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Oh my Dog, @baldur yet again hits multiple nails square in their heads:
baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react

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> Tech management will sacrifice technological progress – performance, design, and general product effectiveness – if it disempowers labour.

> If you’re unlucky enough to have to use any of this garbage we’re shipping and calling β€˜software’, now you know why it all feels a bit shit.

> This is what unions were made for

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starting to draw a car and some tire tracks (the car is temp-art for now)

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rust (iron oxide), not to be confused with rust (programming language), or rust (video game)

Unfortunately the cool screen melting effect when you bump into a squid is not emulated. 😞

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Seedlings have been thriving without me! No major casualties, though some are looking thirsty

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Programmers: We don’t need sanitization and bounds checking

Hackers:

When you first launch a game do you...

everybody is always doing temporary things "for the time being". who is this Time Being? What are its motives? and how does it compel so many to carry out its will?

I simply do not use frameworks because I like to learn (unless it's for something I absolutely hate)

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react

"reCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users"

This is your periodic reminder that nothing the Chrome team or anyone at Google says about "loving the web" or "caring about the web" matters at all, because nobody at Google tests anything on any browser but Chrome.

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