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@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 When a font is rebuilt/replaced/updated, the cache wasn't also rebuilt, leading to a glyph table that no longer represents the actual font being rendered.

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@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 When a font is rebuilt/replaced/updated, the cache wasn't also rebuilt, leading to a glyph table that no longer represents the actual font being rendered.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.
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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.
In this episode we discuss: Repairing a Steam Deck Taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist Creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s …
The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today. This
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@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
This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 1...
Today we're joined by guest co-host, Adelina Simion! Adelina works at Form3, co-organizer of Women Who Go, London and London Gophers, and is the author of Test-Driven Development in Go.🛡️ Security updates coming August 1:Go 1.20.7 & 1.19.12golang.org/x/image/tiffgolang.org/x/net and...
I went to see Barbie; it was superb! https://byjp.me/posts/reviews/movies/barbie/
Where is open source now and where is it going? The oversaturation of cryptocurrency scams and the community shift in the web3 movement. The data required for machine learning and the balance of rights of use. What do we make of the various states of open source and what comes next? Welcome to the first episode of Upstream podcast! In this week’s episode, Luis Villa chats with Molly White of Web3 is Going Just Great and Stefano Maffuli of the Open Source Initiative about the future of open source and beyond.Links:https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://deepdive.opensource.org/ https://opensource.org/ https://ethicalsource.dev/For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.
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Go 1.21 has some awesome new functionality that improves the developer experience and performance.
Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "working actor" and what we can do as consumers of media to support the strike. What does it mean to be a scab? Will AI help or hinder a creative's ability to make living?
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
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GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.
IKR, I'm not sure if it's that my blog itself is deemed as sus, or just that I tried to share 3 links in a single comment 😅
Love that my Meetup account has been (hopefully temporarily?) disabled because - get this - me trying to share my slides with attendees at a Meetup I spoke to has been "classed as spam"
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"every cupboard should be a dishwasher" is an amazingly visionary statement
So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by...
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Thanks everyone who came to my talk at DevOps Notts tonight.
The resources I linked at the end of the talk are:
Attached: 4 images @TechnicallyRon@Twitter.com: "I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler." That last one has to be a guy who doesn't understand why he is so attracted to the Kens. #Feminist #PinkAcidTrip #Gay #AlienatingDangerousAndPerverse https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1683058689224179712
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Listen now (85 min) | Brought to you by Microsoft Clarity—See how people actually use your product | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Eco—Your most rewarding app — Gustav Söderström is the Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Spotify. He is responsible for Spotify’s global product and technology strategy, overseeing the product, design, data, and engineering teams. Prior to Spotify, he founded 13th Lab, a startup that was later acquired by Facebook’s Oculus. He also served as the Director of Product and Business Development for Yahoo Mobile and founded Kenet Works, a company focused on community software for mobile phones, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2006. In today’s episode, we discuss: