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absolutely kicking and screaming that my partner just asked for ketchup on its gouda schapenkaas pecorino romano manchego tostiham sandwich

lost and found diskette #9482

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good takes about Today from nat leftatlondon

We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?

if you have to make your feature opt-out because people wouldn't opt-in then you shouldn't be making that feature

relational database
postgreslike

document database
mongolike

key-value database
redislike

These last few weeks

normally when i play around on my keyboard in a directionless fashion, that's just killing time. but if i manipulate filter cutoffs while i do it, then it's called “electronic music”

y'all heard of this shit called “LFOs”? too much fun

Given the Firefox stuff that's happening and the announcement of ladybird, I think it's a good idea to mention a browser project that's got no controversy I can see but could use time and money, @servo.

Servo is a browser engine made in Rust, it was made to be an experimental engine by Mozilla but the Linux Foundation is hosting it now. What I especially like is how modular it is, compared to other engines I feel I can make a better browser with it and its components help other projects too!

If you want to see a browser that can be maintained in pieces instead of monolithically it's worth checking out! they need serious CSS/flexbox help to get up to par with other browsers but the webGL and WASM is top notch.

#servo #ladybird #firefox #chrome #privacy #safari #browser #foss

Friendly reminder.

why is showing superior to telling? prove it to me. you can't invent a rule that isn't broken by a genuine classic. you have to take it on a case by case basis and at that point "show don't tell" is a worthless hermeneutic. if the exposition doesn't work, you should be perfectly capable of explaining why without pinning your whole analysis on a false dichotomy

that's it. i've had it. no one's allowed to use "show don't tell" in a video essay anymore

@whitequark libfloof!

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