Polonius

“Well it’s about damn time” smokes cigar

Yes, I know it’s not out out yet, but we’re nearly there

Gay panic is still a legal defence in many parts of the world

How would you even know?

^ this

Using AI leads to code churn and code churn is bad for the health of the project.

If you can’t keep the code comprehensible and maintainable then you end up with a worse off product where either everything breaks all the time, or the time it takes to release each new feature becomes exponentially longer, or all of your programmers become burnt out and no one wants to touch the thing.

You just get to the point where you have to stop and start the project all over again, while the whole time people are screaming for the thing that was promised to them back at the start.

It’s exactly the same thing that happens when western managers try to outsource to “cheap” programming labor overseas, it always ends up costing more, taking longer, and ending in disaster

You’re kind of missing the point.

I’m making fun of them by pointing out how they’re wrong

It’s an easily falsifiable statement.

Yes

It’s an incendiary statement designed to foment division.

Yes

Everyone knows there are more than 2 genders.

Actually no, not everyone knows. You’d be surprised how people are ignorant to these matters (by choice, or repressive environment)

Yeah but each of those examples are only trying to disinform in specific areas that fit with their agenda.

Israel with zionist messages, north korea with scamming and hacking for crypto, etc…

Wheres Russia is trying to disinform and sow discord and discontent everywhere in the Western sphere (as opposed to just one or two topics) because any fighting within the West (regardless of what the fight is about) benefits them.

There are only two genders…

Except for: <giant list of genetic, epigenetic, developmental, etc… things that happen with human beings>.

Not to mention all the other things that happen with other living things

Well… Assuming that it’s not using bits of typescript that will be deprecated in TS 6 and removed in TS 7 (the native go implementation)

Bruh, Russia is famous for their bot farms

We got momentary gusts of 135km/h

Only me and one other person I know on the coast didn’t lose power. Phones came back on Saturday afternoon, and internet came back this morning.

Today was the first day I’ve been out since Thursday, there’s a lot of damage.

Trees have had thick branches pulled and twisted off. A house just up the road had it’s roof peeled off. A building down the road the other way had it’s roof pushed down and in. A building the next block over has a shattered window. There’s a whirlybird on the footpath outside and I’m not sure where from. A tree grazed my bedroom window which bent the window frame out, braking branches along the way (but the window survived).

Can’t get into work today due to floods.

At least now I can cross “experience a cyclone” off my bucket list.

Also I learnt where birds go during bad storms. The answer is inside hedge bushes along the ground.

This is why you’re meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you “what”, your comments tell you “why”.

Here’s a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124

When the keyboard becomes both columnar/ortholinear (AKA: keys are in up/down straight lines) and when it also becomes staggered (AKA: each column is ,moved up or down slightly so it matches the length of your fingers), then I am buying a framework so hard.

and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others

Typescript has made the js ecosystem better.

Tailwind is the epitome of someone trying to make one tool that does everything then tries to sell you on buying only that one tool. As the old saying goes: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Sure you can hammer a screw into a wall, but if you used the right tool for the job to begin with, you could also unscrew the screw and replace it later without needing to fill the old hole or make another hole in the wall.

Tailwind exists purely because developers keep trying to learn CSS the wrong way from people who don’t know how to use it, then get frustrated when it doesn’t work out.

The problem is that when you’re starting out, you don’t know the difference between good and bad teachers.

I would advise against using pixels for margin/padding since it’ll have issues for users who have different zoom/text sizes than you do.

Stick to rem for margin and padding.

If you’re still early days with css, it’s worth pointing out that you should use a “css reset” file. It will solve problems for you that you don’t even know exist yet.

I’m more of a Deno person myself, but I like a good chunk of what’s here.

How the fuck has JavaScript lasted three years, let alone 30?

Because it’s easier to constantly improve an existing standard than getting the major players to work together to agree on a new standard.

And also because JS has come a long way. Its runtimes are way faster than they have any right to be, and it’s hacky enough that you can warp it into almost any workflow you want.

The more windows falls down the enshittification spiral, the more likely the EU will get pissed at Microsoft and fund Linux environments where it’s needed.

Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

It doesn’t port over any old comments/posts, but I’m pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it’s forwarded to the new account.

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.

Mastodon already does this

It’s worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn’t currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.

You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you’re able to point your old account to your new account.