@masukomi documentation on Discord equals no documentation at all. Anyone who does this should be utterly ashamed of themselves and shamed by the community as a whole.
By now a tool that fetches anything from a Discord and translates it to markdown text (either doc-like or chat-like, perhaps channel-wise for better readability) would be kinda useful for preservation purposes.
Practical example of this that affects millions: people with #ADHD Have less dopamine in their brains (oversimplification). Dopamine is one of the things that must be present to form a memory. Less dopamine = fewer memories (again, oversimplification).
ADHD people are incredibly forgetful and spend our lives being gaslit by people in our lives who have heard these 🐄💩 lines, and parroted them without thinking.
@julia I am not a psychologist, but I am someone with an objectively poor memory. Personally, I have found that learning to accept the reality that sometimes your body just does not form memories when you wish it would have is a much healthier approach which, if internalized will eventually spread compassion to those around you when they forget something.
It is a simple strategy with no blame, no falsehoods, no gaslighting, and it help others not feel like failures when you share it.
Nvidia has trained an LLM on their codebase to save senior designers having to answer junior's questions about what some code does.
I don't know how many times i have to say this, but these are not search engines. They are not inference engines. Their answers are 100% "what would be a plausible sounding string of words to respond to that input?" that's it. That's all they do.
Apologies for the self promo, but it seems silly not to take this opportunity to point out that I'm a very experienced Ruby On Rails developer / Tech Lead / Principal who is looking for a new position. Resume here: https://masukomi.org/resume/kay_rhodes_resume.html
For those of you considering starting something with Patreon, it's fully moved into late stage enshitification.
This poor creator was given $583 by their patrons, and Patreon took $109 of it in fees. 🤦♀️
Go use Ko-fi, they're still run by humans who actually care about creators and don't try and screw them at every opportunity. Also consider Ghost.org. They're working hard to make an Open Source Patreon style platform w/ NO fees beyond simple hosting cost.
@jlroberson well it’s totally fine to describe the most horrific violent sexual acts in text, unlike a few pencil scratches that resemble a nipple! Sheesh think of the children who’ve never looked down!
I want to take a moment to talk about code #accessibility. Like How accessible your source code is for your fellow #programming
Practically speaking I count as a "Low vision" user. My need for larger fonts means that lines wrap earlier for me than most users. Wrapping sucks, so when i write code I typically use 80 characters as an upper limit to width. There are computing history reasons for 80 but it also just works.
Like a ramp vs stairs, one option is usable by everyone but isn't the "normal" way of doing things. The other is "normal" but ignores the needs of some people.
Code that wraps early is not only readable, it also helps to expose hidden complexity, dependencies, and assumptions in method chains. (see attached screenshot)
@masukomi Cognitive disability is a thing that effects software programmers whether or not they came preloaded with some congenital brain defect, so if your language has a language server, make sure you provide typings and inline docs for your APIs. Every time I switch from editor to browser - or across browser tabs - to look up your APIs, when they could have just been there literally at my fingertips, it degrades my ability for the rest of the day
Kagi.com has improved the #accessibility of their maps service (demo of it with voiceover in link) and asked for folks who can provide real feeedback about accessibility improvements that should be made.
Another month, another reason I'm happy to be giving my money to Kagi instead of letting Google treat me like a commodity.
Kagi, once again showing what happens when a search engine's values are aligned with its users' instead of trying to find ways to SELL the users.
I asked about macOS email clients and one of the results had a red shield. That's not normal, so i clicked it. 24 ads / trackers detected, and since they don't earn money when you see ads, they are motivated to warn you that that link might be something you want to avoid.
@patrickhills honestly, it made me question how other people use the Internet because the number of quarries I do is so ridiculously beyond those limits
> 80% of Walt Disney VFX workers have voted to try and unionize. Earlier this month the VFX folks from Marvel voted to do the same.
If you're not aware, the VFXs treatment of its workers has been unquestionably immoral, and cruel (like ~100hr weeks frequently without extra pay) and it's been getting worse for years.
This is largely the result of the job bidding process. The VFX studios bid a a rate for N shots, & then the scope increases or they want something changed & the VFX house just has to eat the extra work with no increase in budget or timeline.
Workers get fucked. VFX studios keep going out of business.
Workers unionizing will FORCE a change to the system because then a VFX house can't do extra work, in the same time AND demand unhealthy hours and no / unreasonable compensation.
TIL about CSS's font-variant-numeric functionality. If you use #CSS, and like the idea of being able to add a little bit of polish to your text, check this out.
It can do a few things to improve how you represent numbers. Here's the most visually significant one.
Discussing internationalization (#i18n) issues at work.
A coworker noted that only one customer has asked about it. We have theaters across England and Ireland. As of 2021 there were 880,000 people in England and Wales that don't speak English well, and 160,000 that don't speak it at all. + plenty more in Ireland.
Don't confuse a lack of request for internationalization with a lack of need for internationalization.
Language is a lot like disability. "average" people don't think about it. They assume their language is fine, because it works fine for them and is the default where they live, so they don't think about folks who aren't native in it.
Similarly, able bodied people don't think about how hard it is to get a wheelchair into places, or what it'd take to get a sign language interpreter to help deaf people understand a performance they put on. Or, whatever.
In the US essentially ALL developers write their apps in english only despite the fact that over 50% of US households speak it at home. There were over 37 MILLION Spanish speakers in the US (as of 2015 census) + another 10m "other indo-european languages"
again, lack of request doesn't mean lack of need.
Don't assume that your state of being is the same as everyone else's, or that other people don't need mental, linguistic, or physical help to use your stuff.
I mostly saw what looked like light pollution on the wrong side of the clouds. Occasionally we could see a brighter streak reaching up. @dachary was able to make out fainter things with more colors, but only tempting hints.
These were all long exposures on a jib with iPhone 15 Pro Max.