Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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"Behind every error blamed on computers there are at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer."
Apparently matrix.org runs Synapse Proprietary now.
Did someone make a list of "AI-free alternatives to software" yet?
@Sparkwave Well, the good news is that all the 20-year-old techniques for progressive enhancement still work fine today! You can pick up basically any article on the topic, written at any time, and learn how to approach it.
The bad news is that with the deterioration of search engines, it's become harder and harder to actually find that sort of article anymore 😐
Either way it's pretty much just a culture/community problem. If you personally care about getting it right, then it's entirely possible to do so today! I still build things with progressive enhancement by default today.
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@wheeze_NL It was something about sentences where some words were replaced with a bold-printed word like 'adjective' as a placeholder to create a template, something about superheroes.
I don't recall enough to know whether it was *good*, but I do remember thinking after waking up "huh. this is *exactly* in the style I would expect from a real XKCD"
@bananas Unfortunately this is a completely typical conversation. The only thing that makes this conversation special enough to warrant posting here, is that it happens to be condensed enough to fit into a screenshot - usually they drag on for longer. I could have this conversation every single day if I wanted, probably multiple times, with different people each time.
But like, almost the entire webdev industry is like this, often worse - at least this person did acknowledge progressive enhancement being useful *in principle*. You don't even get that from most.
As some additional context: the other person in this screenshot is not a beginner. They are a professional web developer who has been around in this community for years, and who builds production systems.
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Just released a page about Air to Ground Signals, which is about how to communicate with aircraft in the sky when on land, or the water, in the event of an accident.
If you've ever wondered why so many websites are a fragile JS hellscape, here's what a typical conversation in a web development channel might look like, and I think that tells you all you need to know
Well, that's a first, in last night's dreams my brain made up an XKCD that didn't exist
@ebel I find 'disability-driven development' to be an interesting way to approach this: https://starshipgender.com/disability-driven-development/index.html
I feel like in practice it results in very similar outcomes as (idealized) anarchist software would, except it makes it more concrete *how to get there* right in the naming, which might prevent the usual phenomenon of the aesthetics of a movement being adopted without the corresponding value system.
The whole thing with the Honey scam once again shows that if you don't personally understand a company's business model and how they make money, it's probably a good idea to stay away from it...
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Have some more (if u happen to identify some of these objects better I’d appreciate help with the alt text)
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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Dutch design at it’s finest. The DDZ double decker intercity (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_DDZ) has some very interesting compartment door handles. They’re designed by an artist with the theme of “forbidden objects”. Throughout the train other usually mundane objects take interesting shapes i.e. the speaker grid plate has a 🍁shape on it (https://www.treinenweb.nl/reviews/34/het-interieur-van-de-nid-bekeken.html).
This is amazing & I’ve not seen sth adjacent before - pls more of this
The results (still to be packaged)...
Implementation: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/23ff3b3a81af71131adf5e5ae34c2f8d?ts=4
Tests: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/9f71a258ae245b7577f51612adc526db?ts=4
@schoentoon The less I have to do of it, the better :P I was planning to work on Promistreams today!
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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If you're feeling sick
You can cancel the party or dinner or whatever or tell them you're not coming
Even if it's the last second
You could save someone else from getting sick
And also in some cases, if you cancel, the other party will be relieved that they get some unexpected quiet time
(And also running a script to automatically delete the 850k or so spam users on my Forgejo instance)
Current project: making a utility library to automagically make Promistreams clonable
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
