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weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:

Well, it's official: California just experienced its warmest July on record. This is now the third time in the past 10 years California has broken its previous July record--and this time shattered previous record by a genuinely startling nearly 2°F (!) margin. #CAwx #CAfire [1/3]

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• A time series plot showing July temperatures between 1895-2024 on a California statewide average basis. There is a clear upward trend in this period, with 2024 being the highest value in the entire time series by a nearly 2 degree margin and the previous two record warm Julys having both occurred in the past decade as well.

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shawnhymel@masto.ai ("Shawn Hymel") wrote:

Visiting the DigiKey mothership with my bff @Jorvon_Moss. The new distribution center is mind boggling huge (and full of impressive automation #tech). We may or may not be planning on some hijinks tomorrow 😏 #electronics #robotics

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

Me opening a PR

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• The "no take, only throw" meme, where a dog wants the human to throw the ball, but not to take it first. In this version, the dog first asks "pls approve." When the human hand reaches for the ball, the dog angrily says "no review!! only approve." (remote)

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

signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

We have already started working on more advanced censorship circumvention techniques, but in order for these efforts to be most effective we need the big companies who are dragging their feet on moving away from plaintext SNI headers to start taking this problem more seriously.

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

sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@slightlyoff @scottjenson the hammer of big frameworks is this one.

And the task, most of the time for most of the web, is tapping your knee to test your reflexes. For which it is ridiculously unsuited.

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• a white man wearing an orange top and a baseball cap, in a field, holding a hammer considerably taller than he is at an angle with both hands

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

combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

in a sort of reverse-cobbler's-kids effort, I made this leg lamp for my own danged home for once 🤘

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• A lamp with a Godzilla-esque green monster leg forming the main body of the lamp. It has a peachy-yellow lampshade with bodacious fringe, and at the base of the leg, a metal box with walnut ends anchoring the foot. The leg, harvested from a toy, shows the sharp-clawed foot crushing tanks and rubble. (remote)

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

*"Ok, but what's the right stack?"*

I DON'T KNOW, WHAT PROBLEM ARE YOU TRYING TO SOLVE?!?

I'm not here to run your bakeoffs for you. You run bakeoffs, right?

Sunofa....

I'm not here to write down your critical user journeys and get your team to agree on their priority. That's YOUR job.

Do. Your. Job.

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

*"But bootcamp grads only know React.."*

These are folks that literally just *paid* to learn something new. You think they can't learn whatever new thing you'd ask them to? That they wouldn't *jump* at the chance? That they aren't *extremely motivated* to make good things and build great stuff for users?

I swear, the next manager I see that blames new grads for their own deep lack of curiosity...

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

*"But we need to be able to hire..."*

Do NOT make me come over there.

Did you *try* hiring for fundamentals? Did you send a rec asking for semantic HTML, modern CSS, and progressive enhancement? Because I *guarantee* you they're out there. By the thousands. Some of the very best webdevs in the world are looking for work right now, and you could *easily* hire them.

How do I know? Because we opened a few recs this spring for Web Components and were *flooded* with *incredible* candidates.

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

*"But our team knows React..."*

THAT IS NOT A THING. They don't know "React", they're on a continual treadmill[1] of React sub-variants, bundler configuration micro-languages, and one-off plugin amalgamations.

THERE IS NO INDUSTRY STANDARD REACT STACK. IT DOES NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF TOYS.

And if your website is a toy, why would you let that nonsense anywhere *near* the door when simpler, cheaper options have always existed?

[1]: https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

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

wohali@octodon.social wrote:

The bartender said, "What's wrong?"

The moebius strip replied, "Where do I even BEGIN?"

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

And dear *effing* lord, do *NOT* let React anywhere near your codebase in 2024. At least make new mistakes.

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

PMs/EMs: I'm *begging* you to stop needing my services. I do *not* want to hear from your team! They're probably lovely, but your website drowning in JavaScript isn't, like, a novel challenge. I've seen *dozens* of identical patients, and it's alternatively boring and heartbreaking.

So, please, keep yourself from ending up in the long line of folks I have to check in on regularly who are *still* digging out from JS disasters. Don't add yours to the list of low-velocity orgs, mired in script.

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

jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky (is looking for work)") wrote:

If you're a worker in the tech industry and can be in San Francisco in October, come join us with a joint conference held by Tech Workers Coalition and Collective Action in Tech!

https://techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers/

#1u #union #labor

It'll be a great time to see examples of what democracy looks like in practice!

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

Over-engineer should be a job title.

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

Man it feels good to realize I have no personal or professional projects in Docusaurus anymore and I can just leave that Discord server.

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

I just asked Copilot to convert six CSS properties to their equivalent Tailwind classes.

It only got two right.

That's a failure rate of ~67%. On a task with extremely simple success criteria.

Idk, man. I don't think this thing's all it's cracked up to be.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Nice, only took two hours to get merged, so this will be an option starting with Plasma 6.2!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Portfolio updated with 4 new photo series. Some of the photos I have or will post here, but there you can see them in context. #BelieveInFilm

https://eugenrochko.com/

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

Whoever it was at the Harris campaign that picked a chronically online young person and said "give them the passwords and let them go nuts" is a genius.

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SutroTower@sfba.social ("Sutro Tower :sutro:") wrote:

My name is Sutro Tower and I'm your favorite landmark's favorite landmark

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DivineKestrel@chaosfem.tw ("Eldritch Cumslut of Cthulhu") wrote:

"…The concept of a normal, empathetic, passably happy heterosexual white man who is not constantly afraid and angry and arguing with everyone around him simply does not compute."

https://defector.com/men-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown?giftLink=dfd6cc60bf27ef4d42e02fd2b1ef2995

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I didn't like the window outlines in Plasma's desktop pager, so here's a proposal to make them optional:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2427

#plasma

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Inside a very old pub... (cont.)

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Manchester

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• Clipboards, glass mugs filled with cutlery and serviettes, a spray bottle of cleaning fluid, posters on the wall, all underneath a staircase.

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

A few quick things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/09/oddments/

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Today I was asked by a friend about the work I'm doing in specifying the AsyncContext stage 2 JS proposal.

I described it as something that will only be useful for incredibly specialized libraries, and that the typical developer won't give a fuck about. And my job lately is to make sure they don't have to give a fuck about it.

Which is way harder than it sounds.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

It's funny how much more generic "Labyrinth of the Demon King" sounds in Japanese.

My Japanese isn't good enough to judge the subjective impression that a phrase makes with 100% accuracy, but maou and meikyuu are both very common words in video game titles

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• Cropped steam screencap showing an image link to an upcoming game called "Labyrinth of the Demon King." The Japanese title (魔王の迷宮) is in large text and its English translation appears immediately below it. In both versions "Demon King" is in red and the rest of the text is in white. In the background is a dark figure with eyes sagging out of its sockets, drawn in the style of old youkai art.

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riley@fiera.social ("Riley") wrote:

This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.

Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (A cat taking a selfie with Kamala, her husband and 2 stepchildren) FUTURE 1ST FAMILY. (remote)

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anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

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• Black and white photograph of a young man with a hat holding a sign which is saying 'why is there no maximum wage?' (remote)