thomasapowell

mekkaokereke, 4 months ago to random

The T Pain live cover of War Pigs is fire 🔥🔥🔥

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo&t=48m56s

Mrfunkedude, 5 months ago to random

As we approach the end of the year, wouldn't now be a good time to FINALLY DUMP THAT BOX OF OLD CABLES AND CHARGERS THAT YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING ON TO FOR TEN YEARS "JUST IN CASE" ?!?!?

It's ok. You can let them go now. You're going to be fine.

hbuchel, 4 months ago to random

Me, watching people sadly cling onto React even though it's been a pain in our collective asses for about 10 years: WHO IS THE OLD GUARD NOW, SIR? HAHAHA!

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to retrogaming

Christmas end of work event at the office and I break out a Duck Hunt setup with a CRT. The Gen Z crowd is what is this thing … in a good way. #retrogaming

thomasapowell, 6 months ago to mastodon

An unexpected benefit of having an Activity Pub focused open ended project for my SE class is I get test follows.

Hi👋 everybody from #Ucsd CSE. Have fun exploring the #Fedi. #Mastodon is just part of it.

If folks have suggestions requests for some CS Graduate student teams to build something for the Fedi as a class project reply below. They’ll see it or I’ll bring it to class for sure.

Maybe @lisamelton
Or @atomicpoet boost this for visibility. 🙏

thomasapowell, 1 year ago to webdev

I think we need some sort of agreement in #webdev that you are just not ready to use a JavasScript framework to emit #HTML and #CSS until you actually understand more than <div> tags and slapping a bunch of utility classes on things. Otherwise you are just automating the emission of 💩

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to ChatGPT

“Clever” solution for when you can't fix something just say the user broke the service terms. Read all about #ChatGPT "fix" to the disclosure of retained trained content at 404Media https://www.404media.co/asking-chatgpt-to-repeat-words-forever-is-now-a-terms-of-service-violation/

Happy those fine folks at @404mediaco are not falling into the trap of access journalism and rather have their muck rakes ready to go!

thomasapowell, 1 year ago to internet

I know how we beat #Bluesky

We should just remind everyone that our top Masto instance shitpost.social is powered by the Web5 BS protocol running on a quantum computer backed by the blockchain.

Users who have an exclusive invite to this instance get a welcome air drop of some ElephantCoin and a chance to buy an exclusive @donmelton NFT.

Elite users who had more than 50k followers at the birdsite qualify for an exclusive meet and greet with #JohnMastodon

#shitpost

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to mastodon

If certain people are bagging and saying the Fedi is where old techies go to live out their golden years online, then sign me the fuck up now, and also can I have an account with a view? Ok, now that is all settled, who is up for 68000 assembly bingo?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Joke #ILoveThisPlace

thomasapowell, 11 months ago to random

The Reddit bro is really bad at CEOing.

That’s the toot.

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to webdev

I should have put this one in a slide for my class since they often are triggered about how I get about the chronic <div>-itis plaguing web dev. It’s not just my opinion, it's in the spec! (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-div-element)

#HTML #Divitis #Semantics #a11y

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to random

At times I cynically think Software Dev has stalled growth a bit due to a circle of grump with low generational sharing. New devs come in crapping on experienced techies as grumps. Not bothering to learn from their elder’s follies the new devs proceed to make their slightly different versions of the same mistakes, but do eventually grow up. The cycle continues now as they become the new grumps unless they struck it rich or found escape and on it goes. It’s like Logan’s Run just for devs. 😏

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to random

A rule of the Internet is mess with an important enough person & suddenly the fantasy of online anonymity is cleared to reveal everything in this case so far showing the process and tools. The person responsible for the initial deep fake porn image of Taylor Swift likely has no idea what might be coming for them esp if TSwift's lawyers go after MSFT then I 100% guarantee that the image generating individual will be the patsy.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-closes-loophole-that-created-ai-porn-of-taylor-swift/

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to random

I am not 100% sure about this but I think telling your advertisers to "Go F themselves" is not a very good sales strategy.

#ElonMusk

thomasapowell, 8 months ago to retrogaming

So I got my Playdate from @panic yesterday. Even after just a brief bit of time with it I can say any #RetroGaming fan esp those who liked Gameboys back in the day really needs to head over to https://play.date and pick one up.

Bravo 🙌 Panic folks lots of ❤️ love clearly went into this.

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to mastodon

#Mastodon merch in-bound!

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to random

Just pledged the max reward for @pluralistic Internet Con Kickstarter.

He’s been just on fire 🔥 lately and he deserves every penny and kudo. Check it out and join up at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to Colorado

Cue the GOP continuing to loudly support the 1st and especially the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution but not the 14th because that one is apparently woke.

#colorado #Trump #GOP #hypocrisy #USPol

thomasapowell, 10 months ago to twitter

The most interesting thing to me about such a single letter domains is how Jon Postel himself kept most of them from being registered.
Apparently there are three in dotCom which are z.com, q.com and of course the current news maker X.com.

#ElonMusk #X #Twitter #Domains

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to TeslaMotors

Apparently #Elon thinks this is Earth 2 in some bizarro universe where Delaware is not a corporate friendly state.

thomasapowell, 6 months ago to javascript

Really enjoyed learning about JengaScript which is the game most “modern” webdevs play with #JavaScript these days.

Wanna play? First build your towering tooling and dependency tree. npm can set it up really fast for you. Now try to change or update things without toppling the whole project. Fun for all ages!

#webdev #shitpost

thomasapowell, 1 month ago to webdev

If your go to assumption when making a component is just #HTML is some emitted slop and the component is the most important part as opposed to the HTML and other core web tech the browser uses as being the ultimate point of the component you simply are doing web dev wrong and working against the platform.

Some days I feel most of the“modern” #webdev community acts like Chemists who think atoms are passé and compounds are all that matter.

thomasapowell, 7 days ago to LEGO

Not exactly a clean build of a Space 1999 Eagle. That’s what you get I guess for knock off Chinese #Lego still an icon of 1970s #scifi

thomasapowell, 1 month ago to random

As an SWE Prof, I warn students about the MVP rush, that iteration can't fix releasing too early making you an R&D release for others and tainting initial users.

Today, I had a sad example with a possibly cool documentation platform, Butterdocs. It could be a contender, yet it lacks code formatting, code blocks, & has no embeds, so it is pretty much useless for its best target audience as it stands. 😢

TL;DR - Release software when it is actually ready not early because of start-up beliefs

thomasapowell, 4 months ago to retrocomputing

My collection is thriving. All work and all are a blast. Yes that is a Vectrex and yes I know it isn’t a computer. #retrocomputing #retrogaming