Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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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.
Joined Apr 2022
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Its not just some purity thing. It's much more about reducing cognitive load everywhere I can on the web. When I see underlined text (ideally some shade of blue) I know I can click that to show a different thing. All the behavior is something expected.
This goes for buttons & forms. Being clever and doing things differently than every other website just makes people have to think about what they're interacting with, even if only for a split second. That's not innovation, it's unnecessary friction.
Great article spelling out the disadvantages to heavy React based websites. https://infrequently.org/2025/06/conferences-clarity-and-smokescreens/
It's amazing how many ways English lets you politely express "Go fuck yourself".
Low key wanna make a streaming parser thingie in Rust where the gimmick is that I take slices for the tokens instead of allocating strings ir w/e. Nothing to use it for in the short term sadly 🤷
*stochastically descends your gradient*
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Anyone know of tools kind of like #languageServerProtocol but instead of keeping the AST in memory they do streaming parse / search on the fly? I'm not a huge fan of masssive memory use and it feels like we're leaving performance on the table by parsing entire files/folders instead of just enough to get to what you want.
Maybe instead of an AI I should just run all these MCP tools myself since they seem to clean up a lot of interfaces for you. 🤪
Kinda neat that we're in the "people getting cyberpsychosis from AI" part of the cyberpunk dystopia novel.
There's still a lot of things we can improve but I'm thankful to get to be Canadian.
Maybe once I get my glasses prescription updated and get some higher priority expenses sorted out :P
I don't need a new screen I don't need a new screen I don't need a new screen. Unless... 😈
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@alcinnz it's the lede that resonates with me: we're not developing for readers and viewers, we're developing for developers who don't want to touch actual HTML and CSS, who don't even want to touch JavaScript. They want to stay in their TypeScript fortress where normal people are not allowed.
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#TIL that the “global geodesy supply chain” (required for precise satellite positioning that eliminates the Earth's own motion from the reference frame) depends on radio telescope measurements of black holes at the hearts of distant galaxies -- and these measurements are being disrupted by terrestrial interference sources like cellular phones and WiFi. Ironically, these interference sources rely on the accurate functioning of the very satellites they are interfering with.
(The LIGO detector was built in the middle of nowhere in the swamps of Louisiana to avoid this problem.)
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So go find an artist you like, a smaller one, on Bandcamp and drop the same $15 you send to Spotify every month in their pocket. For truly small artists, a single sale can literally make their day!
NO ONE is going to notice or care that you spent $15 on Spotify, but the same $$$ spent say BC can be life changing to a struggling artist.
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*shaking* i love servers i love standing up servers and asking them how they're doing and typing `uptime` and saying good job
Grimey wubs to stim my brain into writing code.
https://soundcloud.com/sisto_official/conjuring-of-the-thorn-vol-1
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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.
Joined Apr 2022
