Mastodon Feed: Posts

More headcount means lowered stress in every WG and CG. It means not having to omit the truth or gaslight developers. It means being able to participate in design like a Real Boy browser.

The future of competing is not a risk for WebKit, it's an asset with variable (but high) returns.

Managera in the Apple software universe that grok this differently either owns a nice house in SF (and another in Marin/Tahoe) or are slightly deluded.

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 6:07 AM

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

The feeling is understandable, the cause is not my (extremely belated, if unusually informed and detailed) critique. WebKit is a failure. It's renovation will be useful, but all trust is now destroyed.

The only path forward is competition, and it will help Fruties too.

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 6:02 AM

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

The hours I've personally spent consulting on how to handle toxic Apple engineers would saturate even the most generous biography with boring repetition. No amount of bad behaviour in public – in service of delay at least – was, seemingly, too much.

And I'm reliably informed Apple feel aggrieved!

Honestly, and with the benefit of hindsight and my own (considerable) errors: fuck that noise.

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 6:01 AM

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

when I was living in Indonesia I bought this album "Ketika" by Indonesian indie rockers Pas, and I gotta say, it's held up a lot better than most of my high school faves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNsdI6dGA78

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 5:58 AM

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

This is, of course, the top of the shite funnel. Because Apple Corporate and Apple Legal muzzle debate, along with myriad and regrettable AstroTurf organisations that Apple is now funding (strongest tell: no coders on staff), the good folks on WebKit are harmed, but so are the collaborative and thoughtful engineers from every other project.

We tiptoe on egg shells to avoid angering Cupertino, slowing progress immesurably.

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 5:49 AM

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

Rewatching The Big Short, and the lede is 100% applicable to the JS excess of the past decade:

"But here were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big ole party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. [ narrator ] These outsiders saw the giant lie at the head of the economy and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: they looked."

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 5:19 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
therealfitz@wandering.shop ("Brian Fitzpatrick") wrote:

Attachments:

7e3b7e8d397c72fc.png (remote)

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:53 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:44 AM

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

Amidst Apple:

- Failing to deliver a competent browser
- Failing to apologise for a decade of said failure
- And failing to open up about roadmaps

It's natural to overlook the toll that Apple's senior management has taken on the rank and file. They can't apologise (policy), they can't tell you when something will be fixed (policy), and they subject their own people to uniquely challenging critique owing to uniquely anti-competitive corporate policy.

Shite management in shareholder service.

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:31 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Attachments:

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:29 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:28 AM

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

Friends, compatriots, muy amigos, sceptics, college mutual distancers, industry rivals, abject enemies:

You can't accept both the premise that this is an "extinction-level event" and that Peter fucking Thiel should be anywhere near your next round. It's decision time in the South Bay:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/svb-draws-support-from-more-than-100-venture-firms-investors

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:20 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
venya@mastodon.sdf.org ("Venya") wrote:

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:14 AM

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
chris_kirsch@infosec.exchange ("Chris Kirsch :verified: :donor:") wrote:

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:14 AM

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

Ok, so are we all ((re-)re-)watching The Big Short tonight? Or....

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:13 AM

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

Watched a YT video today of someone building a new (electric) aerospace engine, and literally all of their CAD and FEA tools were on the web.

My mind was blown, and I'm basically ground zero for "this should exist"

Mastodon FeedMar 12, 2023, 4:06 AM

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