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tomw

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Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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dangillmor, to random
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Social media disappointments:

  1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

  2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

  3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

tomw,
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@dangillmor People do not, in general, leave platforms because the policies and/or leadership are bad.

Lots of people are still on Facebook, and you don't get a more open-and-shut case than that.

You can't moralise your way out of this problem - only regulate.

riley, to random
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Currently reading Less is More by Jason Hickel, but Mr. Watterson said it best:

tomw,
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@riley Can't even go in the car any more without getting rung up on the car phone

tess, to random
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In which I passionately argue that "chat" is indeed a valid second-person pronoun:

https://www.tumblr.com/leftoblique/750471889313497088/well-now-thats-needlessly-confrontational-were

tomw,
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@tess This makes sense to me - I have heard for example "post it in the chat" jokingly used in situations where there is no chat. Not just in Twitch streaming but also things like Zoom, many people are used to having a parallel text chat now for many interactions.

eniko, to random
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god i hate the words "asset flip"

10 years ago it very specifically meant using premade game engine assets, often whole example games, to slap something vaguely playable on steam to trick people into buying it and attract steam card hunters

now people call anything that reuses assets from a previous game an asset flip, or even use it for any art in a game they consider to look "generic"

its terrible i wish people would stop it

tomw,
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@eniko Agree, I don't know why anyone started using this to refer to (for example) graphics reused in a sequel. The point is very specifically about stuff bought from the Unity store and released basically unchanged. Outside that context the term makes no sense and has no utility.

lara_amalia, to random
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i'm struggling. i'd like to build a very simple website for a client. i could just build it with html+css in a couple of days, but she wants to update the content every now and then.

it's more than "just text" where i could use markdown for the content. there are some special components for blockquotes, a timeline, pricing table, etc. required.

usually i like my contentful+astro setup, but for this project it feels like an overkill (because time and budget are limited).

any ideas/thoughts? 🤔

tomw,
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@lara_amalia Probably! There's a bit of a lack of a middle ground once you need (user) editing, as users generally expect that to mean web login, not "edit these Markdown files and something something git" that most dev-focused stuff supports

tomw,
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@lara_amalia A custom Wordpress theme, in its most minimal form, lets you just write HTML and CSS and put a couple of functions like the_title() and the_content() in the places where you would expect.

I do this when I'm not trying to make a site that is "Wordpressy" (using all its functions) but more like my HTML with a CMS attached to the "text" section.

tomw, to random
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As far as I can tell, the way to become successful on Youtube is to fill large objects (house, pool, car...) with smaller objects and/or liquids (marbles, packing peanuts, slime, post-it notes...)

It helps if the large objects are ones you do not own, as then it is a "prank"

I do not know why this works but every variant imaginable is out there and has millions of views

tomw, to random
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Select an editor. To change later, run 'select-editor'.

  1. /bin/nano <---- easiest
  2. /usr/bin/vim.basic
  3. /usr/bin/vim.tiny
  4. /bin/ed
tomw, to random
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Imagine: you're a cute little mouse. You have finally escaped from the maze and tasted freedom.

But at that moment you smell some cheese and clamber back into the maze.

That's Bluesky.

tomw, to random
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Sometimes when your bullet-point list formatting isn't working you just have to bite the bullet. Specifically, this one:
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aka &bull; or &;

tomw, to random
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New people! Welcome to Mastodon. Follow lots of people, because your whole feed here is only the people you follow and things they boost (Mastodon's version of retweets).

Take all the "we do things differently around here..." advice with a big pinch of salt, except the one about alt text (image descriptions), which you should do.

tomw, to random
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Seeing all these predictions of the AI future, I'm reminded of when every object in the world was going to be tracked on a blockchain. How's that working out?

tomw, to random
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Mastodon will never achieve mainstream adoption unless it adds a "poke" button

tomw, to random
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https://financialstatement.zip

tomw, to random
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Which extinction threat worries you more?

  • The real one that scientists have been warning about for decades
  • The sci-fi one where some autocompletes somehow become sentinent and no one can find the Off button
tomw, to random
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For some reason recently I've started replying to emails quite late in the evening but always scheduling the replies to only be sent the following morning. This avoids bothering people who have their work emails with them in the evening and has the bonus of making it look like I do anything in the mornings

tomw, to random
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It bugs me that you can't just download every VHS ever published from somewhere, like you can for old video games for example. You'd think someone would care enough – maybe it's out there but it's just passed me by...

tomw, to random
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Signed a contract that said I may not use a computer here, "except a personal computer".

Probably just old text but I like to think it was caused by some guy bringing in mainframes

tomw, to random
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Microsoft Recall AI after taking hundreds of screenshots of everything you're doing:

"It looks like you're writing a letter..."

joelanman, to webdev
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running a web service that sends emails, do you have to send plain text as well as html emails? If so, whats a good strategy to keep them in sync, content wise?
#webdev

tomw,
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@joelanman Probably only one person ever is actually going to read the plain text, and that person is used to getting messed up emails. Something like running strip_tags (or your language's equivalent) on the HTML mail would do.

(An "I read all my emails in plain text using mutt" person may turn up here, but they do not exist in most real email lists.)

tomw, to random
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There's a right way and a wrong way to do Tailwind.

The wrong way:
Use Tailwind

The right way:
Don't

tomw, to random
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Thisposthasbeenminifiedtohelpyousavebandwidth.Pleaseusethebytessavedwisely.

pikesley, to random
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Presented without comment

tomw,
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@pikesley the best one of these (which I get loads) is "Tracking information will only be available once delivery is attempted", no further text. For something that was sent months ago and is obviously lost.

jk, to random
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in six months the nintendo wii will be 18 years old

tomw,
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@jk I'm going to say Wii Sports is better than all 7 except A Tale of Two Cities

tomw,
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@jk Coincidence: I found a copy of Wii Sports today in a box of books. I don't know how it got there

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