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> Visionaries at NASA identified a futuristic new energy source (space billionaire egos) and found a way to tap it on a fixed-cost basis.LOLhttps://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm[...
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If you want to build a better web - one where sites are fast, users aren't fucked with, accessibility is included, and there's no creepy tracking, I have just the skill developers need to cultivate to...
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This is not an easy skill - it's 100x harder than using Webpack, but it's so much more effective than transpiling static types, VC-funding a JS runtime, or blogging-about-reactivity-being-tables-stakes...
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In pro-wrestling there is the notion of “kayfaybe”, which is the protection amongst insiders of how wrestling functions. Wrestling isn't fake: it's a work, as in a con or an orchestrated set of actions...
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While viewing all news/TV/media through the lens of "this is manipulation" is somewhat paranoid and cynical, it can lead to enlightenment. It’s at least a reminder that actions are based on intentions,...
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Your app doesn't need a rich text editor. Because your app doesn't need rich text. Because your app doesn't need to do typesetting. I mean, if you are building a blog or an email service, sure. But you...
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So…I just figured out how to get a photo of anyone's front door: Send them something from Amazon.I sent paper copies to some of the reviewers of https://devbox.computer by purchasing them via Amazon....
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Three Good and Three Bad Things About Docker.(This is me trying to be more positive)https://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2024/05/24/three-good-and-three-bad-things-about-docker.html
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Actually, this is a case study in poor executive communication.https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/a-short-case-study-on-how-to-discourage-documentation-prs/85853The person in charge of Rails Foundation...
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Both things can be true: the OP made a good PR to document something and the formatting of it wasn't up to the team's standard.I guess we all need to take Mr HH and The Rails Foundation at their word:*...
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Here is how to respond to the OP, assuming you have a modicum of empathy and actually want community contributions to the docshttps://ruby.social/@davetron5000/112497811209744202
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The thing is, an outside person with executive experience at both leadership and communication should be a boon to any open source project. The maintainers are naturally tired, naturally not good at...
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Sonos App update:Previously, to adjust volume of one speaker was one tap. Now it requires bringing up 4 sheets to find the volume. Unless I’m missing something.
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100% this. Not until I acquired a daily-for-rest-of-my-life medicine did I realize just how absolute shit Apple's med reminder is. Like, no one in the world who built that takes meds on a daily...
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And they say the command line arguments to `tar` are arcane and hard to deal with. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478903
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Pill reminder apps are like todo apps: there seem to be a zillion. As a programmer, it feels easier to build my own than evaluate them. Coming Soon: My Half-Assed Pill Reminder: the app that works for...
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Tried out two from the App Store, the top 2 results for "Pill Reminder”Pill Reminder - All In One - INCREDIBLY complicated flow to add pills and reminders. When you are reminded, there's no way to...
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Looking at Ruby's standard lib for Times and Dates. It's a mess like Java’s, but different.Date is a year/month/day, but will initialize "today" based on ENV[“TZ”] due to use of tzset[1]Time is...
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Cool, another government website that doesn't work in Safari because they made an appointment-booking form an SPA with fancy nonsense instead of just using 1990's tech that worked great then and works...
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Spend money on a domain you say?Done. And done. And done again. Yup, still done. More than that. Done. And I mean done 🤣https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112519334759717045
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