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I wish more front end devs put effort into making their stuff keyboard accessible. Especially on phones.

Devs: Set some time aside this week and see if you can use your app without a mouse or touchscreen.

That time of the year that my matrix server gets borked and I need to figure out what's wrong with it

If computers were good you could use media control keys on tiktok style video apps to go forward/back. Or at least something keyboard accessible that didn't need to simulate a swipe gesture.

Excited for medication to be artificial organs you implant in yourself that help regulate whatever thing is wrong. Grown from your own cells ofc.

I say "future programming" but it is very much reality already. Something like 500 bucks a month to tinker with the torment nexus. finalspark.com/

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Future programming will be about simulating reality for a mini human brain to convince it to hallucinate how you want. Arranged in an array so the non conformists get automatically flushed and replaced.

Excited for trained brain organoids to replace digital neural nets. Videogames will be like that minecraft hallucination thing but with meat. A win for nerds cause of cool cartridges you feed candy to for power. Win to capitalism because they'll all eventually die and need to be replaced.

Thankful for every day that I get to sleep in until my body is satisfied and wakes up on its own.

The rain brings a moderate overtone of "wet dog" to the smells of my building.

lmao lichess gives you a full tutorial for various ad blocking options on the modern web

lichess.org/ads

TIL that bird.makeup also has Instagram and Hacker News support! I really want the insta bridge so I can ditch the insta algo and have my usual cross app lists like I do with Matrix chats.

patreon.com/birddotmakeup

"LLMs allow dead (or non-verbal) people to speak" - spiritualism/channelling

"what happens when the AI turns us all into paperclips?" - end times prophecy

"AI will be able to magically predict everything" - astrology/tarot cards

"...what if you're wrong? The AI will punish you for lacking faith in Bayesian stats" - Pascal's wager

"It'll fix climate change!" - stewardship theology

Turns out studying religion comes in handy for understanding supposedly 'rationalist' ideas about AI.

Thankful for the posters on normal.style keeping my feed unhinged 💞

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.

Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads

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