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@rl_dane@polymaths.social @thomasareed@infosec.exchange I assumed they were vector . Surprising!
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mastodon 4.7.3Software Engineer / HATEOAS nerd / Toronto resident! | he/him
Fixing the javascript package ecosystem at vlt.sh.
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@jonmsterling There's a huge difference between the kind of popularity during the height of the 'blogosphere' and today. Lots of things ship RSS but that's (thankfully) because it's enabled by default. It's not even discoverable anymore by browsers by default unless publishers take the time to add a button.
I think what people are lamenting is how front and center self-publishing and consumption of RSS was by a more general audience, not the fact that wordpress ships an Atom feed by default.
I don't know why, but oh-my-zsh asking me if I want to check for updates is the key thing that makes me want to stop using it and figure out my own config.
For my birthday I took a day off to get a haircut, eat a chill brunch and buy clothes at a store. Haven't had time for me in what feels like at least a year. Gotta take more days off
It's wild how completely opposite AI discourse is here to pretty much everywhere in my IRL life. My feelings are complicated but I don't feel I fully belong in either place anymore when the topic comes up.
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it's not a great show but i couldn't stop laughing this is what americans think of an ideal city
Just finished a 15 hour shift taking care of 18 month old kid and partner vomiting all day. Idk how single parents do it. Luckily my work is hella supportive
Yesterday we saw the most _new_ NPM packages being released in the last 12 months, at 2804 packages.
Pretty steady upward trajectory here, unlike we've ever seen. This graph is spiky because it's daily data and weekends are lower.
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@cwebber I pitched this exact thing a few years ago when they were funding fediverse/mastodon adjacent projects but sadly didn't make the cut! Still seems like a fun thing to build
Github actions has to be my least favourite programming language to work in
Accidentally made 20 TB file, and found a `ls` bug!
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@roland@devdilettante.com i always loved being a 'programmer'. I don't know why we went with a more generic 'developer'.
But tbh it's not a very cool profession anymore, so we don't need a cool word like 'coder'.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social i was bullied a lot and they made fun of my last name a lot, if that counts. I like it now because it's rare enough to stand out
I'm back on the market! I'm a Toronto software eng with 20 years of experiene and looking for a role with good technical/management mix.
Remote or hybrid in Toronto. Know anyone who might need someone like me?
Resume: https://evertpot.com/assets/evert-pot-resume-2025-apr.pdf
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@enocc@mastodon.social haha yes and good catch on Nintendo DS . I literally had a DS open to see what the tiled background looked like exactly. I'm glad it came across!
I just blogged: "Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser" https://evertpot.com/burrow-gopher-client/
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Well, search support was added. And png, gif, binary downloads and pdfs.
Maybe I'll add support for some other protocols next like gemini and finger ^_^
Killer opening paragraph on why modern UI is so bad.
https://www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/01/acme/
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@davew@mastodon.social with the right instructions they can do the right thing. Did some big refactoring and swapping out libraries. The chance of success is higher depending on test coverage and good types
@vga256 Love these and the iMacs from that time.
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@ghostwriter@phpc.social also being bothered about how Laravel markets itself is an ancient PHP community. Nice to know some things never change 😅
https://malus.sh/ - Clean Room as a Service
Framework is giving me the same excitement Apple did in the mid 2000's. want to know about every product release
I told myself I wouldn't work for a company again that stylizes its name all lowercase, but here we are again. Making me look like I forgot to capitalize. It's the worst when it's at the start of a sentence.
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@mcc@mastodon.social I saw one at the office last week and I had to stop and think about it . It's so good