I wish RSS/Atom had opt-in CSS. I appreciate that I can effectively download a website and read it whenever I want, but so many websites I read are quite pretty. I’d love it if they showed up just as pretty in my feed reader, with the option to toggle it per feed.
Quoting this because it came across my timeline again and I can’t boost it twice.
XOXO Zone
Sasha (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ (@microwavenby@xoxo.zone)
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social We're not "used gum people on the underside of a pub table" We're the compensatory mechanics to failures in planning, c...
I’ve just discovered that Microsoft have a .NET library to build web applications called “Blazor” (
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Blazor | Build client web apps with C# | .NET
Blazor is a feature of ASP.NET for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. It's real .NET running in the browser on WebAssembly.
). And all I can think when I read it is this: If Microsoft and Amazon have taught us anything, it’s that the “two hard problems” is a conspiracy designed to get programmers to spend all their time stressing out about naming things, when clearly, it’s completely irrelevant.
I’m visiting my corporate office in a couple of weeks, and I have 30 people signed up for a TDD workshop I’m running then. I guess I should start writing this workshop…
The plural of goosebump is geesebump.
As usual, the answer to “why is country X in the Middle East fucked?” is “because Britain made it so”.
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Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Em...
Two things that @npub1eyn6...w409 made me realise with this latest dispatch: 1. Saying an LLM can replace a human is nonsense for many reasons, but one is that LLMs are generic, whereas a human is specific. They’re bad at chess, and so is the average human, but you don’t hire the average human to do a job, you hire a skilled one
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Stephen Farrugia (@fasterandworse@hci.social)
Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works. Video: https://www.youtube...
European 30-somethings, see also: why your memory of winter is lots of snow, but your memory of last winter is lots of fog and some weirdly hot days.
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David Ho (@davidho@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like...
The dual of inviting someone for dinner is
I’m really glad Mastodon 4.4.0 will allow server admins to opt into sending the Referer header, and I hope admins of large instances will turn it on.
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Release v4.4.0-beta.1 · mastodon/mastodon
WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other...
 I also hope that third-party mobile clients such as Mona, Ivory, Tusky, etc. have a way to query this via the API so they can also respect the setting. Many people believe they get no traffic from Mastodon because their analytics service doesn’t recognise it. This could change, and give us a bit more clout.