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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
2023: Geostationary Microwave Amateur Payload Proposal. Frank Zeppenfeldt PD0AP, ESA
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ironicmoka@livellosegreto.it wrote:
Comunque è impressionante mettere una accanto all’altra la gestione privacy di Threads, Bluesky e Mastodon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
harris@social.coop ("Harris Lapiroff 🔥") wrote:
Up until this week @paulbiggar was on the board at a fairly substantial tech company that he co-founded. If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of it; if you don’t, you probably haven’t. But then he wrote a blog post.
He’s no longer a director of that company. The CEO, Jim Rose, has clarified that Paul does not speak for them and that CircleCI “is committed to our customers in Israel and around the world.”
Read my blog post about it:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
Rick Wilson Confirmed Trump Is Livid About #TrumpSmells, So LP Ripped Out This Doozy https://politizoom.com/rick-wilson-confirmed-trump-is-livid-about-trumpsmells-so-lp-ripped-out-this-doozy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:
24 December 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Henri Emile Mossel, was born in Amsterdam.
A clarinetist and saxophonist, the leader of the AVRO dance orchestra, music store owner.At Auschwitz from 25 March 1944
No. 175312
He perished at Auschwitz III-Monowitz on 4 August 1944.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:
Check it out! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 now has its own web page:
https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
New episodes to come in 2024 :)
w/ @alex ; production by Christie Taylor
If you enjoy #MAIHT3k and want to support the pod, rate & review on Spotify or Apple or make a donation to DAIR:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bluebeetle@trekkies.social ("Blue Beetle :Delta:") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
w000t! Finally got 100000 items in a scene without any performance loss 💪
It's just simple boxes now but I wanted grass over a map of 2000x2000 meters :flan_laugh:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
#Development #Goodies
‘snow-fall’ web component · A web component to add snow to your web site https://ilo.im/15xfix_____
#WebDesign #WebDev #WebComponent #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How to deal with homelessness: barricades and police tape. Make the homeless be homeless somewhere else.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/24/merry-xmas-to-you-if-you-own-a-house/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Happy Birthday! such a nice organization, such *Christian* values…
“Dec 24, 1865: Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Quite the damning piece on Tesla and its recklessly (probably criminally) irresponsible application of the "move fast and break things" ethos.
tl;dr: the company has known for ages that its cars have the kind of chronic defects that would get a company like Chevy or Toyota sued into oblivion (way more than just autopilot stuff; basic mechanical stuff). And it's often gotten away with blaming its users for those issues.
https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a very interesting article on the way “culture wars” bleed over into other things, like how to think about dealing with dogs
Mastodon Feed"Julius Caesar" was the original long-term nuclear waste warning message.
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- Marc Antony’s speech from "Julius Caesar", side by side with lines from the Sandia Labs long-term nuclear waste warning message report: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" = "This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!" "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." = "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here." "So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault," = "Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture." "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us." = "This message is a warning about danger." "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." = "The center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us." "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;" = "The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill." (remote)
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
A year ago, I ran my first ever 5k at the (laughable) pace of 7:53/km. It was super hard!
I now run 5ks at 5:13/km. This week, a year later, I ran my first ever half-marathon (21.1k!) at 6:25km. I then finished the week by running a whole 50k!
Running has changed my life!
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Watching #Hogfather ahead of time because I realized #Monsterdon would be at 3am for us and we'll probably sleep through it ❄️ Happy Hogswatch!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff @adamhill 100% this. We've sadly got some new React sites and I can't understand where the performance penalty and complexity cost comes from. Even after seeing the poor perf, bug count skyrocket and velocity tank the teams are still doubling down on it. I don't get what they are getting out of it. I think they literally have never been shown another way, and nobody wants to take a risk on something they don't understand even if what they do know isn't succeeding for anyone.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Sometimes I feel like the main lesson of React and Tailwind is that people don't even care what the system is, whether it's good, or whether it's even a fit for their purposes, as long as they're sharing it with enough other people.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
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
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
🪩 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
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
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)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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"?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TIL that Safari *still* doesn't support `stale-while-revalidate`
🤦🤦🤦