Just sitting in the middle of Amsterdam listening to the general soundscape, and I'm reminded that cities aren't noisy, cars ar— actually, at max 30 km/h and mostly electric, the couple of cars here aren't too bad.
#Urbanism
And if any conference organisers are reading this: please let people self-identify as being open to talking to new people!
I don't mind walking up to existing conversations too much, except if I'm potentially intruding into an existing in-group, like colleagues or friends visiting together.
Anyone going to Smashing Conf Amsterdam this week: I'm going too, and I'm going solo, so if anyone's up for meeting new people, hit me up!
#SmashingConf #SmashingConfAMS
I thought I'd learned quite a bit about accessible interfaces over the years, but @darice just demonstrated the many ways in which we're failing people with hearing impairments.
One can only hope that the Gen Z/Millennial dislike of phone calls will help improve things somewhat.
@xeiaso.net Every time I feel like now I've *really* seen all variations of the trolley problem meme, another hilarious version graces my eyes.
I'm contributing code to Firefox, and I can just use Temporal. It's amazing.
Help, I've forgotten how to Git.
JJ is nice though.
#Jujutsu
So this is interesting/ominous. Next.js has added tools aimed specifically at making it easier for LLM coding agents to work with the framework. They state:
> it points toward a future where agents can debug and optimize apps with the same visibility as a developer.
However, it's starting to […]
Today in Naming Things is Hard:
Two new organisations, otherwise unrelated, but both in an area of interest to me. There's the @modal Collective (https://modal.cx and there's the Modal Foundation (https://www.modalfoundation.org
Clearly modal things are à la mode.
This is probably still one of my spiciest engineering takes: https://vincenttunru.com/100-percent-coverage/
Surprisingly, I've had most pushback from people considering this *too lax*. For some reason, people really want to see the "true" coverage numbers, as if those are meaningful.
I still haven't quite internalised that, in English, an X is pronounced like a Z when it's the first letter of a word.
Fun fact: I spent years contributing to Xubuntu before learning how it was pronounced.
Karaoke is a great example of how a lack of privacy influences people's behaviour.
It's way more fun when everyone feels free to make a fool of themselves, but try doing that with a camera trained on you.
I spent the day working at the library, and though I already knew, I'm feeling it even stronger now: what an amazing place. I'm glad they still exist.
Most of the time, I'm actually fairly happy with the state of the frontend ecosystem.
These are not such times.
Guys, guys, hear me about. What if...
Micro$lop.
Too much?
Excerpt from Satya Nadella's blog post, highlighting his only mention of the term "slop", saying: "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication".
Look at this poor man literally *begging* us to stop using the term slop. Keep using it, that'll teach him!
Remember when we consistently spelled it Micro$oft? Not only was that ruthless humiliation incredibly clever, but as we all know, it eventually brought us the year of the Linux Desktop.
Now if we just stick with Microslop a little longer, then I'm sure Satya Nadella will course correct any day now.
I love that you can be a gatekeeping grumpy old man about memes now. What a time to be alive.
I love that Rickrolling is still a thing. They don't make memes like that anymore.
The boiling frog metaphor may or may not be an urban legend, but I'm pretty sure the boiling Vincent metaphor is 100% true. In fact, I'd gradually turn up the water to boiling temperature myself if only my shower would cooperate.
Screenshot of a warning: "Due to the large number of changes in this pull request, only one file is being shown at a time."
Dear GitHub, I understand that this is a challenge, but could you at least show me, like, 5 or 10 files at a time? Just the prospect of pressing "Next file" hundreds of times is daunting already, let alone properly reviewing them.
Has anyone figured out how to run Home Manager on Fedora Silverblue yet? I've been unsuccessful so far and would appreciate some pointers.
#Fedora #Silverblue #HomeManager #Nix #NixOS
AI-generated picture of a taped body outline as seen on crime scenes, except it's on the front of an SUV. It's the size of a small child.
I kinda wish someone printed these as stickers for people to stick onto oversized SUVs as a guerilla campaign.
@fuckcars @citylife #SafeStreets #Urbanism #VisionZero
Screenshot of a dropdown labelled "Accessibility", containing entries to change the font size, reduce animations, switch to dark mode, and increase contrast.
Sure the headings might consist of images with purple-on-purple text with an empty alt attribute, but luckily the AI made sure to make this website accessible by shoving this menu in there.
(Of course, it's not actually marked up as a menu. And the browser's […]
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21st century life skill:
Whenever you feel outraged, ask yourself: "am I just being used as fuel for the engagement machine?"
Everyone keeps arguing about how to pronounce GIF, but you know what? You're all wrong.
Here's how the Dutch pronounce it. (This is not a joke — this is actually how we pronounce it.)
Vandaag stemmen! Voor het overzicht, de kandidaten met IT-expertise:
PVV
39. Jan Valize
GroenLinks-PvdA
32. Barbara Kathmann
D66
19. Sarah El Boujdaini
CDA
26. Hemin Hawezy
VVD
34. Martijn Buijsse
PvdD
20. Cynthia Pallandt
Volt
11. Erik Kemp @erikkemp
Met dank aan https://nerdvote.nl en […]
So far my NixOS adventure is going swimmingly. I mean, sure, my touchpad doesn't work. An yeah, my webcam doesn't work either. Oh, and of course I can't setup the fingerprint reader. And at the moment is doesn't even boot at all.
But it's so nice that it's all reproducible though.
Someone help me I've installed NixOS.