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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Is performance more important to you than usability, ergonomics, DX... in a programming language?

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

In other words, expect Apple to play games for years to come:

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2023/11/28/ensuring-dma-compliance-what-are-the-business-users-options/

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

eri@moth.zone ("eri :vlpn_smol::therian:") wrote:

share if you're a fan of the ELKAY® ezH2O® Bottle Filling Station & Water Fountain

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• ELKAY ezH2O water bottle filling station (remote)

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

Playing fetch with my child while my dog sits on the couch and watches because this is apparently what they both want to do.

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

nickthewright@mastodon.art ("Nick Wright") wrote:

1993: I use BBSes for online interaction. Each BBS is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.

2008-2022: I use social networks like Facebook and Twitter for online interaction. They're huge and popular. I use Evernote for my notes, which is full of features.

2023: I use Mastodon for online interaction. Each instance is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Football, it's like Rocket League with a smaller ball and no cars.

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

hawkticehurst@fosstodon.org ("Hawk Ticehurst") wrote:

While the term “HTML Web Components” is fresh out of the oven, the architecture it refers to has been sitting on the counter at room temperature for a while. In this post I offer my insights and musings from a year of working with these components.

Using HTML web components (esp with tools like @astro) has been a deeply refreshing and encouraging method of building interactive UI. I think it really has the potential to change how we build the web.

#HTML #WebComponents

https://hawkticehurst.com/writing/a-year-working-with-html-web-components/

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

So… OpenAI happened.. and @bcantrill and I tried to break it down with help from @sdtuck and special guest @ChuckMcManis. It was a truly marvelous episode that this text box is too narrow to contain. Check it out! https://youtu.be/nCZywsprF3E

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

The BBC admits that they don't do fact checking.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/the-bbc-backs-down/

Attachments:

• BBC breaking news (remote)

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

the elf emoji designs are outrageous. at the very least we should be able to ZWJ it with 🎄

Attachments:

• Emoji design for "elf" by Apple and Google, both going in a very Lord of the Rings direction (remote)

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

SuperSelena64@vmst.io ("Selena the Retro-Princess") wrote:

Yes I'm a woman who believes in crystals and that their vibrations affect our lives!

The System Crystal in the original Nintendo runs at 21.47727 MHz and is integral to the operation of the Picture Processing Unit!

#retrogaming

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

I just donated to @freedomofpress to help protect journalists, whistleblowers, and our right to know. You can too: https://freedom.press/donate

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

https://drawfast.tldraw.com/ is really fun and pretty fascinating - it gives you real-time editing of a Stable Diffusion image guided by a prompt and your sketch

Here's my attempt at a pelican in a fancy hat

Attachments:

• On the left, a sketching box and the prompt "watercolor of a pelican". As I roughly sketch an image of a pelican starts to appear on the right, adjusting to my edits. Then I change the prompt to add "in a fancy hat" and sketch out a smart little hat. (remote)

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

hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("hannah (not scary)") wrote:

It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information

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

fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:

A: TypeScript is a type-annotated dialect of JavaScript

B: Awesome! Oh that is so good and has long been needed. How do I get it?

A: npm

B: It's too bad nobody has invented a typed JS. That'd be so handy

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

Hopeful we'll see some snow today.... https://botsin.space/@choochoobot/111489394375845122

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

choochoobot@botsin.space ("trains botting") wrote:

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

I have been clicking "unsubscribe" on all the unsolicited marketing email that has come my way and I don't know if it's working but I feel POWERFUL

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

I first saw that film in fifth grade at school using the latest technology of VHS. Actually, it might've been a Betamax? Anyway, whatever, that scene was like a punch in the gut, and the wolf was terrifying, and I'll never forget the Rockbiter's line, "They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they?"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g

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

TFW you realize you are both Atreyu and Artax in the Swamps of Sadness.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Not me being nerd-sniped by a bug that was of very minor importance to our client if anything. Nope, couldn't be me.

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

I've gotten into the habit of writing most of my command line tools to require an argument even if the argument doesn't do anything. Especially for anything potentially destructive. That way, if you just type the command with no arguments, you will get some help telling you what the command does and why'd you run it without causing any harm. A lot of my placeholder arguments are just "go".

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

zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

I’ve started to notice that there is a very particular brand of tech influencer that almost exclusively conflates the technical merit of a thing with its money-making ability.

But the most efficient technical solution may not be the solution that makes the most money.

e.g. Fast builds are lost revenue for companies that charge for build time (aka the Jamstack paradox)

…and now I can’t unsee it.

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

sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@zachleat I heard a joke once about the money trickling down. But 99% of people didn't get it.

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

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

That feeling when you take the State of JS survey mostly to see what bad ideas are in the running for this year’s popularity contest.

(Popularity contests are an extremely bad foundation for feature prioritisation. That browser vendors use this in any way for their decision-making should horrify you.)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The more I learn about Dream Daddy the more I feel vindicated in staying away because the whiff of irony coming from it was too strong. Not even written by gay men!

I don't want to discourage straight people from including gay stuff in their work, but if the gay romance you're making is 1. completely standalone and 2. completely a funny little novelty, or your treatise on the frivolousness of romance media, maybe take a moment to reflect on your motivations.

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

I can't believe I signed up for this.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/oh-god-no/

Attachments:

• "Does god exist" debate announcement (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

danilop@awscommunity.social ("Danilo Poccia") wrote:

Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust 👉 The SDK supports modern Rust language features like async/await, non-blocking IO, and builders, and it provides access to 300+ AWS Services, each with their own crate https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-general-availability-of-the-aws-sdk-for-rust/ #AWS #SDK #Rust

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

These long haired hippies must be expelled from the church!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/its-been-a-long-time-since-i-heard-that-complaint/

Attachments:

• Jesus (remote)