We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
While the attack was a disaster, in time, the far greater & more impactful disaster was the simple fact that *Republicans were in charge when it happened*, which took a national tragedy & spun it into decades of national lawlessness, violence, shame, & alienation of allies.
my current beliefs, roughly: - AI for coding can be good - AI for writing is bad - AI for video should be an international crime punished swiftly by angels of vengeance
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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And this simple concept has almost endless use cases. Creating these kinds of onboarding tutorials used to require a bunch of JS logic to get the position right and anything that could affect the pages layout would break it, if you hand't already accounted for it. Anchor position solves all that.
I was about to write a post about why I am not a big fan of the new dialog element, but it sounded so negative so here is a short thread about how awesome anchor positioning is instead. Anchor positioning is is one of the best designed APIs I have seen in a long time.
In the "sequels better than the original" discussion, you gotta put Honey Nut Cheerios right at the top.
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix
Alt: Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix
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Alistair Shepherd@alistairshepherd.uk · 3mo agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Sitting in the dark in a hotel room because the power went out. What a cool way to end the day. 🙃
Actually let out an excited squeal while reading this proposal. This is the good shit y’all.
Raymond "Pumpkins" Camden@raymondcamden.com · 3mo agoThis will probably be my nerdiest message (till the next one), but Promise. allKeyed and allKeyedSettled looks _damn_ useful: github.com/tc39/proposa...
Starting my new gig this week and couldn't think of a better soundtrack than Lord of the Rings. 👑
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Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo agoRIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
The Knicks love is really cleansing the timeline this morning. ❤️
Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!
84 TanStack npm package artifacts were compromised in the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack, adding suspected CI credential-stealing malware. Socket flagged every malicious version within six minutes of publication. Details: socket.dev/blog/tanstac...
Tanstack npm Packages Compromised in Ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud...
Socket detected 84 compromised TanStack npm packages modified with suspected CI credential-stealing malware.
socket.dev
Happy Mothers Day. Every year I soak in Julia Ward Howe’s stirring Mothers Day Proclamation, and dream that “women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of council.” Every word in it aches differently now that I have children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%...
Mother's Day Proclamation - Wikipedia
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closing a layoffs announcement post with “If you're looking for a new career direction, check out our open positions“ is…a choice. the cloudflare choice at least
Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.
Guess it's time to pack it up, folks. My son beat me pretty solidly in Mario Kart. I shall diminish and go into the west.
i regret to inform you that in the year 2026, the solution to your problem is *still* speaking to other humans, listening to their problems, and building processes that address them through painful iteration.
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important