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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Americans chose a government that is defunding cancer research and attacking life saving vaccines. We had the Star Trek future within our grasp and chose the Empire from Star Wars instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

Working on some much needed improvements to the profile page in status.log.

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

People keep telling me that paying 10x+ for React or Angular vs a contemporary tool like Fast, Lit, Svelte, Preact, Qwik, or Solid (etc. etc.) is fine because "it's only 50K."

And I hear that, but by the third or fourth React version on the page, I really start to wonder.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Here’s something I’ve often wondered about:

“Quicklinks”

Or “quick links”

Usually a label to a list of links in a website navigation.

It’s one of those folk terms of two words jammed together that probably didn’t exist before the World Wide Web.

Who started this? What makes them “quick”? Or, “quicker” than other links? It seems like the label has fallen out of favor with the maturity of content strategy and user experience design professions. But it’s still out there: in Microsoft products on the U.S. Navy website…

I started my web career at the beginning of the Responsive Web Design era. Every now and then I would get a request to add quick links as a feature.

Were Quicklinks ubiquitous in the early 2000s? Earlier? What were some of the websites that pioneered this term? Does the phrase predate the web somehow? And why does my iPhone autocorrect to capitalize Quicklinks?

So far I found a NNGroup article from 2014 arguing in favor of more descriptive labels and better patterns for this kind of navigation. But the mystery remains… who started Quicklinks?

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

https://www.newamerica.org/planetary-politics/blog/compute-or-be-computed/

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

https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-teaches-us-about-good-writing/

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

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html

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

https://genius.com/James-baldwin-stranger-in-the-village-annotated

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

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this

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

Some of my favorite #essays with no context (please feel free to share some of yours too) 🧵

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

(Ok, yes, tomatoes are technically fruit, botanically speaking. But legally they’re vegetables. See Nix v Hedden).

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Even The Onion would struggle to come up with a headline and story as ridiculous as this.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

He’s going after schools, vaccinations, and vegetables. Trump must really care about winning over that all-important kindergarten demographic.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

It’s International Non-Binary People’s Day again!

A few years ago, I wrote about my experience realizing I’m non-binary.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/they-and-me/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Woody Guthrie's original (home taped) 1951 recording of "Deportee" was recently found. Couldn't be more timely if it were written today. (And he was living in an apartment rented from Fred Trump at the time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA&t=8s

#ThisMachineKillsFacists

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

This toot brought to you by a code review where there are no clear boundaries between interrupt context and non-interrupt context, with all the hilarity that you'd expect.

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

Look, I try to be inclusive and non-judgmental, but... It's just... How do I put this?... Some people aren't responsible enough to write interrupt service routines without supervision, okay?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
alanz@social.coop ("Alan Zimmerman") wrote:

@cstanhope openstreetmap basically does that, with various apps to let you update local features, which check you are in the area when doing it.

E.g. StreetComplete

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

I'm definitely going to delete this later lol. Also new essay soon! Ayeeeeee the one thing that brings me so much joy.

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

Something tells me to hang in there just a bit longer, that something is on the way. But I think I may just be fooling myself.

I'm a front end developer with executive experience and strong pattern recognition. I'm good at strategy. Writer. Comedian. That's a hodgepodge set of skills good where? Lol.

I know if I go back I won't forgive myself because I'm so close. I know that things can't stay the same either.

Ok thank you for coming to my soapbox

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

I think about going back to the corporate world. I was successful. I was a Vice President by 29. But it also ruined my mental and physical health. Again, opportunity came when I could least handle it.

Going back at 43 feels impossible. I don't mind take a job I'm overqualified for. I just don't know that I could fit in with the corporate crowd again. I'm not the same wide eyed boy looking to climb the corporate ladder.

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

Freelancing is volatile. Ups and downs; money never comes in steady. Lately, I've been scrapping by. It's been rough. But, I've also never been more prepared for opportunity. When my business really took off six years ago, I wasn't prepared. Now I'm prepared and it's just not happening like it needs to happen.

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

After freelancing for a decade—last April was officially 10 whole years—I don't know that I have it in me anymore. Chasing down payments, clients who use me as a get-out-of-trouble with their boss card, swallowing my pride, biting my tongue. Some days are just too much.

I need to vent I'm sorry I'm spamming your feed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rodbotic@kind.social ("Rodbotic") wrote:

@loren we have a leucistic Fox sparrow that keeps returning each winter. I think it's his 3rd winter here.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Ok, this is an amazing story about prisoners of war building a lathe and then making crucial parts with it.
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/hacking-when-it-counts-diy-prosthetics-and-the-prison-camp-lathe/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Los Angeles Daily News : "In a scene described as "barbaric"— some two dozen children with their hands chained were videotaped shuffling single file in ICE custody.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles said that its attorneys had confirmed details posted with the video.

The attorneys contacted the children and planned to represent them—adding the children were not accompanied by their parents."

--Jeffrey St Clair

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/children-videotaped-handcuffed-in-federal-custody-in-la-it-s-barbaric-immigrant-rights-group-says/ar-AA1IuHiK

#ice #gestapo #fascism #immigration #trump #children #childabuse

Boosted by jwz:
noisemakerbot@genart.social ("Noisemaker Bot") wrote:

magic-mashup vs. truchet-maze

Attachments:

• gifv: A chaotic mashup of several layered animations. Seed: 783

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
justdaveisfine@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Dave?") wrote:

#gamedev #indiedev