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msbutah@mstdn.social ("Matt Blank") wrote:

I think this vacuum has a side quest for me.

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

You'd think that after the `shouldComponentUpdate()` and `useMemo()` debacles the community would have learned...but no? They're still at it, trying to treat the next syntactic hack has a revelation when, in fact, it's just going to make aggregate work -- both on user machines and in the lives of developers.

We're gonna be unpicking viral `"use client"` payload disasters for years after we finally boot out Styled Components and the CSS-in-JS nonsense. smdh.

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

Maybe some year the obvious #designfail of React Server Face...er....Components will stop being hilarious to me, but not this year.

There are still people out there studying it like it's a giant black obelisk instead of the obviously horrible syntactic hack that it transparently is. `"use client"` is *always* going to suck for real codebases without gargantuan automation and compiler/server integration...and you know who has that outside FB? Nobody. Literally nobody.

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sebsauvage@framapiaf.org wrote:

@Dalipas
J'en profite pour re-poster ça :

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mozilla@mozilla.social ("Mozilla") wrote:

Exciting news for Firefox users on Android! 📱

Get ready for the debut of open extensions on Firefox for Android on December 14th.

But guess what? You don't have to wait!

Check out this blog post to get a sneak peek today: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-on-firefox-for-android-debut-december-14-but-you-can-get-a-sneak-peek-today/

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

The crows have taken over the Pacific Northwest. I, for one, welcome…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/15/crow-city/

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

bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

The new #github based on #react is an abject failure to improve the user experience. On every count it is objectively worse than previous iterations.

Page load time is poor, interactivity is gated seemingly on very large JS loads. Initial page layout is broken on mobile and randomly resizes the width of the viewport after loading. The number of micro-annoyances seem to be adding up daily.

This is like an object lesson in what not to do to your successful webapp.

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

should metafilter dot social filter meta's social?

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

fedi these days is mostly meta threads about Meta Threads

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

I am pleased that the Satanic display in Iowa was struck down, for mythic reasons.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/15/if-you-strike-me-down-i-shall-become-more-powerful-than-you-can-possibly-imagine-2/

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

jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

Safari 17.2 includes linear() - a way to define custom CSS easings, enabling things like bounce and elastic.

Here's a tool to convert JavaScript and SVG curves to this new format https://linear-easing-generator.netlify.app/?codeType=js&code=self.bounce+%3D+function%28pos%29+%7B%0A++const+n1+%3D+7.5625%3B%0A++const+d1+%3D+2.75%3B%0A%0A++if+%28pos+%3C+1+%2F+d1%29+%7B%0A++++return+n1+*+pos+*+pos%3B%0A++%7D+else+if+%28pos+%3C+2+%2F+d1%29+%7B%0A++++return+n1+*+%28pos+-%3D+1.5+%2F+d1%29+*+pos+%2B+0.75%3B%0A++%7D+else+if+%28pos+%3C+2.5+%2F+d1%29+%7B%0A++++return+n1+*+%28pos+-%3D+2.25+%2F+d1%29+*+pos+%2B+0.9375%3B%0A++%7D+else+%7B%0A++++return+n1+*+%28pos+-%3D+2.625+%2F+d1%29+*+pos+%2B+0.984375%3B%0A++%7D%0A%7D&simplify=0.0017&round=3

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We're testing a couple new follow recommendation algorithms on mastodon.online, so if you have an account there, please check Explore → People and let me know if the quality of the results has improved for you.

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7JLIYnuD0

#Germans vs Old #English : how much can they grok?

#language

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Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

pandora_parrot@beach.city (":rainbow_heart: Pandora") wrote:

Oh this is an amazing take down of cult behavior and how common it is in our current society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gg4_4GIEg

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

hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

@slightlyoff there’s been a fair amount of slinking back and I refuse to stand for it. I logged in to post this but I feel like I’m screaming into the void https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2023/10/02/the-idle-elite/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have to admit this year has been destructively stressful for me. I wish I could feel some sense of accomplishment about work done, but it's just not there, just this sense of a million other things that are urgently overdue and another million I'm forgetting.

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

The PS3 is a little crusty but doesn't feel THAT retro until you get started and find out that one of the big jailbreak tools uses an exploit in the browser's Flash plugin

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

After a little messing around, I decided to try and jailbreak the PS3 anyway because the official store is absolutely miserable to use. The re-download page is just a big undifferentiated heap of everything you've ever "purchased"--system themes, icons, DLC, demos, demo unlocks, and even full games for the PSP and Vita. It also loves to crash and randomly sign out.

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carson@mastodon.sdf.org ("Carson Chittom") wrote:

Finally got around to watching @bcantrill 's AI talk on how "Intelligence Is Not Enough." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

Worth watching. If you get bogged down in the technical details of the engineering problems in the middle, skip to the 30:00 mark for the conclusions. (I wish he'd do a "normie" version that'd be easier to share.)

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

“Since launching his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump has said the “termination” of the Constitution would have been justified to overturn the 2020 election, told followers “I am your retribution” and vowed to use the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries — starting with President Biden and his family.

Beneath these public threats is a series of plans by Mr. Trump and his allies that would upend core elements of American governance, democracy, foreign policy and the rule of law if he regained the White House.”

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-2025-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-0w.5NCz.iL54GwUyDHYL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Work Hard. Play Hard.

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

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

There are 100 ways the current ransomware problem can and probably will get worse and nastier. Every single cybercriminal or aspiring crook is now focused on ransomware or data ransom payments as THE path to financial success. It's no longer just the Russians. It's the Chinese, the North Koreans, and Iran.

Either way, these countries don't just want to hurt the United States: They would rather the US died in a fire. For companies to make payments to these regimes -- and their cybercriminal apparatus is always part of the regime -- is bonkers, IMHO.

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

It's long past time for the element to support blured previews and fade-in of `loading="lazy"` content.

Nobody should have to hand-roll this stuff in 2023 or wonder if their impl will get correctly composited.

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I don't have anything witty to say about Orbán, I'm just glad #EU memberships is starting to happen for #Ukraine. (And Moldova, and Georgia, both of which have also been saddled for years with separatist regions heavily backed/created by Russia.)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/eu-sidestep-viktor-orban-to-open-membership-talks-with-ukraine

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elmowilk@mastodon.online ("Anselmo") wrote:

🚂 New game announcement !! 🚂

I’m very happy to announce “Times of Progress”, an isometric city-builder game set during the industrial revolution.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2628450/Times_of_Progress/

Please boost!

(+ sound ON if you can)

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

This talk by @TheRealNooshu should be required viewing for every frontend team. Seriously, treat it as a training video and make your team answer multiple-choice questions about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBxrZB9V_c

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one recently disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

#twitter #birdsite

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

Logging into Twitter is a sad reminder of just how few tech influencers that claimed to care about causes can be mildly inconvenienced to take action.

They're just out there engagement farming like nothing happened -- debating boring technical points on tendentious premises as though fascists didn't take over the joint.

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

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

New on my blog:

An HTML Templating Language That Keeps Its Secrets

https://scottjehl.com/posts/declarative/

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

lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

i forgot to repost this absolute gem of VC brain worms that @matasar sent me

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