Everyone: in the future, we could imagine every news outlet running their own fediverse instance, what a wonderful future that would be! BBC: *becomes the first major news outlet to launch an official fedi instance* Everyone, ten seconds later: we are fediblocking the BBC for being too right wing.

Great that the BBC is trying out Mastodon. I really hope it works out for them and they stick around, with extra accounts, after their 6 month trial. But still in their replies people are trying to explain how to mastodon to them. What is it with this place that people feel the need to explain what they’re doing wrong all the time? Just be cool.

Aliens arrive: we have killed your leaders and taken control of your planet. Us: oh thank god Aliens: you are now citizens of ... Wait what

Attached: 1 image i get it now, it's a chart

@Drunkonhugs@eldritch.cafe It was a bug in Java's font code. When a font is rebuilt/replaced/updated, the cache wasn't also rebuilt, leading to a glyph table that no longer represents the actual font being rendered.

Attached: 1 image Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81

Started reading a webpage with an article about the relentless ongoing enshittification. Before I'd scrolled down more than a page or two I saw the lines of text progressively start to fade out and thought "on *this* article? surely not?" But yeah, it faded to nothing and the fucking "Subscribe to read more" box scrolled on. Fox ache. 🐂

Making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs that is impact all stages of our physical and digital worlds.

A eulogy to my life as shared via my main Twitter account, before X: 2007-2023.

Improving the feedback time of a continuous integration (CI) system and optimizing the test methods and classes resulted in more effective feedback for development teams. CI systems are an important part of the development process and should be treated as such.

A brief look at the proposed enhancements to the Go standard library HTTP request router, net/http.ServeMux: matching on HTTP method, and supporting wildcards in matched paths.

@BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com simple mounting rails...

tech people are so boring they keep going "i want to buy a rack!" and then you can't even tie anyone to the thing. fuck off

Hot singles in your area because climate change

I went to see Barbie; it was superb! https://byjp.me/posts/reviews/movies/barbie/

I went to see Barbie; it was superb!

Go 1.21 has some awesome new functionality that improves the developer experience and performance.

Attached: 1 image super sorry to the guy with the username @reset on GitHub, whom we keep accidentally sending email to when we talk about setting registers to zero https://github.com/cucapra/calyx/issues/1640#issuecomment-1652270808

GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.