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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i built a little webapp that saves state as an unruly URI fragment hash but it looks like some clients (like Signal and Apple Messages) don't want to recognize the whole things as a complete URL. is there anything I can do about that?
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Logging off like...
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schizanon@mas.to ("🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸") wrote:
> Well the Devil put the coal in the ground, Devil put the coal in the ground, said I double-dog dare you to follow me down, Devil put the coal in the ground.
https://youtu.be/wLvJW5F9WT4?si=PQ8t6IM4Kd20AgyW
#lyrics #country #music #countryMusic #climateChange #coal #mining #capitalism @countrymusic
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
JavaScript isn't what you're against.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The JS-first approach to web development requires a suspension of disbelief; a semi-conscious unlearning of what worked based on data-thin systems about what will surely be possible after you make the leap.
Now, a decade on, we don't need to. Just count the lethargic tombstone UIs and writhing, pained teams, helpless to crawl back out of the tar pit.
Vercel et. al. are selling diving boards; why are y'all still jumping off?
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achim@social.saarland ("Achim Domma") wrote:
"Intelligence is not Enough" Great talk by @bcantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(I hang out here and try to curate the people I follow (and the ones I block and mute) so I get the right sort of propaganda.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Logging in every day to ensure I get my daily dose:
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derwinmcgeary@octodon.social ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:
I guard my true email address like a character in a folk tale avoiding giving the fair folk anything to work with
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
some of y'all need to stop obsessing over devices, and start contemplating devirtues
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Between @MrLovenstein, @warandpeas, @exocomics, @oglaf and @Chrishallbeck, Mastodon is very well covered in terms of webcomics. I only wish False Knees was here, too.
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amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space ("Andrew") wrote:
like email, emotion is short for e-motion, and that in turn is short for electric motion
the term was introduced in late 19th century when electric motors started to be used to drive the kinematics of the machinery instead of piston engines
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
i think the best fact i know is “make gear ratios coprime so they evenly wear”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Guess how many spiders my wife and I paired up this morning?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/19/bless-your-beautiful-hide/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
The Associated Press just served me an ad for fake anti-virus. The entire page was taken over, and forwarded to the malicious site, within seconds of opening the news article, every time.
An ad blocker isn't just something to hide some annoying eyesores, it's a vital layer of security.
If you have friends or family who might fall for fake AV or "windows technical the department" scams, they *need* an ad blocker. No site they visit can be considered "safe" unless it simply doesn't have ads.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Does anybody else read the email titles in their promotions folder and think "wow...an actual human at a large corporation said ok to that"?
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calcifer@hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:
Are you colder than the surrounding high-humidity air? You may be entitled to condensation
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francc@mastodon.online ("Fran 🇦🇷") wrote:
If you bought something from Digi-Key in the last 20 years, surely you will recognize what this lamp shade is made from. Yes! That slotted brown paper with a sexy texture that I find too beautiful to toss in the garbage 😁 So here you have the Digi-Key Paper Lamp! You can build one using a light bulb holder with cord, a cable tie, an LED bulb, and some of that awesome Digi-Key packaging 💡♻️📦
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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
@carnage4life can’t believe a bunch of effective altruists didn’t know how to function in the real world
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aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:
Regular reminder that even vast swathes of the US still have shitty internet connectivity:
“One of Wisconsin's most isolated places is finally getting fast internet”
https://www.wpr.org/one-wisconsins-most-isolated-places-finally-getting-fast-internetPlease consider this when choosing your framework, library, dependencies, third-party services, 9MB background images (looking at you, recent event), fonts, etc. Not everyone is using your high-end system, massive display, and fast connection.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
Of all the ants I keep only the Eastern Black Carpenters are so committed to going into diapause that they will enter it even if I don't put them in the fridge. The rest of the ants seem inclined to stay up all winter, if at a lower activity level. Maybe because Camponotus pennslyvanicus tends to live in tree trunks that often freeze solid during winter? Or are these other ants more opportunistic?
It's alarming to watch a once voracious colony just stop eating, but girls need to sleep.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is a *really* interesting piece on modern African artists (unlocked, no paywall)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We don't have the text of the argument yet, which is presumably good for Apple because they have serially beclowned themselves in front of regulators over the past couple of years. And you might too if the alternative was losing your grip over billions per year in unwarranted rent extraction!
If you want to help Apple avoid this sort of ritual embarrassment, support @owa . Their work is bringing an end to the anti-web architecture of mobile OSes, and they need your help.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple's maximalist legal posturing gives away the game: it wants unlimited power to continue to hold the web back, and there's no plausible pro-consumer argument for it. This is just rent extraction, pure and simple.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon FeedMasters of Doom - this is a really fun book for someone who grew up with games like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Read/listen to it if you love gaming history.
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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:
The E/V Nautilus team encounter a Flapjack Octopus off the central California coast.
Video credit: E/V Nautilus
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
7 months old, but if you watch it, you'll grok why that doesn't mean it's late:
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MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:
