clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am in the waiting room wondering why pagliacci recommended this doctor

Attached: 1 image The W3C going for [brutal honesty here](https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/CR-rdf-canon-20231031/#how-to-read) I see

Some of you don't come from a family where "Is the political situation bad enough for us to flee the country?" is a regular topic of dinner conversation and it shows.

I just saw Stefan Bohacek made a WordPress plugin for Mastodon embeds. As Dave noted, the <iframe> for a Mastodon embed is very big, the resources aren’t cached across instances. With S…

My view on the state of social media in late 2023

Attached: 1 image “It’s shit, but it worked” – as @TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io said himself, this slide doesn’t do the full story justice: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/ This reinforces why progressive enhancement is so very important. #PerfNow #WebDev

New on the blog: https://andy-bell.co.uk/how-im-using-the-fragments-of-social-media-now/ I think I’ve found the perfect balance: not trying to use all platforms the same, but leaning into what I think makes them good.

It&#8217;s been over a year since Elon Musk started the process of dismantling Twitter, which has resulted in lots of fragmentation. It&#8217;s also resulted in new platforms arriving and some even disappearing (cya later T2/Pebble). I think I&#8217;ve found the perfect balance, which I guess is an evolution of the holy trinity. Mastodon For work [&hellip;]

Smaller releases are safer releases

The Threads team is exploring a content publishing API I’ve replied to encourage them to consider adopting #micropub rather than defining their own unique API. They’ve committed to support ActivityPub …

Jamie Tanna Jamie (he/him) has been an Open Source contributor longer than he’s been working, finding an early interest in the differences between various Open Source and Free Software licenses and the ethical and moral obligations we should follow as folks building and consuming software. Jamie’s a strong believer in building Open-first where possible, and … Jamie Tanna Read More »

by the way I literally have trans friends say this in front of me and I thought "well that's not true because I'm not trans" and didn't say anything asddk;hgll;sdhggpiasdhd;iohsadasd

cis people do not think "I wish I could be trans", trans people think "I wish I could be trans", because they are, they just haven't realized it yet (or they're nonbinary, etc)

Best time to buy Halloween stuff, he says, as he looks at the poop bags that are half off in the store

The benefit of Docker is that it makes it easy for folks to run software they don’t fully understand. The downside of Docker is that it makes it easy for folks to run software they don’t fully understand.

Forgetting to Post, a Note posted by Mark Sutherland, a developer and digital creative based in Leicester, UK

Holy heck, a functioning laptop and access to all the resources I need to work, and we aren't even done with the first week. I don't think this employer realizes how much better they are than the average.

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.

Last time I brought this up on a UK-based technical mailing list, an entrepreneur—themself from a historically persecuted ethnic group—told me that, "no one cares". Well, I can't make anyone care but if you are in the position to advise on or choose a domain name you should maybe at least know some of the history behind .IO before buying one. Read this article from @cariad@tech.lgbt https://www.beep.blog/io/

replied to https://me.hawx.me/entry/fe2dcbfc-b1fc-444c-bf20-6b61fe5c4f77

BREAKING: Politicians explain they're wearing a poppy to remember everyone who has died in wars and conflicts, apart from the people of Palestine x

It’s only a little saddening that my most popular post on Mastodon is a screenshot of someone else’s shitpost from Twitter 🫠