Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Tired: "the reader"
Wired: "chat"

E.g.: "This proof is left as an exercise to chat."

Amazing. So looks like (in all Blink browsers on Windows since relatively recently) reading a user-selected File with a FileReader, and then putting the same file in FormData and sending it, crashes the tab.

I'll just work around this, can't be arsed to make a demo and figure out where to file the bug.

But yeah "file upload crashes browser" certainly aligns with the overall state of software these days.

Edit: I have not verified there are no additional circumstances involved. Just reports from multiple people about this particular internal tool consistently crashing in the last week or so. And yes, uploading a new Blob with the just-read contents fixes it.

Edit 2: fwiw I've tried to reproduce it outside of the environment and failed, so probably depends on some other weird shit I do, of which there's lots.

I did this drawing of myself the other day. I like how it turned out, even if it's not what I was aiming for at the beginning

#MastoArt

There is no true "now"

possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween

I absolutely hate how a few incidents that could never possibly happen again with modern tech and standards gave people enough of a scare that to this day everyone chooses fossil fuel power plants that kill our lungs and our planet over nuclear power. Like we've already had the technology for safe, clean power for decades and we've been choosing to willingly sprint towards our own extinction instead largely because of 1 really bad situation caused by insane negligence and a handful of incidents where nothing bad actually happened but things got spooky for a few days.

Hey all! Our son's boyfriend is working on a project to develop a compendium of Transmasc Comfort Characters from books, movies, TV, and video games.

He'd love it if you'd fill out this survey with your favorite characters! Whether their transmasc status is canon or not - if that character comforts you, please include them.

Please BOOST! :)

Edit: Fixed - you can now submit multiple characters!

https://s.surveyplanet.com/jovbb2xv

#TransMasc #Trans #TransJoy #TransSurvey #TransFic #TransStories

can we please reclaim the meaning of the word "love" and adjacent language as not exclusively romantic thing (for non-family members)?

i love my friends dearly

and it might have nothing to do with any romantic feelings

and i hate being scared of this being misinterpreted and having to clarify this, especially when i want to express these feelings for the first time

;_;

Saw a discussion on Bluesky about how web devs end up having no body of work as sites disappear, companies fold, and agencies shutter

This first happened to me in the 2000s. Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappeared. Even most of the ebooks I made for a publishers have been replaced. I've been doing this for almost thirty years and my body of work exists only as screenshots and vague memories

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not be into a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

So, lots of technologies have emerged over the last couple of years to make hot-rodded 3d printers really fast but somehow nobody has taken those innovations and put them into a matrix printer. Why? Please, some youtuber, make the worlds fastest matrix printer using controllers and tricks from the 3d printing space! Make that ink ribbon smoke! #3dprinting #retrotech

I also experienced my first case of "alt-text-driven-development".
I made revision 1 of the image, when to post it, and while writing the alt-text I realized I described something inconsistently, and it was because the image was missing an element I had forgotten to actually create. So I had to go back and edit the image further, so the alt-text (and the image) would be correct.

When I updated my homepage yesterday, I accidentally published a blog post version of my trip report on crossing the US by train. And it went viral on Hacker News. Oops! :D

It always wanted to edit it/flesh it out a bit more. But oh well.

I guess many of you folks following me here will have seen the thread back in August, but here's the blog post: https://blinry.org/coast-to-coast/

unscheduled reminder that being around great people, especially great queer people can change your life for the better