building (good) applications is really hard
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centralized stuff like twitter always has this like 10% chance of just entirely vanishing all of a sudden, federated stuff like mastodon has like a 100% chance that 10% of the servers will go offline every year.
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i take my 'no acronyms or nicknames in filenames or variables' rule pretty seriously in
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should macwright.com also be a newsletter? people have brought up the idea but i'm not sure about it. it doesn't have a topic and won't, so it seems weird to send one newsletter about geodesy and another about car culture etc.
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made some of my unit tests 2x faster by combining a bunch of small files into a few bigger files
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Excited to finally share this launch that our team has been working on! A lot of very talented people are collaborating on building a quality open map, and supported by some of the biggest companies in tech. This will be a game changer for open mapping. 🚀
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We are excited to announce the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data to power mapping and location services worldwide.
Read the announcement: linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-fo
@OvertureMaps #Mapping #OpenSource
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This is a pretty sweet looking plotting library:
github.com/observablehq/p
Even does Geographic plotting now. I can't really think of a use for it other than my little stats viewer, but maybe it'll help someone else out.
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okay, which version of "when the lovelight starts shining through her eyes" goes hardest
- zombies14.3%
- dusty springfield42.9%
- supremes42.9%
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Life Universe oimo.io/works/life
Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from.
無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev
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hence, i bet arc will succeed anyway. it's appealing, and i can see how it'll be gamechanging for a lot of people. but for now i'm going back to a normal ol browser with the tabs on the top
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at times, maybe most times, using arc started to feel like it was designed around messiness - a lot of downloads, tabs, sessions - messiness that i don't particularly have or need to manage, but a lot of people do.
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split panes: love it, i'll miss it, but i'll use rectangle for window management to do 50/50 splits like i did before.
attachments as tabs: i never stopped finding this annoying. same with downloads as library.
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vertical tabs: seemed cool at first, but i have good tab discipline so the layout ended up wasting a bunch of space usually.
renaming tabs: never got in the habit of it. same with using spaces.
switching to tabs via search: only used it by accident.
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after a bunch of months of using arc full time, i think i'm switching back to chrome. the ux decisions in arc make sense for a lot of people, but i don't think in the end they work that well for me.
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looking at the ghost-substack drama after working at mapbox for a decade: yep
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Zod 3.20 is here! This is a big one.
🟢 `z.coerce`
🟢 `.pipe()`
🟢 `.catch()`
🟢 `z.symbol()`
🟢 `z.number().finite()`
🟢 `z.string().datetime()`
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⌨️ New Placemark open source module: micro-totp is a minimal implementation of the TOTP authentication algorithms:
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i've updated my hestitantly-optimistic post about hivemapper to include the increasing amount of information that suggests it's either a scam or scam-adjacent.
this industry, it's 100% scams.
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Remember Helium? The buzzy tokenomics project promised you could earn $$$ by hosting WiFi hotspots—but turned out to be a grift to sell hardware.
Hivemapper looks like the same grift but with $675 cameras. Don't miss @leomschwartz's latest exposé:
fortune.com/crypto/2022/12
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I've been tinkering with ActivityPub, and made the photos section of my website talk to Mastodon. Here are some notes!
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this event was one of my favorite things in sf - if you’re there, you should go
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There are still a few tickets left to LOST LANDSCAPES on Wed Dec 14, live at San Francisco's Herbst Theatre, and there's a 50% discount code: use the word "fog" and grab them while you can! cityboxoffice.com/eventperforman
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(guy who was all in crypto/web3 last year)
I’ve been experimenting w ChatGPT & my mind is blown 🤯
It’s going to change EVERYTHING & could very well be the technology that replaces Google (something that people thought would NEVER happen!)
Here are my 2,783 takeaways: 🧵 👇
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Another drawing improvement: hints for how to use the drawing tools that appear just as you're entering a draw mode. Easy to dismiss once you've learned how to draw shapes.
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wrote a long technical blog post about mastodon just so i could do a watercolor of a mastodon
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it's like bell labs, but it's all shockleys
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🆕 Drawing improvement: just like in your favorite graphics editor, you can now hold down the Shift key on your keyboard to draw shapes with right angles!
placemark.io
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"I really liked the fact that RC sounded like a genuine community of learners who were excited." shares her RC story:
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decided to wait a year or so before forming an opinion about chatgpt
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anyway, "as a maintainer" of a few repos and a looker at many, the number of PRs and issues that come in from some user freaking out about a totally unimportant security warning because of bad automated detection and bad industry practices is exhausting and avoidable.
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and then there are the actually important vulnerabilities, things that are exploitable. but the current security vuln systems flag basically everything as "critical and important" so your average developer has no way to tell the difference.
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the rest are things like regex backtracing ddos vulnerabilities, which are rarely exposed to the world - in order for one to be important, you need to be (1) running a web service (2) have no rate limiting (3) pass raw user input directly into the affected module
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how the ecosystem is used right now is that the typical app will include many dev dependencies which never become part of the shipped application. security warnings in these deps account for many of these boy-who-cried-wolf warnings, and are virtually never important.
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repeating that 99% of automated "dependency security" warnings in the javascript world are fake, totally unimportant, and cause useless busywork for maintainers
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all I want for Christmas is 1k views on this bad boy
youtube.com/watch?v=MooE4e
And THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all your commets but it would really helpful to have people saying stuff on the you tube page because it is public thus will show the world how important A.A.C. is
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is there a company building a meta-spreadsheet-api that abstracts around google sheets / notion / coda / airtable / etc? or a module that does that?
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transportation nerds:
in terms of walkability, transit, undoing car culture and its harms to america, has pete buttigieg done anything yet? is there a thing i can point to and be pleased about, policy-wise, from his tenure, so far?
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AI hype waves generally produce 1) Descartes dualism redux: can you think without a body? What about brains in vats? What is the relationship between embodiment and intelligence? …
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self-driving car that feeds a dashcam video straight to chatgpt asking "okay left right gas or stop" and runs that straight into wheel and pedals
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🇺🇦💡 With Russia cowardly terrorizing civilians, Ukrainians now have to live with daily blackouts, and disruptions to not only electricity but also heating, running water, light and communications. How does this look for me and my family? A visualization:
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was going to use htmx _with_ fresh/deno, but:
- deno editor setup kept being a hassle
- was going to start wanting to do things like respond to a GET req with different content based on headers
- realized i could build something simpler
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