“Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
Looks like somebody’s figured out how to scrape netlify project domains. Started to get automated spam that clearly thinks that the unpublished Netlify project name (which you can see in the original netlify domain) is the name of the site.
That thing where somebody’s techno-optimist bullshit stinks so bad that even Wired columnists take the piss.
It’s kind of impressive how ChromeOS just keeps getting worse.
“No, I don’t want accent colours. And WTF, this isn’t an accent colour! You just smeared a colour cast over my entire screen! That’s not an accent color!”
Yes, I sometimes shout at computers. Occupational hazard.
“The nuances of base64 encoding strings in JavaScript | Articles | web.dev”
So, the fact that Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol, the protocol that’s become the default for all editor tooling, uses a pseudo-http protocol that looks like a standard web server but is fundamentally incompatible with a web server is obviously a bad idea, right?
“Ten Things I’ve Learned - Milton Glaser”
PDF warning.
“I’m banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python. — Reuven Lerner”
“Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms”
Old post but evergreen advice.
“Why can’t our tech billionaires learn anything new?”
these are anti-democratic fascists, of the sort that dip pretty quickly into eugenicist and ethnonationalist fantasies. If you’re curious who Andreessen views as helpful fellow travelers, he sure ain’t hiding it.
“Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture”
A fairly convincing argument that VS Code is a mechanism for making open source communities dependent on MS.
“Web performance and parallel vs. waterfall downloads | Go Make Things”
IMO bundling, for standard JS, is a performance optimisation and you all know what they say about premature optimisation.
“Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data. | The Hill”
“Unless Explicitly Specified Otherwise, Open Source Software With Users Carries Moral Obligations”
This is true and it’s also one of the reasons why OSS maintainers burn out.
Mastodon and Bluesky present interesting contrasts.
On Mastodon you can expect a lot of replies, many which are aggressive or off-base
Bluesky users OTOH seem to react to even the mildest aside as an attack and respond with a “fuck you too” reply and mute/block
“I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again”
Which absolute fucking maniac in this room decided that the most sensible thing to do in a culture where everyone has way too many meetings was schedule recurring meetings every day?
Tried to watch an episode of the 2017 Twin Peaks revival series and couldn’t even get through a single episode.
And I’m a huge fan of the original series. Not sure what’s going on there.
“Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook | TokyoDev”
Yikes.
“AI is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices - Scientific American”
Makes me think of what Weizenbaum said about computers being a conservative force in society.