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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

petition to rename the 'dark web' to the 'spoopy internets'. 100,000 signatures and i will personally battle Bari Weiss in Tekken 4

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

LinkedIn is out here with some s-tier trolling, y'all.

Attachments:

• LinkedIn notification with the text: "You’re one of a few experts invited to answer: Struggling to meet tight project deadlines with new web technologies?" (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:

in this time of great trial for the internet ecosystem, we turn to the sacred texts for guidance

(memes, i'm talking about memes)

#WordPress

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• Scene from Thor Ragnarok split into three parts. Hela, with the text 'Wordpress' overlaid on top, says 'You can't defeat me'. Thor, relabelled 'Any Other CMS', retorts 'I know, but he can.' The last panel is a giant explosion-y fire demon, labelled Matt Mullenweg. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Not WebFlow with the timely email lol

#WordPress

Attachments:

• Addressing industry controversy: our commitment to a better web Josh Grant here, VP of Growth Marketing at Webflow. As someone who has led web teams for the past decade, I understand that recent discussions within the WordPress ecosystem have understandably raised concerns among web teams, marketers, developers, and businesses who rely on content management systems. While we respect the various platforms available, we recognize that this moment calls for reflection on what truly matters: empowering customers with tools that are reliable, intuitive, trusted, and forward-thinking. Webflow stands ready as a stable, trustworthy, future-proof alternative for anyone considering the next step in their digital journey.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

chikorita157@sakurajima.moe ("chikorita157 🐰:unverified:") wrote:

The latest on Matt Mullenweg running WordPress into the ground by tinystepsforward (post viewable on Goblin Band)

autocrattic (more matt shenanigans, not tumblr this time)

https://goblin.band/notes/9ym5ex26qkjh34nm

#wordpress

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us ("Charlie McHenry") wrote:

So according to Zuck, #Meta is going to deploy its newly minted #AI to generate personalized images in our feeds on #Facebook and #Instagram. Uh-huh, it’s a thing people. But as Casey Newton pointedly observes: “…if Meta moves too quickly, pumping the feed full of cheap AI-generated content risks giving the company’s core products the feel of an abandoned amusement park.” #Brutal

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

etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:

Insides and Outsides – “Sentient Sky”

Well-produced, atmospheric synthwave with plenty of drive and vibes to spare.

https://insidesandoutsides.bandcamp.com/track/sentient-sky

@miketorr

@electronicmusic

#synthwave

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org ("Sean Tilley") wrote:

Look, I’m going to be completely honest. Some aspects of today’s events, and some elements leading up to it, have given me bad vibes. I’m not trying to assasinate Evan’s character or make him look like a bad person, but I want to characterize some of the dynamic problems I’m seeing from coopting “The Social Web” as a term, and equating it, #Fediverse, and #ActivityPub as all one-and-the-same.

I might get flamed for sharing this, but I have to be honest about what I really think, and why I have some problems stomaching how things are happening.

https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

emaytch ("margot") wrote:

you don’t want “the old internet,” you want a space that hasn’t been colonized by capital

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Mark *needs* VR/AR hardware to be the next phone to escape Apple's hardware prison.

And it just occurred to me that the Apple Vision Pro is Cupertino's first "concept car," a muscle-flex that shows consumers that Apple is capable of leading them into a post-smartphone world. And that any other hardware is second rate.

https://www.theverge.com/24253481/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ar-glasses-orion-ray-bans-ai-decoder-interview

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

@beverloo @owa And there isn't an install or sync button from `chrome://webapks/`. What is going on, y'all?

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

“… they don’t like us much, either.”
“Whyever not?” said Lord Selachii.
“Well, because during our history those we haven’t occupied we’ve tended to wage war on,” said Lord Vetinari. “For some reason the slaughter of thousands of people tends to stick in the memory.”
“Oh, history,” said Lord Selachii. “That’s all in the past!”
“A good place for history, agreed,” said the Patrician solemnly

- from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett

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

@beverloo @owa And is prompted install broken? The only PWAs offering install in 128 after install + sync seem to be those that have custom `onbeforeinstallprompt` UI

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

@beverloo Even with Chrome sync turned on, the only browser that can install real PWAs *still* doesn't offer one-tap restore. Why not?

/cc @owa

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

@beverloo And so begins another round of "hunting for half my apps, then manually reinstalling them, because Android"

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

It is *wild* that, in 2024, PWAs do not restore correctly when setting up a new Android device.

@beverloo, is this *ever* going to get fixed?

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

Actually, I take it back: what Matt Mullenweg is doing is *even worse* than any of those examples, because in those scenarios, it's just two for-profit businesses going at it.

Matt, on the other hand, is wielding his power over the nonprofit #wordpress foundation (which should exist, in part, to *prevent* situations like this one) in order to directly benefit his own for-profit company, in a way that's impossible to retaliate against and an obvious conflict of interest abuse.

Fire Matt.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

blueghost@mastodon.online ("Blue Ghost") wrote:

WriteFreely is a blogging platform.

Google Blogger alternative.

Supports ActivityPub (fediverse).
Supports RSS.
Supports SEO.
Supports anonymous posting.
Supports Let's Encrypt certificates.
Supports hosted instances.
Supports self-hosted instances.

Host via Tor Onion Service.

No advertisements.
Minimalist design.
Schedule posts to be published at a future date.

Website: https://writefreely.org
Mastodon: @writefreely @write_as

#WriteFreely #WriteAs #Blog #Anonymity #Privacy #Tor #deGoogle

Attachments:

• WriteFreely logo. (remote)

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

If someone has asked you to build them a component that is going to be embedded on someone else's web page, you have a duty of care to be minimally invasive to the performance, accessibility, and utility of that greater experience.

750KB/3MB for a totally optional chat widget *that doesn't do anything until you click in anyway*, is dereliction of duty. Including a full-fat copy of a heavyweight, legacy desktop oriented framework is *failure* from the word "go".

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

This chat widget is *absolutely* losing this Major Cloud Vendor money. I guarantee it. They won't know how much until they run the A/B, but it's more than zero, and likely more than they make from it.

And that's the least of its problems. Frontend, as a profession, needs to be better than this. We each can push back, dig into the use-cases, and ask "why is this good for the user?"

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

At a product level, this is malpractice. At an engineering level, it's enabling the worst instincts of our generation's "acceptable" PM class. It should be beneath any self-respecting engineer to participate in building something so horribly constructed, nevermind conceptually misbegotten.

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

This is not -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the content of the page. It is a thirsty-ass widget that appears after you have loaded the page (but competes with the page for wire and CPU resources) to show you a little "unread count" bubble that you did not ask for and cannot ignore.

At ~750K, this is almost 20% of the page's 4MB (wire, 18MB unzipped) payload. Rotten to the core.

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

Friend shared a chonky landing page for a Major Cloud Vendor's offerings...and y'all, I don't think anyone has internalised how high on their own supply the contemporary JS community is.

It takes some cirrostratus levels of disconnectedness to believe your `chatbot.js` is fine when it clocks in at ~750K (wire, 3MB unzipped) INCLUDING ITS OWN COPY OF REACT, lodash, every polyfill you've ever heard of, and 269 embedded `data:image/...` URLs.

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

In less than 30 minutes I'll be running a breakout session about WinterCG in TPAC. You can join remotely if you're interested! https://people.igalia.com/abotella/pub/TPAC-2024-WinterCG/ #tpac2024

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

JFC, welcome to 1877:

“Injuries reported after explosion rocks California courthouse”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/explosion-california-courthouse-michael-jackson-was-tried-rcna172689

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

javi@goblin.band wrote:

It looks Matt Mullenweg has ordered WordPress.org servers (managed by automattic) to block servers using the IP ranges owned by WP Engine.

That means that people trying to use wordpress servers installed in WP Engine servers can't no longer access to plugins, themes, or updates, for example

This is despicable.

This is breaking entirely with the principles of open source. It's ghoulish.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

We love a good opinionated piece, especially if it's from the 90s by perhaps the best and most prolific ̶b̶l̶o̶g̶ weblog ever written.

1996— "Please stop using the term “web log” to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is “weblog”. Furthermore, “blog” is not short for “web log”, it is short for “weblog”."

#blog #weblog #SocialWeb

http://www.kottke.org/03/08/its-weblog-not-web-log

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

You know what’s mad about the future? It’s likely you could swallow and shit 2TB of data in one go without any discomfort.

Yes that’s how I rationalise the increasingly ridiculous density of data storage.

Obvs don’t do this.

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• A SanDisk 2TB micro SD card (remote)

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

Imagine if Apple decided to block anyone with a gmail address from accessing the app store.

Imagine if AWS shut down your app if you used Shopify.

Imagine if Microsoft blocked GitHub for Macs.

This is the exact kind of thing Matt Mullenweg is doing in #wordpress, and it's utterly indefensible. No matter what you believe about WP Engine, their customers—members of the community Matt claims to care about—don't deserve this.

Matt needs to be removed immediately.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

whoisryosuke@threads.net ("Ryosuke") wrote:

TIL you can embed videos on GitHub if you use webm or mov files. Way higher quality and efficient than using a GIF.

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• Photo by Ryosuke on September 24, 2024. May be an image of piano and text. (remote)