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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

Some huge @eleventy core package size wins today from a few small changes after analyzing the package using @antfu’s Node Modules Inspector

https://node-modules.dev/

Retiring unnecessary Node.js version back-compat is a good thing!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
henry@front-end.social ("henry ✷") wrote:

📝 new quick note on the blog: bunch of one-liners (or three-liners) for when you have `2025-03-02T01:38:41.969Z` and you want to render `March 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM` :)

https://henry.codes/writing/human-readable-date-formatting-with-vanilla-javascript/

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

The free speech absolutists want to end free speech. Fortunately, all protests at my university are legal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/i-thought-they-were-free-speech-absolutists/

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

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

TIL Elvira lives in Portland:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/03/elvira-portlands-mistress-of-the-dark-sends-tesla-down-the-highway-to-hell-in-viral-video.html

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Plain text is accessible text. Fortunately I don’t see too many people using faux bold/italic Unicode stuff around here, but if you want to understand the accessibility implications of using those decorative characters, check out the videos in this thread.

https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114100694128656656

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

https://xoxo.zone/@BrianEnigma/114105485487128307

https://americaisgoinggreat.com/

#USPol #Trump

Boosted by jwz:
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I don't know who needs this, but 2 baby eagles just hatched in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

@hpj @djsundog

This Is Just To Say

I have shaved
the yak
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning
to shave yourself

Forgive me
it was so tempting
so rough
and so hairy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hpj@mstdn.social wrote:

@djsundog Shaving this yak was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. The yak is still present in your time, as it was in ours.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Bronwyn@sfba.social ("Bronwyn Harris") wrote:

Today I worked with a third grader on multiplication. I told him that zero was an easy one to remember because it made all other numbers turn to zero. 4 x 0? Zero. A million times zero? Zero. I said, "Zero is a bully that way."

He said, "But in addition, zero never gets anywhere. It doesn't change a number at all. I think that's how it became evil; the wretched origin of zero." (yes, he really said that)

I said, "That sounds like a great story to write.

His eyes LIT UP and he said, "Please can I write that story?" When I agreed, he said "THIS is why I LOVE going to Bronwyn!"

The story is barely started but includes the lines:

“Zilch had a wretched soul because nobody wants to be zilch”

(That was because it doesn’t change the number in addition)

"But one day he discovered ’times’ and what it can do” (change all the other numbers to zero)

And then zilch laughs an evil laugh.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kathimmel@mstdn.social ("it's kat! 🇵🇸✊") wrote:

if you need a soundtrack for just walking down the road, this is probably it.
#music #musique #guyBoyer #moog #france
https://vreemdeopties.bandcamp.com/track/aventure-et-tambourin
('aventure et tambourin' - guy boyer, 1973)

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

Old ways are still valid, and there are new ways left unexplored.

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

Relying on a typical growth-and-profit-are-the-only-priorities corporations to archive, organize, curate, and access knowledge was a bad idea, but that doesn't mean it's not possible to archive, organize, curate, and access knowledge in other ways. I don't think we've (yet) lost knowledge, it's just the corps. we've recently been relying on have proven to be unworthy for the responsibility they assumed for themselves (and which we granted them). We can do it differently now.

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

good

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/03/aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-courts-and-legal-profession/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MLClark@wandering.shop ("M. L. Clark") wrote:

Today I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at our home. Or maybe not long enough?

We live on Orion-Cygnus, a minor arm of a sprawling galaxy, which is itself a drop in the bucket for galaxies all over.

And we only get a few years here to learn as much as we can, witness as much as we can, help as much as we can.

Every moment lost to mediocrity, cruelty, pettiness...

The universe doesn't care how we make use of our brief moments here.

Which is why we have to.

This is all we've got.

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

Does anyone else remember Charles Laughton in this old movie? Classic. Now playing on K2-360b.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/interesting-planet-but-not-on-my-tourism-itinerary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQJdf8HeUw

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Brrrkhardt ❄️") wrote:

🌸🌹🌻 Tuesday is Day 4 of the Battle of the Blooms! 💐🌼🌷

PICK TODAY’S WINNING FLOWER:

Will it be

(7) Tulip
or
(8) Calla Lilly

See replies for pictures.

👉 Remember, there’ll be a new poll every day during the month of March!

#craft
#PaperCraft
#Origami
#MarchMadness
#BloomScrolling
#Flowers

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Update: The original behavior, automatically installing the toolchain from `rust-toolchain.toml`, will be restored in rustup 1.28.1, to be released soon.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Working through adding webmention support to my site, finally. I didn't love the existing solutions I found for adding them to static sites, so naturally, I rolled my own: https://github.com/chipotle/get-mentions

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rustup 1.28.0 has been released! ✨

This release comes with many improvements and additions.

For those using `rustup` in CI: Please note that rustup 1.28.0 will not automatically install the toolchain from `rust-toolchain.toml`, so make sure to run `rustup toolchain install` if necessary.

See the blog post for all the updates: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/02/Rustup-1.28.0.html

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

if you are thinking about the future of ‘AI’ then you need to listen to & think about this episode

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000697606428

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

When the only tool you've got is an axe, everything goes on the chopping block.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/easier-to-predict-than-the-weather/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Very well written optimization story, and I like the dedication to squeezing every last byte. The author optimizes a dataset the point it's an overkil, and then keeps going:
https://gendignoux.com/blog/2025/03/03/rust-interning-2000x.html

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

More OC doodles from the backlog! I just love such fluffy coats, so I put Olivia in one. 😊

#MastoArt #sketch #doodle #drawing #sketchbook #penDrawing #markerDrawing #shadowrun #portrait #pointyEars

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

Today must be arrogant creationist day, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/furious-overconfidence-does-not-counter-the-evidence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B97g3lpixkU

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

I got into a discussion with Aron Ra about gene family evolution.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/a-creationist-denies-molecular-evolution/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqhsHEKO5W0

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ctb31 ("Craig Bradley") wrote:

My latest #globaltalk connected devices for #MARCHintosh. An SE/30 running System 7.1, a PowerBook G3 running Mac OS 9.1, a PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and a #newton eMate running Newton OS 2.0. All can see all zones and can download files. Next up will be a bit trickier - an Apple IIGS (which I have connected to GlobalTalk before) and an Apple IIe with an Apple Workstation card.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heyheymomo@socel.net wrote:

To all the wizards out there please take some time to charge your mana today

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

🚙 For the car enthusiasts out there, a very cool vintage Italian: the Fiat Campagnola.

#fiat #cars