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

A question came into focus for me yesterday: is the success of Open Source for early-in-career folks building portfolios a contributor to frontend's ethical dessication?

OSS is "software for me, incidentally for thee"; does introducing that ethos to young programmers keep us from driving home the lesson that when you get paid to write code, your responsibilities are to users and customers?

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

Now is a great time to text the folks in your life still on Twitter and ask them if they're happy to be supporting this:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/elon-musk-calls-pm-two-tier-keir-over-police-response-to-uk-riots

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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• HAVE A CREATIVE VISION, AND NO EGO. RECOGNIZE THE UNIQUE TALENT OF THOSE AROUND YOU. ATTRACT MISFITS, MANAGE CHAOS. SHOW KINDNESS. BE SINCERE BE A KERMIT. (remote)

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Patricia@vivaldi.net ("Patricia Aas") wrote:

But like @thephd alludes to: when you lay off your devs you loose organizational knowledge. It basically starts a clock in my experience, two years down the line most no longer have the knowledge inside the company to maintain the product anymore. The first period runs on inertia and just needing to make small changes, two years out there are always architectural changes needed. Unfortunately the distance in time from layoff to “legacy system” means management never sees them in context.

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teacherbuknoy@masto.ai ("Francis Rubio :verified:") wrote:

Firefox 129 is released, which means I can now use @starting-style and transition-behavior in #CSS to animate from display: none! :catjam:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In another brilliant branding and strategic move, Google that "invested heavily in embedding Google Cast technology into millions of TV devices" is dropping the Cast tech and replacing the "Chromecast with Google TV" with a "Google TV Streamer".

I can't wait for it to be killed next year in favor of "Google AI Nest TV (original)"
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112915985245901016

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

And thanks to a comment from @olm_e, I think I managed to track down the song in the boosted video. It's from "Zero Gravity (Above and Beyond Remix)" by Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPLh1l6tkhg

(Sometimes I can't let these songs go until I find the source. No. It's not a problem. Why do you ask?)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Inside Mr. H's tea room.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #FollowThePig

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• Square wooden tables, surrounded by wooden chairs, a large window with a view to a green fell in the distance and some grey stone houses closer by. Three lightbulbs covered by bowler hats hanging from the ceiling.

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

I'd rather be spidering.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/enough-adulting/

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• 56c9f6e0479afaac.jpg (remote)

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checkervest@laserdisc.party ("there might be owls") wrote:

Good morning, happy Tuesday! I met a friend first thing

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• My hand holding an incredibly small baby gecko that had snuck into my house. Its body (not including the tail) is just slightly longer than my thumbnail. It’s pale and speckled with large dark eyes and a confused expression on its face (remote)

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

Our little podcast will be discussing a topic with which we have some familiarity: cognitive issues. Check in on Saturday, 10 August, at 4pm Central!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/when-brains-betray-us/

https://www.youtube.com/live/5oIkmJWlQNc

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

CSS opinion: don't hide overflow-x. You're just causing yourself more problems later. Fix the overflow.

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blinkygal@sunny.garden ("dana :blobhaj_witch:") wrote:

My partner caught a great #SilentSunday photo.

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• A close up of Turkey Tail mushrooms. They are almost like a flower with petals that have white tips and brown interior. (remote)

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

Harris/Walz in November!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/its-walz/

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• Tim Walz (remote)

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

Regarding LB[1]: I discovered there's even more people out there applying their own soundtrack to videos of the TGV. Like this little one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTCD32h60s

And this much longer mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6umPyHxQio

Also, here's one for the trolley enthusiasts:

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

I'm probably biased, but I feel like this format would be good for promoting public transportation. 🤔

[1] https://chaos.social/@marble/111489952951384596

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marble@chaos.social wrote:

almost forgot to post this

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• video of a TGV going fast with some techno music and the caption "STFU. IT'S TGV TUESDAY" (remote)

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

“The Dultsevs are just the latest in a long line of Soviet and Russian illegals in the century-long history of the programme to go through the messy and painful process of revealing to their children that their whole upbringing has been a lie.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/how-children-of-freed-spies-learned-they-were-russian-on-flight-to-moscow

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

“Rinaldo Nazzaro, 51, a former Pentagon contractor and analyst at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned founder of the Base, wrote on his personal Telegram account that he’s seeking a stateside leader for his organization and is willing to pay them a salary of up to $1,200 a month.

The Russia-based leader, who is the subject of an FBI investigation…”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/us-neo-nazi-base-election-rinaldo-nazzaro

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

It's been long enough. I think we can all be honest and acknowledge Alexander was not that great.

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mcc wrote:

I simply wish to disable the features

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

Can't sleep. Probate lawyer dumped a thick pile of documents on me, and it's now sinking in that I have all these responsibilities to my brothers & sisters & nieces & nephews that I have to sort out. Mom, I had no idea what it meant when I agreed to be the executor of your estate way back in 1984. You & Dad were supposed to live forever!

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

Elon Musk is just a failure as a human being.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/good-god-i-pray-that-my-children-like-me-a-little-bit/

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• I understand your new angle is this “western values/ christian family man” thing but it's such a weird choice. You are not a family man, you are a serial adulterer who won't stop fucking lying about your own children. You are not a christian, as far as I'm aware you've never stepped foot in a church. You are not some “bastion for equality/progress”. You called arabic the “language of the enemy” when | was 6, have been sued for discrimation multiple times, and are from Apartheid South Africa. You are not “saving the planet”, you do not give a fuck about climate change and you're lying about multi-planetary civilization as both an excuse, and because you want to seem like the CEO from Ready Player One. I would mention the birth rate stuff, but I am not touching that weird 14-words breeder shit with a ten foot pole. You single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species because somehow people keep believing you for reasons that continue to evade me. (remote)

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mcc wrote:

Out of everything in life possibly the one thing that most resembles a mechanic from a pen and paper RPG is taking a shower. You may take one shower per day and during the shower the solution to one Problem will simply spontaneously present itself to you. You can take multiple showers in the same 24 hour period if you like, but the effect will not stack

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

I was listening to a local FM station on my commute and the traffic report comes on and I don't recognize any of the roads or place names even though I've lived here for 14 years. Finally at the very end I realize the report was for a city 600 miles south. And then I remembered most FM stations are "local" these days.

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tendigits@merveilles.town ("Tendigits") wrote:

I’ve had an amazing 1st full day in Ithaca NY. I took a full roll of mostly nature shots, the gorges, waterfalls, flowers. This library was impossible to capture with the lens on my camera, but the phone camera worked. So I can share it now, vs all the nature shots which will have to wait to be developed and scanned.

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• Library room with multiple floors and ornate brass fittings (remote)

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ivana@mastodon.xyz ("Ivana Isadora Devcic") wrote:

The two stages of sorting through your old backups:

🥰 Wow, this is so well-organized! I'm proud of my past self

💀 What the heck is this file naming scheme...? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SUBFOLDERS?!?

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jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:

📕 My book On Web Typography is now free!

It’s 10 years old, and with A Book Apart winding down, I’d like to keep it available for everyone to read. Even though it’s about ever-evolving web typography, the information is still solid — I wrote it to act more as a guide for approaching aesthetics and function, and less about the specifics of code. Enjoy!

https://jasonsantamaria.com/#on-web-typography

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• Book cover for On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria (remote)

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Carl_Zimmer ("Carl Zimmer") wrote:

I'm very excited to share my next book: AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE. Check out my new email newsletter to find out all about it! https://buttondown.email/carlzimmer/archive/fridays-elk-introducing-air-borne-my-next-book/

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

Is anyone surprised that a court rules that Google is monopolistic?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/making-google-apple-and-microsoft-sweat/

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• Google with Mr Moneybags (remote)

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

This is good, not for Moritz's specific politics, but because it gives those who see and know better than to accept the "Trump 2 will be fine" lines we hear air cover to push back: https://on.ft.com/3SCd2Vr