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Attached: 1 image A special message for anybody who was planning to vote Conservative today.

Today was the first time I was allowed to vote in the general election. I'm a bit emotional to be honest.

While I’m ranting: how the fuck and when did “having to learn something new” become a thing generally accepted as a burden? Getting to learn shit *while getting paid for it* is an enormous fucking privilege of working in tech, and if you can’t recognize and appreciate that, please step aside for someone who does.

The British custom of lining candidates up to hear the results in public, so that the loser has to eat shit in front of a crowd, and they all have to take Dark Lord Wheelie Bin or whatever seriously, is good and cool #ukpol

July 4th is just Pride Weekend but for the straights

I didn’t have time to think about appropriate snacks for election night, but I am looking forward to my “Chaos with Ed Miliband” bacon sandwich for breakfast.

im not sure who to vote for, if only there was a candidate i could be absolutely certain had run through a field of wheat

The funniest part of capitalist ideology is that someone managed to convince everyone that "freedom" meant like, the freedom to choose between 63 kinds of shampoo and not the freedom to quit a job you hate without the possibility of becoming homeless. #jobs #usa #capitalism #progressive #freedom #politics #anticapitalism

Happy treason day to all my friends in the United Colonies.

HAPPY BRITISH INDEPENDENCE FROM TORY RULE DAY

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org You're providing a free service. Calm down, enjoy your vacation, spend time on it when you can and want to :) /grateful bridge user

Attached: 1 image Doing his part (somebodies got to make this look good) #DogsAtPollingStations #UKGeneralElection #UKGE #SheridanTheCorgi #Corgi #WelshPembrokeCorgi #PembrokeWelshCorgi #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Dog #DogsOfFediverse

help, I am trying to budget software design, please help me understand why people don't like my software: UI redesigns: one million dollars performance fixes: zero dollars accessibility: zero dollars plus unpaid labour features people don't like: 100 dollars features people do like: 1 dollar

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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God

Explore the architectural decisions we made along the journey of building Elastic Cloud Serverless.

im not pirating the latest tv shows and movies - i am training my AI model on freely available content

Two signs I am aging of the last week: I have my first official gray hair, at 33, in my sideburns just like my Dad (I’m excited) I thought Huak Tuah was the name of a person, had to be told it was a meme and had to go out of my way to find the meme

Siemens has been committed to Open Source development for over a decade. We have published and contributed to numerous projects. In addition to that we…

After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing the use of GitHub Sponsors as a way to express patronage/support and appreciation for

saad - software as a disappointment

babe are you ok you’ve barely touched your dashboard you specifically asked me to spend a week building

Your automated transcription software should retain swearing. Don't enforce American Puritanism, thanks.

A JavaScript library maintainer is under fire after merging a controversial PR to support legacy versions of Node.js.

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Are you a member of the 🕸️💍 IndieWeb Webring? Perhaps one of many who noticed that the "previous" and "next" links were actually going to random active member sites in the ring? I'm pleased to …

@ElleGray@mstdn.social My mom once went to hear Hannah Arendt speak. During the Q&A, some guy started off with the “more of a comment” opener, and Arendt cut in mid-sentence: “People came here tonight to hear me speak, not you,” and immediately moved to the next question.

Building the Patreon for developers https://changelog.fm/591 @changelog@changelog.social

Secure your development environments with minimal cloud workstations powered by Chainguard's Wolfi. Learn how to reduce your attack surface and improve developer productivity. Everything you need to know about securing the software supply chain.

Stick the following in your ~/.gitconfig to make `git branch` sort by most recently committed (thanks to @wingo@mastodon.social for this one!): [branch] sort = -committerdate

Do you have trouble prioritising? Unable to decide what to focus your energies on today, next week, next year? Might I suggest having an inherited degenerative eye condition? Simply arrange your interests into easy categories such as "things that are easier to do with vision"/"things I can do without vision"

Attached: 1 image bottomless trousers you say? the appearance of knickers you say? readily take them off, you say?

OpenTorment is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Torment Nexus. With OpenTorment you can easily torment yourself, enhancing your pain and suffering without compromising your privacy.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al That's not what I said at all, Aral.

I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral@mastodon.ar.al's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it. I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.

It’s more than rails!

SQL Database Explorer [SQLite, libSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, DuckDB] - frectonz/sql-studio

SQLite Studio is a single-file binary, single-command SQLite database explorer.

Attached: 1 image Anyone else spend way too much time thinking about the grammar of linking to things? In this fragment I'm not at all confident about the "backs up that data" link, maybe I should have included "as JSON" in that link... Anyone seen a comprehensive style guide that addresses this? Extract from https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/21/search-based-rag/#ingredients-for-rag