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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: https://marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊
(If you read it, please leave a review on https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63291820-rust-atomics-and-locks)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:
► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#baby #girl #eyebrows #makeup #cute #funny #goofy #photos #meme #memes
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:
► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#comic #cartoon #games #ouch #cringe #meme #memes
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
If you were six years old when the original Rock Lobster came out, you’d B-52 now…
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:
On @embedded, we had a wonderful conversation with Professor Colleen Lewis about teaching computer science and researching the best way to teach CS. It included discussions of using stuffed animals to explain pointers (as well as polymorphism).
We also talked about self-motivation through stickers and treats.
We did not talk about the evolutionary biology of foxes.
Here is the transcript of the conversation:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange ("Guillaume Rossolini") wrote:
@slightlyoff I’ve wanted to get back to you for a while because you were a big reason for our e-commerce website being the way it was, technically speaking.
We took your earlier publications to heart, and we applied every kind of optimization we could think of, just to try and stay a little bit ahead of the competition. I think we did all right in that respect.
When the company was shut down at the end of 2018, I finally put together a document outlining our techniques. It’s not a tutorial and lots of things aren’t perfect, but I think a lot of this can still be used.
I was weirdly proud of the server-side cached pre-renders for several cohorts (at FRONTEND > web server > httpd in the link below), which we were continuously building for the 5 most viewed pages. These on disk static pages didn’t have a long TTL but this allowed us to reevaluate the need for a pricy CDN.
These Apache2 rules allow for high throughput of the pages that are cached in this way. Because of this, we have been able to withstand traffic generated through TV mentions and other publicity without the help of a CDN or any autoscaling.
Of course we eventually placed nginx in front of httpd and these rules became somewhat redundant, but not if you include brotli and other CPU-heavy compression.
Anyway I’m geeking out on a dead website. Here’s the doc:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
@slightlyoff Having been on the inside I understand how this happens. Angular or React get mandated up front in contract requirements to make sure industry standards are followed. Then a team is assigned who is inexperienced with those frameworks, struggle to ship the actual featureset, and by the time they get around to fixing performance the budget is gone, or the customer is unwilling to go through UAT again. “Wrong tool or wrong team?” is then in the eye of the beholder.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ray Kurzweil makes the same silly predictions he always does. Publishers continue to publish it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/the-end-is-imminenter-maybe/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
From another social media feed
"A coffee shop in Singapore invented the "Sweet Little Rain."
This coffee or tea is served with a puff of cotton candy.The steam from the coffee rises to dissolve the cotton candy, and the puff begins to "rain" onto the coffee cup."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.
But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.
Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Folks, if you're annoyed by the Apple/Patreon thing and are wondering what to do about it, go support @owa. The answer to App Store shittiness was never a slightly less shitty proprietor, it's true alternative platforms...platforms like the web.
@owa fought back and won when Apple tried to kill PWAs this spring, and now they're pushing to make web apps and better iOS browsers a reality so that Patreon and whoever is in line after them can flourish w/o 30% taxes.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, it's Texas that sucks.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/its-just-texas-they-wont-mind/
Mastodon Feed"Stratasys looks like your nice neighbor you want to grill with, while BBL and others are silently setting up patent portfolios so broad, we, the 3dp community, will be lucky if we can fart, silently, in a few years."
-- Josef Prusa
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I didn't watch last night's clusterfuck, sorry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/i-did-not-watch-the-musk-trump-interview-did-you/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
Thank goodness it's inkfluenza, not tonervirus.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: There's some really telling anecdotes regarding the relationships between management and the laborers who do the work and keep customers happy.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
csepp@merveilles.town ("Csepp 🌢") wrote:
"The point of telling the customer what has happened is to establish that the problem was addressed in a professional manner, and this requires being able to tell what the machine is doing and being able to say what was done to fix it."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 2: Object Lesson
What hath we wrought? A case study of US public services and the JavaScript that broke them.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 2: Object Lesson
What hath we wrought? A case study of US public services and the JavaScript that broke them.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Kubo and the Two Strings is a fantastic movie! Watch it if you haven't.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This whole Apple/Patreon debacle reaffirms my belief that PWAs are actually the future.
With how much Apple skims (and Google), companies could boost profits by *over 42%* by just saying no to app stores.
It might sound wildly unrealistic right now, but the cracks are already showing.
No wonder Safari bends over backwards to undermine PWAs. It won't work forever though. It's too big a number for companies to ignore. Through migration or through mitigation (or both), the bubble will burst.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Jo@social.sublingual.xyz ("Sublingual Multimedia") wrote:
"Cya later loser, I'm off to cruise ..... Utopia 🖕"
Jude Law as Johnny Utopia in "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity: The Movie"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mattwilcox@mstdn.social ("Matt Wilcox") wrote:
Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
genehack@dementedandsadbut.social wrote:
Anybody aware of a federated Meetup alternative? #lazyWeb
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm listening to Blondie's "Picture This" and I hear Harry mention pocket computer, and I'm like, "A pocket computer? In 1978? What is she talking about? A calculator? Some sort of non-electronic computing device like a slide rule or wheel?" :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
That's what's on my mind as I listen to the album. 😆
Also, I didn't know there was some creepy background vocals on "One Way or Another".
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Debbie Harry's little growl in some of the songs off "Parallel Lines".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For the past few weeks I've been working on a post (now a series) that investigates what JavaScript-based frontend development has done to these, the least of our brothers.
Today, Part 1: The Landscape
https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape/
Subscribe to the RSS feed for the rest of the series as it comes out.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
A #blahaj cocktail for the boy.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kwf@social.afront.org ("Kenneth Finnegan") wrote:
Fucking FINALLY. Admin local DNS namespace! https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/
