Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
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- Early 30s
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🇲🇽🏳🌈 Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
🔞 I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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Whenever I see analysis that says based on this growth chart, so and so product will have massive adoption and revenue in five years, I remember this tweet.
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I just downloaded Sunset Solitaire, a #pico8 solitaire game by @johanpeitz and it's really fun.
It's 20% off for its launch. https://johanpeitz.itch.io/sunset-solitaire
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Man, the remake of Riven looks great. It's almost surreal to experience these locations in actual real time 3D.
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Don't use color alone to convey information. Marking required fields by only using colored labels won't help people who use screen readers or who can't distinguish colors. If using color, also add text like asterisks and/or "required."
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I've saved exactly three textbooks from my undergraduate education, as totems of my electrical engineering roots. Although I was never a chip designer, my first couple jobs after graduation were adjacent in the semiconductor industry. Conway & Mead was a classic at the time.
RIP Lynn Conway
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.Your Fat friends don't have to make you feel secure about your body.
.Disabled people aren't required to be "inspirational"
.And ffs People of Color don't have to make you feel better about your racist jokes and thoughts.
.LGBTQ+ People don't have to fit into your stereotype of them, to make you feel comfortable
.Women don't have to be maternal.
.Men don't have to be "strong and masculine".
.Older people don't have to be treated like children or be "sweet".
Feel free to add your own mini rant.
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If the problem is cultural, the solution will not be technological.
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Just a reminder that friends don't let friend use the Brave browser
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Dark mode isn't the default in OSes for a reason folks. It's one of those accessibility aids that's grossly inaccessible to a ton of people.
Respect the OS settings if you're making an app!!!!!!!
If a user has chosen light mode and reduced motion, don't fucking launch with dark mode and swishy animations!
Don't be an asshole!
Too many devs are being absolute assholes!
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Really sad to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She made key advances in CPU design that ended up being an influence on everything we use today. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/
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RIP Lynn Conway, a trans pioneer who made major contributions to computing, noted in this article from last year:
"She had already been forced to restart her career from scratch with a new identity in 1969, after being fired by IBM for telling her bosses she was transitioning. The rupture meant she could not claim credit for techniques she had invented there, even as they became standard practice across the industry.
And so, over the past two decades, Conway has been investigating – and attempting to reverse – what she describes as her "disappearance" from history, chronicling her experiences both as a computing and a gender trailblazer.
Slowly, that recognition is coming to pass. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologised for firing her 42 years earlier.
And this October she was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI – 14 years after Mead received the same honour."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iphone-science-trans-woman-lynn-conway-b2458269.html
"She had already been forced to restart her career from scratch with a new identity in 1969, after being fired by IBM for telling her bosses she was transitioning. The rupture meant she could not claim credit for techniques she had invented there, even as they became standard practice across the industry.
And so, over the past two decades, Conway has been investigating – and attempting to reverse – what she describes as her "disappearance" from history, chronicling her experiences both as a computing and a gender trailblazer.
Slowly, that recognition is coming to pass. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologised for firing her 42 years earlier.
And this October she was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI – 14 years after Mead received the same honour."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iphone-science-trans-woman-lynn-conway-b2458269.html
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In making new friends, what is the most important factor?
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reminder that euphoria is a much better identifier of being trans than dysphoria
