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

"Weird things engineers believe about Web development" by Brian Birtles https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/

I've worked on both a browser team and as a web developer; this largely jives with my experience.

A lot of web developers have very dogmatic views about "you should do things like this, not like this," but working on a browser, I honestly feel like it's way more nuanced if you actually understand how browsers work. Which is often a mess of hacks and quirks that only make sense if you've been there

I paid the exorbitant £19.99 fee for in-flight wifi so now you all get to see this special mile-high mood

By the way. Please don't just "cut the mold off" of things like jam, bread and cheese.

I have spent some time learning the ways of fungi and when you can see the mold? That means the entire mass is full of mycelium (basically thread
-like "mushroom roots") the fruiting or the fuzzy part means that the fungi has consumed all the nutrients and is ready to move on.

The whole thing is shot, please don't eat it OK? Some fungi create poisons as by products. And it won't taste right.

Lost and found. #Utrecht #Wittevrouwen

Still thinking about this bus I rode from Heathrow Airport last night

For the unaware, I want to point out that it takes about 1.5 hours to fly from Heathrow to Glasgow

gender presentation? fuck i totally forgot was that due today? fuck

// TODO: draw the rest of the fucking owl

Het besef van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, tot zijn schrik, hoe eenvoudig het was in de jaren 30 en nu dus nog steeds is om in slaap te worden gesust door de traagheid aller dingen en naar een #dictatuur te worden geleid. Hoe gemakkelijk het is om je schouders op te halen bij kleine veranderingen die je niet persoonlijk raken, totdat het moment komt wanneer ze je wel raken en wanneer het te laat is om je er nog zorgen over te maken. #NeoFascisme

https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/ik-woon-nu-al-ruim-een-jaar-in-een-land-met-een-neo-fascistische-premier-en-ik-moet-toegeven-dat-ik-er-nauwelijks-iets-van-merk~ba8baa13/?utm_source=clipboard_internal&utm_medium=referral&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2F

https://archive.ph/jiXic

🤔 That must be a local train

OH: “bisexuality: both barking and meowing”

Hi fedi! @darius and I are digging into our governance research, and we have a great starter list of server admins to potentially talk to about governance and administration models and challenges, but *very unofficially*, I’d love to hear suggestions, too.

We’re looking at active servers ranging from ~100-2,500 users with some flex on either end of the range, and we’re building our list with an eye on structural, geographic, demographic (along multiple axes), and linguistic diversity.

Please stop making software that’s vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. It’s 2024. Learn about parameterized queries. Please.

Please.

please infodump here

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At Torment Nexus, instead of "setting the employee on fire", we prefer to think of it of it as "facilitating the next step of someone's combustion journey"

Ugh, someone set this TfL bus information display to German — clearly it should say “502 to Gateway Spa”

Hydration checkpoint!! When's the last time you had a sip of water?