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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

On the bright side, I'll only need one pair of crutches to get around.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/18/today-is-dreadday-tomorrow-is-knifeday/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

@cwebber and I will be speaking on behalf of @spritely at Open World Map: Digital Sovereignty for Game Creators in Toronto on June 13th!

Event info here:

https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

90s baddd boiiiiiiii

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

blarp simpin: bleep my sharks

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

One of the “half glass near full” optimism takes is that “all this” will create more demand for software, so dev related jobs will still be there…

While “glass already broken” thinkers are thinking … the climate can’t afford another “industrial revolution” … and crisis care and other disaster related jobs … will be the big growth areas

aieeeee

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

Genai opens up possibilities for end-user programming way beyond Excel (and we know how pervasive and useful that has been). As with generated visuals, this makes new things possible, but comes with various costs. One being… folk feeling like they have superpowers. But also… accepting extruded janky kludges…

And the resulting pain is being expressed where there is social safety in numbers — boos at graduation ceremonies. Folk graduating with big loans and poor job prospects are in a hard place!

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

windows-native performance

😂

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Context Lake

stop it, stop it right now.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
hiijax@booping.synth.download ("💜 Jax 🖤") wrote:

@cwebber@social.coop emailed mine friday! haven’t received a response yet, but it is the weekend. i’ll be messaging again making it clear i want a response, if i don’t get one

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

@cwebber I'm going to be calling (and emailing) my MP and informing them that if they do not vote against this, then next election cycle I will be finding someone who better represents me

I recommend everyone else do the same

important points that I recommend everyone emphasize:

• (important) you are a constituent of their district
• this bill is not acceptable in any form. no amount of amendments, changes, or rewrites of it will ever change that.
• if your MP does anything except vote against this, then you WILL be voting for someone who better represents you next time
• this affects everyone, not just those who have committed a crime

find your MP's name (& email) here: https://www.youcount.ca/finders/representatives (don't use the submission form it has)
find your MP's email & phone number here (by name): https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en (some MPs also have other things listed such as website, which can have additional phone numbers, I recommend calling all of them)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

KeyDB is a fully open source database, backed by Snap

what do you mean the database is backed by snap? is that supposed to be a good thing?!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alexshendi@rollenspiel.social ("Alexander Shendi") wrote:

Stand by for a demo of Visi Corp Visi On on real hardware!

Yes, the fabled GUI whose demo at the 1982 Comdex sent one William H. Gates III screaming into the dev department to initiate the creation of Window 1.0!

#pda #hp200lx #VisiOn #VisiCorp #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alexshendi@rollenspiel.social ("Alexander Shendi") wrote:

OK, here is the promised demo:

#VisiCorp #VisiOn #pda #hp200lx #visicalc #retrocomputing

Attachments:

• video: Running Visi On: 1. Loading mouse driver 2. Starting Visi On 3. Running Tutorial 4. Running Visi Calc spreadsheet

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

I semi-regularly check whether any of the browsers have shifted on supporting ES modules in SVG or XHTML and year after year the answer is still the same: the only browser that supports it without hacks is Firefox.

https://caniuse.com/?search=script%3A+type%3A+module

The sad part is that I think XML might have useful answers for a few of the needs of modern web dev but we're probably never going to find out because we can't even test modern module-based JS in it.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The technology the left needs, apparently, is more like "a reasonable and secure chat app with channels and reputational vouching" than AI. If signal were to fall then all the affinity groups would get smoked, but in the meantime their capacity is hampered in no small part from signal exhaustion lmao.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyway, i now have a nightly zig compiler, which means i am free to play with async i/o and my code has a chance of still working when 0.17 lands. or the work will be minimised. hopefully.

i may have to write an async i/o backend in time, we'll see what happens. i can at least prototype using the sync backend for now with theoretically no code changes between i/o provider.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

yeah the link took ~13 minutes 😬

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i figured it out and i'm so close to having built the compiler

the zig part? not so bad, kept crunching through files. the final link, provided by LLVM? SO BAD. still waiting.

now, the link probably wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have to pull in LLVM for the LLVM backend, so there's a double incentive to get rid of it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
andrewrk ("Andrew Kelley") wrote:

The domains in which a programming language is popular influences the ecosystem. I'm deeply grateful to Jarred and Anthropic for giving Zig communities a chance to reroll for something other than LLMs. Hoping for better than a nat 1 next time

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i can't build the build script to ask it its options 😬

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

error: process exited with error code 1

i see.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

building the zig compiler for the first time.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Space Virgins are back with a double movie podcast. Find out why Drew rated these films so highly.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gFZ8Y2XjG6exEJSLe7VdNH

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lydiaconwell@todon.nl ("Lydia Conwell") wrote:

@quixoticgeek People are happy doing fulfilling duties to feed and nurture the community, but no one wants to do the soulless, pointless jobs of contemporary society.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
charles@crabsin.space ("Charles") wrote:

The current programming job market is absolutely dreadful.

In 2024, I sent out a single application to a very widely known software company and made it to the final stage, but they selected someone else with more years of experience.

In 2025, I sent out three applications. One ghosted me, one rejected me and explained why (which was very nice of them), and one interviewed me, though I wasn't selected for that one either.

In 2026, I was laid off in mid-January from my job of nearly five years. Since then, I've sent out 82 applications, of which 30 have rejected me and 51 have ghosted me. (Or they just haven't responded yet: the longest time between sending an application and receiving a response has been 48 days so far.)

I'm writing this post now because the remaining one did actually want to move me forward... into their trap. They wanted me to install malware disguised as a VPN client as part of their interview process. (Luckily, I had noticed several red flags in time, so I did not become one of their victims.)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

OK, so I tried to actually write a blog post in one sitting. I'm two hours in, and it's "done". As in, I'm facing the most hated part: read the entire thing all over again and edit it. I need a break and some tea.

(I'll publish it tomorrow, so no need to wait for me!)

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

blogged: Web whetstones
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/18/web-whetstone/

how to stay sharp as a web developer?

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

AI grifters being fiercely booed by college graduates gives me hope for the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWaoyIy5e8

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I suppose it's time I spoke to the allegations:

I am not, nor have I been, a good boy.

I'm not especially deservinng hugs, pets, ear scratches, belly rubs, or cuddles.