mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Hi, this is Andre. I'll be writing about software architecture and development, cyber security, UX/UI topics, politics, and queer experiences. I'm a classically trained musician and music composer, band director, and music instructor. I'm handfasted, have kids, and play and create (video) games. Sometimes I don't recognize social cues.
I decided to have a quick look at #cssshapes and boy am I excited! Never before have we had such opportunity to make graphic design work well. No more filler images or preshaped images just to create a shape that isn't rectangular. Breadcrumb arrow buttons? #CSS can do it with a polygon or a path, using standard SVG path grammar. I'm holding my breath for #webdesign with curves!
Anyone who uses Google or DoubleClick's ad brokerage to serve ads to viewers and still claims that they don't sell their viewers' data, either doesn't understand how thing work or is just straight up lying to you. And thanks.
I was asked what the challenge is of setting up a microservice architecture. My answer: you aren't a web server developer and thus you don't know how to scale it or how to safeguard it from malice.