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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
decarpentier_nl@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Giliam de Carpentier") wrote:
Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
https://decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info. (Or come see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 14 & 15 Sept.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
This, Radicle, is what I've been working on for the past year, though most of my efforts are going into adding CI support to @radicle . That's not part of the 1.0.0 release, but it's coming. I even wrote an article for @LWN about Radcicle.
I now only use Radicle for my personal Git hosting, and I am satisfied that it works for me. It might work for you.
Try "rad debug" which is something I made.
https://toot.radicle.xyz/@radicle/113113084558432607
https://lwn.net/Articles/966869/
https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.liw.fi/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Searching for a Sustainable Future
@Meyerweb and @bkardell chat with colleague @seaotta about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
The main aspect of the PERQ machines that sticks in my brain is the C compiler's use of graphics RAM, causing the display to go weird during compilation. Yet another example of my interest in sensory experiences more than CS, I suppose. 😸
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
give them each a microphone
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The value of his 57 percent stake in Trump Media — which he was given primarily in exchange for lending his name and support to the platform — has fallen by $4 billion since the company’s Wall Street debut in March.
Trump Media is losing tens of millions of dollars each quarter and struggling to generate sufficient advertising revenue from Truth Social to justify even its current lower valuation.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…Mr. Trump is now the oldest person ever to run for president on a major party ticket and, if he wins, would become the oldest president in history by the end of his term, when he would be 82. While he managed to sidestep questions about his own capacity while Mr. Biden was his opponent, the rival he will square off against at Tuesday’s prime-time debate in Philadelphia will be Vice President Kamala Harris, who at 59 is nearly two decades younger.”
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
My toxic trait is that I believe that if a site can't be bothered to gzip it's MB+ of JS, browsers shouldn't bother to load it.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
They're hanging out.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Don't let these people gaslight you or your team. They might not be trying to get one over on you, but that doesn't mean they have any idea what they're talking about.
And yes, this effect gets *worse* the fancier the titles are, not better.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I *frequently* have the experience of telling folks that they can pull in some components from a Web Components design system (Fluent WC v3, or Material, or Spectrum, or Web Awesome), only to have people who *were just telling me that 45KB is "not a lot" for a framework* get cold feet at the idea that there might be 5-10K of library coming along for the ride.
So then you press a little...ok, so if size is an issue...will you *at least* switch to Preact?
🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As a result, they construct an echo chamber that *assumes* framework choice is totalising. That the idea of sharing componentry from multiple frameworks *must* be unwieldy and expensive. And then they perpetuate those entirely falsified premises to the next set of bootcamp grads.
They're constantly erecting mini-shrines to IE 9, and let me tell y'all...it had some real upsides, but it wasn't a good enough browser to be worth *this* sort of veneration.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Writing a post on how frontend technology choice-making is extremely broken in 2024, even on the Lemon Vendors [1] own terms, and I ran across the perfect word to describe how the React ecosystem is trapped in a legacy cage of its own continual re-making: stovepiping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stovepiping
Folks trapped in these priors spout zombie ideas and undead arguments because they've never experienced the modern web as developers. Not really.
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A reminder that if Mozilla can build Firefox's entire UI in Web Components, and if Chromium browsers can power a huge fraction of the UI with them, they're good enough for your website.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
gallaugher@mastodon.world wrote:
Someone just called the CyberTruck a “Deplorean”. Chuckling.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
jgreig@ioc.exchange ("Jon Greig") wrote:
As a Haitian-American I am appalled and terrified at what we're seeing today.
Elected officials, using their verified government accounts (even the US HOUSE JUDICIARY ACCOUNT) are spreading a story that is provably false in order to stoke violence against Haitians. This was literally outlined in the DOJ documents about the Russian efforts to spread misinformation.
Every Haitian in America that I know is terrified. I just don't know how we address something like this when half (if not more) of our country is willing to act on straight-up disinformation
What are we supposed to do? How can you ever get through to people that would believe stuff like this?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff I am basically at the point now where I've been burned by 3rd party dependencies enough that I basically assume that using anything from npm is like lighting a fuse that'll explode at some undetermined time in the future.
How many active fuses are you willing to light today? How many have you extinguished? How likely is imminent time absorbing doom for your project?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this piece fits my feelings
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadly, there are still adherents of this view of the world
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh, a love song
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love this man
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Really need to write the "NPM is frontend's partially hydrogenated corn syrup" post.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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.
/1
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)
