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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kore@chaos.social ("Kore Nordmann") wrote:

Ten years ago I started writing a book about software design. Then I co-founded a company, scaled to 70 engineers, got acquired, and the manuscript sat untouched for years.

Last year I picked it back up. The decade in between proved the ideas worked.

"Nothing Shared, Everything Gained", minimal side effects, strict dependency direction, code that stays changeable. PHP examples, universal principles.

Pay what you want, starting at €0: https://codethatships.com

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

It’s a new paradigm! Don’t be left behind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRL0Nc2ZsVU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260414-neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc - podcast

time: 6 min 28 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

This may not look too bad, but if your invoices are inconsistent with the calculated totals, you're gonna be off by very large amounts over time.

One of my customers' "various customers" account started owing about a thousand euros to the company.

This comes on top of WooCommerce using built-in PHP floating point calculations to handle financial amounts but not something like BigDecimal which is not a good thing to do.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

Here's a fun bug:

#WooCommerce has functions, settings and constants for mathematical precision beyond the number of decimals your currency has.

However, item subtotals for orders (before tax) get rounded down to the number of decimals, but not the tax amount. This means that if you have two items that are 1.3333 EUR each, the line total is rounded up 2.67, losing one cent of accuracy.

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

“Why the AI backlash has turned violent - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent?publication%5Fid=1744395

> To the handwringing AI industry insiders blaming doomers and poor messaging, ordinary people are saying: Wake up. We have good reason to hate AI and the people who profit from it.

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

blogged: Warning: containment breach in cascade layer!

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/15/containment-breach-in-cascade-layer/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.

Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#incus #gsoc #debusine #debianci

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

I imagine that rando stumbling upon a dictionary at the public library going "HOW MANY WORDS?!??!?! WELL THIS'LL TAKE FOREVER"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

someone: *recommends super interesting long-form video essay*

rando: Oh GREAT! now I have to watch AN HOUR AND HALF's worth of content. Do you know how busy I am? You post about this fucking video, without summarizing it all in 3 bullet points, how am I supposed to know if it's any good?? But now I have to watch it. Because you posted it. You f*n asshole, wastin'm y f*n time.

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

days without trying to copy an email address and accidentally opening the useless Mail.app: 0

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
roblen@social.microblog.at ("Robert Lender social") wrote:

Jetzt noch ein Versuch mittels #SmolFedi ein Foto über #GoToSocial zu posten.

Und das ganze noch mittels Markdown formatiert.

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/why-smolweb-is-good-for-the-internet.md

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Joshua A.C. Newman") wrote:

The world will lose something deeply special when #hampshirecollege closes at the end of this year.

Without it, I’d have never found my way.

I taught there, too, founding its game design program curriculum, helping my fellow weirdos find their ways.

You probably know about Lupita Nyong’o, Liev Schreiber, maybe Ken Burns or Lee Smolin.

As a student, I worked on computer interfaces that Apple & Samsung/LG integrated into the interface you’re using now. I had to testify about it, actually.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

alright here we go https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

(linked post)

edit: join us @ #keepasschi on libera.chat!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5742595/virginia-popular-vote-compact

> With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

All of this without putting my work in a closed ecosystem that explicitly platforms and amplifies literal, self proclaimed nazis

I use https://ghost.org but there’s a bunch of options. Ghost is excellent tho.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

Gonna tag in on the “stop using substack” train as I am oft to do

Stuff Keeps Happening is available as a free newsletter (paid support options available) and is not on substack. I own and operate it and don’t have a cut taken from the support plans. Also supports RSS and activitypub

https://www.skh.news

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

When I was younger, I used to hang out with these Body Builders For Christ. They all said they were preparing their bodies for their future wives, but I'm pretty sure most of them were gay.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

A favorite

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

You know what's wild? If a piece of software isn't in your native language, it's now relatively easy to just maintain a fork that is, ongoing.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

📢 A growing coalition for digital memory rights!

🌍 At @internetarchiveeurope, new signatories @HMML & the After Violence Project have joined the “Statement on Digital Rights,” supporting a global push to ensure memory institutions can:
Collect
Preserve
Provide controlled access
Cooperate

From preserving manuscripts worldwide to documenting communities impacted by violence, they highlight why protecting digital memory matters now more than ever.

🔗⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/10/digital-preservationists-at-the-after-violence-project-and-hmml-lend-their-voices-to-the-our-future-memory-campaign/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
athorn@better.boston ("Alexandra Thorn") wrote:

I just had a good phone conversation with a staffer at Massachusetts Senator Pat Jehlen's office, and she affirmed that all the advocacy against age verification is being heard. #Massachusetts residents, if you have bandwidth, please keep pushing on this.

You can look up your state senator here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

#MAPol #MAPoli #surveillance #privacy #AgeVerification

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
annaecook wrote:

I’m finding expectations of increased productivity to be impossible even with supposed “AI superpowers”

Yes, LLMs can rapidly process words and turn them into to summaries and tasks

But it doesn’t make the context switching between multiple tasks easier, we aren’t designed to process so much.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

New, by me: Adobe has fixed a bug in its flagship PDF readers that hackers have been abusing for at least four months to break into people's Windows and macOS computers and steal data.

A security researcher who discovered the hacks said it works by tricking victims into opening a malicious PDF.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-security-bug-that-hackers-have-exploited-for-months/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
hazelweakly@hachyderm.io ("Hazel Weakly") wrote:

If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include:

- ecological awe
- intellectual humility
- respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems
- cross functional communication
- resilience engineering
- marketing and sales

(“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
edwardk@infosec.exchange ("ekiledjian") wrote:

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up user data from cloud storage folders like OneDrive and Dropbox, and also .git folders, despite previously promising to back up all data. This change, implemented without direct user notification, means Backblaze is no longer fulfilling its core function of comprehensive data backup, eroding user trust.
https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The advantage of UI redesigns no one is talking about: lost users will be clicking on more things as they try to find what they are looking for, sending your traffic analytics through the ROOF

#ProductManagement #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment

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

Wow, an authoritarian leader dedicated to corruption and destroying democratic norms funding an organization dedicated to corruption and destroying democratic norms, who would've thought such a thing was possible

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hungary-leader-reveals-victor-orb-151540991.html

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

one has to wonder whether eventually, if Altman or some other guy like him gets popped, they're all just going to say "ok ok fine! the skynet stuff was all bullshit! we played it up to make our products sound cooler! please don't kill any more of us."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Alternately, "Ionos" or "Dynadot"?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

How do folks feel about "Regery" as a registrar? I've been pretty happy moving from Gandi (due to extortionate pricing) to Porkbun, but unfortunately I have some annoying TLDs that are not broadly supported and this seems like this is by far the cheapest. But it bugs me that I've never heard of them.