I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
The #JavaScript `new Date()` API is whack as heck. I basically failed most of these questions.
Sometimes the news is not enough. So I made "No Time to Discourse"—a speculative atlas of (endless) climate disaster. https://notime.now
Ok serious question, I'm a little spooked because I found out about today's wildfire conditions AFTER I was breathing it. Is there an Android app which will allow me to set a spot in Canada and get like, an Android notification when a wildfire state is entered, an Android notification the night before?
The deal?
Yum! Brands would only by from farms that had signed on to a fair food program with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They'd pay extra for those tomatoes, and the extra $ would be passed through directly to tomato pickers as a raise.
This deal nearly doubled tomato pickers' wages.
And guess how much this big, ground-shaking deal raised the price of tomatoes?
ONE PENNY PER POUND.
That's it.
We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.
They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.
please remember that you can get skin damage from the sun even when it's not hot and even when it's a bit cloudy. we're still close to the the solstice, so in the northern hemisphere remember your sunscreen, put on a hat if you have one, wear sunglasses, seek shade.
sun is responsible for the majority of visible skin aging and with the visible aging comes functional aging too. not to mention the risk of skin cancer.
I had this thought last night - in the near future, every single company will be shipping code with AI, super fast. That code will be the fast food of code.
Then someone will open a startup and their motto will be to deliver handcrafted software. Just three people on the company, a client calls them, they visit in person, spend some time at your business, and they WRITE SOFTWARE BY HAND - a software that only you have and no one else, and was done with your requirements in mind. It took longer but it’s damn fine software.
The same way you would have a personal chef home cook you a special dinner and that is a premium service.
Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.
Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.
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Unexpected that I'm not finding any reviews of the #twiddler 4 online when I search. Has anyone actually used this thing?
Calling it now, learnable graph cellular automata will be the future of "AI coding assistants" :P
Question for #math and #ComputerScience folks: What search terms should I use to find papers related to transitioning graphs to other graphs. Kinda like graph cellular automata but more the basic operations. I want to think about code AST transforms but would like to learn about general purpose graph transforms first. Boosts appreciated.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.