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b0rk, 3 days ago to random

just checked the How Git Works sales number and we're almost at 3000 copies sold which is wild

https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

RickiTarr, 4 days ago to random

Okay, I won't say this is always true, but it almost always is in my experience.

GottaLaff, 5 days ago to random

Omg.

#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

craiggrannell, 5 days ago to random

Column! Google’s AI disasters are a warning shot for Apple’s iOS 18 AI plans • https://www.stuff.tv/features/googles-ai-disasters-are-a-warning-shot-for-apples-ios-18-ai-plans/

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

Ok enough me complaining about research that I want to read not existing (https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112576085634643142), let's do something actionable.

So you're in an engineering org using something like Copilot. You want tips from science so YOU feel you are using them in a way that is efficient & grows your skills vs muting them. Or you want to help colleagues.

(Even if you profoundly disagree w/these tools, there is benefit in a harm reduction approach & knowing what helps the humans right here right now)

ExtinctionR, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #denialism #denial

baldur, 6 days ago to random

Here's a small project I've been working on:

"Basic, Beautiful & Buildless"

https://buildless.baldurbjarnason.com/

It's a small tool for taking a list of npm package names, generating a pinned esm.sh url for them, parsing through their import graph, and generating an import map, module preloads with integrity attributes and a script loading the import map polyfill (with integrity attribute) in a neat little copy-pasteable HTML textarea chunk

And it also calculates the bandwidth/payload of each package.

trochee, 6 days ago to random

OH* at work:

> Nobody writes a manifesto that says "everything should remain exactly how it is", except maybe Marc Andreesen

• okay, I overheard it because I said it

adam, 7 days ago to random

The InclusiveWeb https://notes.neatnik.net/2024/06/the-inclusiveweb

stephaniewalter, 7 days ago to random

Another episode in the life of having a é in my name, when people don't accept "non English letters" whatever that means?. Would you tell Beyoncé she can't use her name on your site?

I got a whole talk on the topic, by the way: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-my-name-is-stephanie-talk-encoding-special-characters-issues-poor-user-experience/

davidho, 8 days ago to random

What if making progress on climate change doesn't mean doing everything the same way, except with less CO₂ emissions, but fundamentally changing the way we interact with nature and with other people?

robb, 7 days ago to random

⭐ The InclusiveWeb by @adam https://notes.neatnik.net/2024/06/the-inclusiveweb

"An IndieWeb that isn’t inclusive offers no value to the world. An IndieWeb built by and for only certain people isn’t a web at all."

Amen.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/the-inclusiveweb/

emilymbender, 8 days ago to random

"a potential gold mine for criminal hackers or domestic abusers who may physically access their victim’s device. Images include captures of messages sent on encrypted messaging apps Signal and WhatsApp, and remain in the captures regardless of whether disappearing messages are turned on in the apps."

In 2024 it still somehow isn't standard practice to ask in the design process: Are we building the killer app for domestic abusers?

https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

mekkaokereke, 9 days ago to random

Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

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sarahjamielewis, 8 days ago to random

After writing this note on Recall (https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/112482021770758791) a few weeks back, I've received many messages under the assumption that I don't understand how DRM / OS interaction works.

As if the integration of a broken, backwards technology into the core of our computing systems happened by accident.

"No, you see the OS doesn't get to see those bits of the screen, so it totally makes sense why the system scraps your financial documents and passwords but not netflix" - utterly unhinged worldview

mayank, 8 days ago to random

POV: when you use a google browser to surf the interwebs

ectcetera, 8 days ago to random

why does every note/task/knowledge management system have like a whole ideology attached?

I don't want to reshape my thinking around stoic philosophy; I just want to remember when my next appointment is and what the ingredients are for that good burrito recipe.

nolan, 8 days ago to random

Good news for #webcomponents: Chromium fixed a perf bug for repeated stylesheets in shadow DOM: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/341327461

Richr, 9 days ago to webdev

✏️ A modern approach to browser support - writing a new browser support policy @Clearleft

https://clagnut.com/blog/2431

#webdev #css

jasongorman, 9 days ago to random

6 Ideas That Transformed The Way I Make Software

Day #2- Iterative & Incremental Delivery

This is another of those ideas that seem obvious with hindsight, but in the first couple of years of my career, the majority view really was that we gather the requirements, plan the design, write the code, test the software and then release it - usually on a fixed date we committed to months in advance.

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b0rk, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)

GossiTheDog, 22 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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