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I would like to report critical infrastructure as unavailable and I can't possibly begin my work day
I admire The Verge for being one of the few internationally known US publications that continue to hold their ground
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@can yeah, you will find the same in all of our eID / wallet apps in BE and NL. We're fully independent and yet somehow I can't file my taxes if us-east-1 goes down.
On the subject of developer experience for native apps... TIL GTK ships with a built-in inspector where you can explore and even modify UI state while debugging 😮
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html
A developer event … in June … in Spain ☀️🕶️…. A developer event, in June, in Spain … do you get it? 😂
Ok, it was a day...
Worked on a "mood radio" feature for flowvi.be so it can work without having to process one's entire music library
Turns out, it's not so easy to "rebuild a spotify" but things are coming along nicely ☺️
InjectSerendipity is my favourite reactor step so far 🎶🔥
Now I have a complete picture. It’s Friday!
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Switching registrars AND VPS at the same time ... what could possibly go wrong
Narrator: The wrongness would indeed not "go" but instead last for 5 to 7 business day 🤡
Back in 2018, the movie Anon was "dystopian science fiction" because you had people with always on cameras able to identify anyone, anywhere in real time including their history, what they did, what they said etc.
This was just 8 years ago btw.
Me: Spends absurd amount of time picking colours, paddings, and what not for my apps and websites.
Apple Safari tabs:
In the latest version of Gleam, the javascript target gets source maps ... in Gleam!
Translation: You can put breakpoints and debug the Gleam code that produced the javascript, not the optimised JS the browser is running 😍
This is what we call good DX ☺️
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@maddiefuzz Yes it is https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431 but that's ok, vulnerabilities happen :).
The toot was more about the calm and demure aspect of admin-ing a Debian and using it for development. I've found it tends to pay off to learn a distro and stick with it 🤓. Debian as a desktop/dev environment is also a fantastic option
You've heard me nerd about Gleam lately and in addition to "this language is brilliant and easy to get into", I would like to add my latest experience:
"Gleam is the perfect ecosystem to be making an API or a web app or a static web site for your app".
I mean... even the server components are fun https://hexdocs.pm/lustre
I'm looking for a recommendation for a EU based maker of pins (B2B)
e.g. I'd like to create pins for my apps and I was wondering if there are perhaps indie folks who can do that rather than me sending it to one of the big print shops
Boosts appreciated 🤗
One day I will learn not to test stuff with my main account. That day is not today though, apologies for the extra notifications 😇
Okay, so I'm running out of runway to try and keep-up with Spotify's hostility towards apps
At this point, there is no viable alternative other than importing their absolute shit SDK so I think I'm just going to drop Spotify support all together.
Also, apparently I need to have 250K MAUs to apply for a production API token which is ... lol.
I spent the last couple of days learning about Metal and deep diving into how to make GPUs do fun things. Now I have a working prototype buut to make it cross-platform I need to redo the deepdive with whatver works with Vulkan 😅
Got a cool playlist for chores today 🎶
https://music.apple.com/be/playlist/saturday-chores/pl.u-qa9Bt7q9dA5
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It's a "post truth" but also "post security" kind of world
"Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop"
Process-Based Concurrency: Why BEAM and OTP Keep Being Right
All the devops-ing in the last few days has been to get to this setup. A lot of focus on performance, sorting out some shortcuts I took for v1 of the app but as things are expanding, it's become very needed to be able to deploy new instances in new regions quickly.
Those damn Malons and their exploding freighters << waves hand at Q >>
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@mahryekuh accessible onboarding, quick iteration (e.g. hot reload), non-intrusive tooling, good/actionable diagnostics, reliable ecosystem with clear pathways for support, roadmap insights, community etc.
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@tuomas_h Oh it's fascinating! When you lookup the origin, it suddenly makes a lot more sense :D, hiding below deck from a storm or feeling seasick
https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/under-the-weather
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@junglegeorge Microslop, Appleslop ... it's all slop, slop everywhere (toy story meme)
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@fahrni @mikesax @daniel For most things I have a self-hosted https://forgejo.org which I also use as a docker registry and a package mirror for dependencies (https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/packages/)
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@sense haha, and so much more ;-). You will love it 😊
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@oscherler excellent idea! I just need to figure out the circular funding 😅
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@q_observations OMG you're the first to guess the sound track of this particular shitpost :D ... it's been playing rent free in my mind for a couple of days now lol
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@dedicto@zeroes.ca haha, I love it 😻
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@lawik That's not a small amount - I think a good incentive would be if it's tax deductible
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@EvelineSulman@akademienl.social Haha, good idea! But also this is a 16 paw household 🐾, I will need at least 4 extra chairs to ensure none of them are occupied by a cat 😻
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@Rockdwerg Nothing a box of catisfactions can't fix :D
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@Aaronvegh Instant buy! Thank you @nileane for bringing order to chaos 🤩
The Enshittenment 😂 (now with a new unibody design and custom designed sticky oil colour)
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@n8@mastodon.social Thanks for the tip! Indeed it's a bit of a mix - there are tutorials and KB posts but also a lot of usage docs + examples. I will try it out. I see now that Sphinx can work with more than just markdown which is cool
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@FourT4@mastodonapp.uk the kitty counsel doesn’t accept any sort of protest notice 😸
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@can@haz.pink is it the GUI? All that Flutter just to put a few files on disk 😅
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@petko Nobody knows for sure :D