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

This post by @nolan gnaws at me every time I think about our lack of session-depth-weighting in most aspects of web development. The caveats around first-runs and JITs are only the tip of the iceberg: I see many apps with shocking amounts of JC at bad times, and almost no web benchmark runs enough code to this this.

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/13/the-greatness-and-limitations-of-the-js-framework-benchmark/

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sjwallin@rankett.net ("Sarah Wallin Huff") wrote:

"Sweet Camila" by Sarah Wallin Huff - Live Debut

https://rankett.net/w/7iyuaKKmetqUHk6chAEnm3

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robn@social.lol ("Rob 💚") wrote:

My recent post about an #OpenZFS bug generated some really interesting conversation. I've tried to summarise and respond to some of it. Phew!

https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-07-13-an-openzfs-bug-and-the-humans-that-made-it-comments/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I released my tool for serving #gemini text over http.

https://jsr.io/@nfnitloop/gemi

It’s very simple. But that’s partly the point.

#smallweb #projectgemini #geminiproject #geminiprotocol #gemtext

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lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Season 2 gifs!?

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phillmv@hachyderm.io wrote:

@too_little_caffeine @slightlyoff rss didn’t die it was killed

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

Convinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and added on-click "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.

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

memories

https://music.apple.com/us/album/old-man-live/218213938?i=218213946

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

Helpless (Live at Massey Hall 1971) by Neil Young

https://pandora.app.link/Ds5NqzSXYUb

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

ahhh

Clay Pigeons by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/lK6FlWCXYUb

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.

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

The Lucky One by Alison Krauss & Union Station

https://pandora.app.link/eAGYjnHWYUb

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

That's The Way The World Goes Round by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/w3k9A1oWYUb

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tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Just Tom...") wrote:

Leakey's second hand bookshop in Inverness. The largest second hand bookshop in Scotland.

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hiscursedness@mastodon.art ("Nick!") wrote:

Reminder that pressing CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+WIN+L is real and it CAN hurt you.

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sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

Not to be flippant but evolution did see to it that we're really good at getting food off of trees & bushes. We have a rather meaningful several-million-year head start over the robots here.

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Did you ever notice how every “disruptive” business idea contains the seeds of its own destruction? All these “revolutionary” ideas like AirBNB, Uber, self-driving cars, delivery vanbikes that can (ab)use bicycle lanes, restaurant reservation flipping services et cetera…. These all work if a few people do it, but break society when everybody does. AI slop is the same, it puts one person ahead of the pack, until the pack catch on. The early adopters get rich and then the whole house of cards falls down.

Disruptr, our new AI business model generator helps you find your next disruptive business idea and predict the optimum moment to eject before collapse. It…wait, who threw that. What are you…Aargh. No help.

— Transcript of bootleg footage from the riot at Something Digitial Launch keynote, Brisbane, Aug 2025.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

My last card for Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set has been posted. Filling this scene with all sorts of swirly, nebulous clouds was a great time.
Fabled Passage
Art Director: Zack Stella
___
Original painting available here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mtgartmarket/permalink/4275769172653269

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

The description of this web component by @zachleat as "Unencumbered" to mean "not bringing a huge framework or toolchain in tow" is 👨‍🍳😽:

https://github.com/zachleat/line-numbers

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

The sticker set has grown! DNS is now joined by HTTP and SMTP, forming a trifecta of glorious early internet protocols. They’re now sold as a full set for just $10 (six total stickers, one matte and one sparkly for each protocol). The folks who pre-ordered the DNS ones yesterday are automatically upgraded to the full set. :prami_happy:

You can purchase them here: https://buy.stripe.com/bJe8wP6PydXg3LLgzb3AY0c

Shipping is international first class (no tracking) and these will ship at the end of July or very early August. I’ll email you when they ship!

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Uglesett@snabelen.no ("Thomas Fuglseth") wrote:

Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

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zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

“But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

h/t Piermario 3/3

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zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. 🧵 1/3

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alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

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

Now, frontenders, consider what it means that a lot of the "pivot-to-AI" thinkfluencers aren't talking about how we get to break out of silos; how they're just cargo-culting and hype-recycling the same old shit. Why is that? Hmm....

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

Asking the right questions matters more (assuming this stuff works as advertised) because changing your mind is cheaper. Want to evict a janktastic Lottie animation and bloated deps from the bundle? If the primary hurdle is knowing to ask, *knowing to ask* is what's worth paying for.

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

This is all separate and apart from the question of "do these tools work at all?", which is very much TBD. But operating as though they don't impact the choice architecture, while churning out bad output, is going to be increasingly untenable.

And orgs that bet heavily on them, while failing to put management around the quality of the output of the black box, are going to get washed away in shitty UX and customer DSAT as sure as night follows day.

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

This will seem counter-intuitive; "but I can just vibe-code this thing now..."

But that means the output is a commodity. The *input* -- what you ask a machine to produce -- is more important. And as contexts grow, refactoring becomes cheaper.

If you're a software engineer asking tools to hand you output that isn't as tuned up as it could be -- something you can only do if you understand the interactions and options -- then the failure of *your* context grows in (negative) impact.

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

I spend a lot of time ruminating on the failure of the contemporary tech middle-management class (largely PMs, but also a lot of EMs and VPs) to actually *manage* their products, and what it means that LLMs and ML tools make it ever easier to break away from path dependence.

The penalty orgs will pay for not putting folks in positions of responsibility that have a sense of taste and an understanding of fundamentals just went WAY up.

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

Also is Colin Farrell my new fav actor? He was so good and banshees and now this I really love his acting.