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According to gotosocial.fediverse.observer/stats, there's now more than 100 GoToSocial servers out in the wild. That's nuts!

has linus torvalds said or done any bad stuff since he said he was trying to be less of an ass? I haven’t heard of anything since and I really want to believe he said that in good faith

Did you know that the dream of a universal computing and application platform that works on any device, regardless of operating system, actually already exists and works?

They're called browsers.

Did you know that the dream of fully hot-swappable interchangeable software components that don't require architectural reworks, actually already exists and works?

They're called 'small modules' in JS.

I think that instead of constantly getting bogged down in minor complaints and superficial tech "in-crowd" affiliations, people should more often take a step back and look at the bigger picture; and realize that maybe there's actually something to these much-maligned technologies.

Another survey shows public attitudes to trans people in the UK are somewhere between positive and “live and let live”:

moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/r

lengthy, re: software development 

@f0x there are so much things to worry about when doing frontend work … why would people disregard that as something "lesser"?

Backend software can be huge and inefficient, and most people won't even notice.
But the frontend: Load times, locally served resources, accessibility, compatibility, useful error handling, design work, security & isolation, actually using the awful APIs, keeping track of states, …
Good luck trying to make everyone happy.

there's an imposter among us! (twitter crossposter)

lol oof i got new knives and accidentally cut off a bunch of dishwashing brush bristles when washing em

want to look at the clock but can't find the time

what is an object but a miserable pile of keys and values

i don't know what it is but i literally can't stop designing things with swapable modules??!!?!?

covid - 

country is definitely entering a new wave again, sharp uptick in hospitalizations...

we've fully dropped every measure imaginable, because it's so much easier to shift everything to "personal responsibility"

@WoozleWuzzle @alex shhHHH i cannot have any of you figuring out which ones are the control group

if you see front-end as lesser or lazier developers, get out tbh

food cooking 

made my own cheeserito, with leftover 'stampot', it's very nice (so tortilla filled with stampot, cheese, another tortilla) grilled in a pan

if you see front-end as lesser or lazier developers, get out tbh

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