probably won't go down like this but it'd be cool if the hyperscalers imploded at the same time that the architecture to run this stuff securely and locally got really good

Look all I’m saying is we need to bring back the phrase “I shall prepare a feast in your honor” among friends.

Big celebration? Feast.

Small win? You get a feast.

Literally just survived the day? Believe it or not, feast.

mixed media (graphite, watercolor and digital) sketch of a woman dressed in green, in the woods, holding a knife made of jade or green glass

nymph with a green knife

You know what I’m talking about.
bell.bz/wait-it-out/

npm left-pad incident On March 22, 2016, programmer Azer Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm (a JavaScript package manager). Koçulu deleted all his packages after a dispute with Kik Messenger, in which the company forcibly took control of the package name kik. As a result, thousands of software projects that used left-pad as a dependency, including the Babel transcompiler and the React web framework, were unable to be built or installed. This caused widespread disruption, as technology corporations small and large, including Facebook, PayPal, Netflix, and Spotify, used left-pad in their software products.

Happy ten year anniversary to the npm left-pad incident to those who celebrate 🥂

"i'm on the struggle bus today" bro i am driving the struggle bus. and if it goes slower than 55 mph it's going to explode

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."

I like how Aragorn has different names for himself in different places in Middle Earth because he bounces checks or something

So thrilled to be back speaking at StirTrek this year, one of my all-time favorite conferences! Plus...it sounds like I'm gonna get to watch The Matrix on the big screen?? 👀 Talk about win / win. Hope to see y'all there!

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

My friend @edcharbeneau.bsky.social is starting up a discord group for folks in devrel / dev advocacy – it's a small but good group so far. Nice space to chat about what you're working on, find collab opportunities, or just yap about how wild it is to work in tech right now 😂

discord.gg/YWrJR2BF7

I am going to create a source of truth that is so single

every project manager

Image of three books with text '17 Million Fanworks on AO3'

#AO3 now has over 17 million fanworks on the site! Come celebrate with us at otw-news.org/2p9bk5jk

Request for developer feedback: focusgroup  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Try out focusgroup and comment on the proposal.

Exciting! Request for developer feedback: focusgroup HTML attribute "a proposed declarative way to add keyboard arrow-key navigation to composite widgets such as toolbars, tablists, menus, listboxes, etc. Replaces hundreds of lines of JavaScript boilerplate." developer.chrome.com/blog/focusgr...

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

Garak has never had such a laughably easy time collecting confidential Starfleet data.

hey, i'm plenty capable of those as well

Baby Kathryn, being held by her father, with her hands on the keyboard of an early-90s-era PC. She is looking up at the monitor, but alas, she cannot yet read. The photo is slightly yellow with age.

This is who you're asking to build your UI component library.

The butter is crucial to this; glad you appended the description

One of my watercolour studies of irises

One of my watercolour studies of irises
#watercolour #watercolor #iris #botanicalart

Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God

I will forever mourn the loss of Doc Chey's in Asheville 🍜

occasionally people say they don't bother with alt text because it's "just a quick photo", or it's a low-effort meme etc. my perspective on writing alt text for your shitty images, is that your images suck and are painful, and blind people deserve to experience that pain for themselves

While I've got a lot of personal hesitation around this approach to software engineering, I still really appreciate those who are trying it out and documenting what they find. This is one of the most practical and straightforward writeups I've seen re: what the future of development could look like.

The latest Working Draft of WCAG 3 is out today! w3.org/TR/wcag3/

In this version, we've:
- moved lots of requirements to “Developing” phase,
- wrote down how to test,
- mapped reqs to user needs (using DAF),
- split out 'applies when' and 'except when' to massively increase readability
1/2

Lemon Tea #oilpainting #art

It’s Purim, my favorite holiday. Dress in drag, save your people, and remember that joy is necessary to resistance- is, in fact, resistance. Drown out the name of the oppressor with your booing and then hit the dance floor.

filling your e-reader with library books and then turning on airplane mode so you have a long time to read them: it's free AND legal AND not rude (the ebooks still become available to others at the end of the loan period)

Why learn to code when you can use an LLM and pay a subscription fee for the rest of your life.