For front end #JavaScript devs that have a bit of framework fatigue: Check out this easy to use "data binding" library: http://rivetsjs.com/docs/guide/
No build step, just a plain old object bound to HTML with custom attributes for conditionals and iteration.
Website on mobile: oh, you want to track that order? You'll have to install our app. Tracking information is only available in the app. (Under its breath) you captive audience scum.
Website on mobile in desktop mode: certainly sir! Here's the tracking number and a hyperlink to the post service we used, would you like a coffee while the rest of the page loads?
Whenever a website tells you to install an app for basic functionality, switch your browser to desktop view. Don't accept their lies.
This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing, and I'm so glad that I installed central air two years ago.
But if you are without central air, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:
gonna try to sleep with this "smart ring" for the first time. Should be collecting heart rate and blood oxygen. Huge thanks to @gadgetbridge for being able to pull data out of this tbing without needing a proprietary app.
A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00683-9?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing Big Oil to Pay for Climate Destruction
Survey shows global support for taxing fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damage and help impacted communities.
For anyone that can't come to my talk at #ForwardJS in #Ottawa tonight, check out my slides and run the speaker notes through the shittiest text to speech you can find to get a similar experience.
The big problem, as I see it, is that Mastodon is now opening the pandora's box of making the content licensing situation of the Fediverse explicit, which in a federated environment will be *very* hard to do without crushing someone's toes, somewhere. (Personally, I really *liked* that all this time the licensing situation of Mastodon has been implicit; I was happy just letting laches and deletion notices do all the work. But I understand if Mastodon gGmbH doesn't feel they can do that forever.)
🌱 In May we co-hosted an Indigenous women’s gathering in Brazil, bringing together 90 women from more than five Indigenous nationalities. 🍃 Check out this blog post by Bárbara González Segovia and learn more about this shared space to exchange wisdom for land defense! 👉 bit.ly/43Uh6Xu
BROSLEEP Weighted Suppression Shroud
This ain’t a blanket—it’s a full-body restraint system for when your demons start whispering after lights out. 40 lbs of pure, bro-approved compression. Like being pinned by a wrestler who never judges your nightmares. Sleep hard. Feel nothing.
also really annoying when apps force you to update for no reason other than “this version is old :(“ and then the updated version doesn’t work because they upped the minimum os requirement also for no reason. it was working fine before the time bomb went off
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.