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Since I always vent about other language ecosystems when they suck, I want to also share a counterexample. Today I spent the day doing tooling integration and testing and compatibility work on https://github.com/FiloSottile/age.ts and things mostly just worked, including Node/Bun/esbuild, and ES Modules, and Typescript, and Puppeteer, and GitHub Actions. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age.ts/pull/14

I don’t know why people keep saying things to me

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.