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

Look, you might think frontend is fine and going well, but today I found a 1.1MB PNG (that could have been a 40K AVIF) in the critical path of an important app.

Embedded in an SVG as a `data:` URL.

Shipped as a React component.

Brb, going to lie down and cry forever.

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

After a bit of flailing around, I've got a Dart/Flutter toolchain working quasi-gracefully with Emacs. It's a long way from here to seeing if I can reproduce what I did so far in SwiftUI, but it seems like a worthwhile experiment.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

A reminder that John Oliver and his equally brilliant staff are doing IMO the best political/economic video commentary, based on superb reporting and presentation.

This week is about the Bari Weiss and the sad state of Big Journalism/Media:

https://youtu.be/gieTx%5FP6INQ

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Thread (ten posts) making a convincing case for Ukraine winning the war in the next 3-6 months due to an accelerating Russian collapse, caused by … well, that'd be a spoiler.

Go read.

This, happening within months of the AI bubble bursting and taking down the US stock market, is going to make 2025 the pivotal year of the decade. (Forget Trump, he's a side-show.)
https://wargamers.social/@oldladyplays/115365508400226222

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NeoNacho wrote:

I'm not sure the reaction to Benioff is appropriate yet. The guy has called for a hostile invasion of our city, he wants to see San Franciscans dead in the streets.

In a functioning society, any property he owns should be seized by the city and he should never be allowed within city limits again.

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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/13/parking-signs/

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brentsimmons@indieweb.social ("Brent Simmons") wrote:

There is no CEO of RSS.

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hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

The finale of Space Virgins is finally released:

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/4A7Nq6ndFx2RPYMK3WGYLe

#Video #PeerTube #Chat

@ChrisWere @uoou and myself finally got together to ramble our way into a finale of this iteration of our show. As always it is mostly us talking nonsense but, hopefully, entertainingly.

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Source: https://weatherfactory.biz/turn-this-opportunity-yes/

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

I swear this image encapsulates the vibe of every Alexis Kennedy game I've ever seen.

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

As a Puerto Rican I just want to say fuck Christopher Columbus.

#ColumbusDay

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

This is so well observed; the self-healing parade of excuses that get deployed around serially failed approaches has a cause, and Rob's on the case:

https://eisenbergeffect.medium.com/default-isnt-design-24df33272abb

/via @aluhrs

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

While Linux font rendering is mostly decent, I’m gathering it still happens on a “per whatever this app was compiled against” basis. Emacs’s font rendering on KDE is absolutely *awful* compared to both macOS and Windows, which is ironic given how free-software-or-die Emacs is attitudinally.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This is going to be a great tribute for someone who is so missed

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jimboggia/post/DPwjxlrkZiM

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

Good job, everyone

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The whole "Taylor Swift having lightning in her jewelry means she's a secret Nazi" thing sounds suspiciously like the 2025 version of "KISS stands for 'Knights in Satan's Service'" to me

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

reading: "Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve"

https://css-tricks.com/masonry-watching-a-css-feature-evolve/

— and got a jump scare seeing my blog post under "Further reading", it's way too spicy! :sweat_blob:

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Once again I am denied the Nobel Prize in Economics despite my groundbreaking work in purchasing musical instruments in excess of my ability to play them, surely one day the world will stand up and notice

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

🥐 by popular demand I'm adding favicons to Croissant (next version soon!)

https://croissantrss.com

uses a proxy to get around CORS for the PWA and a service worker + offscreen canvas to generate/cache images (it's a whole blog topic...)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's been literally moths since I've posted a picture of Krissy here, and that's just too darn long, so here she is with a guitar, yes, it's upside down but she is left-handed and also if it was good enough for Jimi Hendrix then it is good enough for her

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This is one of those kinds of posts where your plan was to write about a thing, but it turned out your brain had completely different plans

Sometimes what's on your mind just jams itself to the front of your mental queue, plans be damned.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The fashion industry that is tech: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-fashion-that-is-tech/

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funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:

Good Morning. Happy Monday. Keep your head clear and you'll do great.

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

shure

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

This also goes towards people who might need to cross the US border – for example to attend conferences or business meetings, as is common in my line of work; and as is the case for this friend I was mentioning – even if they think they might not be at risk in the parts of the US they are visiting.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

Obviously only do this if it's safe for you! In fascistic regimes, or countries moving towards fascism, "antifa" is obviously politically charged, and it might get you discriminated against, or even facing state violence. And your personal safety is more important.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

I don't own a Framework, although I had been thinking of getting one before all of this came out to the surface. But over the weekend I was hanging out with a friend who does own one, and thinking that if the logo is becoming a fascistic icon, anyone who disagrees should explicitly counteract it.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I was thinking, maybe if you own a #Framework laptop, and you disagree with the whole Nazi bar "big tent", maybe it'd be good to put an antifa sticker on top of the logo.

After all, the opposite of fascism isn't neutrality, and neither it is centrism.

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bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:

We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them.

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5861/new-reality-as-world-reaches-first-climate-tipping-point & https://global-tipping-points.org

To roughly quote Maja Göpel: People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems.

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Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy by using word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious and dangerous 3/