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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Dear young (<40) people, who exercise a habit of starting sentences with lower-case letters. I don't know what kind of social position you're trying to convey, but the only net result is it's *really* hard to read what you write. Accessibility matters.

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

If the framework partisans found parts 1-3 rough going, they're gonna *hate* part 4 (out tomorrow).

A small spoiler: one outrageously effective technique is to stop hiring for framework expertise.

https://infrequently.org/series/reckoning/

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

sayrer wrote:

@sangster @slightlyoff as it happens, someone just wrote this, which probably sounds familiar: https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/112966152364902922

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

Jamessw@mastodon.cloud wrote:

After seeing how @zachleat and @mia have used Web Components, I'm super excited to chat with them about it on Winging It Live.

Tuesday, Aug 27 at 1pm ET

Select "Notify Me" on YT or subscribe to get an alert for the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9l-01cySkQ

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

Yeah...IDK...maybe don't *"experience seamless integration, optimized performance, and reduced bundle sizes"* from folks that can't even get their own marketing site out of "needs improvement" purgatory?

https://treo.sh/sitespeed/vercel.com?formFactor=phone

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• Vercel.com's CWV scores, according to treo.sh/sitespeed. It's a sea of "needs-improvement" and _barely_ passing metrics (aside from CLS, which isn't about performance as much as page structure). These are not people that know what they're talking about. (remote)

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

Did you know you can just drag an SVG file into the HTML field of a CodePen?

Feels magical every time.

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Medicare is negotiating Rx prices for the first time thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Biden-Harris admin announced today that prices for 10 of the most used drugs will be cut by as much as 80%, saving seniors and taxpayers billions.

Project 2025 would eliminate this.

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

If you liked @scottjehl's incredible free course on Web Performance with WPT[1] -- and who doesn't? -- it's great news that his new paid course on Web Components is up:

https://scottjehl.com//learn/webcomponentsdemystified/

This is the tech we need right now, particularly as we abandon the JavaScript-industrial-complex's addiction to language forks, compilers, bundlers, and user-land complexity. Moving back to the platform could not be more timely.

[1]: https://www.webpagetest.org/learn/lightning-fast-web-performance/

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

There are basically only two kinds of keycaps:

- Normal, boring key, but in a slightly different color than usual
- BRO THESE KEYCAPS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE FROM THE COCKPIT OF A MECH IN A SCI-FI ANIME DUDE LOOK AT THESE SICK JAPANESE LETTERS FUCKIN LEDS BRO

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argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

learn how the author (Heikki Lotvonen) accomplished this in this blog post

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/

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

argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

no pain syntax highlighting‽
- no JS
- no markup transformation or tokenization

how?
via **Colr Fonts** 💪

try it!
https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/GRbyNNv

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• ba0ce89588e36773.png (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:

This is the correct take @gruber. Given the choice between harming creators and damaging its relationship with a big tech giant, always choose protecting creators.

https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112956773688361140

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

Poor homestead planning.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/a-tragedy-in-the-making/

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• Paper wasps (Polistes) building in a bad location (remote)

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andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

Blog post - The Web is such an incredible expression of human creativity. We should be grateful for it and support those who build on it. #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload

http://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/14/i-love-the-web/

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TCatInReality ("TCatLikesReality") wrote:

Not enough attention paid to how extremely #Weird Trump's clothes are. Hair - yes. Absurd tan - yes. But now the #Guardian captures all the weirdness about his clothes.

#TrumpIsTooOld. #TrumpIsWeird

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/aug/15/donald-trumps-weird-clothes-from-shoulder-pads-to-extremely-long-ties-what-do-they-mean

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richardgrant ("Richard Grant") wrote:

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

Oh lordy this video is so good

https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/112966339646010850

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

flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Whoever is in charge of digital media for the Harris Walz campaign?

Give them the medal of freedom

Another home run! 🇺🇸

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• Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sitting around the table making me feel again I’m actually excited to vote!!!!

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

X/Twitter has a new AI image creator capability, and of course, it's starting out on the wrong foot with violent, dubious, and IP-stealing images. One user was able to create an AI image of #ElonMusk with an assault rifle in a very bloody classroom filled with children's bodies.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220173/xai-grok-image-generator-misinformation-offensive-imges

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ami.l.berger@threads.net ("Ami Berger") wrote:

At some point Kamala Harris is going to say something about hot flashes at a rally and the entire GOP will just collapse in on itself in a fiery heap like the house at the end of POLTERGEIST

RE: https://www.threads.net/@ami.l.berger/post/C-spnZxv5vz

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

elazar@phpc.social ("Matthew Turland") wrote:

CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good.
https://matthodges.com/posts/2024-08-12-csv-bad-dsv-good/

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

TIL about https://www.projectwallace.com/

Extremely cool

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

No one expects consistency from Megan McArdle!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/ok-megan-which-is-it/

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• Megan McArdle: People are shockingly good at visually distinguishing males from females, even when you choose relatively androgynous models, and even when you strip visual cues like hair. … Megan McArdle, a little later: My experience is that the people who misgender me are generally not really looking at me. They are store clerks, security guards, etc who have glanced my way, registered “tall”, converted that into “man”, and then called me “sir”. (remote)

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

He is correct. I'm feeling particularly inimical nowadays.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/teachers-soldiers-and-women-shouldnt-vote-for-these-guys/

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• "Professors are the enemy," says JD Vance, accurately. (remote)

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

Beginning to think "move slow and fix things" should be a standard greeting between people now. Maybe we need a response to go with it. One person says, "Move slow and fix things" (vulcan salute optional), and the second person says... 🤔

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

Movin' slow and fixin' things.

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seachanger@alaskan.social ("malena") wrote:

“a peek at the undulous innards tucked between their four-foot-long shells reveals sparkly blue flesh—that hosts what new research shows to be the most efficient solar panels that scientists have ever found”

@odaraia https://mastodon.green/@odaraia/112904518035771819

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siliconundergro@ioc.exchange ("Silicon Underground (Dave F)") wrote:

What was it like teaching Andy Warhol how to use a computer? One person alive can answer that question: former Commodore employee Jeff Bruette. He shared his stories with me a few days ago, which I collected in this blog post. #commodore #amiga #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/working-with-andy-warhol-jeff-bruettes-recollections/

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

Imagine how frustrated Elon Musk must feel, that all his money can't silence his daughter.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/hey-elon-this-is-how-youll-be-remembered/

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• Vivian Wilson (remote)

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Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

This is the *key* thing people don't understand about social media adoption.

Companies like Twitter / Facebook / SnapChat have *vast* teams of sales people. They offer support in setting up accounts, priority support lines, branding and moderation expertise.

Individuals mostly don't see that. So it appears that your local council just decided one day to join Twitter. They didn't - they were sold a product.

Mastodon's growth is (mostly) organic - and that has a limit.

https://mas.to/@natureworks/112866010008657148

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

Your blog does not need frameworks built for SPAs.

Your e-commerce "experience" should be progressively enhanced (no, that does not mean "SSR+huge bundles")

Your news website is not "an app".

Part 3 of my series on how JavaScript fucked over US public benefits services is up, and includes a handy rubric for "should we React?"

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/caprock/