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linc

@linc@phpc.social

He/him. Web engineering leader deep in community building & education who thinks PHP & hypermedia are great. 🚀

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linc, to random
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Kyle, the kid I helped raise, would've been 25 today. He was killed bicycling in a crosswalk by someone who chose to ignore red lights.

My nephew's wife is still in a coma after an accident last month.

Our car was totaled last week when someone turned in front of my husband (luckily he was fine, but still very sore).

We don't need smarter cars. We don't need wider roads. We don't need stricter laws. We don't need technology disruption peddled by a billionaire.

We need mass transit. Now.

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Civilization is an infinite, cyclical game of one-upmanship between the systems builders and the systems gamers. When people say "late-stage capitalism" I hear "phase in the current cycle where the systems gamers are ahead."

What bothers me is an implicit expectation that letting the system fail is going to work for anyone. People who believe that have never lived through a system failing. You move on by building something new, not waiting.

linc,
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This is a post about everything.

AI is the fever dream of systems gamers that want to cement & control the current system as it stands.

Trump's conviction is the old system holding against its most prolific gamer, but we're not sure for how much longer.

The non-monopoly Web is where the Builders are scheming their comeback to reverse the tides once again.

Our despair is why the cycle lasts as long as it does. We stop believing the building matters for a bit, and it infects everything.

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AWS is an absolutely miserable user experience, top to bottom.

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@viticci @ismh86 @imyke Have you heard the Titanic theory that Jack is (or was supposed to be) a trans man? https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-much-better-movie-hiding-in-titanic

linc,
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@BenRiceM Not only is it a better movie, the plot actually makes sense now. I haven’t reshared a link in my community Discord that got more enthusiastic feedback than that one in a while. 😅

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    linc,
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    @josh If my dog gets too warm on a walk, he finds a nice patch of grass and just sprawls until he's done panting. I get no say in how long that is.

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    goddddamnit it's one thing when a delivery person is in a hurry or whatever & lies & says they tried to deliver but I wasn't home -- I get that.

    But the goldang USPS carrier went to the trouble of filling out the coral "sorry we missed you" form, including my name & address & everything, and left it in my mailbox WHEN I WAS SITTING HERE IN MY APARTMENT ALL AFTERNOON.

    linc,
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    @rossgrady This is like FedEx’s hobby at my place. I work from home and my front door is made of glass. I know what they did.

    USPS once fully stole a package for Amazon return with UPS, insisting they could do it too. It was gone forever, never received.

    linc, to random
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    Once upon a time someone studied when the most effective time of week was to send fundraiser messages and decided it was Tuesday afternoon.

    Now EVERYONE sends them then in an hours-long torrent, making it the worst possible time to send one.

    hbuchel, to random
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    Is this a real thing people using Tailwind do because this made me actually lol at work
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72826605/how-to-style-nested-elements-based-on-parent-class-using-tailwind-css

    linc,
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    @hbuchel My impression is that using CSS well requires specialized knowledge, which our industry is actively trying to squelch with the labor arbitrage of "Javascript everywhere" so everyone has the same skillset. Enough folks have drank the Kool Aid on this they have a critical mass and don't understand they're undercutting their own labor by devaluing others' experience.

    linc, to random
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    The Web has decayed into a sad sack of shit since Covid, and I feel like Mastodon’s one of a few lifeboats trying to avoid being smashed on the modern Scylla & Charybdis of enshittification and labor arbitrage.

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