kboyd

kboyd, 9 months ago to random

The problem with hand-waving freakoutery is that it's easy to say that something is a nothingburger with a slice of innocuous cheese on top.

Like this "chrome wants to ban adblockers" story. The defense might be "oh, it's just a tool for establishing trust and has nothing to do with adblocker-blocking or DRM".

But such new tech isn't just a tool. Technology has a direction, too. A destination it will steadily progress toward. That technological direction needs to be accounted for. Carefully.

kboyd, 8 months ago to random

Where would I look for information about replacing system default emojis on webpages with custom made ones?

kboyd, 11 months ago to random

Oh, hello, 21st-century strikebreaking.

https://fosstodon.org/@blake/110545206956996514

kboyd, 10 months ago to random

Computer-derived suggestions, ranked by complexity:

1. spellcheck: a simple algorithm that checks against a list of known words

2. autocorrect: a more complex algorithm using words ranked by usage

3. search autocomplete: a complex algorithm that factors in recent trends

4. generative text and search "results": an artificial vizier whispering hypnotic horse hockey into your ear

Jafar unfurls a very unreadably long scroll toward the Sultan

kboyd, 10 months ago to random

You've never heard of the Elder Millennial Falcon?

It still remembers its childhood phone number, but not what it had for lunch yesterday,

kboyd, 10 months ago to random

Hot takes are the mind-killer.
Hot takes are the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the hot takes.
I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
Where the hot takes have gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

kboyd, 5 months ago to random

RIP Andre Braugher https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-homicide-life-on-the-street-brooklyn-nine-nine-actor-1235665513/

kboyd, 6 months ago to random

My fellow developers & product owners:

There will come a time, and soon, when you are tasked with updating Ye Olde Social Icons to use new assets for the former birdsite.

I hope that when you're assigned this burden, you will opt to simply remove the icons and embeds and integrations, rather than doing free work for musk.

If musk wants social icons, he can pay for them.

No free labour for billionaires.

(On a more practical level, that site is clearly too volatile to code against. Move on.)

kboyd, 6 months ago to random

Hey, neat. An accommodation from slack that is close enough to the much-requested "block" capability that I think it's a good thing.

Slack user profile of Some Person, a Freelance developer, with the kebab menu dropped down. At the bottom of the menu, in red, it says "Hide ".

kboyd, 7 months ago to random

As one naturally ends up doing, I started writing a Mastodon client last night. Very early stages. PHP-based. CLI-only. Planning to use it to automate some fave/bookmark stuff so I don't forget about things I wanted to go back to.

I'm calling it ... TUNDRA.

kboyd, 9 months ago to random

The ultimate web developer resume:

A website where the only content is your name.

Centred.

Horizontally.

And vertically.

kboyd, 8 months ago to random

TIL: When writing a bash/zsh function, "exit" does not behave the way I expected.

The entire terminal closed! 😂

kboyd, 8 months ago to random

Never make fun of anyone who mispronounces a word - it means they learned it by watching pronunciation videos on youtube.

kboyd, 9 months ago to random

What's your favorite FOSS and privacy-respecting alternative to recaptcha?

kboyd, 10 months ago to random

"Canadians will no longer have access to news information on Facebook and Instagram"

Well, that's OK - I'm sure there will be plenty of misinformation to make up for it.

kboyd, 11 months ago to random

This trend of wrapping APIs in an extortionate cost structure is going to be a big problem for tools like Zapier if it catches on.

kboyd, 11 months ago to random

🎵 Look at this Phonograph 🎵

#MakeASongWeird
#HashtagGames

kboyd, 9 months ago to HashtagGames

The Little MerCEO

#FlipAGoodCharacterBad #HashtagGames

kboyd, 6 months ago to random

"Scientists are training AI models to detect signs of life on other worlds"

smash cut, 200 years into the future:

Generation ship embarks on a five-hundred-year journey to a planet that doesn't exist.

kboyd, 9 months ago to random

I have a suspicion that the right way to develop a project for fedi is to start small, build it in relative obscurity - with a single community server to act as a demo.

Then, if the demo reaches some level of criticality, the appropriate actions are either:

A) Turn it off. Gently, of course.
B) Lock it so that no new signups are allowed.
C) Spin it off as a separate entity, likely a co-operative.

This will encourage the project to grow, and will separate development from community management.

kboyd, 6 months ago to random

I used to be an early adopter like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.

kboyd, 9 months ago to random

Hmm, Zapier just updated their TOS to include wording about AI stuff. They seem to be very explicit about the fact that the training stuff is for internal use only, not resale.

Cue freakout? Or are they handling it properly?

kboyd, 7 months ago to random

Live-action #Gargoyles? The thought hadn't occurred to me, but now I am extremely intrigued.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/gargoyles-live-action-reboot-disney-plus-development-1235575153/

kboyd, 1 year ago to random

Props to Feedly, their feed export process is much less of a headache than Evernote's export process. Also, Feedly seems to have added a Mastodon sharing target. I'm going to try that out in a bit.

kboyd, 8 months ago to random

Gah. I feel like i want to take an "open-source afternoon" at work. That should be a thing. Blow off everything else and contribute to FOSS in some way.