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@richaber.bsky.social I would have gone cussing nuts over this as a kid, even with our 1992 Mac with a BW inkjet printer.

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@dame.is

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@dame.is Wonderful idea… but I’m realizing a lot of people have expectations that run against that (ex: private accounts). Still gathering my thoughts on the subject.

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@ernie.tedium.co All I can think when reading that article is “sheesh, sounds like you were asking to get blocked, guys.”

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@ernie.tedium.co

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@ernie.tedium.co Any particular reason? (i.e. did they do something besides raise their rates?)

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Thinking about how I want to do side projects, optimizing for having fun while building over other considerations. To that end, is there a set of common interfaces for patterns like the PSR interfaces in PHP in other languages like Swift or Rust?

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@oddevan.com Valid question! Yes, yes I did.

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Had possibly my best shot off the tee this morning… 😇 #discGolf

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Really really trying to accept flawed tools that let me do more now instead of deciding to build my own thing to get that last 10% (and then getting burned out on building said thing).

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@ianmcgecko.bsky.social 6 already happened (less crisis more revelation), so I’ll probably go with 7.

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The original inspiration for Smolblog was a decentralized Tumblr free of Verizon’s meddling. Tumblr’s in better hands now (yes, still better hands), but I haven’t given up on the idea. Today’s experiment: rebuilding the theme editor in Svelte, featuring the design from my first Tumblr.

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@ernie.tedium.co Hard same. I’m just having trouble figuring out the limitations of PWAs… bsky.app/profile/odde…

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Believe me, I really, really want to embrace the web app future. But I keep running into things like scheduled actions and SFTP access and just pure “how do I get a normie to install this” that I’m afraid I can’t commit.

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@oddevan.com Seriously, I don’t even subscribe to Apple Music! I just want to listen to files I copied over!

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I don’t know what hurts more: not being able to pull up the music I transferred to my phone because I have to agree to a privacy policy while I’m not driving…

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Or the fact that Apple’s the one doing this.

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@elfsternberg.bsky.social There was a liquor store that opened up within walking distance of us that used AI artwork in the windows.

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It’s gone now. 😇

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@dame.is 👍 Had a feeling we were on the same page there.

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Also, it’s been a long day for me so… yeah.

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@dame.is I’m genuinely not sure what you’re trying to say here. The theory you’re trying to dunk on is about why LLMs are (seemingly) better at coding than other tasks (like actual math).

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And the boilerplate I’m referring to goes back decades; I’m specifically NOT talking about AI code there.

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Looking for feedback: Chat Transcripts in Markdown: oddevan.com

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Trying to parse (lol) the remark docs so I can write a Markdown extension, and, well…

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Extend the syntax of markdown means […] Defeating the purpose of markdown: being simple to author and looking like what it means

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With all due respect, I’m extending the syntax because I want it to be simple to author and look like what it means. I want to differentiate between a handwritten note, a chat transcript, and a normal block quote as quickly as I differentiate between normal text and something emphasized.

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So there. 😜

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@kyefox.com I think I used a PS4 controller and limited myself to the D-pad (no analog stick)

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@richaber.bsky.social It absolutely 1000% should.

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@oddevan.com And rephrase: many of y’all DO make it, you just don’t sell it here. Maybe fix that kthxbai.

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@oddevan.com Link via bsky.app/profile/volt…

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Car manufacturers of America, I am once again asking for an electric vehicle with

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I have a low-mileage VW I am happy to trade in for this car. But none of y’all make it. Maybe now you will?

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Reading over CloudFlare’s EmDash, and my thoughts are:

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  1. You can’t call it a successor—spiritual or otherwise—to WordPress without plugin/theme compatibility.
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  2. What am I even doing with Smolblog?
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  3. …no, seriously, what am I doing… and why am I doing it…?
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@ernie.tedium.co I’m having a hard time with all their intentional comparisons to WP when it’s not even PHP. The migration path is, AFAIK, “get your AI to port your plugin/theme”.

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It’s a great CMS, but if there’s no direct path to migrate plugins/themes, it’s not a “successor” to WP.

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Hey Apple, can you tell me why the 🤬 Launchpad search can’t find stuff in the 🤬 Applications folder anymore?

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(Maybe why you felt the need to integrate it with Spotlight instead of just filtering the list like before?)

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A system-on-a-chip architecture with unified memory doesn’t leave room for a modular system with discrete RAM and GPUs. RIP Mac Pro. (For real this time.)

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@kyefox.com WordPress is actually overly aggressive with this! I remember an issue where we were using enclosure for the post thumbnail, and WP overrode it when there was just an audio file in the post.

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Somehow an infinite loop got past most of my unit tests and didn’t show up until the integration test. So here’s how to run Xdebug on the command line for the next time this happens.

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@dame.is My theory is also that code is a language, though much more precise than most human language. So an LLM’s task of “what would a plausible answer sound like” is more often correct.

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Also there’s so much bleeping boilerplate everywhere.

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@dame.is We’ve used sticker ninja, don’t know off the top of my head if the do what you need

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@ernie.tedium.co Describing it now, it feels very reminiscent of “a state’s right to what, exactly?”

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@ernie.tedium.co Ben’s article really focuses on “private corporations shouldn’t have veto power over elected officials.” In a vacuum it almost makes sense.

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But making that argument now, with these elected officials… it feels off.

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I’m glad Anthropic is sticking to their principles and not giving into pressure from the United States Department of War. I wish they weren’t working with them at all, but I’m glad they are holding to the principles they do have.

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@samreich.bsky.social May I propose: Becca Scott?

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@ianmcgecko.bsky.social I happen to like that one a bit. 😇

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Meanwhile I was afraid the one with Trevor Noah and Charles Leclerc was going to be some stupid AI thing. Never been happier to see Jigglypuff show up.

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(Mine’s Mew)

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If they can retroactively defund PBS they can retroactively defund the “immigration enforcement” that is killing US citizens.

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Towards the end of 2018, Apple threatened to pull the tumblr app from the App Store over the presence of CSAM on the site. Tumblr responded with a radical change in policy that affects it to this day.

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Today, despite similar concerns, the X app has not been pulled.

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Come on, Apple.

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How is Plaid still a thing? No, I’m not entering the password for my bank account anywhere other than my bank’s website, thank you very much!

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YOU 👏 BANNED 👏 MY 👏 ACCOUNT

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I need help. I’ve got two 4K monitors and a boatload of USB peripherals that I want to switch between my 2-4 computers. My current KVM switch is flaking out, and the replacement I bought might be bad. All the known KVM brands are $$$ with features (EDID, hotkeys) I don’t need/want. Recommendations?

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So CVS will text me incessantly about picking up my meds, but they tell me about a recall via physical mail?

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In what I can only describe as divine intervention, the PHP script threw the “out of memory” error from the actual file where the problem was occurring after chasing this bug down for over a week. Just… wow.

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No, I haven’t shipped Smolblog. But I have taken some of the code and codified it as its own framework. Let me introduce you to Cavatappi, a PHP framework very much in progress for making complex applications simpler.

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Ok, be real with me: how bad of an idea is it to get into amateur radio? Or how hard is it to get started?

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