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cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:
Wayland (formerly X)
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annaecook@mstdn.social ("Anna E. Cook") wrote:
Be sure to check your kid's candy this year! Just found an accessibility overlay in my kid's candy! ⚠️
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Anyway, just a reminder to hire people to solve problems with HTML and CSS, not too make them with JS.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
These folks can't be serious thought leaders because they aren't in touch with reality outside the privilege bubble.
It's fine to ignore them. They haven't been right for a decade, and I think that's long enough.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
None of this is new, and none of the bad effects have abated at scale enough to relax. New projects are still being started on react and angular. The JS emitters have no shame because they largely don't think they did anything wrong.
Something something "interactivity" (for rich users) something something.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But world-historically rich programmers didn't want to hear about it, and browsers let them get away with UX murder.
Frontend's Lost Decade is now a threat to the value of the web to businesses and users. A collective failure of uncapped JS emissions that has destroyed vale at shocking scale:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ever since, the frontend community has poured its investment and attention into minor permutations of the same 2008-browser-centric frameworks and approaches.
It isn't working. We lost an entire decade on one great branch mispredict. The trends that used to deliver for "everyone" only continued for the rich.
For everyone else, Moore's Law meant first-time access through hand-me-down CPUs and networks as prices fell.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There have, of course, been good reasons to lean on userland abstraction – Safari sandbagged platform advancement this whole time, much the way IE6 used to – but repeated warnings didn't cause a change in behaviour.
The pushback to this sitrep in 2016 was *furious*:
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The Higurashi cast love to call Keiichi "the magician of words" but all his spells are either pedophile ravings about his classmates or long asides about videogames that did not exist at the time the VNs are set
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reigns, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted useland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".
This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.
They could not have been more wrong.
JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.
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- [The median mobile web page has ~4x as much JS on it vs. a decade ago. Meanwhile, the median CPU is barely 2x faster.
JS-first web development was a planetary-scale mistake.][5] ([remote][6])
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm reminded that polls are not accurate any more, but this is wild stuff even with large error bars:
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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:
"Resource Loading at the Cutting Edge" by @programmingart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV034VqHv5Q
Entertaining and slightly horrifying talk about how buggy HTTP resource priorities are across browsers, servers, HTTP versions… My takeaway is that I will probably just defer to the experts on this stuff instead of trying to go mucking around in the priorities myself.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Jeff Bezos Donates $120 Million to Fight Homelessness, Then Invests $500 Million to Make It Worse
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
the relentless waves of email from anybody I'd ever dealt with online felt like a problem I would never solve but lo and behold a tiny bit of effort has improved things
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
feeling pretty bad about a lot of things right now but I do want to report that about a week of diligently unsubscribing from unwanted marketing emails has really made a difference 🫡
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This year the tree was requested to be stood up in the actual center of the room.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The Platform Law Blog is always deeply informed:
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Looking back through almost 10 years of CodePen history, I'm struck by how many of my super old pens from before I knew much at all about JavaScript (and I didn't even consider myself a developer yet) are actually still super cool.
Always keep things you make. Always.
You might one day appreciate anew what creativity was born of those old constraints.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
look
on the bright side
of liiiiiife…
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: 1970, Cesar Chavez Jailed For Leading Boycott
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Trump pardoned them. Now they’re helping him return to power. - The Washington Post
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The true history of Israel-Hamas relations… is very simple. It is war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout …. Hamas thrives in the wars, because that is all it can deliver and all that it exists for. Israel thrives in the long timeouts — in the cease-fires — when all of its societal, economic and innovative strengths come to the fore. Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah want to drag Israel into a permanent state of war. Israel needs… to advocate instead for longer cease-fires, a more hardened border and the flexibility to return to Gaza if Hamas forces it to.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It turns out that the prosperity gospel is pretty much indistinguishable from effective altruism.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/03/science-contest-at-the-ark-park/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh… it is, it is
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Do you want to spend 4 hours watching serial plagiarists getting disemboweled? hbomberguy is here for you!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/03/pounding-plagiarism-into-a-thin-vile-slime/
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DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social ("Denis - The COVID info guy -") wrote:
Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit COVID within minutes.
"A susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh yes, yes yes yes
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shadsy@digipres.club ("Phil Salvador") wrote:
VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 1:
We remastered the 1998 documentary The Making of Riven from the original master tape from Cyan. You've NEVER seen it at this quality before!
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
My wife made a Mastodon bauble!
