Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I love this post-mortem from a former #p2p enthusiast... 🧵

"DHTs were not reliable or performant. We were way too optimistic about device discovery and NAT traversal."

He's absolutely right. If you're using a DHT, you're doing it wrong. It might have been the right primitive in 2003, but not today.

holy shit mozilla has a new issue tracker documenting all of the ways that apple, google, and microsoft purposefully put third party browsers at a disadvantage and is calling for action https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/

You know, I reckon it might help reverse Firefox's declining marketshare at very little effort for Mozilla to implement a feedreader into Firefox, & run an advertising blitz advocating how much calmer this "new" way of reading the web is!

They'd get some eyerolls, & some may find it suspicious how broadly supported it'd be out of the gate...

But since they're rightly concerned about their declining marketshare, this'd be a cheap & hugely beneficial thing to try!

Hey folks! We have a new round of tutorials and example apps out as well as updated `hyper://` docs. Read more on our blog: https://agregore.mauve.moe/blog/2023/12/demos-and-tutorials-second-round

For my hackathon project I did try to make CFA (Cat Factor Authentication, using your cat's microchip as a second factor) a thing 😆 The project did win a prize, but more for the experimentation then the actual result https://wpengine.com/blog/hackathon-december-2023/

#catsofmastodon #mfa #hackathon #wpengine

A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!

One thing that annoys me about the Agile discourse is that no one acknowledges that time estimates are based on the maximum amount of time you think your managers will accept as a timeframe and not how long you think something is actually going to take.

More than ever, we need networking protocols which are resilient, privacy preserving, bandwidth conserving, able to run on low-spec hardware, and not quite as preoccupied with being the global network for everyone ever.

We’re delighted to present Willow, a new family of peer-to-peer protocols that cater to just that niche. https://willowprotocol.org is a guide to those protocols, with full specifications, ~50 hand-drawn diagrams, illustrations, and comics, and much more besides.

Our thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this project!

This is backwards. Indexing in a search engine is implicitly valuable by making it possible to find content and drive traffic.

Feeding ML is parasitic where the result is less traffic to your content.

The only appropriate structure for this is an explicit opt-in.

Are there unions for programmers or software engineers? I googled it just now and only found articles saying "programmers don't unionize because they're satisfied with their working conditions "

so I'm like, what do?

#union #unions #unionize

I'm severely colourblind - my eyes can hardly detect red light at all.
So, working in web development, picking colour schemes is hard.
There are tools around to help you pick accessible colour schemes, but they assume that you can tell by looking that a colour is the one you want, and the only information you need the computer to calculate is the contrast ratio.
I realised I need a tool that will take the name of a colour and find a shade that gives a target contrast ratio.

Here it is: https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/

It uses the new APCA perceptual contrast algorithm and the Oklab colour space to help me find colours that people with better colour vision will interpret correctly, while ensuring there's good contrast for as many people as possible.

#accessibility #a11y #WebDev