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alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

Liu Cixin's famous sci-fi novel, 'The Three-Body Problem,' is currently being adapted by Netflix. However, there is already an existing Chinese TV series available on Amazon. I've started watching it, and so far, it looks good.
https://t.co/RqVnFR3QEp

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

As someone who worked at both Babbage's and WaldenSoftware as a teenager in the early 1990s, this piece is deeply evocative https://huguesjohnson.com/features/loser_phase/

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

stoyan@indieweb.social wrote:

🪩 Web Performance calendar day 23
🔗 https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2023/inp-performance-analysis-rumvision-data/
🍹 Rick Viscomi (@rick_viscomi) analyzes INP performance using real-world RUMvision #webperf data

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

moh_kohn@mastodon.scot ("Alistair Davidson") wrote:

@slightlyoff @adamhill if I can add to this as an engineer - from the inside it looks like very complicated state management, trouble integrating various libraries (often around forms and validation) a proliferation of loading spinners, approaches to css that are quick to write but hard to maintain, accessibility and default web UX needing reimplemented

The telltale is a whole team spends several months and at the end you have some forms that are a bit worse than default html forms.

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

The Hawking Radiation of the JS-industrial-complex escapes through chirpy stories that get airtime in the web performance community about how some multi-month remediation effort improved a bunch of bad CWV scores and the like.

Behind those stories are, generally, some *seriously* annoyed business leaders. Folks who have lost trust their tech teams are on the same page about business objectives.

I'd like to figure out in 2024 how we can bring more of those stories into the open.

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

*"no one ever got fired for choosing React"* is, AFAICT, not true today, and never has been.

I've witnessed entire teams get flushed and VPs get unceremoniously booted on the other side of grand React redesigns tanking revenue and conversions.

None of those folks talk publicly about how it went down because doing so would simultaneously devalue the thing they've invested in and hurt their own employability within that world. And so we bumble on, omerta in tact.

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

Rejecting React and its ecosystem isn't denying your team a huge pile of uniquely good solutions to fundamental problems, it's a decision not to spend extra time on bad solutions to contrived and/or legacy problems that we've got better solutions for now.

Solutions that don't involve paying people to write brittle JS or tend fragile transpiler jenga towers.

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

Problems of scale React has not helped in the 100+ teams I've consulted with:

• caching
• sharding
• i18n/l18n
• a11y
• code structure
• separation of concerns
• CPU overhead
• memory footprint
• product values

Problems it has helped them with:

• résumé filtering

...but that often turned out to be phyrric, because hiring for framework knowledge is a terrible proxy for fundamentals.

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

lori@hackers.town wrote:

I can't stop thinking about this toy I saw at the flea market today

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• Package title is "Motorized skateboarding dreidel with baby". It's a dreidel with comical glove hands and a face and a hat on a skateboard with flames, and it says "pully string and watch us move across the table!" A smaller identical dreidel guy, who I guess is the baby, is behind him on a smaller skateboard. (remote)

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

IDK, man, it just feels like instead of talking about how to "conquer large scale React apps", maybe spend more energy rejecting the idea that e-commerce sites and marketing landing pages and blogs are, in fact, "large scale React apps"?

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

TIL that Safari *still* doesn't support `stale-while-revalidate`

🤦🤦🤦

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

it feels like it should be easy to pull up a screenshot (with burned in subtitles) of every line in every television show ever made. and it is not!

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

When you promise the world you’ll build a racist chatbot and can’t even accomplish that. Good luck getting to Mars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai-elon-musk-x-woke-bias/

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Best parts of my 2023:

- Running
- A true friend that I made
- Spending four weeks in Japan (mostly running)

And as usual writing software

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I am writing "usable encryption software for the masses" again, what can go wrong

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

gurupanguji ("@gurupanguji") wrote:

Love the explosion of web based clients for mastodon. I’ve tried https://elk.zone/ and https://phanpy.social

Both have their moments. Elk is far better featured. But sometimes all you need is a simple scroller that’s fast. #web

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janvhs@hachyderm.io ("Jan <3") wrote:

My new favourite open source mastodon client is https://phanpy.social by @cheeaun.
It is a web app, but can be added to your Home Screen like any other app (even on iPhone).

The attention to detail and minimalist, yet playful, UI is just out of this world. Whenever I use my other client, I wish for their features.

My absolute favourite feature is using different colours to highlight replies, private messages, boosts and hashtags.

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danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

Trucks and off-road vehicles are also fun examples. Who's the F650 pickup marketed to? People who need to haul/tow more than F350 can handle (21000 lbs) and people who want to drive the same thing as "racers ... kings, football/basketball/baseball players".

The AMG G63 has is similar. It's a capable off-road vehicle, more so than, say, a Range Rover, but that makes it hilariously bad on-road. A neighbor has one; of course they never take it off road because who buys a $200k car for off-roading?

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• EXTREME SUPERTRUCK: THE ORIGINAL BUILDER OF THE F650 PICKUP In 2001, Chris Walker and George Stickler, owners of Southeast Utilities, were looking to replace two of their older trucks with a SuperDuty F650. On the way home from the dealer, they decided to take it out back and build a bad a** pickup. As soon as they finished the first truck, someone approached them and purchased the truck immediately. Partners in business for over 15 years, and both racers at a young age, fabrication was not new to them. Last year they built 62 trucks with clients ranging from off-shore racers to kings, football/basketball/baseball players, and guys who are tired of tearing up F350s every three years. Today, F650 Supertrucks is a registered Ford upfitter and builds 50 custom trucks for a discreet customer base of people who know what they like and want it to be completed in a timely fashion. Our trucks have been featured in Rides magazine, Poker Runs America, Xtreme Boats, Dupont Registry, Exotic Car Buyers Guide for 2006, Diesel Powered, and a few more. We won't try to sell you a wrist watch or a computer and we won't go out and copy someone else's truck and sell them as ours, but we will build you a truck that will stand up to anyone else's truck and come out on top. Feel free to call us to discuss your needs for an F650 or if you're a Ford dealer, call us for a drop ship code to build one for your dealership: (706)-733-6271
• Photo of two people next to an F650. The 5'9" person's head is around the height of the front grill.

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

It's nice that the fediverse tends to co-locate horrible people on horrible-people-servers so you don't actually have to think very hard about blocking.

Also, feeling grateful for @nolan and all the other great admins that keep things bubbling along.

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

gamingalexandria@digipres.club ("Gaming Alexandria") wrote:

Journey to the Laugh for the Super A'can by Funtech has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy! https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/12/journey-to-the-laugh/

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

I feel like the emoji output from Wordle is one of the biggest innovations in online gaming in the past 2 years and
- it was developed by a fan, not Josh and
- nobody has really matched it since (despite a million attempts)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Please enjoy my very realistic and down-to-earth portrayal of the average Linux user

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

paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

2023 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

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• British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts --BBC, 26 September 2023 (remote)

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I've left Substack. Here's why, and how it's going to work: https://werd.io/2023/leaving-the-nazi-bar

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

Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

The business of secretly polluting. US equivalent of Volkswagen's dieselgate.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/cummins-agrees-to-pay-1-7b-to-settle-federal-clean-air-act-investigation?utm_source=breaking-news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2023-12-22&utm_id=45627746
#airpollution #pollution #fossilfuels

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

time to get rid of some occasional RFI

#AmatuerRadio 📡

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

ZacBelado@hachyderm.io ("Zac Belado") wrote:

@marthawells Also for sale in Books on Mac/iOS

https://books.apple.com/ca/book/witch-king/id6443361841

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

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

c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io ("0xC0DEC0DE07E7") wrote:

@marthawells also on Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/witch-king-3

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

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

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• screenshot in darkmode of W3C on X/Twitter. Banner at top: "World Wide Web Consortium @w3c@w3c.social". Then the white and blue W3C logo. Text in the bio is: "The World Wide Web Consortium is no longer active on this platform. Please find us at @w3c@w3c.social. W3C makes the Web work, for everyone" Lower down a pinned tweet: "The W3C is no longer active on this platform. Please find us on Mastodon at: @w3c@w3c.social" (remote)