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sangster

@sangster@macaw.social

He/him. Web/backend dev. Currently: Etsy. Previously: Classy, Twitter. 🐈🐕‍🦺📷🏄🕹️✈️🎧📺🖥️🍞

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sarajw, to random
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David Dylan Thomas started his closing talk strong with such a good quote.

It's still going strong.

Like his talks title says:
"No, seriously, fuck engagement: Building a more human web"

sangster,
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@sarajw man, that second one is a doozy

mttaggart, to random

Do you think gas stoves are "better" for cooking?

Are you sure you know why you think that? www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1183551603/gas-stove-utility-tobacco

sangster,
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@mttaggart @mekkaokereke After 2.5y living in Europe with a modern electric stove, we still find it less predictable and harder to manage than a good gas range. We’ve encountered some induction stoves in Airbnbs that were fantastic, though.

We definitely still miss the gas stove, but all of the reports have us thinking that even if we move back, we’d want an electric or induction range.

seldo, (edited ) to random

Do you have a device that can receive radio broadcasts in your house (not your car)?

sangster,
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@seldo I’ve gotten several COVID vaccines, does that count?

cassidoo, to random
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I'm a lil annoyed at React these days

https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/annoyed-at-react/

sangster,
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@cassidoo It doesn’t solve the problem, but: Etsy migrated to Preact years ago and it’s been pretty great. Same basic API, though there’s less of a story around SSR (but we use SSR with Preact, too).

I do generally agree, though — RSC and everything happening with it feel like an evolutionary dead end for React. The promise of a thin UI layer you could add to any backend is dying, and now your whole stack has to be built around their ever-changing decisions. It’s not sustainable.

williampietri, to random
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There's this cult of billionaire competence that extends even to their critics. I regularly see people saying that Musk's destruction of Twitter must have been intentional, that he and his rich backers were trying to ruin it. Nope! Musk's just an out-of-control narcissist who's not half as bright as he thinks.

sangster,
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@williampietri it’s been pretty wild to see someone take over Twitter who will make Jack look like a wise and competent leader. Because he gets that same assumption of competence and was the most gigantic freakin weenie. Couldn’t commit to anything except for trying to look like he knew what he was doing, so he did nothing and tried to garner praise for it.

arturo182, to random
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Got to see @thpoll's PolyKybd in person at and wow, my photos don't do it justice, it's a beautiful piece of hardware 😊

sangster,
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@tyalie @arturo182 @thpoll oh no I have the envy

sangster, to random
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Hades 2 early access is up!

sangster, to random
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It’ll be interesting to see the impact on tech companies of the last few years. Massive layoffs and desperate job seekers means that the odds are far lower that the people you hired care at all about your company or product. They’re passionate about getting a paycheck. With hundreds of applicants per job listing, it’s impossible to look at every resume, so you aren’t even getting the best people who applied, just the first across a threshold.

sangster,
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Companies are trying to pay less or underpay versus the market, so you hire experienced engineers at below level… but you wind up with a class of talented people with no loyalty and every reason to continue looking for jobs if things don’t quickly improve for them.

How do you even change that issue?

paul, to random
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Tired: 2 hour flight delay.
Wired: 7+ hour Steam Deck battery life

Now if only it had streaming video apps with downloads.

sangster,
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@paul what are you playing to get 7+ hours? Guessing that’s an OLED model?

matthewcassinelli, to random
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It’s fairly remarkable how much better Season 2 of the Halo show is than the first.

sangster,
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@UncannyKyle @matthewcassinelli there’s a PC release too now IIRC

cory, to tech
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📝: Single points of failure https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/single-points-of-failure/

sangster,
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@cory unrelated: I saw your post about streaming music and that’s how I discovered Plexamp exists. Setting it up now! Definitely better than just using the Plex app for it.

jonny, to random
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man i would rather just keep having disease than the cure turn out to be experimental hookworm injection
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2014.07.022

sangster,
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@jonny I would settle for a pill that would make me able to drink gluten free beer again. I’m not celiac, but Long Covid left me so sensitive that most GF beer has too high a concentration.

California has some brands of corn-brewed beer that I’m excited to get my hands on when we move back from Ireland in a few months.

cory, to random
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Don't mind me if (normalizedArtist === "the mars volta") return "💡😮”;

sangster,
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@cory 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

sangster,
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@cory I’ve seen them twice and both times were breathtaking.

sangster, to random
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Walked 7.5 miles and climbed 50 flights up Mount Dublin today. Our first hike with the baby (who napped the whole time in a carrier) and my first big hike since I got long COVID in September 2022. We’ve done 24 miles in the last 3 days and 6+ miles each of the two days before that.

Hard to express how happy I felt getting back out and doing that kind of exercise without having to worry that I wouldn’t be able to make it.

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sangster,
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@sarajw I carried the food/water and some camera gear, but my wife carried the baby the whole time. She likes to say she’s been slowly building up to it for almost a year now, but it’s still incredibly impressive.

sangster, to fujifilm
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A visit to Herbert Park in Dublin while the trees are in full bloom

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sangster,
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@annika Literally the first time I've ever managed to actually get a shot like that to be in focus. I was so pleased when I got it into Lightroom.

sangster, to random
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Trying to make my first espresso after a night where the baby didn’t sleep longer than 1.5h at a time and was screaming in her sleep

Nervous Looney Tunes GIF

sangster,
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@sarajw she’s just past 4 weeks old.

And yeah wow, didn’t even notice those

sangster,
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@sarajw hah yeah we’d been planning to go wander around a botanical garden today but I have a suspicion it might be a day for trading naps

robb, to random
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Thanks to @joshuagrady for telling me about HyperKey. How did I not know about this before? https://hyperkey.app/

sangster,
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@robb wow that’s super nice. What is the IAP and what does it cost?

cory, to random
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Read: the service is going to get worse and more expensive https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/04/04/disney-ceo-bob-iger-on-streaming-we-have-to-turn-it-into-a-growth-business.html

sangster,
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@cory expand has ended, extract has begun

25kV, to ilaughed
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playing with synology photos, just a little sharing test http://go25kV.quickconnect.to/mo/sharing/uXSSNow4u

sangster,
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@25kV I think because quickconnect links involve an intermediate step where Synology fetches your current server IP address based on the last time your server checked in and redirects to it. It probably has handling for your server being down / unavailable, too, to verify it’s running. I expect you’d need an actual fixed URL / IP address to have it work without that.

ryantownsend, to random
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@ksylor thanks for highlighting I’d sent a DM publicly 🤦‍♂️

That was the last part of a new talk summary I’m prepping for Smashing Conf / Front Conf.

My new title is “Our Websites Need a Lifestyle Change, Not a Diet”

It’ll be a similar focus on the Web Platform to my perfnow talk but I’m gonna go a little deeper on INP and convincing people perf is a problem, given the audience is more of a broad spread of specialisms.

sangster,
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@ryantownsend @ksylor ah, the ole “lose some weight by cutting (syntactic) sugar”

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