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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The quality of your product isn't the quality of your product for your richest users, it's the value of your service for folks that stretched to pay in the first place. Why? Because their dollars meant more. They thought your values were aligned with their needs; that you'd be a durable substrate for their growth.
Performance, in this sense, is brand identity. It's earned reputational value.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
At Web Directions Summit a few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to catch some talks from GitHubbers that really cared about the UX; who thought about it in terms of access. I can only imagine what they're going through as the React disease makes every surface half as fast for marginalized users.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We need to talk about GitHub -- and I don't mean co-pilot. No, I mean the basic "does this work on my computer?" and "is it good?" stuff about, you know, a collaborative UI on top of git.
Helpfully for GitHub's competitors, recent dogma has demanded that it walk away from the (totally functional, accessible) Web Components infrastructure that led it to be a market success, and replace it with...React? Sure? Fine? As long as the UI is still good? Ok.
Whatever.
Except that it isn't.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
@SwiftOnSecurity Repeat after me: "I am not paid enough to be deposed for this shit."
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Wow, the gang have overcome significant odds, deftly side-stepping a number of pitfalls that had ruined them in other lives, to liberate Satoko from her abusive uncle in a way that's legal and durable and has seemingly healed the larger community of Hinamizawa!
However, there are still like 4 chapters left and the Japanese title of this episode means "complete slaughter" 🙃
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
My new album "Stay Alive" is out today! On Bandcamp and all streaming services. Check it out if you're so inclined, and thanks so much for listening!
https://digits.bandcamp.com/album/stay-alive #music #toronto #canada
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"we're all shocked that the least-worst person we picked off the rack after chaos caused by our wilting head of lettuce, to whom he had lost a leadership contest 3 months earlier, has not been able to assert total dominance of the fascist wing of his party" -- the UK press rn.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
The comments whenever you mention anything about web components.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Things I learned the hard way https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way
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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Or patch the library locally to add appropriate const type modifiers in all the right places so that sort of thing isn't necessary to satisfy the compiler. It wasn't even that many places.
I think that would've been my first impulse once I started to write code like the above. 'Cause... that's embarASSing.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You know, when ya see something like this:
(char*) "constant string"
Ya just gotta rethink using that library. 🤔
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's truly bewildering that I'm still manually disabling atime on new OS installs in 2023.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:
My nerdy friend just got a PhD on the history of palindromes.
We now call him Dr. Awkward.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of course, I say this, and about an hour into my session I find a bug in the compiler. 😆
(It has been fixed in a newer version.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've been using Python and the like for so long that it's strangely refreshing to have an opportunity to use a language with a compiler that yells at me for simple blunders and typos before I can run anything.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Carl Svensson's recent blog post on software usability resonates with my own observations and experiences:
https://www.datagubbe.se/usab2/
I don't presently use Slack, but his example there seems like a particularly egregious example.
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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:
Ink/acrylic drawing of wegui, from the band wedance. I was watching the "Dancing On The Farm" session the other day and I loved how he just had a curtain of hair in front of his face a lot of the time.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I feel like it's pretty rare that the optimal format for a chunk of information is a 40 minute talk but when it's good it's sooooo good
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Finally, I see why Apple's cables cost so much.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/10/a-cable-problem-explained/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Shamelessly stolen from @byelacey.bsky.social; caption of photo is "Link in bio".
Share my misery!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
vruba@everything.happens.horse ("Charlie Loyd") wrote:
“The present IP system can be abused by actors powerful enough to abuse all of our legal systems, therefore we need a much more restrictive IP system” really isn’t clicking for me.
Mastodon FeedWhat Microsoft calls "texture healing" has been implemented as "smart kerning" in
https://commitmono.com
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What student advising days are like…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/10/some-days/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The frame before the first frame. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
finally got a chance to look at it and evan czapliki's "the economics of programming languages" is as good as everyone says it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8
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aaronsgiles@corteximplant.com ("Aaron Giles") wrote:
Even though neither Loom nor Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade shipped with Hercules graphics support, the Passport to Adventure demo CD offers a Hercules video option. Which means you can check out both games (along with Secret of Monkey Island, which did support Hercules) in glorious green & black to see what might have been.
(The scaling artifacts on the text are from the original game, not from DREAMM. Guessing they didn't put too much work into cleaning up that stuff for a rather niche market.)
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veltar@piaille.fr ("Veltar") wrote:
La table parfaite n'existe p...
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Looks like @polygon is now officially on Mastodon too 🙂
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sebastianlaube@layer8.space ("Sebastian Laube") wrote:
Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?
After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?
