krinkle

krinkle, 5 months ago to jenkins

CI Dream

> In this world, CI as a SaaS feels like accidental complexity of midlayer mistake variety.

https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/24/ci-dream.html

#matklad #borgng #travis #zuul #jenkins

brion, 6 months ago to random

what's a functional programmer's favorite genre of indian dish?

curry

bert_hubert, 6 months ago to random

So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots:

The stembusstamper is a longish piece of wood that fits through the slot meant for ballots. It allows one to tamp down wayward ballots so there is more room in the ballot box.

TheDJ, 6 months ago to random

He @webkit and @jensimmons Can we get some eye balls on printing lazy loaded elements ?

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224547

This is one of the blockers in adaptation of the loading attribute for Wikipedia, where printing still matters.

Chrome fixed this 1,5 years ago, so Safari is the only straggler (and Wikipedia has to wait a couple years more before they can actually use it after it is fixed)

#webkit #safari

pollita, 6 months ago to random

This issue continues to not age well.

krinkle, 6 months ago to random

Recall 10-second Tom? Background character in "50 First Dates", the 2004 rom-com starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

He's a punchline to comfort the main character who "merely" has a one-day memory.

But, do you know the real story of Clive Wearing? British music producer who has severe retrograde amnesia for over 20 years. He has a 7-second memory...

Watch the first three minutes to get the gist.

https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?feature=shared

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

#CliveWearing #RealStories #amnesia

lapcatsoftware, 7 months ago to random

It’s unclear how exactly Apple can restrict sideloading to the EU. You can spoof IP addresses with VPNs, you can disable location services, and you don’t need to sign in to iCloud.

In any case, if Apple somehow manages to restrict it to the EU, then the majority of developers worldwide probably won’t participate in sideloading, because they still have to use the crApp Store elsewhere. I wonder how the EU would respond, if at all, to low usage by developers. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/111402674411099188

brion, 7 months ago to random

well i completely blanked on the command name for "git-review" and had to google for it with a bunch of roundabout search terms like "git gerrit pull request submit command wikimedia" :D

so i think it's time to put aside work catch-up for the day

ianbetteridge, 7 months ago to random

The images may be broken but this is still a legendarily great product review. https://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/01/14/the-panasonic-toughpad-press-conference/

krinkle, 7 months ago to retrogaming

How did Commander Keen do adaptive tiling, back in the 1980s? Explanation by Fabien Sanglard @fabinou:

https://fabiensanglard.net/ega/

Source code: https://github.com/keendreams/keen

#commanderkeen #RetroGaming

krinkle, 7 months ago to random

The Rainbow Connection analysed

This is one of my favourite songs. It occupies my brain for hours at a time, on a good day.

Tim Carmody @tim:
"""
It’s sung by a puppet, performed by someone who, for all his unbounded talents for voice and performance, can’t really sing. But I think it’s the greatest song ever written for a film.
"""

https://snarkmarket.com/2021/8283/

#muppets #RainbowConnection #KermitTheFrog #kermit #snarkmarket #lyrics

nolan, 7 months ago to random

I'm not a Ruby developer, but I really enjoyed DHH's keynote at Rails World https://youtu.be/iqXjGiQ_D-A

I don't agree with all the specific points, but I really like the gonzo style of asking "Why not make everything radically simpler?" A lot of times in software we go for solutions that add 5% value but are 2x more complex (those numbers are made up).

krinkle, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Taskmaster

Offered without context:

"""
select a firm swede, the smaller in size the sweeter.
"""

Yep, kids are cute. Same in Scandinavia, I guess. Did you just say "firm"?

"""
medium size is best, depending on how you will use it.
"""

Wait what?

"""
avoid larger swedes as they can be bitter.
"""

Okay, this I can relate to, see also Greg Davies on Taskmaster. (I'm a tall Dutch person myself, we're not alll bitter!)

#nocontext #NoContextBrits #NoContextMeme #GregDavies #Taskmaster #Sweden #cooking

w96k, 7 months ago to random

Slicing php arrays suck so much. To slice both ends I need to calculate length of array and do some calculation on it instead of just putting second index there.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php

krinkle, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to mediawiki

All major browsers rely on a dark secret: the quirks where native code or the UA stylesheet is varied based on which site you're on.

They're a hell to debug if you're ever caught in one, but they make for interesting stories!

Example:
https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/08/mediawiki-workaround.html

Fix for SVN deadlink:
https://static-codereview.wikimedia.org/MediaWiki/53141.html

Source code of doom:
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

History:
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commits/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

#WebHistory #webkit #chromium #KHTML #MediaWiki #webcompat

krinkle, 7 months ago to random

@jeresig Looks like your blog is having difficulty serving its RSS feed.

The advertised FeedBurner proxy appears to be serving an HTML error page as well (which in turn leads to an XML error) at https://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnResig

The presumed source at
https://johnresig.com/feed/ returns a (different) error.

krinkle, 7 months ago to infosec

How does Wikimedia approach security and performance?

We're quite selective in our dependencies and often audit the sources ourselves. Progressive enhancement makes for a blazing fast and accessible site, and, I argue, it's also the cheaper choice in the long run!

Read more over @openjsf:

https://openjsf.org/blog/2023/10/05/wikimedia-case-study/

#infosec #webperf #OpenJS #foss #floss #Wikipedia

krinkle, 7 months ago to Ethics

What are the ethical expectations of an open source project? by Alex Kladov

https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/18/obligations.html

#matklad #ethics

brion, 8 months ago to random

i've noticed a lot of programming nerds straight up pronounce the $ on scripting-language style variables as the word "dollar"

i grew up pronouncing it as a glottal stop in my internal monolog :D

krinkle, 8 months ago to webdev

Breakdown of GPU attack:

• Cross-origin iframe should be opaque (can't see fetch response, DOM, or draw to canvas).
• CSS filters on iframe to skew 1 pixel into 2000px black/white square.
• Draw complex SVGs (>16ms).
• Observe time between requestAnimationFrame calls.
• Repeat for 30 min.
• Deduce that render speed might imply the GPU saw similarity (think GZIP) between your SVG and the iframe pixel elsewhere onscreen.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/

https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/GPU-zip.pdf
#appsec #webdev #gpuzip

krinkle, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to webdev

"Google Sites" now supports embedding images.

What you want: <img style="margin: 0 auto;">

What you get:

• ~100 HTML elements, including 57 unique CSS class names across 83 attributes, 30 hidden DIVs, 3 iframes, 2 external script tags, 2 inline script tags, and 1 actual <img> tag.
• the <img> is inside an iframe, nested 3 (!) levels of iframes deep.
• an image cut off in both X and Y directions.
• not one, but two unwanted scrollbars.

#enshittification #webperf #SemanticHTML #html5 #HTML

brion, 8 months ago to random

fun fact: WebP supports two entirely unrelated compression types, VP8 intraframe compression (best for photo-like images) and "WebP Lossless" which is kinda like PNG with fancier filtering

Also, everybody hates WebP only because whether any given tool supports it is super hit-and-miss and web browsers / desktop operating systems don't make conversion to supported formats as transparent as you might hope.

And also because libwebp had a security vuln recently 🙃

krinkle, 8 months ago to random

@kostajh

Ten years and counting... switched to Silent Mode (or "Vibration Mode") after I got an iPhone 4S and not looked back. Very few apps are permitted badges or Notif Center presence, and Lock Screen limited to calendar events and VIPs. Sleep Mode scheduled every evening/night.

I occasionally run into a bug where some apps won't play audio tracks (mistaking it for mute even for user-initiated playback), but other than that, wouldn't want it any other way.

https://www.kostaharlan.net/posts/do-not-disturb/