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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

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

Something I didn't include in my splenetic overview of the modern frontend landscsape is how the overwhelming odour in any conversation with a large group of frontend developers in 2023 is rank immaturity.

Your tools are not your identity. Your preferences are not success. Users define what works and what does not; your "DX" is a sub-footnote in the evaluation of product quality.

The infantilised version of our discourse, where users are not front and center, is toxic nonsense.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

This blog post was on the frontage of Hacker News in December...

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cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

German version: https://mastodon.social/@cmiksche/109483851269129359

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
timbray@hachyderm.io ("Tim Bray") wrote:

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

It's 🤯 to recall that React was a licensing cesspool for, like, 4 years? I guess being a governance black box and a responsibility-free zone is just a continuation:

https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/#5.5-years-ago

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chairgirlhands@mastodon.lol ("violet hands") wrote:

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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rklau@sfba.social ("Rick Klau") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"Hundreds if not thousands of foreign veterans and volunteers have passed through Ukraine. Many of them, like Mr. Milburn and his group, are hard-living men who have spent their adult lives steeped in violence, solo fliers trying to work together in a very dangerous environment without a lot of structure or rules."

we've foolishly made a cult of being a "warrior", and forgotten that is not the same as a "professional soldier"

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/07/world/russia-ukraine-news#how-an-american-military-training-group-imploded-in-ukraine

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

I had missed this (perfect) description of React (et. al.) "DX" focused tools as a subsidy from users to developers; a regressive tax, if you will:

https://emmas.site/blog/2020/09/12/react-is-a-subsidy

By @emmah, via @zachleat's growing catalogue of React mischief and pratfalls:

https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/

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protecttruth@mastodon.online ("Eric Blair") wrote:

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DamienMarieAtHope@kolektiva.social ("Damien Marie AtHope") wrote:

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• "This 7,500 year-old goddess figurine from Neve Yam is among the world’s earliest evidence for established religion, the origins of which date back to the agricultural revolution, around 10,000 years ago. It is similar to contemporaneous figurines" (remote)

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glennf@twit.social ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:

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• Rendering of volume 1 open to a spread and volume 2 closed with its cover. Volume 1 shows a juxtaposition of typing classes in the 20th century. Volume 2 cover shows Rolf Hagedorn at the Culler-Fried On-Line System computer at CERN. (remote)
• A spread from Shift Happens showing various Olivetti typewriters, universally regarded as some of the best-designed typewriters in history. (remote)
• A spread from Shift Happens showing examples of modern mechanical minimalistic keyboard layouts (with renders courtesy Nathanalphaman). (remote)
• A spread from Shift Happens of women data-entry operators across a century, from the 1890-era pantograph punch to an IBM floppy disk-driven machine in 1973. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

if Russia has to transport munitions that far to resupply their offensives, then indeed "Questions Remain About Its Ability to Sustain an Offensive"
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/07/world/russia-ukraine-news?unlocked_article_code=NKcK_EyAv-aTIjKESSJZ4XEdOoNKKEcsjafb8gACRzqwoLZMAQwIVEjDFALv9r1Qkd_TIgl0vGazb6-7Bz4CTydbMiHDiwaZ_UBhK87B1QW8lP-mFs7qLG_6__qwzYnx8W-bd24-vWNCJFlp2bQyzUxHloKfEWLvSOR83kmVQEacWux9fVzCRNFYuYJJgp3slG1zOd8SSaI9mOBFJZ3RwMvgD-jYLsTnU4JBTTXQwlOHJ9Mz9jq_FWb2XZeCUtylzqa_9mHC3_9OX_xTvqUScUCovQ-Fm8-H2rmenneNAg1G3RTqB0kELOEogFfpTgJQdggGQKieliQtokarQwXv0EMx&smid=share-url

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

remember: if the DPRK is using their chemical industrial base to make munitions for the Russians to use now, then they are *not* making fertilizers for their own farmers to use in Spring.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his military to expand combat exercises and strengthen war preparations during his first appearance in nearly 40 days... Meanwhile, a confidential United Nations report claims that North Korea stole $630m (£525m) in crypto assets in 2022."

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/kim-jong-un-military-parade-nuclear-war-b2277102.html

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edavies@functional.cafe ("Ed Davies") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

'On Monday, John K Kirby, a US National Security Council spokesman, confirmed suspected surveillance balloons flew over the US during Mr Trump's time in office.

"From every indication that we have, that was for brief periods of time — nothing at all like what we saw last week in terms of duration," he said.

On Truth Social, Mr Trump dismissed the reports as "fake disinformation".'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64547394

("fake disinformation" unintelligible moron)

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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

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rose@503junk.house ("Polymer Witch :pdx_elk:") wrote:

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penguwin@chaos.social wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

The irony of it taking me longer to understand and making me angry whenever I read 'a11y' instead of 'accessibility'

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

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gribbles@mastodonmusic.social wrote:

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

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threddyrex@mastodon.art ("Threddy 🦖") wrote:

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• Threddy and Freddy chatting. Panel 1 Freddy: It's time for semester planning. Panel 2 Freddy: If you have any asks, please include them in the planning document. Panel 3 Threddy: I have one ask. Freddy: What's that. Panel 4 Threddy: Can we stop using "ask" like a noun. (remote)