InnerAlien

jalcine, 1 day ago to bookstodon

This book, "The Source of Self Regard" has been a hit for me and I'm still halfway through.

This is the first page, written in 2019.

@bookstodon

alcinnz, 6 days ago to random

Unleash the power of scroll-driven animations - The Cascade:
https://www.csscade.com/unleash-the-power-of-scroll-driven-animations

Scroll-driven Animations - Bramus Van Damme:
https://scroll-driven-animations.style/

Introduction | Unleash the power of Scroll-Driven Animations (1/10) - Chrome for Developers:
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=5noL_qFobm0 (YouTube via Invidious)

InnerAlien, 14 days ago to random

From: @rysiek
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/112380636158676013

video/mp4

alcinnz, 16 days ago to random

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity - Baldur Bjarnason:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

grimalkina, 23 days ago to random

I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

gyokusai, 28 days ago to random

And while we’re at it, here’s @pluralistic's “Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags” again, probably the best essay on Zuck’s Evil Empire ever written:

“No one would pay very much for this oil, but there were a lot of oily rags, and provided no one asked him to pay for the inevitable horrific fires that would result from filling the world’s garages with oily rags, he could turn a tidy profit.”

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

mcc, 1 month ago to random

So I have this notes file where I stash ideas for my music posts thread, and in a list of 90s house songs I have a single line where I have just written "got me groovin baby". Google does not turn up any obvious candidates for what this could be a lyric from. What the devil was I referring to here?

anathema_device, 1 month ago to random

A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists
Bury their new Voice Engine program in an unmarked grave

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/a-memo-to-openai-you-are-not-the?r=eeyg&triedRedirect=true

KFosterMarks, 1 month ago to random

Reading Amy J. Ko's online book "Cooperative Software Development" and she writes:

"There are some approaches to specifying requirements formally. These techniques allow requirements engineers to automatically identify conflicting requirements, so they don’t end up proposing a design that can’t possibly exist. Some even use systems to make requirements traceable, meaning the high level requirement can be linked directly to the code that meets that requirement."

(❓ question in comments)

InnerAlien, 1 month ago to random

Just finished Red Team Blues by @pluralistic I listened to the audiobook via Libby and it’s really good. Wil Wheaton FTW!
Tip: Listen to the end credits all the way through. It’s worth it 😉

KFosterMarks, 2 months ago to random

Just discovered the fully online book "Cooperative Software Development" by @amyjko . It's now at the top of my to-read list.

In the introduction, Dr. Ko writes that the book focuses "on the many ways that software engineering work is cognitive, social, and organizational", and that "it does so by engaging extensively with academic research literature".

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/books/cooperative-software-development

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

this is what happens when you miss on that sweet, sweet chance.. once in a lifetime. ouch, there's a lesson in there that probably cost you a pretty penny. but hey, the big question now is: how do you spin this mess into a masterpiece?

nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

On January 24, 1984, Macintosh computers were introduced by Apple. Happy Birthday 🎂 Today, Mac is one of the few certified #Unix machines you can buy easily. Do you use a Mac?

nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

Friend: what are you up to?
Me: updating resume
Friend: what is that?
Me: what is what?
Friend: it doesn’t look like you are using MS Word. It seems alien to me.
Me: it is in LaTeX. It is a software system for typesetting documents
Friend: 😱

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Passionate creators devolve into bleary-eyed zombies pumping out posts and videos by sheer routine rather than any spark of inspiration. Social platform algorithms favour consistency, posting as frequently as possible to maximise visibility and potential clicks.

And, inevitably, they burn the f**k out.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/burnout-is-killing-the-creator-economy-738f218c5982?sk=0fa5e95e2cc4512c640bd8e9123db8e1

donni, 4 months ago to random

“Oh, no, anything but this!” -Me when dealing with almost anything

reginagrogan, 4 months ago to random

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reginagrogan, 4 months ago to Bulgaria

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nixCraft, 5 months ago to random

Question: The process of layoffs always seems so rushed and chaotic. But, if you’re laid off from a dev or IT job, can you negotiate your severance package? Any tips? Is it possible?

nixCraft, 9 months ago to random

ajsadauskas, 9 months ago to startup

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

nixCraft, 9 months ago to linux

Open your #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS or #Unix/Windows terminal and type:
python --version

It should be between 3.8 to 3.11. Anything else is just a disaster waiting to happen. There is no need to use an older version as Python no longer gets security updates.

grimalkina, 10 months ago to random

A lot of conversations I have about measurement of engineering work end at "well we need to bring context to the numbers!"

Like, absolutely. But tech needs to talk about what that context is. Some of it is ineffable but come on, some of it is absolutely known context. This is why we have measurement theory.

You could even say that what you need is to have principles that guard against mismeasurement. Great! So let's define common mismeasurement patterns. Just don't STOP at "it's hard"