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I added some validation and link checking to this docs folder about a week ago. It's already pointed out something broken on three different pull requests. #DocOps turns out is a good investment, even though I was sure I knew what I was doing and these tools would help "other people" 😆

v8 is planning to add support for captureless lookbehinds to their regex engine. This would close a huge ReDoS vulnerability! And eventually make its way into Node👀 #v8 #regex #redos #re2 #node #nodejs #javascript https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=14435

my car only goes straight, maybe i need to top up the gender fluid

I am choosing to log off, but if anyone’s still thinking tech.lgbt is a good space, your admin David is currently propping up a conspiracy theory written by the Admin of woem.men about The Bad Space that refers to my instance and others as a cult that blocks a huge amount of trans femmes. Thank you for reigniting a genuinely traumatic time in mine and many other people’s lives. I look forward to the transphobia, erasure, threats upon me and mine, and whatever other bullying your friends have in store. Also, get fucked 👍

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and

Prompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel - how can a prequel about the villain of the series tie in? The prequel tells the (love) story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow, who later becomes president (dictator would be the more appropriate term) of Panem. What an odd book to read, because how can you make a novel about an entitled narcissist, who treats people like possessions, possibly compelling? While his rise to patriotism is sometimes interesting, [...]

I am so fucking sick of “Oops!” And “Oh No!” In error messages. “omg bestie I’m like, sooooooo sorry, there was an error but I’m afraid that’s my little secret ;) try again dickhead” Please just tell me there was an authentication error. So I can Google it. And provide useful information to your exhausted support team.

Go first came onto my radar about 9 years ago when I came across MuMax during my PhD studies. While I’ve touched it briefly, I wouldn’t consider myself to have used it in anger until recently, when I started a job that uses it as one of it’s primary languages for API development. I’ve had experience in writing C and C++ code, but more recently I’ve done a lot of Python, so going back to Go has felt oddly like a throwback to those compiled languages I’ve used before, with a bit of modern sparkle.

Attached: 1 image 🎉 Random indieweb inspiration for the day: My daughter's college Advertising PR class is hand editing HTML+CSS for a project "about me" assignment in VSCode -- and that is so cool -- and it was one of the best "hey dad, guess what we are doing today" text messages of all time #indieweb #prouddad

OK, I got on the styling-my-#RSS-feeds & creating a /feeds page train 🚂 https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/02/21/web-feed-makeover Shouout to @abf@mas.to, @cory@social.lol, @jimniels@mastodon.social & @robb@social.lol for the inspiration. Direct link to my web feeds: https://shellsharks.com/feeds #rss #openweb #indieweb #html #indiewebchat

It may seem silly, but go run is my favorite part about go. Want to run your code? go run main.go. It is so stupidly simple that I could tell my mom about this command, and she would immediately understand. Like with most things in go, the real power in this command is in the effortless understanding of how to build and run everyone’s code. But I can run node main.

Attached: 3 images pre, during, and post groom he went from muppet to ewok 😭

Ah, another day on the Fediverse. What should be sup on today? **spins the wheel** The pointer spins round and around, past “everyone sends you pictures of their pets”, “you live post about this weeks mental breakdown”, “death threats” and “a nice simple conversation with a new mutual” It slows; moving gently past “spam wave”, “blocking is abuse” and “John Mastodon” Inching closer to its destination you hold your breath, it seems like it’s landing on “meta conversations about meta conversations” but you hope it will be “you will spend the day local-only posting to the people on your instance, checking in with them and asking how they’ve been” Alas, the pointer has picked its target. “admins can read your DMs btw”

Attached: 1 image I dunno how new this is but The Guardian seems to have stripped all social media cruft from their byline header stuff and replaced it with a “Copy Link” button. Rather than change the Twitter buttons to Xs they just got rid of the whole farce. Nice to see.

a heist movie but it's about a bunch of transfemmes hypnotizing a billionare so that his new fetish is being a paypig for UBI

@suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish It's like Inception mixed with 50 Shades

puppy when he's in his crate, but I'm in the bathroom: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨😤🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 puppy when he's in his crate, but I'm in the same room: ☺️😴

@jwz@mastodon.social My key memory of it is watching a friend watch in horror as it sent a group text to his furry contact list and non-furry contact list, revealing their numbers to each other. At least it respected the division of contact groups.

I don’t think I appreciated how incredibly loud airplanes are until we had good noise cancelling headphone technology. Soooo loud! (And I don’t mean crying babies, they are allowed to cry, being a baby is hard work)

looking forward to listening to some talks from #techfast #nottingham this morning over breakfast

Attached: 1 image LinkedIn trying to disguise unpaid labour as an amazing opportunity.

Attached: 1 image http://indieweb.org is a terrible influence #indieweb

Also I wish there were laws against using tracker URLs on unsubscribe links. I'm unsubscribing, you can already record that in your stuff, don't make me have to disable my DNS-based ad-blocker just to tell you that I don't want to receive your shitty emails.

Waiting for the Bell Riots when Bell Riots were already happening everywhere else in the world.

Thought: I'd bet a lot of projects would have fewer dependencies if pip was 100x slower. Maybe we should try to do that.

Attached: 1 image A small joy in my life is that I made my browser theme look like my blog. 💗

This was to a @changelog News submitter, but worth sharing publicly: “The post looked interesting, but I hadn't scrolled an inch before I was interrupted by your email newsletter signup overlay. This is a bad reading experience, which we consider when linking to content. A better place for something like this is at the bottom of the post, because it a) lets the reader actually _read_ your post, and b) assures they made it to the end, so might be interested in more of your content.”

I think the ActivityPub based Fediverse is actually not a decentralised distributed network, but is in fact one single person. And that single person enjoys, very specifically, trying to trigger the fight/flight/faun response in me and taking bets with the other protocols on which one I’ll choose next. 🙈

Hard to disagree with @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me's logic here 😉 https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/02/17/listen-changelog/

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

Code is cumulative overhead. The more you write, the more you have to maintain over time. Self-hosted infrastructure is cumulative overhead. The more you configure and run, the more you have to …

Here's a good example of how I like to use issue threads. The issue opens with a description that includes relevant linked code snippets, documents some design decisions and micro-research I performed, includes the commit that fixes the issue, links to the docs and shows some follow-up work before linking to the release that incorporated the changes Goal is to tell the full story of the problem and its solution so I can fully understand it when I revisit much later https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2277

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I’ve never worked somewhere where I felt like we needed chaos engineering. We got more chaos than we could have asked for just from doing regular engineering.

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Hey, have you donated to Mozilla recently? Congratulations, you helped them fund their AI startup with $30 million. 👏 👏 👏 #mozilla #MozillaAI #MozillaVC #AI #VC https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/111943351660201503

so far: - one "fuck you" - one devil's advocate - one "this guy doesn't understand open source" - two "why can't they just" - one confusing my site with jacobin.org - one weird comment about the NSA never change, HN, never change

There was a bit of a brouhaha earlier this week on the Fediverse because someone wanted to build a bridge between the ActivityPub-powered fediverse and the AT protocol-powered one, i.e. BlueSky. …

Note: I deleted >1000 words and decided to post a summary instead. Jacob Kaplan Moss slacked me his article today because he knew I’d like it, and we have both had ongoing conversations for years about open-source Funding. It’s worth reading. I mistakenly submitted the article to the orange website because I assumed someone else already had it. Oops. I support funding open-source projects. We are trillions of dollars away from providing enough Funding for open-source software before I have the patience to set through any debates about the right or wrong way to fund them.

Big work news: Altium has accepted a $5.9bn offer from Renesas https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japan-renesas-buy-software-firm-233644945.html

If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.

Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.

Momentous: Reflecting on the Second Annual State of Open Con Wow, can’t believe it has been a week since the State of Open Con 2024 kicked off! In the end, there were 208 impressive speakers over two days across eight tracks and over 150 sessions and activities. Plus a broad delegate experience space across the […]

I’ve been thinking about Mastodon and the fallout from Bridgy’s plan to connect ActivityPub servers to Bluesky. For a snapshot of how this blew up, see this GitHub issue discussion, now thankfully …

Here's a lovely thing. "By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a *nautical* expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships. "By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind". So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind". I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language. I cherish this fact. Also, I cherish pizza.

You expel the furries? Wherever they go gains a better tech industry. You may not like this, but it's a demonstrable fact.