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“the best way to remember something is to not forget it”

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this youtube channel is unhinged but like, in a great 2002 educational tv way

youtu.be/_l8K5dqpOJM

how typical of me to get so far into yakshaving my static site generator that i'm now reading a book on technical writing before writing a blogpost before working on the software itself

Making my software decisions based on dragons:

clang: ✔️ has a dragon
gcc: ❌ no dragon
kde plasma: ✔️ has a dragon
gnome: ❌ no dragon
wireguard: ✔️ has a dragon
openvpn: ❌ no dragon

@starless recommended 'A Concise Guide to Technical Communication'
ISBN: 978-0321391681

so i'm starting with that now

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I also published this old unfinished writing project of mine (2020), where I tried to explain internals of this project before. Let me know what you think

cthu.lu/projects/react-hooks-s

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does anyone have good resources on (accessible) technical writing?

feel like i suck at this, just getting bogged down in details when there's mountains of unexplained prior knowledge that might be more important..

:boost_requested: :boost_ok:

im writing so much but I don't think this is going to make sense to literally anyone lole

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@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe hmm i was curious and for matrix-streamchat it takes ~3 seconds for a cold page load (doing lots of other things ofc), after which the opening itself is instant :)

@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe this is propaganda from Big Fridge!!

i've been using 1080p screens for years now, but the Framework's 2160p makes an incredible difference in how nice fonts are rendered. beautiful

society if leaders of foss projects actually listened to the community

Fediblock 

pl.tkammer.de

That is the personal Pleurisy instance of Taylan Kammer, the TERF shitwit and confessed sexual assaulter known as SocJusWiz.

#fediblock

@haskal introducing the Pine64 Window (already broken so we don't have to keep breaking them by throwing people out)

next meeting

boss: what should we focus on next?
guy 1: dirty room RE
guy 2: ship another fire hazard
guy 3: actually open source the schematics??
[guy 3 out the window]

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