Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

(This app charges you a subscription fee for the privilege of borrowing stuff from neighbours, by the way, expects users to do free labour for moderation, and heavily pushes the paid rental option for which they take a significant commission)

Something that an actual investor said (albeit originally in Dutch): "there have been many apps for sharing things with neighbours, but they've always had trouble turning it into a business case. The reason we're investing in <specific app> is because they've figured out how to do so."

In case you were still wondering whether the free market is an appropriate way to build and maintain society.

Which is a lot of words to say: I think that the vast majority of large files across the JS ecosystem are actually just technical debt

An observation from auditing lots of dependency code in JS: it's very, very rare for new large JS files to be created in a version bump.

New large files pretty much only appear in "total rewrite" scenarios, and otherwise almost every change is either a) an increase in size of an existing file, or b) a new file that is fairly small. This does not change with the complexity of the problem domain.

This is of course anecdata, but to me this strongly suggests that large code files are generally just the result of accumulated code changes over time without revisiting earlier design choices, rather than some sort of fundamental complexity that just needs a lot of code to represent.

I sometimes run into toots where it's not clear to me whether someone is looking for advice or recommendations.

The common suggestion is "ask whether they want advice first and only elaborate when they say yes", but this doesn't really... *work*, with my ADHD brain, it requires focus switching that I can't do.

So instead, in these cases, I often reply with the advice or recommendations, but behind a CW along the lines of 'unsolicited advice' or so.

It's perhaps not ideal, but still leaves people a choice whether to engage with it, and hopefully communicates that the advice is provided as a support offer, rather than as eg. an assertion that I know better or that I expect them to do something.

So far, people seem okay with this approach, and I'm glad of that.

It continues to be immensely frustrating every time I see someone go "I'm disappointed that <politician> signed onto <terrible thing>", because whenever I try to explain to people that this sort of shit is unavoidable in how entrenched politics work and that you can't solve it with better politicians, it's *never* taken seriously

Like, yes, *of course* this happened, exactly like others and I already warned you months or years ago, because this is *always* what happens, this is the kind of outcome that this system produces and always has, and if you'd actually listened then you could've put all that political energy towards something that actually effects change, instead of just cheering on politicians

Is het Lidl-waspoeder elders ook uitverkocht? Of is dat alleen hier een probleem? Viel me al op dat het de laatste tijd erg klonterig was, dus ik vraag me af of er iets stuk is bij de fabrikant

The whole thing was colored shades of gray, by the way

Last night, my dreams conjured up an absolutely cursed keyboard setup: a smartphone-shaped device that was 1/3rd screen, 2/3rd keyboard below it, but the keyboard was in portrait mode, it only contained something like the 70% most common letters, and some keys were actual keyboard keys while some others were capacitive 'touch' things, with no discernible pattern to the division between the two