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

I was typing the phrase "tie breaker" but accidentally typed "toe breaker" and then spent far too long pondering how ties and toes are both things that can be broken.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

CSS Functions will soon be available, and it's time to confuse JS developers (and maybe backend developers) a bit.

No, they are not the same as in JS. Like with CSS properties, the order inside doesn't matter and we can write everything in reverse. 🙃

Demo: https://codepen.io/t%5Fafif/pen/MYwMaYE via @codepen (Chrome-only with experimental flag enabled)

#CSS #HTML

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Northern Minnesota, mid-1920s.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/03/the-family-of-antique-names/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
link@twink.men ("link (t)wink :neocat_floof_kisser:") wrote:

GUYS
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

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

I was cleaning up some tabs and came across:

https://probot.bandcamp.com/album/probot

I saw the artist picture and was like, "Takes some audacity to use Dave Grohl's likeness..." But then I was reading the liner notes and at the end it was signed by a Dave Grohl... And so I finally did a search, and what do you know, it is a Dave Grohl project!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probot

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip ("Volpeon :wvrnFlight:") wrote:

IT FUCKEN WIMDY

Attachments:

• video: A peregrine falcon sitting in its nest. It's trying to reposition itself as the wind starts blowing, flipping it over on its back and revealing 3 eggs. It manages to get back on its feet and sits back down on the eggs.

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

Speaking of #darktable … Here's the comparison of the almost unedited file vs. the final result. Here's what changed:

- added saturation
- removed the blue-ish highlight on the cat's face (daylight is a bitch!)
- lightened the shadow side of the face
- cat's eyes are greener
- the wall is darker and more orange to create the mood
- sharpened + exaggerated texture of the whole thing a little

This was fun!. I don't know why anyone would want some AI do it for them.

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

Cat. She holds herself as if she owns the place. Which she kind of does.

#darktable #cat #photography

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

this_is_fine.gif

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

Is Android totally out of ideas? Who can say.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Welcome to my blog. Like and subscribe for updates.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

just thinking about when you drink from a glass, you're drinking a liquid out of a (much slower moving) liquid.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

#Dillo release size over time, constrained by the size of a single #floppy disk. We still have some room left.

I suspect the big increase in 3.1.0 is mostly caused by adding a screenshot in the readme (136 KiB).

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

The status.log app is by @jmj and remains one of my favorite iOS apps ever. If you haven’t picked it up yet and are looking for a fun way to enjoy omg.lol’s Statuslog and picture sharing stuff, check it out! https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6444921793?pt=242757&ct=jmj.omg.lol&mt=8

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

Finally getting around to customizing some app icons. 💛

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Most recently, I've been trying to make some REST APIs available via an OpenAPI spec. My company has chosen a code-first approach, with a framework that:

* Requires that you use annotations to add type information to *classes*
* Does not check that the TypeScript types match the annotated types. (Because, AFAICT, you can't.)
* DOES NOT DO ANY RUNTIME TYPE VALIDATION based on all of the types you have had to meticulously, redundantly annotate.

So for runtime validation, redefine everything! 😭

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Most of my recent #TypeScript experience has been with #Deno where handling of TypeScript/types is built-in to the runtime itself.

But now that I'm delving into NodeJS-centric ecosystem a bit more, I am *constantly* surprised at how loosely people will use the term "type-safe".

In that realm, "type-safe" apparently means… has some types. But it doesn't mean the types are accurate, useful, or even validated at runtime.

The number of <T = any> generic params I've seen is … disappointing.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
pirateradiomap@toot.community ("David Goren") wrote:

Hey, it's the 7th anniversary of my crazy project: The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map...

#brooklyn #pirate #radio #sound #map

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/mapping-brooklyns-diverse-pirate-radio-scene

If you'd like to help support the further development of the map, I've popped in my Ko-fi link below. With gratitude I'll send you a custom BPRSM post card suitable for putting on yer fridge and an hour of the some of the best station IDs and jingles!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jaz@toot.wales ("jaz :twt: :wales_flag:") wrote:

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #4

Three countries that consider #Rugby their national sport also have dedicated Mastodon services, supporting those three nations' local culture and communities:

#Madagascar #Madagasikara
#NewZealand #Aotearoa
#Wales #Cymru

Correlation is not causation, but we might be on to something here. Do the shared values of teamwork and community extend from the pitch to the Fediverse?

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ThreeOhFour ("Ben Chandler") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

The Highlight API is now Baseline Newly Available since Firefox 140!
No more spans to highlight bits of text.

Took 3 yrs since we shipped in Chromium (short by web platform standards). Stocked that it's supported across engines!

https://css-tricks.com/css-custom-highlight-api-early-look/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS%5FCustom%5FHighlight%5FAPI

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The space grog is flowing freely at this pirate shack. Another edition of the Infinite Thread is open.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/02/infinite-thread-xxxvi/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

The US cutting the delivery of essential weapons to Ukraine confirms that the US is no longer a reliable NATO-ally, shortly after the NATO-summit where continuing support of Ukraine was agreed upon. The Baltics states are rightly worried, no way Trump will risk war for defending them.
#usa #nato #ukraine #baltics #geopolitics @geopolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs and more

https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-summer-school-english-language-grants-fac670e8f60fab397fbd68dfed866ea1

jwz wrote:

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

Boosted by jwz:
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

Strong Password Policy 101

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

$ run-simple-tool

“Hi! Let’s set up your profile, connect your contacts, and gamify your clipboard!”

$ kill -9

Boosted by jwz:
feliks@chaos.social wrote:

yarrrr

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@inthehands All three proposals are acceptable.

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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

Attachments:

• video: Zohran Mamdani summarizes the primary victory one week after the election