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Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

iBlame@kolektiva.social ("Duchess of Umbrage") wrote:

Hey remember a couple days ago when I got all goopy about those wolf-sized prehistoric land whales strolling around the Eastern seaboard in days of yore? Turns out there’s a whole Nova episode about cetacean evolution and it’s really cool. https://pbs.org/video/when-whales-could-walk-sxuhkr?source=social

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

Crooked teeth, sleep apnea, and impacted wisdom teeth: the case against genetic determinism. Our jaws are shaped by the environment!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/09/a-conversation-about-orthodontia-today/

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• Gigachad! (remote)

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

A survey of trans folk revealed an answer I could have predicted: people who think long and hard about a life-changing decision will choose what makes them happy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/09/empirical-data-that-shows-people-finding-happiness-is-good-news/

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• US Trans Survey (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Introducing Sudo for Windows"

I give them two more years before they switch to apt-get.

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

Michael Mann gouges a small ounce of flesh out of Mark Steyn. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/09/scientist-sues-conspiracy-theoristsand-wins/

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• Michael Mann (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("fasterthanlime 🌌") wrote:

Why can’t all licenses be like the GPL and have a lesbian variant (LGPL), an ace variant (AGPL) etc.??

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

The definition of #DarkPattern — #UX #I18N

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• An "unsubscribe" link in an email, with a so low contrast with the background to be like invisible (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

grantpotter wrote:

https://embed.tumblr.com/embed/post/-Qo_qojk7kK4BBQB3f2Sgw/741558348537888768 #vr #ar #xr

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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

kenobit@livellosegreto.it ("Kenobit") wrote:

La ZONA WARPA sta tornando. Abbiamo grandi piani e abbiamo già fissato le date e i luoghi del tour.

Ci manca un solo tassello: una persona in grado di insegnare Scratch a una piccolissima classe in età scolare/elementare.

Obiettivo: trasmettere le basi e creare un piccolissimo giochino, con le idee dellǝ bambinǝ.

Siete quella persona? Scrivetemi.
Non lo siete? Boostateci <3

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• Zona Warpa scritto a pennarellone, nero su bianco. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

nash@labyrinth.social ("Nash") wrote:

holding the website down with my foot & pointing my sword at them as I check this box:

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• UI checkbox that says "Do not challenge me on this device again" (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Reality TV Is Frugality TV - CBS News (2009) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reality-tv-is-frugality-tv:

> So in this downturn, as Americans are clipping coupons, eating at home more and doing whatever it takes to cut their budgets, they can turn on their sets and find that TV is being frugal too.

Extraordinary piece of vintage economic propaganda.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

This is wrong on so many levels

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• A picture of five builders levels, each marked with a blue sticker worded "WRONG" (remote)

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

svoisen@front-end.social ("Sean Voisen") wrote:

Finally getting around to reading @slightlyoff's update on the Performance Inequality Gap for 2024. Definitely worth a read, and quite a call to arms, this bit here:

> As smartphone ownership and use grow, the frontends we deliver remain mediated by the properties of those devices. The inequality between the high-end and low-end is only growing, even in wealthy countries. What we choose to do in response defines what it means to practice UX engineering ethically.

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

fay59@tech.lgbt ("Félix") wrote:

OH: the collective noun for a group of software engineers is a “merge conflict”

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

okay, maybe this example was not too painful to screw around with getting to work and modifying

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• eframe is a Rust language GUI framework which in turn uses egui and hides a lot of the grimy details in favor of getting stuff up fast (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

A sketchbook doodle that got out of hand.. :blobcat_sweats: This thing is so detailed, compared to some other things in this smaller than A5 book.

#mastoart #sketchbook #devil #demon #horns #PenDrawing

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• Drawing in black and red pen. Bust drawing of a forwards facing woman with long flowing black hair and red eyes. She is naked, but covering herself with her arms. Her Shoulders are pulled up and her head is tilted down a bit, as if she were ashamed. From between her long hair, two sets of horns decorate her head. Behind her a circle with stars and moon, connected by lines glows in front of red upward shaded lines. (remote)

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

I am being reminded of why I hate GUI programming

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

anduril@chaos.social ("HarryKrischner") wrote:

@fromjason
The Discounter Action App is ahead of X here 🤣

#twitter

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• Appstore Charts vs X App (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I don't not believe, even a little bit, that #Threads has 130million active users.

Define ACTIVE 🙃

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

shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:

buckle up kids it's *SUDO* for WINDOWS https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

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

scott@typetura.social ("Scott Kellum :typetura:") wrote:

If someone you know is looking to spin up a Ghost website to migrate away from Substack, I’d love to help out. I’m taking on new projects and I love working with Ghost.

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

Incredibly grateful to @remotesynth and the https://thejam.dev team for inviting me to talk about frontend's lost decade and how we can, maybe, find a way out:

https://youtu.be/VnHVNFe_gu0?si=mS3hlosp2KB6LSFe

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:

In the spirit of, "fuck it. do it scared," I have been issued my first DOI (Digital Object Identifier):

"Seamless digital engineering: a grand challenge driven by needs"
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1053
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02059
Presentation slides

Of course, the paper could be better, and my presentation was a hot mess, but it's out there now.

I even did this 'highlights reel' version, which is about the size of 3-4 toots: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.2514%25252F6.2024-1053/reader

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Scorpio."

I have a hard time writing about Grandmaster Flash, because he’s such a toweringly important figure in music that there’s nothing I can say that will capture his staggering influence. So let’s say: I don’t think rap music would exist in a recognizable form without him. He either invented or significantly advanced early sampling, looping, and the notion of the modern party DJ, so you can throw techno, raves, and mashups on that list, as well as anything downstream from those. I’m hard-pressed to think of another individual that’s had such a tremendous impact on our music and culture.

Let’s talk about this song. I could have picked The Message, which is instantly recognizable, but I like to dig a little deeper. So here’s Scorpio, which is a terrific song showcasing the experimental side of the group, and a fantastic early techno banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNO3gy7bk

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flisswave@mefi.social wrote:

Toddler calls my watch a baby clock.

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

intenttoship@botsin.space ("Intent to Ship") wrote:

Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS line-clamp property https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/330d100b-ac9a-49c7-b4e1-fb5f1cd3e35cn%40chromium.org

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

Is Apple going to sabotage the web in the name of "regulatory compliance"? It's so brazen that I can't imagine they think they can get away with it, but there's radio silence from FruitCo and growing evidence that it is, indeed, the plan. @brucelawson (of @owa fame) is on the case:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apple-breaking-pwas-out-of-malicious-compliance/

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

Cool cool depressing cool.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

hey! has anyone seen Lore AKA @taq ? nobody has heard from it since last friday. last seen in edinburgh uk

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• pale person with brown hair and black glasses (remote)

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

Here's the situation: I made a Jekyll site hosted on GitHub Pages for a friend who wants to occasionally blog. He doesn't want to use markdown or GitHub.

What are my options for inexpensive and (ideally) hosted headless CMSes that can sync to the Github repo? Siteleaf and prose.io both seem like they nearly fit the bill, but I'd love to hear about other people's experiences