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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
just did a sweep of my tertiary twitter DM inbox (open DMs mean you've got messages, message requests, and then a really hidden one) and found 4 pretty important and personal messages from the past few months. just another quiet indicator of things breaking down!
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makeworld@merveilles.town wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and here I thought the GOP was the party of limited government, the party of limited intervention in ‘the Market’. foolish me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/climate/esg-climate-backlash.html
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Here's some ambient joy for your ear holes. Suzanne Ciani's and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's "Sunergy":
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys-vol-13-sunergy
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
religious schools should not escape oversight.
“Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say
The proposals from state legislators come in response to a New York Times investigation that reported the use of slaps and kicks to keep order in some Hasidic Jewish schools.”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/nyregion/hasidic-schools-ny-lawmakers-corporal-punishment.html
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
what is collaboration, and what is sticking to your post?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/world/europe/ukraine-kherson-mayor-russia.html
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Diversity officers hired in 2020 are losing their jobs, and the ones who remain are mostly white - NBC News
what is wrong with this picture?
“Another survey showed that Black employees represent only 3.8% of chief diversity officers overall, with white people making up 76.1% of the roles. Those of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity make up 7.8% and those of Asian ethnicity make up 7.7%”
pretty much all aspects, that’s what.
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therisingtithes@wandering.shop ("Brandon O'Brien") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this would screw over some of our most vulnerable citizens. rather than taxing the low-and middle-earners amongst us. instead, how about upping the cap so those making over the 2023 Social Security wage base of $160,200 (up from the 2022 limit of $147,000) pay their fair share?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-security-senate-talks_n_63ffc993e4b0a96d9cd14d03
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Moving to something that's more of a slow dance compared to most of the songs in this thread with Natalie Merchant's "Kind and Generous". It's sweet, expansive gratitude is a balm for a weary soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxAggE3t9E
The original video is fun, but I didn't link it first because the left channel audio has some distracting distortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwyIad93-c
Ooh... Looks like she has something coming out in April:
https://nataliemerchant.bandcamp.com/album/keep-your-courage
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Do you know whose fault the Vietnam War was?
Darwin.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/02/its-too-early-in-the-morning-for-this-crap/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't go to college, kids. We have a big pipe that we'll use to fill you up with green stuff through the giant hole in your head.
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
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j9t@mas.to ("Jens Oliver Meiert") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Going to start involuntary nodding into the late 2030s whenever the memory of this post percolates from the depths:
https://www.spicyweb.dev/the-great-gaslighting-of-the-js-age/
/by @jaredwhite
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
You love to see a good roasting of the MBA class:
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serpentroots@hachyderm.io ("Tom Jowitt") wrote:
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hi_mayank@hachyderm.io ("Mayank") wrote:
as the camera moves, the refelection on the button changes, and you can see them waving their hand.
clicking a few times on the button makes it fog up.][5] ([remote][6])
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Frontend 2023, basically:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And this should be the caution message attached to these tools; some sort of badge that says "known to perform in environments with at least N performance and infrastructure engineers per product".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This struck me as I was explaining to yet another team that their house keeps bursting into flames not because they're bad programmers but because their tools are the tech equivalent of kiln-dried, kerosene-soaked pine.
When someone told them "it scaled", it was in the porcine flight-school sense: any pig can get to altitude with enough force.
*MOST* of what allowed Framework X to scale was the scaled infra, not the framework!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's a very delayed insight, but when someone says "oh, X scales, BigCo uses it", understand this as the person making the claim to be performing a verbal interpretive dance. It bears only an evocative connection with reality, which is that BigCo's staff teams to keep things running on the rails, and that those investments have a minimum functional size.
That is, without *at least one* fire-fighter on staff full-time, don't expect X to avoid spontaneous combustion.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
2023 is shaping up to be a big year for Team Finding Out:
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ANC_Historian@mastodon.akhepcat.com ("David Reamer") wrote:
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I think Pokemon Go might group South Texas in with Mexico/Latin America for the purpose of region-specific stuff. The Vivillon pattern that you can get from postcards here matches the one listed for Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas rather than the one for Texas.
According to a wiki I found, the parts of TX and Florida south of 29N are also the only places in the US where you can find a Heracross, another one that in less-detailed guides is supposed to be exclusive to South & Central America
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What really blows mind about frontend's lost decade is that we were promised the UI equivalent of electric flying cars instead of the reliable Toyota hybrids we had gotten used to and now we're all just trying to figure out how to afford gas for the broke-ass, beat up Silverado's we `npm i`'d instead.
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alex@cybervillains.com ("Alex Stamos") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As @samruby would say, it's all intertwingly. We need our profession to deliver for users so that our profession (which, as @remotesynth points out, is longer than the life of any tool) can remain relevant.
I'm not telling you to write raw JS and HTML, I'm not saying "no frameworks", but we must mark this stuff to market. It's long past time, and to get there we need to put outcomes for users in the frame of reference, along with developer feels.
