Mastodon Feed: Posts

GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G") wrote:

@baldur @ragman Real conversation OH recently:

(Dev) - I might have made some mistakes but seniors X and Y approved my PRs

(Lead) - OK but they are supposed to check that your code is clean, not that it works well

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
trib@aus.social ("Stephen Collins") wrote:

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
terrencefoxfur@furryfandom.me ("Terrence the Fox") wrote:

Did you see that I've thrown up a tool, much like Trello, but not ran by a corporation? And yes it supports Public Boards.

It's based on the Open Source Planka tool.

You can signup, and use it for free here: notes.furryfandom.me

I'm planning on adding more tools!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CoyoteTraveller@plush.city ("Trav / Theresa") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
narfnra ("Narf (Fran Regen Period)") wrote:

YEAHHH

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vollink@wandering.shop ("G Allen") wrote:

Just laid off along with whole team. I'm in the middle of moving. Movers coming on Saturday. I'm not done packing. Good: time to finish packing. Goodish: cheaper rent at new locale. Bad: older guy computer programmer, but not even in COBOL [C, Perl, Python, PL-SQL, RedHat and Debian Linux. Created a custom RPM just Friday.]

Looking. CT / NYC / remote.

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Sticker spotted in Sheffield, UK denouncing the far-right Reform Party

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

😀

Attachments:

• gifv: Infinite mirrored repetitions of the Vitruvius figure stretched over the Poincare disc, connected with their heads, arms, and toes. Starry background with mild parallax effect.

Boosted by jwz:
kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online ("Kent Parkstreet") wrote:

The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

They suck.

They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.

They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.

Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.

They suck.

#Banksy

Boosted by jwz:
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

An appropriate T-shirt for today.

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

UK folk - who are you using for LTD registration / accounting?

looking for the most basic but reliable service that'll do personal/company tax returns

(using one of the less offensive proprietary software - FreeAgent is acceptable)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

The 49MB Web Page https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

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

Had missed this takedown of React misapprehensions, and it's golden:

https://mbrizic.com/blog/react-ii/

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

blogged: SMTP on the edge
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/17/smtp-on-the-edge/

— question: why can't I just use a transactional email API like a normal person? Are there any good ones left?

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

anchored container queries are new to me, what is this magic!

https://piccalil.li/blog/building-dynamic-toggletips-using-anchored-container-queries/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
developit ("Jason Miller 🦊⚛️") wrote:

Figured I'd open source the little preact+signals mastodon client I wrote a few years ago, in case the code is useful to folks.

It's called Mastodawn - a streaming, offline-first installable Mastodon web app that weighs under 100kb.

🌎 https://mastodawn.com

👀 https://github.com/developit/mastodawn

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
emilyyoung@tech.lgbt ("Emily Young") wrote:

"Character rendering is transformed."

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nosword@localization.cafe ("Matt T.") wrote:

@glyph @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chotiner: I didn’t say it was a mistake. But it’s clearly had a major effect on the world, on how we relate to each other. I think it’s reasonable to ask who took the initiative, originally—
Guy who put the bomp in the bomp ba bomp ba bomp: I didn’t—(laughs nervously) you know, when you look at the whole picture—as I explain in my book, the ram-a-lam-a-ding dong situation at the time—
Chotiner: We’ll get to that.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The negative outcomes of a static senior/junior distinction mindset include:

- complacency once you've achieved an arbitrary title
- failure to identify specific skills needed to complete specific projects
- treating other engineers as homogenous and fungible based on level
- not listening to people lower-level than you are because you're now Senior-er than them
- failing to provided needed pushback on people higher-level than you are even when you have specific knowledge that they don't

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chriswarcraft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Chris Kluwe") wrote:

CHOTINER: “So what do you do to relax?” ME: “I play this game, Path of Exile, it’s fun.” CHOTINER: “And you make your *own* character?” ME: “Yeah that’s right.” CHOTINER: “I see here you used Palsteron’s KF Totems guide for your leaguestart.” ME: “Now Isaac, no, no, look, you have to understan

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

ok I laughed

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.

Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"Now that code is free..."

Any assertion that follows this is predicated on a falsehood.

Plausible-looking code might now be cheap. But *working*, reliable code that can be changed at low cost without breaking it?

For most teams, that's even more expensive now.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/116237497059329581

The pixel art in the The Secret of Monkey Island port for the Commodore 64 looks wonderful!

It feels like the C64 version the universe just forgot to release.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

Video indicates #DeltaAirlines is providing service to #ICE , removing kids from families in #MSP and transporting them to be held in #Texas

https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/

(if you have a Sky Miles account, they should hear from you. the direct line is +1-800-323-2323 and webform here: https://www.delta.com/us/en/need-help/overview?commentComplaintsForm)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

For every one time I hear someone call it "Bronx New York" I will say:

"The Manhattans"
"The Queens"
"The Brooklyns"
"The New Jersies"
"The Staten Islands"

TEN times. Keep running up "The deficit" see you you enjoy "The Just Desserts"

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
miclgael@hachyderm.io ("Michael Gale") wrote:

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116238484507693399

Really clever malware taking advantage of the fact that everyone is trying to block slop trainers, so you see cloudflare messages more and more frequently.

Check out the full thread for how it works.

Be careful folx!

#LLMs #AI #Malware #Slop #SlopCity #Cloudflare

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/ai-sam-altman-fear-mongering

#news #TechNews #technology #AI

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Fostering an environment where the only tech we're allowed to criticize is the tech we immediately stop using makes us weird and territorial and guarantees we stop making objective observations. Because then it just becomes trying not to be a hypocrite.

Using Proton is still better than ad-tech email. That doesn't mean we don't call them out. It's not our job to protect them. It's their job to earn goodwill. And their rationalization was dog shit. That's on them.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote: