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

Library docs being realistic

Don’t call the messenger (transitous) “trash” please, especially since the träwelling database now has sooooo many more services

Words have consequences, and if you’re framing a community-maintained data source built from the hard work of a few individuals “garbage”, it won’t get any better - rather you’re putting people off from fixing the issues!

It’s especially annoying to see this from techy folks, especially those close to open-source projects, or those who use them - don’t make the space more toxic than it is ffs

The "Trending now" on my instance knows exactly what it's doing.

#catsofmastodon

a bias I started to notice on Wikipedia recently: open source projects that are described like "offers similar features to $proprietary_service" while the proprietary service is just described as what it does

what do astronauts in space do when their nose gets itchy

Het losse feit dat je een miljard hebt zegt dat je een slecht mens bent. Punt. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114540363317403748

I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...

I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.

Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.

#GenerativeAI #VibeCoding #Programming

Hi everybody! Welcome to the fediverse.

If you're new here, you might not have seen my dating site yet:

https://ben.lubar.me/dating-site/

Have fun! I hope you find the date you are looking for.

Thought about linking to one of the few well regarded tech execs writing halfbaked bullshit with a tag along the lines of “This is halfbaked bullshit.” But then I remember that he searches social media for links to his site and mentions of his name and tries to argue with people, and he gets all offended when I reply that I’d rather not, if I’d wanted to debate him I’d have mentioned him directly

Instead comfort yourself knowing there are at least a dozen different dudes this could apply to

Velotunnel-Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025! Wir besammeln uns um 18:00 Uhr am Louis-Favre-Platz in #Zürich (Ecke Josef-/Hafner-/Zollstrasse). 🎉🚲

Die #Stadttunnel-Runden fahren wir im Uhrzeigersinn (d.h. Zollstrasse—Hafnerstrasse—Konradstrasse—Velotunnel—Lagerstrasse—Langstrasse).

Obacht, das ist keine Velodemo – es gilt das Strassenverkehrsgesetz, also: Nebeneinanderfahren erlaubt bei dichtem Veloverkehr sowie in Gruppen ab 10 Personen. ✌️#velozh

On the relationship between Qt and KDE

Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop.
↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class

Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, beca

https://www.osnews.com/story/142401/on-the-relationship-between-qt-and-kde/

#Qt

The squirrels I planted are finally starting to come in. #Gardening #Zone5 #ClayPot #Squirrel

FOXE Technology

Sure, I'll jump on the hashtag bandwagon.

This past week, I've been occasionally catching glimpses of myself in reflections. I'm catching myself thinking "Hmm, they're cute…wait, that's me!" I can't help but appreciate how different that reaction is from a year ago.

#TransGEM #gem

#dancing #black #birds #jackdaw