Delicious!

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• Food in Korean restaurant on top of table

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

Learn to spot, and write off, the Hacker News trope that real problems with real frontends aren't real problems for actual users because Rust and WASM will save us.

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

TIL you can use arduino-connected sensors to automate parameters in Ableton! quick demo using what i had lying around :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfjtqABaeg

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cyberlyra ("Janet Vertesi") wrote:

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tiffanycli ("Tiffany Li") wrote:

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

Yet another team at work staring down months of remediation thanks to "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in (even more splenetic) drafts.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Quite prophetic words, sadly.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

PSA: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is available to stream on Disney+ now. https://disneyplus.com/movies/black-panther-wakanda-forever/7MAONYZ92wDT?sharesource=iOS

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

This was Braun's last ever HiFi system, released in 1990. In their own words:

"The consumer electronics market is characterized by cut-throat competition. Manufacturers not offering an innovation or at least cosmetic pseudo changes every 2 years are quickly suspected of being obsolete.

This increasingly risky development would mean having to weaken certain principles of our design philosophy: honesty & durability. We will no longer support this development.

Braun HiFi becomes history."

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow's linkblog") wrote:

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• It’s jarring to read a story about a neighbor calling the police on a nine-year-old Black girl spraying for invasive lanternflies, describing the girl to a dispatcher as a “little Black woman walking, spraying stuff”, and then switch over to another tab with a story on the 30-year old “crypto kid” who might’ve just made an oopsie with billions of dollars of customer funds. On one hand, literal children are portrayed in the media as adults, and treated as such in the prison system; on the other, a man who’s been old enough to vote for over a decade is being described as “a young man in need of both defense and a friend” offering refreshments to a reporter “as if we were there for a playdate”. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I keep a hummingbird feeder going. Ever since the brief, but bad, cold spell we had about a month ago, I've noticed that the rate at which the level in the feeder goes down has decreased. I wonder if some of our tiny bird friends didn't make it through. :(

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

One day I will own a Braun Atelier HiFi system. One day.

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chjara@snowdin.town ("chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:") wrote:

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• just-shower-thoughts: I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months. advanced-procrastination: Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed brunhiddensmusings: good news! (remote)

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("ancient catbus") wrote:

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• Real Racoon inside a ceramic racoon caption reads 'this is no cookie jar this is my battle armor' (remote)

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yayKM@aus.social ("Kristina") wrote:

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• Toast with avocado and hummus, fashioned into Jabba the Hutt. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Yay. We popped a balloon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/04/who-was-afraid-of-the-big-bad-balloon/

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• The balloon! (remote)

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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

@nadim Nice! Pika as in Pikachu? 🙂

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marnanel@queer.party wrote: