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

The problem with modern frontend isn't that people pick React, it's that a huge chunk of industry have abandoned user-centric values in the name of efficiency, delivering neither good UX nor acceptable DX in the process.

Picking React in '23 is merely a symptom of a much deeper rot.

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

I know, from experience, that ~nobody dragging React behind them into the new gig is thinking in terms of cost; it's all "opportunity", but if you asked "cool, but what framework from this decade would you pick?", they don't have an answer.

React is legacy tech, held up by a dense web of cargo cults, self-congratulating to a lack of conclusive evidence. How it has remained so turgidly preeminent is a mystery only solved by an industry of product mangers failing to mange their products.

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

What is this...an email for ants?

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• 0c39d2ac89f8ac9d.png (remote)

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

People ask me for advice about career stuff, and the answer is always the same: give a shit about your marginal user.

All rips, no skips, on the other side of doing right by the lest of us.

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

moshboy wrote:

stuart smith's adventure construction set, user interface, apple II (1985) https://www.mobygames.com/game/991/stuart-smiths-adventure-construction-set/screenshots/apple2/432058/

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• user interface for editing creature sprites. some of the sprites here include a spider, a cat, a lizard, birds, a poodle, an army man, a policeman, a strong almost naked man, a blonde woman, an old woman, a rat, a monkey, a bat, etc. they are in a chunkier, more lofi apple II font.

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vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

Seriously tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04N0Nxc2i3Q

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

retr0id@retr0.id ("David Buchanan") wrote:

*reading a golang codebase*

this isn't very pythonic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

at annual ‘Membership Meeting’ for local #AmateurRadio group 📡

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

straphanger@urbanists.social ("Taras Grescoe 🚇") wrote:

Not #Amsterdam. Not #Copenhagen

It's #backtoschool in... #Paris

Bicycles, scooters, e-bikes, bikeshare, wheelchairs...and a few, whatdyacallem?

Oh yeah, cars.

Enjoy, and prepare to be hypnotized.

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• 71bb8e21ceeab0d9.mp4 (remote)

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

I love recordings of old Craig Ferguson talk shows. This one had me in tears. #comedy https://youtu.be/AQhxVINuJrI?si=j7CKl5dcmjX-jyJw

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nervous_jesse@mathstodon.xyz ("Jesse Louis-Rosenberg") wrote:

We made a new puzzle based on the Spectre tile, the aperiodic monotile discovered earlier this year by @Chaimgoodmanstrauss, @csk, and others. It is a set of 111 tiles with a truchet-style pattern printed on them

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=409

#mathart #tiling #spectre #aperiodicmonotile

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• Wooden jigsaw puzzle of Spectre tiles with a black pattern printed on natural wood (remote)

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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

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• 5830599f2335e400.png (remote)

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steve@discuss.systems ("Steve Canon") wrote:

Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases
@rjmccall

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

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Holy crap Microsoft figured out how their signing key was leaked. Must read:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

coupland@cryptodon.lol wrote:

I hate when the battery on my electric tooth brush dies and I have to move my hand around to brush my teeth. What am I, an animal?

#humor #humour #icantlivelikethis

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

The thing that always drives me insane about Tailwind is how far out of your way it makes you go to use some of the absolute best features of CSS.

A grid where every row/column is _not_ the same width? Sorry, you're gonna need to either make that a JIT class or edit a config file.

Container queries? Gonna need to install a plugin for that.

I don't know how many seconds I ostensibly save by staying in markup, but I'm pretty certain it's not as many as I lose to fiddly little crap like this.

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

🎶 Toss a coin to your Instance,
O Valley of Plenty!

(A reminder that it is your patronage and donations that keep many Instances on the Fediverse alive.)

#Krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource #TheWitcher #CreativeCommons

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• A digital painting cartoon parody of "The Witcher" with a mastodon-ified Geralt and Jaskier in the street of a castle (with the banner of the Fediverse). Mastogeralt is on a horse, happy, while mastoJaskier sing ahead of the horse, just walking and playing the luth. In the large audience (painterly) we can recognise Ai or Pleroma. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (remote)

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

robby@zoinks.one ("~robby") wrote:

What should be considered in-scope for a standard library to be productive writing applications? What would you expect from a "general purpose" language? I'm looking for a fairly exhaustive list, so err on the side of inclusion if you're on the fence about something.

Boosts appreciated for more perspectives :)

#programming

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

new launch-to-hack speed run contender

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• Tweets by GMBL.COMPUTER @gmblcomputer 16h iNVESTiGATiNG A POTENTiAL EXPLOiT 18h $GMBL iS LiVE PLAY, LP, REFER, STAKE, TRADE CLAiMS ARE OPEN!!! (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

BREAKING our climate:
The August average of the atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa was 419.7 ppm; that's 2.5 ppm higher than last year!
#emissions #co2 #maunaloa #ClimateChange #globalwarming

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• Graph showing steady growth of CO2 concentration, with seasonal swings. (remote)

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Let me repeat this slowly.
Your #TypeScript interfaces are not enough for documentation.

Again: TypeScript interfaces are not documentation.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Witness in Trump documents case reached deal with prosecutors, ex-attorney says

“Prosecutors said in an August court filing that the witness initially denied any knowledge of obstruction. After receiving a letter from the special counsel's office threatening him with prosecution, he dropped Woodward as his attorney and then detailed alleged efforts to delete security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago, they said.”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/witness-trump-documents-case-reached-deal-with-prosecutors-ex-attorney-says-2023-09-06/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The search interface has been updated again—you've now got infinite scroll on search results. Want to search for something you've already bookmarked? Add in:library to your search query.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Idaho’s obstetrics exodus is not happening in isolation. Across the country, in red states like Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee, obstetricians — including highly skilled doctors who specialize in handling complex and risky pregnancies — are leaving their practices. Some newly minted doctors are avoiding states like Idaho.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Yay! My lab was filled with a cloud of spiderlings this morning!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/06/more-spiders/

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• Parasteatoda, a few hours old (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“There is no evidence at this time that there is any relationship between the two adjournments. But if prosecutors were to offer Mr. Miele a plea deal, it could, in theory, be contingent on his testimony against Mr. Santos. A judge was asked to postpone Mr. Miele’s status conference to Oct. 6.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/nyregion/george-santos-plea-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“If Digital World shareholders had not approved the extension, the company would have had to return the money raised in its I.P.O. to shareholders on Friday.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/business/trump-truth-social-merger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

dznz@cloudisland.nz ("Daniel") wrote:

PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.

Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.

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mhoye wrote:

If you're a fan of the old school computer fonts, you should know about this: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

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

combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

this is "POET.EXE," a new artwork which embodies a computational poem, "Rage Fire," written by Casey Smith.

There are four lines in each reading of the poem—but each has 250 possible variations.

"POET.EXE" allows you to change one line of the poem—but the others will change uncontrollably when you do.

It is on display at the Delaware College of Art + Design through mid-October.

#MastoArt #Interactive

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• A strange machine hangs on a wall. Its vibe is bureaucratic and industrial, or so I intend. There are four screens which can move left or right, thanks to their motors, which are hanging out in the open. At the bottom there is a metal panel lit by a small light with four grooves. Touching the grooves causes the corresponding carriage to move—and changing the line of the poem. It currently reads: "Solitary volume greeted / dart like darting birds / south-wind / like a fairy dream" (remote)
• a side view makes the shallow depth of the machine more clear. It reads: "Red moons lamp / daggers of ice / diamonds in the sun / sparks from an anvil" (remote)
• Just the screens, closer up. They are formed with red dot-matrix LED matrices. Same poem as the first image: "Solitary volume greeted / dart like darting birds / south-wind / like a fairy dream" (remote)
• A view of the touch-sensitive grooves, which each read "Output Shaping 1" (and so on) in the font Futura. The last line of the poem, only, is visible: "arrows to their marks" (remote)