I'm not sure if folks here realize that #boycotting something like #amazon is a luxury some of us can't afford. I am not pro-Amazon but i'm a disabled person on a fixed income trying to survive and eat each month. My life is improved by being able to afford things i need obviously. I wish it […]

How to tell something was written by an LLM: - Your eyes glaze over immediately - Emojis used as list bullets - You fall asleep by the third paragraph - Doesn't say anything that hasn't already been said a million times before - Heavy use of em dashes - Probably trying to convince you to […]

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year. Of course I have. The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious. Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

Ever struggled to debug an intersection observer's root margin? I know I have! So I wrote a little helper that plonks a big red box over the observer's intersection area: gist.github.com/jacksleight/...

Bonfire Social looks like everything a fediverse platform should be. The values, the features, the plan. Somehow I'm just the 82nd backer of their very modest funding campaign, and that should change. @bonfire https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Fabulous article about a teeeeeny island off Norway, and how they now distill whiskey: https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/community-spirit/

Pluribus, the new Apple show is interesting. Not sure about it yet, but Rhea Seehorn is amazing, as always. #pluribus #appletv

Need help completing easy but boring programming tasks? Would you rather spend more time thinking at a high level and crafting good specifications and documentation? Want an intelligent assistant that can learn and improve over time? Happy to review code and guide development through ongoing […]

The ‘z’ in my name comes from yogh: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh

Kindness is a key leadership skill & among other things it can make the difference between your business hiring the very best or being bottom of the list to apply to. After attending one of our workshops, The Holy Brook accountants had this to say: “One major […] [Original post on kind.social]

A Backwoods CMS Adventure https://jadin.me/a-backwoods-cms-adventure/

Any PHPStan/Larastan experts out there? Currently on level 2 and getting an error about a missing var. I don't really want to add another line to fix nor do I want to ignore this line, is there a better way? Maybe @jclermont knows? #laravel #larastan

Phew, it looks like iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 address many of the most grievous UI issues. This is the one they should have released as the .0. Now, is macOS 26.1 usable now?

Me too! https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

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I’m a 3, but can the value in 4 https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115486003460317884

Hacked on a utility called Tether at the weekend. Clone a package down, run Tether, select the package you wanna link and it'll configure a Composer repository & symlink Vite assets. 🔗 It's pretty scrappy, but hopefully it's useful to someone! github.com/duncanmccle...

Wab Kinew's gov't tabled bill 50 in Manitoba that won't allow any future provincial gov't to use the notwithstanding clause for provincial legislation without going through the courts first. This is what a true leader does for his constituents. Alberta's and Quebec's leadership pale in comparison.

Hey Canadian data nerds! Anyone know of an open data source for flight delay/departure/arrival data for Canadian airports? #bots #airports #canada #data

This is so great! Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/orchestra-prescription-9.6960793

Discovering Wawa Wiwa comics has made my day: https://www.wawawiwacomics.com/ #happiness

> 80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes. that's also where progressive disclosure comes handy https://danieldelaney.net/normal/ #ux

The Mr. Scorsese documentary on Apple TV is amazing. I have new found respect for him and his movies, some of which I haven’t enjoyed, but now I understand. #movies #scorcese

TIL: 30% of calls (Fortis) for smell of gas are a dead mouse!

I'm trying to avoid Amazon, but it's hard when you want to try out something like: https://www.amazon.com/CABOCASA-Ultra-Thin-Concealer-Universal-Appliances/dp/B0D3D3KC7G?th=1 Any suggestions on how to get something like this and not go through Amazon?

Apple kowtows, python stands up. https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115446996011967190

New, long, oral history of Ken Thompson, my and everyone's hero. From the Computer History Museum: https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/ Click thru a while to get a text transcript.

This what the internet was built for. #kindness https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/115443213824238068

#canada #canadians #postmedia #cdnmedia #cdn #cdnpoli Canadian! Please sign the Parliamentary Petition to ban MAGA controlled media in Canada! https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6821

Got mine Friday. Had my usual complete exhaustion yesterday and all good today. https://mspsocial.net/@t54r4n1/115441402143395669

Worth Reading: Rachel Gilmore on the current state of (Canadian) journalism and Media. "In reality, the only thing we can truly strive to avoid is the perception of bias. But when you work endlessly to avoid a perception, you’re entirely vulnerable to the loudest voice that tells you you’ve […]

If you want to understand Musk, give this a listen. Great podcast limited series from the CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor

Software people will laugh while scrolling this. They won’t admit it’s to keep them from crying: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Governments should default to transparency. There’s very little imo that should be kept secret. https://bird.makeup/users/garnettgenuis/statuses/1980320801690906931

I know my wife’s number and my parents’, that’s it. Not even my kids’ numbers. https://hackaday.social/@hackaday/115410613692491655

I don't normally like seeing animals dressed up, but this Halloween costume stood out 🤣🤣

Three features I’d love to see from @ivory: 1) quote posts 2) showing bsky posts inline 3) being able to quickly follow a bsky user if they have a bridged account 4) having search not reset your timeline location

Good morning! I am looking for contract work. If you have 10-15 hours a week of work on a well defined technical project (‘we need to move 6 websites by this date’, ‘we need to hire a team to do an infra migration’, ‘we need to complete an accessibility audit and figure out next steps’, ‘we need […]

I know there are a lot of CSS magicians on the fediverse, is anyone open to freelance work? we're looking for some help with https://wizardzines.com share a link to your site?

This is clever! https://dsi.nextcloud.com

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

@seldaek hi there Jordi, thanks so much for composer, it’s amazing. Is it possible to add to the autoloader in a pre autoload script? I’m trying to dynamically add some classes so they’re in the autoload.php I tried using a class loader and calling the auto generator in my script but those […]

BIG NEWS for the tri cities region of metro Vancouver. After local newspapers shuttered early, key staff have started a non profit news co-operative, Freshet News. https://www.freshetnews.ca/a-new-beginning-for-local-news/

I wish mastodon had a “throttle” feature. https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115379960146577252

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop. You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Neat post on removing "needed" dependencies like Livewire, Inertia, GraphQL, instead doing it all in Laravel. #laravel #livewire #inertia #graphql