Kind: Reposts

#TwitteRx
You know you really messed up when Sesame Street is trolling you.

—@YadyO

My workplace has a project titled Angry Kitten, and I chuckle every time I hear someone reference it.

“Who has been working with Angry Kitten?”

“The customer wants to know who’s the [document] feeder for Angry Kitten.”

“Angry Kitten hasn’t been getting enough attention lately.”

“Angry Kitten is going to be growing soon.”

(You can search for the project name to learn who the customer is, if you’re curious.)

—@BeefGriller

99 platforms of social on the web, 99 platforms of social

You take one down, you pass it off as a rebranding but it comes across as a pathetic and desperate attempt to distract from the hemorrhaging of your user base and plummeting ad sales

98 platforms of social on the web

—@MissingThePt

The fact that people are in a(nother) uproar about the emerald mine man about this rebrand and that leads them to NOT Fedi but to BlueSky and Threads confirms that branding/clout really is what most people care about online.

Not identity. Not safety.

Clout and branding.

—@jalcine

I gotta say, when people in the media start saying “so and so said such and such thing on X,” I’m of the age where that means they said it while under the effects of MDMA.

Ironically, people of my age are known collectively as Generation X

—@mattmay

@timnitGebru Janelle Shane @janellecshane had a look at “AI detectors” recently…

“GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time (!!!), compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.”

“a student who uses AI to write or reword their essay is LESS likely to be flagged as a cheater than a student who never used AI at all.”

https://www.aiweirdness.com/dont-use-ai-detectors-for-anything-important/

—@moybius

commit message of the day: “if you like it then you shoulda put a (feature) flag on it”

—@sommer

Elon Musk, a YouTuber, and an Environmentalist are flying home. The engines explode and the plane starts to go down. The YouTuber runs to the back and returns with the parachutes and says “There are only two parachutes. One of us is going to die”. “I’m the smartest man in the world, I must live!” says Musk and grabs a parachute and jumps out. “Only one of us can live now.” says the YouTuber. “We’re fine” says the Environmentalist, “The smartest man in the world just jumped out with my backpack.”

—@grumpygamer

When I was a young designer, I craved the approval of other designers who were impressed with all kinds of bells and whistles, superfluous design elements, and barely legible text.

Now that I’m a design veteran, my greatest satisfaction is seeing a sight-impaired elder being able to navigate and enjoy something I built easily.

That is a hard bar to hit consistently, but that’s elite UI/UX to me.

—@Are0h

Let me tell you the secret of the “Everything App”.

It’s real, it’s not called X, and it’s about 33 years old. It’s called a Web Browser.

Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it’s resilient, and it’s magical.

#x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

—@SirTapTap

Just saw someone advocating progressive movements organize on the Fediverse.

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS.

-Most fediverse tie-ins are not architected to protect you. For instance, Mastodon Direct Messages are not encrypted and admins can access them.

-Most instances are hosted by ordinary people who don’t have the time, knowledge, or resources to fight subpoenas in either criminal or civil actions.

Meet here. Support each other. Cheer each other on. Show solidarity, and elevate and amplify each other.

Organize in much more restricted environments, like end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal.

—@neurovagrant

Next week: DeSantis claims that some Jews benefitted from the Holocaust, arguing that obesity was nonexistent in the concentration camps.

—@lowqualityfacts

The W3C’s WCAG 3.0 update has landed.

https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

—@TetraLogical

I used to think I was too stupid to be a millionaire. In fact, I still believe that to be true. However, billionaire seems pretty attainable given the right circumstances.

—@rephlex00

The BARE jam, a jam all about making blind accessible video games, has started! It’s a week long jam challenging devs to try out new methods of making games blind accessible. Pretty please join! https://itch.io/jam/bare-1 #GameDev #IndieDev #A11y #Blind

—@Ericbomb

Today’s post is a quick shortcut I found to install extra Go versions easily. I don’t need to do it often so, when I do, having a very quick way to do it is helpful. https://chriswiegman.com/2023/07/a-shortcut-for-installing-go-versions/

—@chris

“We notice you are using an ad blocker…”

Yes, and I notice you are using a few dozen trackers. Turn off the trackers and I will look at your ads. Until then, we are at an impasse.

—@bittner

One more postscript on my independence question. If you need help, get it. There’s no shame whatsoever in finding yourself in need of help, there’s no shame whatsoever in availing yourself of that help And there’s no one-size-fits-all explanation about how much of what kind of help we may need. Remember, this is a guy about to be enering into chronic care talking. I know all about needing help. And I don’t care what you choose to call, or not to call, independence. I was just curious.

—@bruce_toews

Envisioning a happy “in”accessible experience on a.website, with share links, of which one is labeled X. Sadly, a frequent issue among popups and dialogs is to label the close / dismiss button as X. Cue lots of people unwantedly opening x share dialogues while hoping to actually close a cookie popup.

—@jakobrosin

Be careful if you register your domain name through #Bluesky. “Bluesky offers an additional layer of privacy protection by acting as your domain registrar agent. We do not register your personal information with the WHOIS directory, [sic]” which, in practice, means you don’t control your domain name, you are not even the holder, Bluesky is.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap

—@bortzmeyer