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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's a slack Xmas. I think I'd be amenable to a visit from the Spider Queen.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/25/xmas-planskaput/
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
The Christmas Eve equivalent of sitting on the keyboard
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Mastodon Feed@nadim Congrats!
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arthurwyatt@wandering.shop ("Arthur Wyatt") wrote:
Version of “baby it’s cold outside” but it’s actually about persuading the kids to wear weather appropriate clothing.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'm not even in that many Discords and I still feel like it's way too many.
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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
Happy Yule to all who celebrate. And a lovely day to all that don't, too. Xx
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Just to clarify, I'm not blaming the maintainer of the GIMP snap. Maintainers owe me nothing, and I'm thankful for everything they do (and will try other solutions if that doesn't work for me). I'm discussing the wrong idea behind snaps. As well as flatpack and appimage, by the way.
Software as an island tends to suck.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
The root of the problem is that apt is not a packaging format. It's a big, working ecosystem solving many problems of installing software into a system. Ubuntu is not willing (nor able) to replicate this ecosystem, but they keep pretending that you can sacrifice basic usability for security and treat every application as a self-sufficient island. You can make it work for some, which are either simple or have been created that way (Firefox). But it's never going to work in the general case.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Here's a perfect example of what's wrong with Ubuntu's crusade to move software into snaps: if you install #GIMP from snapstore, you don't have an easy practical way to install G'MIC into it (a plugin that basically makes GIMP still worthy of running). Why not? Because, as the maintainer of the snap says[1] there's no way he's going to be the arbiter of what to include. [cont…]
[1]: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/gmic-gimp-and-snap-in-20-04/17094
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every engineering manager should read this once a year:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I forgot how genuinely silly Yoda's intro is.
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🪩 Web Performance calendar day 24
🔗 https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2023/ttfb-server-timing-measuring-monitoring-optimizing/
⏰ Vinicius Dallacqua shows us how to harness Server-Timing to win TTFB #webperf
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Any time you hear a phrase five syllables long you have to repeat it to the tune of Riders on the Storm. Sorry, I don't make the rules
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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
When Hillary Clinton called MAGA supporters “deplorables,” it was in the news forever. We still talk about it today. But when Trump called his political enemies “vermin”—actually invoking the words of Adolf Hitler—the press just moves on like it’s nothing. They are failing us.
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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
Create a password with at least one symbol, one number, one uppercase letter and one lowercase letter (and if that doesn’t work try adding one incantation to Satan)
$ apg -M SNCL
olk&Ren3
5sweb;Et,
9On-drash0
con[Fluk0
5twuphDec{
7Slacdett(
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
“By ‘major parts failures,’ … we are not talking about … a faulty turn signal … We are talking about stuff like a whole-ass wheel falling off of your Model 3 while it travels at highway speeds, or the suspension collapsing while you make a left turn, causing the body of the car to crunch down onto the road, or an axle half-shaft fucking snapping while you accelerate, or the power steering suddenly failing while you are zooming along at 60 miles per hour.”
https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
lol just after posting this I started reading THE APPLE II AGE and it may be the best-formatted ebook i've ever encountered! @LaineNooney I would love to know how that happened
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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
Get a one-line description for all the files in a directory, delete lines that have no description:
ls -l /usr/bin | awk '{print $9}' | xargs whatis | sed '/appropriate/d'
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is a disgrace; all the supes deserve to be turfed out over it:
https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/22/san-francisco-record-low-housing-permits-despite-shortage/
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
It’s ironic that GM decided to pull CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of their in-house infotainment systems only for their software to be so buggy that they’ve had to stop selling the Chevy Blazer EV until they fix the system.
Car companies are a great example of how culture eats strategy for breakfast. It’s a smart strategy not to be dependent on Apple and Google for key software. But if you can't execute a transition to a software development culture then it's dumb.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/23/24013357/2024-chevy-blazer-ev-stop-sale-software-problems
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But if you find yourself asking "what better tool should I look into?", try to unpack that thought a bit. Maybe rephrase it as "what problems do I want to value more? And for who?"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Obviously, this isn't helpful because most folks aren't asking for prompts to revisit their world-views.
Nobody wants to be told that tech tribal affiliation is not very valuable, and that they best they can hope for by trading tribes is to swim in better waters where more worthy goals are front-and-center.
We all need belonging, and I *do* harbour a hope that folks who trade up to better communities and tools will adopt more user-centered values along the way.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Being a semi-notorious anti-React figure, I get a lot of comments on my blog that disagree with my posts.
That's fine. I leave most of them alone. I don't bother responding to (or even reading) a lot of the comments, but I have no issue with people expressing their point of view. We don't have to agree.
So if I delete your comment—which I almost never do—know that it's not because you disagreed with me; it's because you were an asshole who added absolutely nothing of value to the conversation.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I love books and I may be something of a print fetishist but it just seems like such a crazy gap in quality between the print and digital products, this many years in
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Sometimes people ask what they should use instead of React, and my response is usually a dodge to avoid giving the obvious reply: your heart (to care for folks at the margins) and your curiosity (to engineer the best way how).
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
how is ebook formatting still uniformly so bad? footnotes are a mess, "end of book" markers are inconsistent, illustrations are virtually always a fiasco. is it still just such an afterthought, or is it somehow an impossible problem?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
@bendelarre @slightlyoff @adamhill 200% this. Org has several sites built in React all with performance issues and bad web vitals scores. Then one site built in Astro that scores 100 on all metrics. The entire Astro site is smaller than React's bundle size.
The Astro will be rewritten for "productivity" reasons
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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@thomas @ryantownsend @slightlyoff yup. The answer I like to employ to this argument is this:
You can hire React devs to do web components work. It's just HTML and CSS, the foundations of the platform on which we're delivering. They do understand those things right? Because if not they will be failing our tests anyway right?
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My latest statement to the increasing chatter of "peace" regarding Ukraine.
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whitequark ("Catherine") wrote:
I finally did it!!!
a complete FPGA toolchain (synthesis, placement, routing, and programming) running entirely in the browser