Benjamin Esham @bdesham@parcel5.social

Turing test.

This is Silicon Valley.

https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-silicon-valley-3c4583d6e7c2

proposal for compiler warning levels:
· You can do that.
· You can probably do that.
· You shouldn't do that.
· You really, really should not do that.
· I'm not letting you do that.
· You actually can't do that.

me scrolling through my own toots

Checking out the "intrinsicsize" spec and it seems really reasonable. It allows you to specify the intrinsic width/height for an image/video element; no need to wait for it to download and thus potentially cause janky page reflows. https://github.com/ojanvafai/intrinsicsize-attribute

"Why just image and video? These are the only elements in [the HTML spec] that size to an external resource." <-- I always found this weird. An <img> has to download the PNG/JPEG before it can figure out how big it should be!

if non-relational key-value store databases are so good, why don't they have a sequel

My ability to take in audio entertainment declines exponentially with sleep, as illustrated here:

10 hours - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
8 hours - Sapiens audiobook
6 hours - Your Favorite Coffeehouse playlist
< 6 hours - Despacito on repeat

Sometimes low-tech is a cooler solution than high-tech.

This sensor device detects if your package was handled roughly during transport: no electronics, just clever engineering.

Grandma, you really should compile your own operating system from scratch and secure everything against even the most complex attacks and stop using Facebook to talk to your family, you want freedom don't you?

me writing programming tools: we need to make it easier to code! liberate the code! make it accessible to all!

me debugging someone else's code: you should need to train for 10 years before you can even touch a text editor, and we need a central guild body that randomly audits members, and if your code quality is bad enough you are immediately executed

How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post.

Dear charities: I'm happy to make a donation to good causes, but for the love of all that is holy, stop mailing me labels and other stuff that was only marginally useful 30 years ago.

roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you

and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops

it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed

twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you

It's just a series of cute 10-minute animated shorts featuring the tardigrade from Star Trek Disco as he munches his fave kinds of fungus; falls asleep and snoozes contentedly; plays in a field with like otters or something