misty

misty, 1 year ago to random

My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you. I've spent the last two years building Shopify's in-house cloud developer environment, and I have extensive experience building developer tools as one of members of the Homebrew package manager's Project Leadership Committee.

misty, 2 months ago to random

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.

misty, 9 months ago to random

This is a fascinating concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.

https://tenmile.quote.games

misty, 8 days ago to random

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

misty, 1 year ago to random

This is a new one. I've never actually seen a website admit that autoplaying videos are a punishment for users they don't like, rather than a way to try to attract users.

misty, 2 months ago to random

God. Depressing. Louisiana is trying to criminalize ALA membership. https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/

misty, 1 month ago to random

Looks like the same attack that took down the British Library for so long also targeted the US Library of Congress, but good multifactor auth and fast action from their IT and security staff protected them. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/thwarted-cyberattack-targeted-library-congress-tandem-october-british-library-breach/396399/

misty, 3 months ago to random

Looks like it's official - Akira Toriyama, world-famous manga artist, passed away on March 1. The website is failing under load, so here's a copy of the letter.

https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html

misty, 8 months ago to random

Flappy Bird has been ported to... the macOS Finder. Absolutely incredible stuff here

https://cohost.org/eieio/post/3017309-flappy-dird-is-flapp

misty, 11 months ago to random

New blog post! I'm always seeing "first CD-ROM game" citations that are totally inconsistent, or which cite games like Myst, so I decided to put together a timeline of all the candidates - and ended up calling into question the point of "firsts" lists in the first place.

http://cdrom.ca/games/2023/06/29/first-cdrom-games.html

misty, 30 days ago to random

Well, I'm sure that's fine

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2024/05/08/ai-generated-employee-handbooks-are-causing-mayhem-at-the-companies-that-use-them/

misty, 10 months ago to random

New blog post! I wrote about Journey to the Source, a CD-ROM travelogue that follows a team of people as they go 6,300 kilometres down the Yangtze to find its source. It's a really interesting disc, as much about the people who live all along that river and their lives as it is about making that discovery. So many things have changed there in the years since, so I loved getting an impression of daily life that's long gone.

https://cdrom.ca/educational/non-fiction/2023/07/23/journey-to-the-source.html

misty, 8 months ago to bbs

Hey BBS knowers of the fediverse: question that’ll help me with research for something I'm writing.

Have you ever seen an offline BBS archive? I don't mean the files, but an actual way to browse a snapshot of a BBS at a point in time, with the original interface and content all preserved?

#BBS #DigiPres

misty, 6 months ago to random

It's a good thing that a religious schism among the people with the most unrealistic ideas about an emerging technology is the biggest story in the tech news cycle, right. That's normal

misty, 2 months ago to random

Hey! Would you like to work with me? @axodotdev is hiring, and I happen to think it's a great place to work. If you happen to be passionate about making high-quality devtools like I am, you should think about joining me!

We have positions open for a systems engineer (permanent full-time), a front-end engineer (contract full-time), and developer marketing (contract part-time).

https://axodotdev.notion.site/Join-the-Axo-team-3a42ab51bf5740d88eb12cfd4a2fb0cc

misty, 4 months ago to random

Google's getting rid of the ability to view cached pages. Even though they weren't a permanent archive, I'm going to miss it. It’s been such a useful way to find copies of pages with the actual search result on dynamic pages where the current version doesn't have what Google found.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24058985/google-search-cache-feature-discontinued

misty, 9 months ago to random

There are dozens of websites on the internet

misty, 10 months ago to random

Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81

misty, 2 months ago to random

I need you to listen to the deeply broken text-to-speech narration from this Google blog post. (They removed it after people pointed out how bad it was, but I promise you this was actual audio on a real official Google blog post.)

https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea

misty, 4 months ago to random

Sending a freeware program dev a thank you letter just now. I realized I don't always express my gratitude to developers who spend so much of their time making free things that I use in my daily life, and I really need to get in the habit of telling people how grateful I am.

misty, 3 months ago to random

“If you are the stingray at the center of a pregnancy scandal, you are probably doing fine because you have no concept of social media.” https://defector.com/charlotte-the-ray-did-not-have-sex-with-a-shark-so-stop-asking

misty, 4 months ago to random

Oof, this is a rough situation. It's a shame that Mastodon still doesn't have support for migrating domain names; the idea that a server which has existed for six years has to shut down because it's losing control of its domain name is very rough.

https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083

misty, 4 months ago to random

Advice: someone's ported the archives of the classic @Horse_ebooks and is rerunning it on Mastodon. Giving me the best kind of early twitter nostalgia. It's still just as good.

misty, 24 days ago to random

And this is why you don’t store floppies next to acidic paper.

misty, 18 days ago to random

Every Linux and macOS shell script programmer is a retrocomputing practitioner because shell script has been forbidden from changing for 40 years