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@nixCraft@mastodon.social having your secretary do email for you is a very privileged way of claiming to not do email.
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Andrew Douglass
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06💰 UI/UX engineer building design systems
🎓 ASU public interest tech grad student
🎵 least musically successful member of my high school band
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social I was ready to migrate anyway because of all their weird AI bullshit, but this is good motivation to make it my next weekend project.
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@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social I’m not fully convinced this isn’t the result of training data containing advances academics haven’t seen. https://xkcd.com/664/
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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com I saw something about always springing forward and never falling back? Could be nice to give everyone a chance at being a “morning” person.
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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com no I mean every spring, continue to go forward another hour.
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@quinn@social.circl.lu this always bothered me because if all you have is a printer, how are you printing anything anyway?
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@zachleat I love that due to backwards compatibility we can’t simply fix the plus sign. Some library out there (probably MooTools) certainly used floating point math errors in a load bearing way that would cause the web to fall apart if changed.
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@tiffanycli@mastodon.social my wife recently spent an extra couple dollars to buy something directly from a clothing store’s website. Then it turned out Amazon handled all of their fulfillment anyway.
The Board of Peace is off to a really great start.
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@stevegrunwell@phpc.social I love Firefox and used it as my daily driver until last year. Their refusal/inability to support some of the lower-level web APIs like real file system access or hardware stuff like webUSB makes me question this argument.
Is my app broken because I want to use the web browser as a cross-OS compatibility layer instead of writing native code? Or is Firefox broken for not supporting features that people can expect on any chromium browser?
RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116564204516901642
I’m certain some PR person actually wrote this tweet, but referring to your own father by his last name is kind of absurd to me
Writing modern frontend code without a bundler or any other build tools beyond a file server is kind of great! Except for the part where I totally forgot about how annoying manual cache busting is.
I have decided that using React to do things the silly way is worth it when the project is in the public interest and I am also getting paid to work on it.
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@thevhswizard@retro.pizza I think the average mastodon user is easy to nerd snipe and good at doing research.