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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love this man
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Really need to write the "NPM is frontend's partially hydrogenated corn syrup" post.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
AI is taking over with bland, algorithmic content, so what’s left for us humans?
Simple: go completely fucking insane.
The future of creativity lies in absurdity, and shitposting is the new avant-garde.
https://joanwestenberg.com/shitposting-our-way-through-the-singularity
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
One of the things that makes no-ads, no-profit-motive social media possible is *acknowledging* that creating a social space is demanding and expensive - that some communities might dissolve - and planning ahead of time for that.
I've been on a number of message boards and moderated newsgroups. Nothing lasts forever. The important thing isn't a forever service; it's a combination of preserving what's there (which Cohost is doing) and providing people a way to exit gracefully.
3/?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
castarco@hachyderm.io ("Andreu Casablanca 🐀") wrote:
@slightlyoff I suspect you may have read this article already, but as a reference for others... this is somehow related (as in half-assed es5 backwards support is bloating the web for no good reason):
https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-state-of-es5-on-the-web/
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MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:
@Dany @tilde @paninid One of the ways Japanese nobility communicated was by sending each other short poems called waka (imagine Tweets but also with a required syllable structure). They also had a bunch of poetic conventions drawn from old poetry anthologies, native mythology, and Chinese classics that they were all expected to know and use.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
If you think about it etymologically "villain" and "burger" are the same word
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadness, a light has gone out of our world:
“…abandoned as a child by his parents, raised by a racist grandmother and mute for years in his stutterer’s shame… he learned to speak again with a herculean will.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
scott@sfba.social ("Scott Murray") wrote:
“Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something” by @fromjason
Every once in a while, someone writes a clear-headed, forceful, just-angry-enough and just-foulmouthed-enough (but not too much so) rant about the state of the #Internet that is a joy to read. This is that rant.
(Apparently this was published in March, but I missed it then. Still very applicable now.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mordremoth@lgbt.io ("Amelia") wrote:
One of my absolute favorite quotes of all time, and a central guiding idea in who I've chosen to become in my own life:
"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..."
(Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's good, I suppose, that a lifestyle electronics brand is adding accessibility features to its high-end headphones, but y'all, it's still a $250 luxury electronics purchase. I'm not sure the bar has really been lowered much here.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:
i know we all got sold on 'isomorphic' or whatever but littering code with conditionals is the definition of spaghetti code. looking code like 'use server' or isNode or likewise reeks of problems in an uncanny valley no compiler can fix.
we separate concerns for these very good reasons!
its cool if the language is the same that doesn't mean the logic is or even should be between client and backend.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
@brianleroux yes! Isomorphic JS was a mistake
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:
Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards - Adrian Roselli:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/09/semi-annual-reminder-to-learn-and-hire-for-web-standards.htmlAn enhancement to accessible responsive tables - tempertemper:
https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/an-enhancement-to-accessible-responsive-tablesImproving the Screen Reader Experience for Learn WCs - Component Odyssey:
https://component-odyssey.com/articles/12-improving-the-screen-reader-experience-for-learn-wcsThe Ultimate Guide to Font Performance Optimization - Anna Monus @ DebugBear:
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/website-font-performance
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC, what bigoted morons:
"Reacting to reports that pets were being stolen in Springfield, JD Vance posted, "Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country. Where is our border czar?"
...the Springfield Police said there was no report of pets being stolen and eaten."
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/jd-vance-speaks-up-for-cats-turns-out-it-was-for-a-conspiracy-theory/ar-AA1qgpoM
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Drywall does a pretty good job for its intended purpose (hold paint while pretending to be a solid wall), but I sure wish more people understood that it's just soft rock held together with paper and you shouldn't try to hang much on it.
Also, while drywall does solve the problem it is intended to solve, I hate having to repair the dang stuff. At some point you just have to tear it all up and start over. :(
(This complaint brought to you in part by a 6yo attempting to swing from a towel rack.)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For the avoidance of doubt, that was 300K *COMPRESSED*, so something like 1.5MB of JS source.
The worst thing the Reactors ever did was to convince people that their own dreams of infinite network and CPU abundance into the future were real, when in fact they were just playing themselves.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
rachelnabors@toot.cafe ("Rachel Lee Nabors") wrote:
So I'm making an "intro to web development as a career" course for O'Reilly, and I want to get some quotes of real folks working in web development to sprinkle in the slides. If you'd like to be featured/help me out/share your story with newcomers to this field, I'd be so happy if you'd fill out this wee form: https://forms.gle/qW3wNvvHeZ2cqGB5A
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's 2024, the web platform now includes a full component system, CSS we only dreamed of 10 years ago, deferred module loading is now a platform feature, and a fuller JS standard library than it ever...even in Safari!
And yet.
Today I was told unironically that 300K of JS was a hard target to hit for first load of a simple-ish experience.
I am verklempt.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
veerlepieters ("Veerle Pieters") wrote:
🚴🏻 What is behind the physics of a bicycle?
This interactive article explains it all in great detail.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
joelanman@hachyderm.io ("Joe Lanman") wrote:
Just remembered something - GOV.UK Design Principles used to start like this:
1. Start with needs*
* user needs not government needsbut when the list was replicated (as it was, a lot) this first most important point often came out as:
1. Start with needs
Which is just not right, and could actually lead directly to what it was trying to avoid (government needs). I suggested the change to "Start with user needs" which is what we have now.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Hah, today I learnt that the wireframe 'CGI' in Escape from New York, used for Snake Plissken to make a stealthy glider entry into the lawless prison island by air, was actually 'faked' by building a model of Manhattan covered in reflective tape. In 1981 this was the cheaper solution for a movie with limited budget
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't need to watch the stupid debate tomorrow, because one of the participants is hopeless, making it a waste of time.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
eklektikos@mastodon.uno ("🖖 εκᴧεκτικός :fediverso:") wrote:
Il primo equipaggio che partirà per Marte tra 4 anni is the new entro il 2018 Tesla sarà dotata di guida completamente autonoma. 😆
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- Post di Elon Musk su X: "The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years. Being multiplanetary will vastly increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, as we will no longer have all our eggs, literally and metabolically, on one planet." (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Total Replay v5.2 is out. It features 502 Apple II games (200 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay
Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.2
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past five years.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Brands commenting under viral videos made by small creators feels like... theft? It's an advert without payment.
Imagine your painting displayed in an art gallery, then some executive walks by and slaps a Taco Bell logo underneath it with a 👍
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timClicks@mastodon.nz ("Tim Clicks") wrote:
A new #rustlang tip is live on my site https://timclicks.dev/tip/how-to-accept-a-file-as-a-command-line-argument-in-rust
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The federation concept is dope. Big fan. But this emerging worldview that "all connection is good connection" regardless of implementation or even an ounce of thoughtfulness, is bizarre.
To me, it feels like VC growth-at-all-cost religion repackaged. Big Boz memo vibes. It's giving "your safety is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
Where's this weird urgency coming from? What deadline are we trying to meet that demands such thoughtless action, and subsequent unabashed defending?
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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:
i think both sides are to blame here
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Mastodon FeedBrowser benchmarks used to be much better: