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eBay offered me £10 off my order if I used their app instead of the website.
So I downloaded it, claimed my discount, made my order, then immediately uninstalled the app.
I'm sure this quarter's KPIs are going to look *great!*
The new #github based on #react is an abject failure to improve the user experience. On every count it is objectively worse than previous iterations.
Page load time is poor, interactivity is gated seemingly on very large JS loads. Initial page layout is broken on mobile and randomly resizes the width of the viewport after loading. The number of micro-annoyances seem to be adding up daily.
This is like an object lesson in what not to do to your successful webapp.
Feeling overwhelmed and like some things are just meaningless, but I got a short little walk in for my stupid mental health. The sun felt good at least.
Disney are churning out content based on their IP, yet no more “Well known stories acted by muppets and a single human.” I think we all agree this is the best genre of movie.
Who running Mastodon dot social could possibly imagine that having unrestricted sign-ups and far too few volunteer or paid admins could possibly lead to waves of spam?
This whole "internet" thing certainly does not contain any precedents for this sort of behavior or problems of scale.
Gotta re-learn everything, every time.
I had a thing yesterday where a mutual made a joke that was likely supposed to be lewd. Someone replied with a follow up joke. I had another joke to that reply and I was typing it up and then I was like
“wait, just because this person is telling a sexual joke does not actually mean they want one in response. Being mutuals does not mean I have carte blanche. Don’t be a weirdo”
Thought it might be useful to read. Just because someone does something doesn’t mean you can also do it. And being mutuals doesn’t mean there aren’t boundaries.
And at the end of the day, is the joke you’re thinking of saying even that funny? Probably not.
The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone. I practice this in small ways by recapping people’s explanations of how something works in meetings and document reviews.
there’s something really weird in tech about the number of people who will in complete sincerely say, the answer came to me in a dream or in the shower, when they should also visibly be getting more sleep and showering more often
Trump: I will 100-fucking percent be a dictator.
GOP: Trump is not a dictator 🙄
Trump: No seriously I'm already planning on killing my enemies and I will kill you too.
New York Times: Can Trump really be as nice and friendly as he seems.
Okay I said I wasn’t bothered at all by the outcome but, I am starting to feel quite I don’t know, strange?
My weak ability to notice my own emotions due to autism is complicating my ability to know how I feel about that
lol
Been thinking about autism a lot lately, and how my autism explains so much about my life and my relationships in retrospect. It's like I kept looking at things as this chaotic explosions of interactions and suddenly shifted my perspective and everything lines up in a way that makes sense.
who has two thumbs
a fat arse
“limited social interaction”
“overly formal speech”
“professional success”
“social unsuccess”
“lack of reciprocity”
“poor theory of mind”
“a solution focus”
and
“difficulty expressing and understanding his own needs”
Me, the officially diagnosed Autistic fucker
Extra special ❤️ to my fellow high functioners.
There’s nothing easy about grinding to a halt, but there’s also a special kind of hell for people who continue to function and seem normal.
It feels like drowning in plain sight.
And on that note, the phrase “it’s OK not to be OK” can pop itself right in the sea as far as I’m concerned.
Tolerance of poor mental health is bare minimum.
Being not OK isn’t OK. People don’t need “permission” to be in that place, they need to be helped out of it.
TW: Suicide
2 nights ago I was in the worst place I’ve been mentally for years. I didn’t want to be alive anymore and I didn’t plan to act on it but I know it’s a short step from there.
I sent a mayday text to 3 of my closest people and within 20 mins had someone with me.
After a big chat, and 2 days of proper sleep, eating well, seeing friends and healthy distraction, I’m feeling much calmer and I can see the woods from the trees. Cont…
Jamie Tanna
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