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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Pet owners will really be like: "I just love this cute little jerk. 🥰 This awful little turd. ❤️ This adorable little gremlin wakes me up at 3am because it broke my favorite things and then ate the pieces and didn't shit them out when it had the chance. 💕 What an angel. 😇 What a sweet little fucker sowing relentless chaos into every aspect of my life 😍"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“When Harris’s parents immigrated here in the early 1960s, they entered a pre-existing racial caste system and the classifications that undergirded it. When the couple fell in love, so-called antimiscegenation laws prohibiting Black people from marrying white people still existed in 16 states.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Crap wins.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oops.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/thats-a-whopper-of-a-retraction/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web.
Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
*"the framework isn't the problem, Alex, it's only XXXKB"*
This is something I've been hearing from wealth-bubble apologists for *years* whenever I bring the JavaScript-industrial-complex in for critique. And you know what? They're right. It isn't the framework that's the problem, it's absolutely amoral behaviour of the folks doing the propaganda and the responsibility-free zone they want to expand within frontend culture.
So that can go. If it means they take their frameworks with them, fine.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I beseech thee, oh Manager! Banish this scripted pestilence! Free thine HTML from the shackles of JSX! Liberate the CSS to frolic in the fields of s, as of yore. Smite the CSS-in-JS and exile React from these lands!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If I seem prickly about the JavaScript-industrial-complex, it's because I've *seen* some shit, showed that shit to the folks most responsible, and they did jack to fix or prevent it from happening in the future. Now the whole web is covered in shit.
The post I'm working on now is a tour of a wee corner of a tiny smidgeon of what I've seen, as viewed from the relatively generous device and network budgets I updated to earlier this year[1]. I'm livid all over again.
[1] https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
can we get the `EyeDropper` api in all browsers pls
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, previous guest Nicholas Carlini ("Adversarial Machine Learning") will return to discuss his recent blog entry, "How I use AI" (https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html). As with our other treatments of the topic, this promises to be neither breathless hype nor doomerist fear mongering, but rather in the muddy middle where LLMs are finding real, practical usage. Bring your own real usage and join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhhh, yes
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/1440945503?i=1440945506
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:
I feel like actually, a grand bulk of how “front-end” works now is interesting workarounds for browser limitations that don’t exist anymore.
but because change is expensive we just kinda kept using the elaborate workarounds despite not needing them
and because institutional memory can’t exist in an industry with a 5 year 95% turnover rate, most people don’t remember that we don’t need most of this shit anymore
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I wrote some code to play an insulting rap track for anyone who knocks over the shelves in the grocery store:
A wrecked aisle diss function.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, well, thank you @CARROT
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I don't think the options are monster frameworks vs everything bespoke. I think the third option is better frameworks that are actually designed based on a) real needs, b) maintainability, and c) long-lived products.
https://mastodon.esmevane.com/@ironchamber/112905265598897110
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I didn't see the presentation, but this video shows the project, and it looks like a fun build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQDeBpHmg
(I could try to estimate the cost for that PCB, but nah. I'll just enjoy the result.)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
excellent, major media outlets like Deutsche Welle are noticing them
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-gaza-an-alternative-voice-for-peace-from-israel/a-69833772
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anizocani@tech.lgbt ("ani betts") wrote:
Oof, finding out just how hard running next.js on anything other than Vercel is 😢
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
My frontend villain origin story was when I started asking people why we needed this complexity. People agreed it was complex. But when I asked people to tell me what we bought for ourselves, the answers were vague and unclear. That’s when I knew we had gone astray.
https://mastodon.social/@tef/112903811292290724
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What kind of reputation does Boeing have anymore? They really have to fire a lot of executives.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/boeing-gets-another-black-mark/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
amusing:
“an hour into his speech, the Atlanta crowd had emptied out more than usual. (Like Madonna, he often keeps his crowds waiting for an hour or more past the scheduled start time, which doesn’t help the situation.) Large splotches of blue had blossomed across the upper stands, and people on the floor had started to sneak away, too.
Mr. Trump’s most faithful followers were also feeling defensive about the dueling rally discourse on Saturday.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm seeing only very tiny spiders today.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/day-of-the-tinies/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
I’ve heard that several times before. There are two types of Star Trek fans:
1. Those who appreciate its vision of a progressive future where humanity overcomes racism, sexism, and other social issues.
2. Those who enjoy the military and naval aspects of Starfleet in the series.It still baffles me how some fans can overlook the other aspects while watching the show.
I guess some of them also think that Trump is Luke Skywalker and not the Emperor.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seriously
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Of *course* this abomination uses `styled-components`. How could The Inevitable React Rewrite *not* lean into the very worst ideas of Reactor excess?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vincew@masto.nyc ("Vince Wadhwani :6train:") wrote:
I feel seen #ttrpg
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
@democratsabroad I’m a big fan of yours. Any promotion of https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris is of course welcome. Also, if you can help me connect with other state or state-equivalent party organizations not yet on Mastodon, that would be fantastic! @jaybaltz@mas
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
How untethered from values, consequences, and reality is the JavaScript community?
Behold! The UK Govt's JS-optional design system[1]...rebuilt in React? Absolutely, positively, cursed:
https://github.com/govuk-react/govuk-react
I don't understand how this is even minimally compatible with gov.uk's *excellent* progressive-enhancement guidance:
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
incredible focus
