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

At this rate, another ten newsletter "broadcasts" and I will have lost an entire year's worth of subscriber growth

Not because my attrition rate is unusually high, it's pretty normal, but because growth since September has flatlined

That's my own fault because my ongoing ambivalence about the software industry has fast been turning into an outright dislike, which isn't conducive to building up a dev audience.

OTOH, writing the newsletter has been more enjoyable. Just pays a lot less

jwz wrote:

Stop wearing a watch. Time is a cop.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Follow me for more convenient life hacks!

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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

reading: "Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology"
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology

good stuff from @sturobson

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

#3dprinting pro tip:

You don't need to keep buying silica gel for your filament dryers!

Just drop a full packet once and you’ll be finding little orange beads in your workshop for the rest of your life. So easy!

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

is anyone else harassed daily by Apple abusing unblockable notifications? every day at 7pm 😩

it's not about security, they are actively withholding the iOS 18.7.3+ updates

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"What Lin and Cursor achieved was to show that an AI agent can generate millions of lines of code that’s lifted from other projects, and that don’t compile, let alone work."

(Original title: Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/

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moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

@jwz well okay i'll do a meme

Attachments:

• gifv: gowron, captioned, saying "glory to you... and hour house" but instead of "house" it's "dildos"

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

I see we're at the "you can't just download my NFT" stage of the AI grift

∞ https://rknight.me/links/furious-ai-users-say-their-prompts-are-being-plagiarized/

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

blogged: Mozilla Slopaganda
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/28/mozilla-slopaganda/

— I read it so you don’t have to.

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swelljoe@mas.to ("Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉") wrote:

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/usili.bsky.social/post/3mdh5wp7dwk2w

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Swimming pool. Les Visions du chevalier Tondal, Ghent and Valenciennes ca. 1475. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 30, fol. 14v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
claesdevreese ("Claes de Vreese ☑️") wrote:

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: https://dr.dk

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

Mozilla's slopaganda: "We Choose a Different Economic Model"

Mozilla's financial statement (page 19): "Approximately 86% and 85% of Mozilla's revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively."

https://social.lol/@db/115968868593804930

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

So in between the Melania thing and the X not being blocked from the App Store thing, Tim Cook is so not meeting this moment that he practically invented a time machine.

jwz wrote:

Recent movies and TV.

Pluribus (2025): Holy crap is this great. Rhea Seehorn is a treasure. I've watched it twice all the way though and loved it both times. TRON Ares (2025): As expected, Jared Leto ruins everything. This was terrible. But it was not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2a

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

ZILF 1.4 has been released! ❤️

“It’s scary, ugly, and hard to understand—and until recently, it was dead. But it’s back on its feet again, and you’re gonna love it.”

https://zilf.io

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jasonm@social.lol ("Jason :neobread_this_is_fine:") wrote:

Don’t trust anyone that says some version of “both sides” need to de-escalate in MN. Only one side escalated the situation by creating it in the first place.

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BLKNewsNow ("BLK News Now!") wrote:

"Black Americans have been the only real die-hard Americans here. We’re the only ones who carried the process through the process, and everyone else sort of skipped stages. We’re the ones who marched. We’re the ones who carried the Bible. We’re the ones who carried the flag. We’re the ones who tried to go through the courts. And being born American didn’t seem to matter because we were born Americans and we still had to fight for what we were looking for."
https://blknewsnow.com/gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-interview-1989/

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

“Project Dawn” is a super creepy name for an AI-driven downsizing effort.

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

Real classy, Amazon. Ready, fire, aim. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-bungles-wednesday-layoff-plan-with-misfired-internal-email-2026-01-28/

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

Any menders out there have an idea for how to fix this belt? It's bonded lacing which is like low grade leather glued together? Maybe some plastic in there? Wondering if some heat would secure it in there idk what I'm talking about

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Noem, who’s in danger of being sacked, is trying to throw Stephen Miller under the bus. Meanwhile Miller is on TV trying to throw DHS under the bus. Basically they’re shitting their pants and flinging it at each other.

It’s working. Punch them harder.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mdgo4t4md22k

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

"Fuck ICE" and "Chinga La Migra" posters spotted on Mission and Valencia. Artist unknown. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #ICE #WheatPasteArt

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fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@nicole M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is a $300bn industry now

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nicole@oldbytes.space ("Nicole Express") wrote:

traditional software development is dead

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.

https://apnews.com/article/eeuu-minnesota-redadas-migratorias-ice-trump-5b98291d7dede89494b79daae50f887b

🤦‍♂️🤬

#USpol #ice #Ecuador #incursion #war

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swizzlevixen@social.lol ("Mark Boszko") wrote:

I have had to deal with a very large number of people today, who do not have their shit together. To these people, hear my plea: Please get your shit together 🤣