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tomw

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Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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asmodai, to random
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So I was looking at Ruby on Rails (RoR) due to something. Isn't it dangerous to keep building your product on this (e.g. GitLab, Mastodon)?

The major RoR maintainers (3) seem to be all from Shopify by this point.

Ruby is dropping more and more on language popularity charts and is hardly picked by people to learning coding with. The pool to be able to fish developers from is rapidly slinking. Heck, Lua is more popular when it comes to new people learning the language.

tomw,
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@asmodai honestly I was going to use RoR for something but didn't want to because of the DHH connection

statsguy, to random
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Whoever designed this notepad seriously missed a trick. Those first 2 composers should have been Chopin and Liszt

tomw,
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@statsguy I wonder what the
? Leading question mark
signifies

tomw, to random
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Yes I am a 10x programmer. I have rewritten this same bit of code at least 10x

tomw, to random
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Long story short, don't trust AI with your dog.

tomw,
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@clacksee This clearly originated as a parody image but Google's AI has taken it seriously

Seirdy, to random
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Certain search engines have reached out to me since I made my list of search engine indexes asking to be moved from the Bing-based engines section to the semi-independent engines section because they have their own indexes.

All returned zero organic link results for some time during the Bing outage.

Qwant has contacted others (not me) regarding claims of Bing-dependence whenever it became a hot topic, insisting that it mixes results from its own index with Bing (something usually against the Bing ToS unless you somehow manage to negotiate an exception, which rarely happens and has finer details covered by NDAs). Has anybody seen evidence of Qwant using its own index? It’s one of the engines whose organic results went completely dormant during the Bing outage.

tomw,
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@Seirdy Thanks for doing this. I think it is a shame now many 'alternative' search engines are just using Bing results, or 99% Bing, and put much effort into dissembling when asked about it.

tomw, to random
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Annoying #opendata #ukpol problem - UK postcodes are included in Code Point Open but Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded for stupid licensing reasons.

Is there any source of NI postcodes mapping them to the new constituency boundaries?

tomw,
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I mean any source. I don't care that much about licensing technicalities, even if there is somewhere to scrape it from

tomw, to random
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"McAfee won't let me open that link..."

Buddy, McAfee is dead

tomw, to random
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That's all well and good, but what are you doing for people like me who

(...proceeds to describe entirely unique set of circumstances that surely no one else in the world shares)

dangillmor, to random
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Social media disappointments:

  1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

  2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

  3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

tomw,
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@dangillmor People do not, in general, leave platforms because the policies and/or leadership are bad.

Lots of people are still on Facebook, and you don't get a more open-and-shut case than that.

You can't moralise your way out of this problem - only regulate.

tomw, to random
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Microsoft Recall AI after taking hundreds of screenshots of everything you're doing:

"It looks like you're writing a letter..."

lara_amalia, to random
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i'm struggling. i'd like to build a very simple website for a client. i could just build it with html+css in a couple of days, but she wants to update the content every now and then.

it's more than "just text" where i could use markdown for the content. there are some special components for blockquotes, a timeline, pricing table, etc. required.

usually i like my contentful+astro setup, but for this project it feels like an overkill (because time and budget are limited).

any ideas/thoughts? 🤔

tomw,
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@lara_amalia A custom Wordpress theme, in its most minimal form, lets you just write HTML and CSS and put a couple of functions like the_title() and the_content() in the places where you would expect.

I do this when I'm not trying to make a site that is "Wordpressy" (using all its functions) but more like my HTML with a CMS attached to the "text" section.

tomw,
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@lara_amalia Probably! There's a bit of a lack of a middle ground once you need (user) editing, as users generally expect that to mean web login, not "edit these Markdown files and something something git" that most dev-focused stuff supports

riley, to random
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Currently reading Less is More by Jason Hickel, but Mr. Watterson said it best:

tomw,
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@riley Can't even go in the car any more without getting rung up on the car phone

tomw, to random
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Signed a contract that said I may not use a computer here, "except a personal computer".

Probably just old text but I like to think it was caused by some guy bringing in mainframes

jk, to random
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in six months the nintendo wii will be 18 years old

tomw,
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@jk Coincidence: I found a copy of Wii Sports today in a box of books. I don't know how it got there

tomw,
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@jk I'm going to say Wii Sports is better than all 7 except A Tale of Two Cities

pikesley, to random
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Presented without comment

tomw,
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@pikesley the best one of these (which I get loads) is "Tracking information will only be available once delivery is attempted", no further text. For something that was sent months ago and is obviously lost.

tomw, to random
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Thisposthasbeenminifiedtohelpyousavebandwidth.Pleaseusethebytessavedwisely.

eniko, to random
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god i hate the words "asset flip"

10 years ago it very specifically meant using premade game engine assets, often whole example games, to slap something vaguely playable on steam to trick people into buying it and attract steam card hunters

now people call anything that reuses assets from a previous game an asset flip, or even use it for any art in a game they consider to look "generic"

its terrible i wish people would stop it

tomw,
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@eniko Agree, I don't know why anyone started using this to refer to (for example) graphics reused in a sequel. The point is very specifically about stuff bought from the Unity store and released basically unchanged. Outside that context the term makes no sense and has no utility.

tomw, to random
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There's a right way and a wrong way to do Tailwind.

The wrong way:
Use Tailwind

The right way:
Don't

tess, to random
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In which I passionately argue that "chat" is indeed a valid second-person pronoun:

https://www.tumblr.com/leftoblique/750471889313497088/well-now-thats-needlessly-confrontational-were

tomw,
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@tess This makes sense to me - I have heard for example "post it in the chat" jokingly used in situations where there is no chat. Not just in Twitch streaming but also things like Zoom, many people are used to having a parallel text chat now for many interactions.

joelanman, to webdev
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running a web service that sends emails, do you have to send plain text as well as html emails? If so, whats a good strategy to keep them in sync, content wise?
#webdev

tomw,
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@joelanman Probably only one person ever is actually going to read the plain text, and that person is used to getting messed up emails. Something like running strip_tags (or your language's equivalent) on the HTML mail would do.

(An "I read all my emails in plain text using mutt" person may turn up here, but they do not exist in most real email lists.)

nikitonsky, to random
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Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you

Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch

That’s not progress

Modern flat UI

tomw,
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@nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind

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