xml is kiki json is bouba

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 4mo ago

Everyone knows the real reason why json won over xml is because the latter was too pointy and the former has much better affordances because it's curvier

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

i'm a millennial i was there when cybersecurity was created i should not be forced to take the company's cybersecurity training every 6 months 😒

It feels weird to see a former project I poured years of work in, go full AI slop. A bit sad, and it does not bring confidence in the production runs going forward

So the plan was to do a re-run of Venezuela. Keep the dictatorship, but with a more «US-friendly» leadership.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Une minute de silence pour toutes les victimes civiles en Iran ? Ou alors l'assemblée nationale ne rend hommage qu'aux nazillons ?

Great news for PHP devs who want to use biscuit! biscuit-php v0.3.0 has been released, with an improved API, musl builds, and better performance for builders github.com/ptondereau/b... Huge work from @rooferz.bsky.social

Release v0.3.0 · ptondereau/biscuit-php

Pre-built Binaries This release includes pre-built binaries for Linux x86_64 (glibc and musl) across multiple PHP versions, with both Thread-Safe (TS) and Non-Thread-Safe (NTS) variants. Available ...

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This is the best and only way to think

Hana Dus�kov� 🏳️‍🌈@hanicka.net · 7mo ago

Few days back I mentioned to a friend I have always struggled with commas in sentences. Friend mentioned to use parenthesis. So I have tried to show how deeply it usually goes, and wrote a bit of JS + CSS to help people to read it. hanickadot.github.io/think-like-m... #adhd

3/5 ➡️ Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting for? with Laurent Doguin & Geoffroy Couprie bit.ly/4mNLpW6 @ldoguin.name @geoffroycouprie.com #WebAssembly

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Laurent Doguin and Geoffroy Couprie discuss their pioneering work with Wasm on the infrastructure side. They walk us through the benefits and challenges of building a platform over WebAssembly and why...

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I love my city and my neighbors. I really do. Now more than ever

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 7mo ago

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Fun fact : Par sa décision, le @conseil-etat.fr n'a pas seulement validé la liberté d'utiliser l'écriture inclusive. Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu : Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale. (🤭)

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 7mo ago

L’Académie française s’oppose au Conseil d’Etat sur l’écriture inclusive

One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.

The Onion@theonion.com · 7mo ago

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

This is what happens when you try to skip to an endgame factory in factorio

Les Halles is our Moria.

tina tittyfag@antinoe.prettyfem.me · 8mo ago

you, a worldly new yorker, a londoner maybe or any other city with underground trains: "the french are so dramatic, chatelet les halles can't be that bad." chatelet les halles, the largest underground station in the world:

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

Maybe we should introduce "seniority without accountability", that would fit very well with modern software development practice

Geoffroy Couprie@geoffroycouprie.com · 11mo ago

"Accountability without authority" would definitely be in it

I have been saying for quite a while now that, any time somebody tells you that their thing is "end-to-end encrypted" you must smile and nod and go, "oh that's cool, very nice" before fixing them with a steel glare and asking, "between which two ends?"

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9mo ago

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

In this forsaken period of performance reviews, remember the one joy you can get out of it: endorsing your friends for the things they are good at but will never admit, potentially putting them on the career path they would not dare to try

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Sometimes I feel we got a little bit too comfortable with blameless postmortems. We should introduce the accountability premortem. If something can fail and it was predictable, somebody should put their neck on the line, either to prevent it or to deal with the consequences if they arise

A related thing I’ve seen is decent software folks saying “at least what I do isn’t critical” as a way to distance themselves from the perceived responsibility/stress/burden of the things we work on, knowing the tradeoffs we make. We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 9mo ago

all I see are "they're not engineers" "that's not what engineering is" I want a thick good really real piece to sink my teeth in about all the parts of this that ARE "like engineering"

People forgot what happened to Enron and the Big 5. It's not exactly the same kind of creative accouting, but there's the general feeling of "I'll build this big thing, benefit from it, it won't bring down my books and somebody else will hold the bag"

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" ** ** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.) 🎁 www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

Whitney Merrill@wbm312.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

Every day on here you learn another way the US is bonkers but especially today. Still, very probably a reasonable rule

sirosenbaum.bsky.social@sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ok, so: I was raised in Boston and my first beat was in Rhode Island so I KNEW: the rule you learned growing up as a kid, and then as a reporter, was this: NEVER FUCK A KENNEDY. NEVER GET INTO A MOVING CONVEYANCE WITH A KENNEDY. NOT A BOAT. NOT A PLANE. NOT A CAR.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

i somewhat rudely wrote a mini-thread about public speaking in the replies i’ve gone from literally hyperventilating in a small room to confidently getting 800+ people to laugh while i tell them “you’re doing it wrong” imo it’s worth a read

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

so the way i think about it is, it’s not about me. it’s about them. the audience is on your side, they want to enjoy your talk. they will forgive a lot if you are clearly working on giving them a good experience making it all about you is the mistake (did i do x perfectly etc etc)