Is there anyone who uses a mouse with a scrollwheel, who scrolls using their middle finger? I always think this must be more comfortable, because it lets my hand remain in the normal mousing position. But I have always scrolled with my index finger.

Very strange the Discord doesn't have a way to DM yourself? I use this all the time in Slack to write drafts of messages before I send them, so no one in any real channel will the see the "someone is typing..." notification as I inevitably over-edit my message.

Shit flows downhill. When you're an executive, your outputs become someone else's problem. When you're doing the implementation, the gap in every half-assed idea and slipshod assumption becomes visible & it's your responsibility to fix it.

After deciding it was going to be too difficult to implement conjunct forms with pre-base diacritics in my #conlang font (confont?), I have decided to simply generate ligatures for all possible conjunct+vowel syllables. What could go wrong 🤓

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

It is flatly insane that the American economy rests upon the shared delusion that people are reading and agreeing to obvious contracts of adhesion!!!!

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Fontlab is a much better software than Frontforge.

Is there going to be a new Apple TV 4K this year? The current hardware is getting old, I would hate to buy one and have a refresh come out a few months later

Of course it’s the day I decide to try setting up cross-platform CI for a gem of mine that the GHA macOS runners’ hashFiles function is broken 🤦

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

Family Portrait. @danieljcox.bsky.social

Not a fan of this new ghost butterfly icon for Bluesky on iOS

Up for #SFRuby Conf! ♦️Who will I see there?

I’m enjoying imagining that the crow refused to sign a waiver

Can I use @tailscale.com to connect to self-hosted GH runners, say in my homelab? 🤔

Modern art

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

never doubt the ability of the halfwit C-suite class to make stupid decisions that screw the rest of us over, but: this is an excellent point that i haven't really seen made elsewhere. decentralizing technologies are always a threat to existing power structures, and AI is a decentralizing technology

Sonic the Hedgehog

there are two types. of git authors. it would seem

Finally figured out what was making my VS Code crash whenever I used the integrated terminal. Turns out it was the sticky scroll setting. No clue why. More enshittification I guess.

I have not read the original books so I know nothing other than what’s in the movies. But this has always been my head cannon.

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

🪩⚠️ Alert: @sfruby.com is in 10 days ! ! ! What's inside: 💎 two dozen new and hot Ruby startups like @bolt.new 💎 authors of RubyLLM, Herb, Active Agent, Inertia Rails, ZJIT, and more 💎engineers scaling Ruby and Rails at Chime, Cisco, Intercom, Shopify 💎afterparty by GitButler 🪩 (see part 2)

O..m...g WHY WONT TRUMP ADMIN BE UNINSTALLED.. WHYYYYY

It started when I interviewed 20 Ruby startup founders last year. Gave a keynote (!) at RailsConf. Launched SF Ruby meetup. Now it's coming together: the missing open source (AI, frontend), Ruby startups, Ruby devs. Learning from each other. Building the future. Together. In Ruby. At @sfruby.com

Is destructuring a #React component to get at the props it was passed, to use those values to drive some logic external to the component, frowned upon? Kosher? Feels like that must go against some principle somewhere

LEGO Enterpise-D only means a Voayger model is only a matter of time. Very hyped for when that drops. A SNW-era Enterpise would also be 🔥

The reason the technology does well on tests but fails in the real world is that the tests are bad. This is why useless managers whose only skill is taking credit for others' work in interviews love AI so much: it's relatable!

I once had a Blizzard coworker (an engineer, not a lead or director) ask during a random conversation why I should get “extra vacation time“ just because I had a baby and to my credit I did not create an HR incident.

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

You’re thiiis close babes 🤏

Never say this account isn't educational

I’m still the only person I know who can hear the difference between “RE-act” and “re-ACT”, when naming the JS framework.

Not sure when it happened (not recently but certainly within the past few years?) but I have successfully retrained my brain to reflexively produce y’all for the plural 2nd person pronoun. 💪

Didn’t someone at some point reveal how O’Reilly chooses the animals for its covers? I want an exposé on all the drama and intrigue

I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it. All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.

What kind of list is unordered? I *know* you thought about the order — don’t even lie. ol { list-style-type: disc; } It’s okay. Embrace truth. Live mas.

NEW: For the second time in less than two weeks, a major cloud outage has impacted the internet, revealing once again the dangers of relying on a few companies to provide the internet's infrastructure. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/the-mi...

What a difference four months makes. Imagine selling your house, moving for work and then being laid off anyway.

This is the true marker of AI content

Maybe this time maintainer-senpai will notice me uwu

People like to say feedback is a gift and so like to remind them that the Trojan Horse was also a gift.

Friendly reminder: If the engineers at your company don't have access to the right keys / logs / observation tools, you can't blame them when the app is slow or down, when it takes a long time to get back to normal operation.