📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Autocomplete can be both magic and frustrating (tab to indent a line and cursor fills it with unexpected and useless stuff). Using AI to plan complex task works well, while executing the plan much less. The feedback loop, especially when refactoring CSS, is poor and requires integrating visual diff

Apparently you also need java, preferably a good version, as this is a paradigmatic case of garbage in garbage out

> We often choose the comfort of importing solutions over the discomfort of understanding problems.

I loved this beautifully disarming insight.

Read Loren’s excellent manifesto if you care about the Web

I really appreciate this take, it resonates with over ten years of practicing the same awareness, favoring the least complex tool or language for any goal and going to the next level only when its limits had been reached.

Bought a road bike for my son’s 18th birthday. Hit a great deal on a second hand full carbon Giant kept maniacally well.

My son is chill and shy, you’d almost mistake it for being grumpy, definitely silent about emotions.

I could see sparkles in his eyes. It really made my day.

It’s a mess, for everyone, regardless of digital literacy. It’s confusing and unintuitive and creates anxiety because you must work with it and can’t dismiss it. And don’t get me started on the feature duplication with outlook yet with slightly different behaviors.

Read a very similar report bsky.app/profile/emol...

A path forward (really good read!)

a video game shows a man standing in front of a store called stan 's Alt: Stan from Monkey Island 2 video game, a chatty and useless salesman in a pirate world pictured here in a night setting, cartoonish, outdoor, in front of the eponymous store, waving arms frantically and talking to Guybrush Threepwood, the game main character

A “Stan Card” (adding context)

My previous role as CEO (of my own company) was as much technical as business. I have shifted into an exclusive managerial role that I enjoy, but I still crave for code, despite having very little time to devote to it. Finding balance is difficult, when Frontend is well rooted in your heart

We’re waiting to hug you back in, remove travel hurdles, ease commerce and help EU get stronger.

With great power comes great responsibility

Ofc, but z-index is a scalar value, and infinity is a value you can’t match. So to change it you have to add specificity. At the same specificity level, infinity does not play nice. It solves specific use cases

The infinite specificity of this works against every good practice I’ve learnt and taught about CSS (not that, as always, there aren’t good cases for this)

And younger

So sorry to hear this. Really wish you the best of luck for your next role.

Fictionalizing reality then whining about it is a key characteristic of new fascism

Someone higher up the corporate chain might not know what implications blind requests to dev have. Make sure they understand the consequences and act accordingly. Put your ethics and privacy laws first (in EU, the GDPR umbrella most likely provides you with a reason for your questioning)

The Internet was a good place. I miss it

(I accidentally Yoda spoke)

You did good. Proud parents they are

Turns out he could see the future.

two men are sitting in a car with the words how hot are we on the bottom Alt: GIF from the TV series Friends showing two men sitting in a roadster car (that’s Ross and Joey) while a bald aged man drives by and stop, in the same roadster model, thumbs up, saying “how hot are we”

Don’t know the GIF policy here but I assume Friends always has a pass

A screenshot of BlueSky iOS app cropped to the first three trending topics, that read: X Outage TSLA Stock NASA…

Oh the irony

Be sure to ask nicely

Looks more like 1934 though!

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Il confine del “ma dai non succederà davvero” si sposta nella nostra (quasi) totale indifferenza, nemmeno più incredulità.

Happy Birthday!