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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@beanclock It's like a URL shibboleth. Can't remember it? ... it wasn't for you. 😆
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@fromjason Mechanical Turks for the 21st century.
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
The number of web frameworks I've used that have routers that can't distinguish between `/foo` and `/foo/` is too damned high.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@ricmac It's always hard to find the single thing that sparks a long project arc, but one input into the process was a doc I wrote that compared the performance of Chrome and Edge WebUI surfaces on low-end devices, *with video*.
It took at least another year to start in earnest, and a lot of switchbacks have been traveled since, but never, ever underestimate the power of a side-by-side video that can be forwarded with a link.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This project has been a long, slow build, enabled by people like Mohammed Mansour and Andrew Ritz and Lisa Klink amd Chris Holt and Justin Slone and dozens of others across several years.
The alliances necessary to put the user first aren't self-assembling, but with the right values and a little bit of "what if?", we can make better more and more possible.
https://thenewstack.io/how-microsoft-edge-is-replacing-react-with-web-components/
/via @ricmac
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beanclock@jorts.horse ("Wilson "Beans Clock" Scraddock") wrote:
the number one thing you need to remember about setting up a website is thinking of a catchy url
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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@polotek @slightlyoff @fvsch feels like the issue is as you say a lack of empathy and social awareness. The solution to which is almost always collective action.
No individual unless very very senior can change the environment in companies that aren't putting users first. Collective action from an entire engineering team can.
But collective action starts with empathy, and social awareness and openness, the lack of which in many engineering teams is why we're in this situation to start with!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) will be closest to earth later today, at a distance of ~0.47 AU (71 million km).
It will become visible low in the western sky after sunset and it will rise higher but become dimmer each day for the rest of October.
Let's get our cameras and telescopes out and let's take some once-in-a-lifetime pics 📷 🔭
See https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203532178374641 for our coverage in late Sept. before the comet reached perihelion.
https://theskylive.com/planetarium?objects=sun-moon-c2023a3-mercury-venus-mars-jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-pluto&localdata=33.749%7C-84.38798%7CAtlanta%20GA%20(US)%7CAmerica%2FNew_York%7C0&obj=c2023a3&h=23&m=30&date=2024-10-20#ra|15.925383236364091|dec|-6.229499879936528|fov|80
http://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2023A3
1/n
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Tesla’s Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled By A Human The Whole Time:
"Robert Scoble, an AI enthusiast in attendance at the event, posted a video to Twitter of Optimus pouring drinks and waving to attendees. A second video, in which Scoble has a conversation with the bot’s operator and directly addresses the question of whether Optimus did anything autonomously at the party. The answer appears to be a resounding ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/12/teslas-beerserving-optimus.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
There is no solidarity without empathy.
One party is claiming to alleviate pain, and one party is saying the best they can do is not make it worse than the other guys.
Obviously, the former is lying. But that. Doesn't. Matter. We can expect at least some to buy into it.
When on fire, the person with waiving the hose at you looks more appealing than the person pointing out that they don't have a gas can.
It's been a decade since Trump. Maybe we try something new? #HarrisWalz2024
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
An ounce of good faith can make a world of difference.
Imagine, instead of scolding Black, Latino, and Arab voters for their hesitation in supporting Harris, white liberals all took to social media and said something like:
"My vote is for Harris, but I am not satisfied with the Democrats response to Police Reform/Immigration Human Rights/Palestinian Human Rights. So, I wrote a letter to the White House..."
Such a simple gesture would make the news. It would help us win. #HarrisWalz2024
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BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:
What product being enshitified pushed you over the edge?
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
it used to be, hackers would model trains. nowadays they train models
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ed Yong has a few good ideas.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/12/i-like-ed-yong-even-more-now/
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Here's the site https://urlshortenersaresoyesterdaytrythisamazingsuperlongurlexpander.site/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Dang it
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
macOS is now UNIX-certified
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/macos_15_is_unix/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
polpo@bitbang.social ("Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙") wrote:
Every time you take the card out you are greeted by longcat
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sold me
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josh@vickerson.me ("Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson") wrote:
You want a fast-growing dominant social network owned by a billionaire made to extort you for profit.
I want a thoughtfully-built, community-grown social ecosystem made to connect people.
We are not the same.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Scenes from a 60s childhood.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/1958-1969-the-video/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regard LB[1]: Not to be missed if you're into art like things. Cabel Sasser put up an archive of some of Wes Cook's art for all to see. A touching tribute.
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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:
Was sad to miss the final day of #xoxo2024, so I'm happy to see this video has landed!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
He's a grandmaster alright
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There's a lot more to say, but we can skip to the end: JS-first development is, in the main, classist and elitist.
There are pockets doing it better -- including some that are downright exceptional in their inclusion -- but they are the exception today.
We need to sit with that.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
...which means that the level at which rudeness is commercially viable is inversely proportional to aspirations for scale.
Making a site with Next at any point in the last decade has been a terrible idea if you weren't actively working to turn certain buyers away.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Why, you might ask, is there a reasonable complete subset of the IANA timezone database [1] being downloaded in the critical path of a food ordering website?
Inconsiderate development. Rudeness.
I've likened this to stores hiring anti-greeters; bouncers to tackle poor-looking users and prevent them from entering, rather than welcoming them. Might work selling Prada handbags, but Veblen goods [2] are a small fraction of the economy.
[1]: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Was trawling through a Superfund-worth trace from another high profile Next.js site, and realised that the best way to describe contemporary frontend is **inconsiderate**.
That is, nobody considered the consequences of their choices, including now-pervasive inattention to users on the margins.
Devs don't *mean* to do a terrible job (although that's the result), it's just that nobody is looking where they're going, and when the crash happens, Karen-style blame-shifting takes over.
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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
The first four minutes of @cabel's talk were kind of a sweet, cheerful revisiting and update of ideas from his previous talk and a check-in on Panic, which is great—and then the McDonald's mural arrived and everything took a TURN
I don't think I've ever needed to do a "no spoilers!!" warning before about a talk, but if you can go into this cold, do