FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Eric couldn't understand why his game "Colonoscopy 2024" wasn't getting the traction he was sure it deserved.

Best superpower? Monster movie time! What's the terrifying monster murdering everyone in the new surprisingly good horror movie?

A: The 3D Studio teapot
B: The Blender monkey
C: The Wilhelm scream (yes, just the sound)
D: Internet Explorer 6

can anyone with young school age children tell me what is working for y'all w.r.t. covid mitigation? bonus points if your household also has an immunocompromised person in it.

negative 1000 points for "homeschool them" - my child *needs* school that is not homeschool, and i actually didn't even look up to see if homeschool is possible in NL because i have no intention of even considering it a viable option.

please RB!

​ Hey, fediverse friends!

I want to remove the shroud of secrecy from a project I've been hacking on off-and-on for quite a while now.

It's a fediverse app for posting about things - in the first iteration, video games, but eventually lots more stuff.

Obviously you can already post about video games on mastodon or whatever, but the point is that each game can be a first-class object that you can reference and share across the fediverse, like with Bookwyrm or NeoDB.

I also wanted to experiment with different ways of federating posts, managing visibility/privacy, etc.

Current status:
All the big pieces are there and work, but lots of things are rough and/or clunky. It's definitely a 0.0.1 instead of a 1.0, but I set myself a deadline of sharing it this summer, otherwise I'll just trap myself in an endless cycle of quietly tweaking this software that nobody uses but me and never actually sharing it.

I've been using it for gameposting for a while now (almost 2000 posts already!) - it's absolutely not ready for General Consumption, but if you're willing to put up with some code and some jank, it might be worth a look for you.

https://codeberg.org/gush/gush

https://gush.social/

#gush

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-26.html - This time on Golfshrine: donations, hauntings, and assorted other things.

@twipped @zkat @dragonarchitect To bring this back to Kat's original question: Is web dev too complex and people created giant web apps to avoid the pain of doing it right? Most likely, yes.

Could the industry have prevented this by better tooling/documentation? Not sure. MDN is as good as it gets. Modern browsers are angels compared to the old monsters.

I think what was happening is growth along two axis:
1) browsers got way more complex
2) the industry needed A LOT of code written fast

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@twipped @zkat @dragonarchitect You are probably very much correct. Our industry is so messed up.

I'm old and back when I started at an agency in 1999, we had a large team of kick-ass information architects and graphic designers that would have murdered any engineer that didn't put user experience first.

Computers were slow, so it was of paramount importance to make the UX work perfectly. As the tech got faster, our craft got sloppier.

@tsturm what it achieves is less spent on development time and faster “growth”. The fact that the customer base has a sub-par user experience is irrelevant as long as the company value climbs fast enough for the investors to make their exit in time.

Startup culture doesn’t value good products, just sellable products.

@zkat @dragonarchitect

and thinking about it more, yeah, the noise injected into that signal by the "evangelism" of the JS industrial complex is making it actually harder for anyone to learn to do these things closer to the platform. It's actively sabotaging efforts to educate/learn.

Maybe the answer to everything here isn't really "the web sucks at DX", because it genuinely, truly, honestly has been making enormous strides in that aspect, but "we need better education/documentation on how to develop things end-to-end"

MDN actually does a really good job of this! But maybe we need more focused guides that are less technology-centered and more task/application-shape-oriented.

big question that's been popping through my head recently is:

so we're acknowledging that the obsession with DX has been a driving force behind the JS industrial complex or whatever, and the increasing bloat of webapps at the expense of users.

But should we put some of the blame on the web platform itself for not centering DX in such a way that doing the right thing is, in fact, most easily done through native APIs and plain HTML/CSS? Are web standards still moving too slow on that front? Are they still a bit too gun-shy?

Dumping responsibility on developers for trying to make their own lives easier when the tools you give them by default, as good as they are, still require them to jump through some hoops to do the right thing, seems like a losing strategy in the long run, no?

I've been having a lot of fun relearning and reevaluating a lot of my assumptions around web dev, but it's been a lot of work and there's really not a lot of easy, centralized education/documentation on how to put all these disparate pieces together into something cohesive. I just kinda have a bunch of lego blocks that got dumped in front of me and told to make a fancy, progressively enhanced, low-JS MOC millenium falcon out of it.

And I'm JS/TS developer with 15+ years of experience who works in FAANG and is really passionate about this stuff. I don't think I'd be able/willing to do all this otherwise.

@cinebox @NanoRaptor reminds me of an edit I had to do of a billboard (top) that I saw while taking my roommate to one of her trans healthcare appointments

@NanoRaptor I wonder if they're related to S&M Moving Systems?

Given how the Google AI was supposedly heavily trained on reddit, I wonder how many "wrong" answers it gives are just regurgitating reddit jokes out of context?

Best superpower? The startup sound for...

What happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope?

They kaleidoscope.

Best superpower? Any time you're photographed, the photo magically changes. How?

A: You get extra fingers and other incorrect AI-like details
B: You become pixelated
C: You (including clothes) become invisible
D: You look demonic and dangerous

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

systemdeez nuts

hot girl voice ("valley girl" inflection, vocal fry, not artificially raising the pitch of your voice to protect men's fragile egos)
hot girl voice (oh my god who's your vocal coach?)