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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
XKCD 927, but instead of standards we're talking about proprietary tooling that attempts to lock you in.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Vendor: Our new software eliminates all those competing, incompatible tools from vendors that locked you into their tooling.
Me: How does it work?
Vendor: Without getting into too many details, it's amazing. Here, look at these fancy animations and try our quick start. Just install it.
Me: How does it work?
Vendor: Without getting into too many details...
Me: [interrupting] What is your business model?
Vendor: We're mission driven to make developers happy.
Me: [walks away] 😠
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Yeah, we've got silly creationist goons here in Minnesota, too.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just read an *extremely* long blog post (with dozens of graphs and code snippets) about improving INP in react websites. Some good stuff for tamping down re-renders in the post.
So I traced the site.
Don't know why I expected the 5.7MB of JS served over H/2 to be gzipped. It's 2024. Up is down, down is left.
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yvonnezlam ("Yvonne Lam") wrote:
Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:
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- @yvonnezlam My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up of people who don't do housework, or manage housework being done. @yvonnezlam - The point of debt is to package risk. The point of financialization is to package risk to make it more palatable to different markets, hence able to be bought/sold/traded. @yvonnezlam Most tech debt projects/conversations/discussions are difficult because the debt metaphor hides that the risk is not even for different actors. @yvonnezlam | think housework is a better metaphor because it allows you to ask questions like, "Is this 'not cleaning the bathroom' bad, or 'running out of toilet paper' bad?"
- Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about *who* is affected and how -- who is going to be woken up, be pulled off other work, be unable to perform some critical function, etc. You can't hide risk and have that talk. Right now, one of the failure modes I see in tech debt discussions is that everything has to be framed in terms of effects on the business. That is important, but if we take How Complex Systems Fail seriously, we know "catastrophe requires multiple failures". How Complex Systems Fail: how.complexsystems.fail I have seen people argue all sorts of things, up to and including syntax linting, is tech debt critical to business outcomes. This kind of rhetorical inflation is not helpful. You say "tech debt" and people zone out, because they assume it's some engineer going on about ... the evils of the ternary operator or whatever. And sadly, very often, it is.
- @yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
- @yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that *sounds* like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses *us* thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin
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driusan@doomscroller.social ("Dave Mac Farlane") wrote:
Google (trans v.) (goo-gul)
1. To destroy a product while coasting on your reputation
2. To take a well liked product and cancel it
3. (Archaic, obsolete) To search on the internet
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loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:
in case you ever need help telling what kind of drum and bass someone is talking about i made this handy little chart!
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- a fake punnett square of the two kind of drum (instrument and fish) and the two kinds of bass (instrument and fish). at the top of the square is a drum (instrument), then a drum (fish). on the left side there is a bass(instrument) and bass (fish). in every quadrant it just says "Drum and Bass" (remote)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Oh there you are! We've been waiting so long we sent Email out to find you. Now we've got to wait for them to come back before we can leave..."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was going to have FG say "It's the microplastics and forever chemicals." But that didn't seem as punchy.
Sometimes dark humor is all I've got. :(
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Famous Host: And for our next guest please welcome my good friend, the fabulous and talented Famous Guest...
Famous Guest: [walks on stage to massive applause smiling and waving and gives the requisite hug to FH and then sits next to host's desk]
FH: It's great to see you again, and may I say you look terrific!
FG: [earnest] Oh thank you! It's the microplastics.
Audience: [nervous laughter]
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really, this is a problem with human discourse, that's larger than online or language. At a certain point of popularity, it becomes more "cool" to dislike something than to like it. It's a sort of virtue signaling.
I guess maybe I hate it because I spent so much of my 20s and 30s being very hipster-ish about music, and knowing now how stupid that was and what great things I missed out on. (Also: who cares?)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I find few things more tiresome in online discourse than when it becomes novel to hate on a once-novel term that's now mainstream.
Example: "enshittification." Once considered novel; now mainstream. Used to be loved; now you can't go a day without somebody saying "'enshittification' has been enshittified."
It's the ultra-online version of hipster-ism. "I used to like that term's early stuff, before it sold out. Now I like this new term, you've probably never heard of it."
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.
Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.
The ozone could have a huge hole.
We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.
I feel like we forget this, you know?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Please don't stop writing documentation. Please don't stop writing documentation. Please don't stop writing documentation. Please..."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
People still think evolutionary psychology is valid? We still need people to hammer on its absurdity and expose the bullshit artists who promote it.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You're going to need the Pope to rubber-stamp your visitation by the Holy Mother Mary in the future.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/20/what-is-the-vatican-method/
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
And we're off!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Computers weren't a mistake. Computers not owned and controlled by the people operating them and the people impacted by their programming was a mistake.
Corporations weren't a mistake. Corporations owned and controlled by people far removed from the employees and those who are impacted by corporate actions are a mistake.
(Of course, there's a connection between the two besides their similar phrasings.)
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
"Unless and until our tax laws are changed and the Supreme Court’s legalization of political bribery is reversed, we’ll continue this disintegrative slide into fascism and the danger of domestic armed conflict.
This fall we’ll have the opportunity to elect politicians who actively oppose oligarchy and fascism while embracing the true spirit of American egalitarianism.”
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/civil-war-oligarchs/
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Noupside@saturation.social ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal
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tayledras ("Tayledras 🐾✌️") wrote:
In case you forgot about Winnie the Pooh...
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Two bits of news: (a) Iran's president and foreign minister found dead at helicopter crash site (https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48) and (b) Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 88, has pneumonia (https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabias-king-salman-88-has-pneumonia/2024/05/19/) (His successor is Prince Bonesaw, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman).
If King Salman doesn't make it, middle eastern politics could get very unpredictable. Never mind if (c) Benny Gantz pulls down Netanyahu's coalition the same time … (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-wounded-israeli-forces-thrust-deeper-gazas-jabalia-rafah-2024-05-18/)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Pixelfed Groups will bring a whole new dimension and experience, I can't wait to ship this monumental feature!
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KE0FFT@mastodon.hams.social wrote:
I found this #QSLCard last night on eBay. I was *at* the 1993 #Chicksands Friendship Fete. I never knew the base had an amateur radio club.
Callsign GB2USA belonged to the late Maj. USAF (Ret.) Everett E. Worrell, Jr., who likely filled out & sent this card over 30 yrs ago.
A B-17 Pilot in WWII, he flew 35 missions over Europe, served 27 years in the USAF, was a Communication Inspector General, a #HamRadio operator & MARS (Military Auxiliary Radio System) member for decades.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
poor worm
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evanw@hachyderm.io ("Evan Wallace") wrote:
I've been studying algorithms for collaborative text editing recently. The best way for me to understand something complex is to implement it myself, so I made my own simple text editing CRDT. It comes with an interactive demo to show what goes on "under the hood":
https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/
The code is small enough to understand (only 500 lines including comments). But the internals use optimized block-based storage similar to Yjs (a popular CRDT text library), so it should be pretty realistic.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"How was your experience?"
Idk, go ask your AI. Isn't it supposed to be great at answering questions and replacing humans?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Oh, what's that? You've integrated AI into your product?
And it's capable of answering questions, you say?
Fantastic!
Please redirect all future requests for my feedback to the AI.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
By "coming up!" I apparently meant in nearly two weeks time. But I did get to it, and it ended up even hackier than I thought it would as it involved the use of a hack saw. But we're all fine here now. How are you doin'?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@phae @Samsung No lie, this is the on-device UI. No toggle, no way to request an opt-out on-device *where we were already authenticated*. And this is *after* tapping "Do Not Sell My Personal Information". Real work went into making this something other than a simple toggle button:
