@mattly ah the life experience of having been a web developer and being 40-something. I pivoted to embedded electronics before web went to hell, and I don’t regret it
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Since I was laid off last year, I’ve talked with a lot of people about how _weird_ the tech industry is right now, and the sentiment behind this post echoes a lot of what I’ve been hearing: A lot of people want out. -
I really wonder how this one has been approved in the #WordPress plugins directory.@talksina wait, why does Wordpress say "last updated 12 hours ago" when the Git repo is 2 years old and the files on Wordpress match git 1:1.
And why am I so easily distracted
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I really wonder how this one has been approved in the #WordPress plugins directory.@talksina would it be passive aggressive to raise a PR?
https://github.com/riccardodicurti/smile-block/blob/main/readme.txt
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This whole Polyfill business is unfortunate but I remain a little unsettled at just how many people casually use “Chinese company” and “Chinese IP” like their country of origin is especially relevant.@Floppy I mean perhaps they needed to clarify "Chinese" because the default assumption for using any tech to vacuum up all your data would be American
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This whole Polyfill business is unfortunate but I remain a little unsettled at just how many people casually use “Chinese company” and “Chinese IP” like their country of origin is especially relevant.They keep going.
Here’s some free ones for ya:
“Polyfill bought by third party, serves malware.”
“Polyfill bought by unscrupulous company.”
“Polyfill now slightly less malicious than React.”
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This whole Polyfill business is unfortunate but I remain a little unsettled at just how many people casually use “Chinese company” and “Chinese IP” like their country of origin is especially relevant.This whole Polyfill business is unfortunate but I remain a little unsettled at just how many people casually use “Chinese company” and “Chinese IP” like their country of origin is especially relevant.
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Can we get even the tiniest concession that AI is- in fact- a fabulous accessibility tool and that alt text is a solved problem?#A11y
Can we get even the tiniest concession that AI is- in fact- a fabulous accessibility tool and that alt text is a solved problem?
#A11y
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This 3D printing lark sure is fun!This 3D printing lark sure is fun!
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Bit of a shame the 3m tape holding on the Pico doesn’t make the electrical connectionsBit of a shame the 3m tape holding on the Pico doesn’t make the electrical connections
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Thinking about how enormous an own goal #RaspberryPi breaking RPi.GPIO and making me spend nine months of my life unbreaking user space GPIO might end up being when someone inevitably asks “does this code work on BeagleY-AI?” and I say “well, uh, actua...Thinking about how enormous an own goal #RaspberryPi breaking RPi.GPIO and making me spend nine months of my life unbreaking user space GPIO might end up being when someone inevitably asks “does this code work on BeagleY-AI?” and I say “well, uh, actually yes and ROCK 5 too…” #Electronics
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Can I eat these? They look sooo gooooodCan I eat these? They look sooo goooood
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We just shared our monthly engineering update from the Mastodon team. I've also posted an updated and refreshed guide to contributing to the project.@andypiper oof reminder that I probably need to update my instance 🫠
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“I’m sorry we got caught?” -
Okay genuine question- in describing a two party scenario where I want to keep gender ambiguous (because it’s irrelevant) how do I clearly disambiguate between the third person neutral pronoun “their” and the third person possessive “their”?@andycarolan I think that works, or is the right way around. Thanks! Though I do wonder - in hindsight - if grammatical elegance should be in service to, rather than conflict with, meaning.
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Okay genuine question- in describing a two party scenario where I want to keep gender ambiguous (because it’s irrelevant) how do I clearly disambiguate between the third person neutral pronoun “their” and the third person possessive “their”?@andycarolan it works but it’s not very grammatically elegant. Maybe I’m approaching the whole sentence from the wrong angle, but my sleep deprived brain can’t come up with a better footing.
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Okay genuine question- in describing a two party scenario where I want to keep gender ambiguous (because it’s irrelevant) how do I clearly disambiguate between the third person neutral pronoun “their” and the third person possessive “their”?@andycarolan in this case the watch is on the wrist of the children’s entertainer
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Okay genuine question- in describing a two party scenario where I want to keep gender ambiguous (because it’s irrelevant) how do I clearly disambiguate between the third person neutral pronoun “their” and the third person possessive “their”?Okay genuine question- in describing a two party scenario where I want to keep gender ambiguous (because it’s irrelevant) how do I clearly disambiguate between the third person neutral pronoun “their” and the third person possessive “their”?
I want to say “the children’s entertainer was dismissive of the autistic child who just wanted to check their watch”…
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Should I buy a Bambu Labs A1 + AMS? (They won’t reply to my emails asking for a free one)
@Natanox them being the Apple of 3D printers is exactly why I’m interested
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Should I buy a Bambu Labs A1 + AMS? (They won’t reply to my emails asking for a free one)
@tyx skills yes, inclination to make the printer itself a project: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🫠
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I’ve updated the Inventor HAT Mini library to hopefully run on a Pi 5. Though the RGB LEDs will sadly not work@andypiper this is attempting to be one- https://github.com/pimoroni/boilerplate-python/issues/16