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tomw

@tomw@mastodon.social

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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tomw, to random
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Windows people, please understand this. Sometimes people need to run Linux.

They’re allowed to complain about printers not working, or sound issues, or any other hardware compatibility problems, without you saying “use Windows” every time.

tomw, to random
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Today I realised that I can put a CDN in front of other people's (read-only, public) APIs so that they don't rate limit my stuff.

Is this obvious? Commonly done? Kind of rude? No idea...

tomw,
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@TraitorJoe Set a pull zone (basically just a caching proxy) to point from a subdomain you control to their https://api.example.com

But a few caveats... you'd only want to go this for public and quite unchanging data, the sort of API where the same URL is going to give you the same thing each time. Putting anything private anywhere near this is a Bad Time recipe

tomw, to random
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Why does every single search engine focus on making a search engine for a little while and then get distracted and launch 100 other projects?

Why does no one ever just work really hard on their search engine to make it the best one and keep it the best one, and that's it?

tomw, to random
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"I have to assume a lot of people don't understand how deep the AI rabbithole for Kagi goes, because I have seen people recommend Kagi to people frustrated with Google's own AI bullshit.

As it turns out, Kagi was founded originally as an AI company, who later pivoted to search. And going by their comments in their Discord, AI tools seem to be what they spend most of their time on these days."

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

j0, to random
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Hi, if you use Discord and feel bad about it for some reason, don’t. Don’t let the people on here try and convince you that matrix is secretly very easy to use and better and all it needs is adoption and just host this and etc. Same with any chat app or service or whatever. Discord is popular because it is a well made, usable service. People on here play the Privacy Game and switch browsers/search engines performatively. Switching which Product you use will have next to zero implications in your daily life, just use the one that is least annoying. Most “privacy” companies are just grifting (eg DDG funding right wing media, Kagi using AI, Brave doing crypto and AI, Mozilla doing AI, Proton baselessly shitting on other services in press releases, various companies doing VPNs, Element providing services to Police, Arc doing AI, I could go on forever…)

I’m not saying to go “doomer” and just use Chrome and Google, but people need to acknowledge that these services you use exist within capitalism, and evaluate whether they really Care about your privacy, or the Monthly Active Users metric. Don’t be shocked when your Private Service gets sold to a not-so-private company. You are being marketed to.

tomw,
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@j0 I think 99% of the rage about Discord on here is caused by open source projects treating it is a replacement for documentation. Couldn't care less if people use Discord, but don't make me use it!

Big agree about Kagi/DDG and it pains me that they take up all the space in the "alternatives to Google" discussion

tomw, to random
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Do you need a database, or could you make do with 3,000 ~1KB json files filled with regexes?

(The database probably would have been easier but this is definitely cheaper to host.)

tomw,
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If anyone asks, I'm going to call this a "cached compressed key-value store"

tomw,
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Wait, maybe I can call my directory full of json files a "microservice"

tdp_org, to random
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Is it "no one is registering for our conferences so let's spam everyone and offer free tickets" week or something?
I must have had 5-10 every day so far.
Blocked every sender.

tomw,
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@tdp_org Companies really need to learn that me paying for (eg.) a CDN does not mean that I wish to attend CDN Fest.

tomw, to random
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tomw, (edited )
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rauschma, to webdev
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: I’m experimenting with aligning table columns. Maybe:

<table>
<style>
th:nth-child(1), td:nth-child(1) {
text-align: left;
}
th:nth-child(2), td:nth-child(2) {
text-align: right;
}
th:nth-child(3), td:nth-child(3) {
text-align: center;
}
</style>
<thead>
<th>Left</th><th>Right</th><th>Center</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1A</td><td>1B</td><td>1C</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2A</td><td>2B</td><td>2C</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

tomw,
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@rauschma In any situation where the table is being produced by code, it's usually easy enough to add <td class="col1"> etc or even <td class="align-right"> as relevant. I realise that's a bit tightly coupled but so is the nth-child way...

rauschma, to random
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Does anyone know if the HTML <section> element is in practical use anywhere? Is it ever useful?

My impression is that the heading elements (<h1> etc.) are enough and preferred now(?)

tomw,
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@rauschma <section> is supposed to contain both the heading and the text the heading refers to.

What I actually used it for recently though (maybe not quite the intended purpose) was delineating full-height page sections for scroll-snapping

timbray, to random
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Beeper is outta Beta. I wonder if it’s going to be a big deal.

https://www.beeper.com

tomw,
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@timbray I expect I'll hear about this again soon when Facebook blocks it

Edent, (edited ) to webdev
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A poll for all my
friends!

Suppose you have comments on your website. They all have a valid <time> element in them.

Comments are displayed in a nested list, with the oldest first.

Should you use:

tomw,
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@Edent Controversial but I think "everything that is a list or list-like should be <ul> or <ol>" was a wrong step when it became fashionable (15 years or so now) - for example the use of <ul> for menus, which you still see even though <nav> now exists.

I think it's better - more semantic, even! - to use <ul> for bullet lists, <ol> for numbered lists, and some other element for other page elements, even if they look like a bit like lists if you squint

tomw,
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@Edent This is a deathly unfashionable answer but probably <div class="comments">

tomw, to random
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Mastodon has two types of people: people who really want replies to their posts and people who extremely do not.

(I am in the first category, reply away)

tomw,
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@GlasWolf Posting to social media appears to strengthen the perceived level of disagreement, like:

"I don't think that's quite right... (thoughtful and mildly worded post ensues)"
"Who asked you, get fucked"

tomw,
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There is a third type, the "only reply if" essay-writer who sets out a long list of conditions, but I think it's safer to leave them well alone

tomw,
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@GlasWolf That said, an ostentatiously faux-civil tone is even worse than a hostile one, and almost always a sign of bad faith, so I can see why mildness can get ignored

tomw,
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@TonyJWells I believe, according to niche but forgotten Mastodon rules, that the original post should be "cw meta"

tomw,
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@arunmani I think lots of people don't always reply to replies, even if they do appreciate them!

tomw,
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@mikej Oh yeah, that was an awful Twitter-ism:

"I don't think that's right..."
"Well you have 5 followers lol"

cabel, to random
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I’m afraid to say this out loud, but I’ve always wondered why there’s an unwritten social contract that taggers don’t tag cars. Ignoring that it would be the absolute worst… like, why don’t they?

Which is to say, I wonder what the first taggable consumer vehicle will be — and why will it be the Cybertruck

tomw,
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@cabel Easier to find a dirty van and write "cleen me" in the dirt

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