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lkanies@hachyderm.io ("Luke Kanies") wrote:

Is AI a Silver Bullet? https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet

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• Text Shot: Brooks' hypothesis in “The Mythical Man Month” is that the nature of software development means that no further “order of magnitude” improvements to productivity remain to be found has proven remarkably solid despite forty years of software history. Claims made that LLMs will cause significant changes to software development can be tested against Brooks' argument. (remote)

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

phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:

In absolute awe of this shitpost by @heydon

https://heydonworks.com/article/css:-a-new-kind-of-javascript/

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

I really like Arca. It's like social media for curators? It's nice. A lot of people sharing really cool stuff from all over the web.

You can check me out on there. I have a couple referral codes if you want one. Just comment.

https://app.arca.so/fromjason

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

I'm looking for an elegant serif font for my #BearBlog. Any recommendations?

#fonts #webdesign

Also, this is my new blog (in addition to fromjason, not as a replacement). I'm challenging myself to post shorter notes with greater frequency.

Maybe those notes get turned into bigger pieces on my main blog idk.

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com

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

konnorrogers@ruby.social ("Konnor Rogers") wrote:

Frameworks: "Web components are ruining the web and shouldn't exist"

Web Components: "Yo dawg, leave us alone"

Frameworks: "Damn why are yall being so toxic? It was a well reasoned article."

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

I'm really sad to hear about #Cohost. I was reading through the hashtags and it sounded like it had an interesting culture.

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

Mark Zuckerberg: “Ship the app” - Internal Tech Emails:

"If Instagram continues to kick ass on mobile or if Google buys them, then over the next few years they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we’re doing now, and if they have a growing number of people’s photos then that’s a real issue for us." https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-ship-photos-app

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

joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

@slightlyoff The frameworks have chosen to build their entire component system outside the DOM, using the DOM purely as an output artifact, and then unsurprisingly struggle to retrofit things that are DOM-first. Web components are a threat to their fundamental assumptions of what the role of the DOM should be, and so they claim it threatens the web.

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

Trilobyter@mastodon.world wrote:

Clearing out all the past-their-prime zinnias from the front garden bed yesterday and this giant swallowtail showed up and hung around the lantana long enough for me to go grab my camera.

#SilentSunday #butterflies #butterfly #photography #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #ButterflyGardening #gardening

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• Color photo of a yellow giant and black giant swallowtail butterfly with spots of blue and red and white on the underside of the wings perched on a cluster of small red and yellow lantana flowers. (remote)

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

2024 JS framework authors and 2024 Frances Ford Coppola share the same technical aesthetic: does any of this technology make sense in context? Nope. Are we all going to pretend it does? Sure. Why? Fantasy.

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

JS framework authors are out here with "web components are a threat to the web!", by which they mean "my priors!"

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

I love our neighborhood

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• c21b849775048d6c.jpg (remote)
• 3c63a1f9a156219e.jpg (remote)

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

In the ongoing battle between YouTube and SESAC I kind of find myself wishing for both of the pesky middlemen to lose. I don't know what it would look like, I'm just wishing…

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/29/youtube-blocks-videos-from-adele-green-day-bob-dylan-others-in-dispute-with-sesac/

(No need to explain to me how the world works, it's just an emotional post.)

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

We should call Ryan's perspective what it is: platform NIMBYism. Pearl clutching over a non-threat that will, on balance, be good for him too. But he's too invested in the past too see it.

We aren't harming him (or any other framework author) by moving the debate up the stack. We're just declining to subsidise decadence further. Frameworks can create and derive value in the new world too, but holding up progress to make the comparison favourable isn't fair to users *or* developers.

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

Something unsaid here that I'd add: the idea that componentry should be exciting, or a location for groundbreaking new ideas (rather than just adding all the obvious stuff to web components at pace) is *wild*.

We have real frontend problems that need solving (looking at you, data sync); the internals of the lifecycle for upgrading angle brackets to JS objects aren't one of them. It's time to move on.

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

Go get 'em, Cory.

https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/web-components-are-not-the-future-they-re-the-present/

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ayo@ayco.io ("Ayo Ayco") wrote:

Walled gardens result to bad opinions, and often stream toward disbelief in the power of standardization. Ironically everyone benefits in the open web standards regardless of opinions

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

Today in History: Gene Autry born, 1907

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

How many of you consume articles and blog posts via some sort of text-to-speech tool?

I almost exclusively use Safari's "Listen to Page" feature for all long-form content. Even if I'm reading along. It helps with the ol' adhd brain I got.

Throughout any give day I may read five to ten articles while going on my daily walk, washing the dishes, cleaning, etc.

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

P.S. Feel free to use as a wallpaper!

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

Good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell

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

Westport jetty. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Westport+Jetty/@46.8963515,-124.1300292,13z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x549244ec1c4f2d15:0x870f9fb392467490!8m2!3d46.9060252!4d-124.1475018!16s%2Fg%2F11g81s4731?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

#photography #darktable

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• A jetty consisting of big boulders and driftwood, shot along its length, converging to a vanishing point between the blue skies and the blue sea. A surf is visible on the left side, and there's a couple of people on the jetty far away.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

If you're about to lose your job at 23 And Me anyway now that the company is dying and selling off its assets

Have you considered

Intentional corporate sabotage on your way out?

Do a little $ sudo rm -rdf /*

On a couple servers with customer data that's about to be sold

Depending on what absolute snake of a buyer is on the way, you might even save some lives

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

hankg@friendica.myportal.social ("Hank G ☑️") wrote:

Stolen from a Matrix chat room :) #humor #GeekHumor #DevHumor

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• Nginx's 502 Bad Gateway page,
But at the bottom there's a photo of a guy pointing at his router, making an angry face (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My latest New Scientist cartoon. Based on a true story. Well, the first panel is true, anyway.

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• Panel one. Caption: On the 28th of June 2009, Professor Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time-travellers, but he did not send out invites until the day after the party… no-one came. (This is entirely true) Panels 2-9. Images of various aliens, robots and other beings, all holding invites. Below each is an excuse for not attending the party: Babysitter cancelled, Had to work late, Timeship being fixed, Didn’t feel great, Had to be up early, Wormhole closed, Diary mix-up, Dog ate invite. (remote)

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

a thoughtful piece, a useful read on the externalities resulting from US firearms laws & Court decisions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/briefing/america-guns-crime-border.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU4.sDFv.3I6vK-7MOEpM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

‘New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”… the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees … in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president… [who] makes a $699,000 salary.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In the Boston Tea Party cafe, Bristol.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @NotFrauKadse
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

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• A black and white photo of a woman with long black hair, wearing shorts, a tanktop, and short boots, with tattoos on her arms and legs, sitting cross-legged in front of a cafe table and reading something on the phone.

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

JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:

Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.

Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.

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

Beautifully pithy summary of Chris Rufo.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/29/this-summary-of-chris-rufo-is-tight/

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• In case anyone forgot Chris Rufo posted a $5,000 bounty for a video of Haitians eating cats in Springfield then posted a video of unknown people with chicken on a grill in Canton then we remembered he was married to someone who came to the US illegally then it turned out he had an Ashley Madison account and he threatened to sue @lawindsor about it and said it was a lie but then @stevanzetti showed how the Ashley Madison database has gps coordinates for Topanga where Rufo lived at the time and then Rufo started deleting tweets about Topanga and wowza. (remote)