(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

Wait ... there is a #unicode for a slice of pizza but not one for #RSS feed? I love my pizza, but would definitely consider them vastly different in importance. Ugh!

And another day in which I didn't even LOOK at any code... some programmer. yeah? #emacs #orgmode #agenda

"We need to call out what is going on here: tech firms are charging us more to fix their mistakes and slapping an AI label on the shakedown."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-is-becoming-a-band-aid-over-bad-broken-tech-industry-design-choices/

@freemo haha! Twitter is that meth-addict X. I like that!

@mike that makes sense. The good ol' Incognito (Chome) / Private (Firefox)

@mike what is an anonymous tab?

@lucas3d @jalefkowit@octodon.social

I use multi-account containers heavily; for instance, I have four different social containers (including the one I am writing in now) for my different mastodon accounts. But I think it isn't the same prospect as a temporary container, where the value is precisely in NOT having the cached persistence from logins, styles, apis, etc. The ability to look at a thing as a brand new visitor is really valuable, which I normally accomplish via private instances into localhost sites.

@jalefkowit@octodon.social @condalmo

private-window++. Count me in! Those private windowns ar precious to webdev work to eliminate caches and logins. Though part of that may be that the private windows actually disable caching, maybe

Wait... do you seriously mean to tell me that I've spent hours debugging #clojure the fact that `#js` is NOT recursive? So #javascript #clojurescript `#js {"authorizationParams" #js {"redirect_uri" (-> js/window .-location .-origin)}}` is NOT #js {"authorizationParams"v {"redirect_uri" (-> js/window .-location .-origin)}}`? I probably read this somewhere, but UGH!

And yes, I know that even fixed this equality wouldn't work because JS always breaks #CLJS equality... but the point is clear.

@icedquinn ah! Freshly warmed DRY bedding. that makes all the difference

@icedquinn not a good thing when it is my 3-year old doing the warming while he sleeps.

@hirad I get value from people who provide technical info on Mastodon, which offers different value than do my blogs (which I also maintain diligently, x4). Sometimes keeping all the info on-site is useful. Now I just need a clean way to drive comment functionality on a given blog post to an appropriate hashtag on Mastodon...

@xarvos Note that this only works for open source software (by definition). Good luck with corporate software (Adobe, much MS, Apple, to name a few of the ones I frequently bump in to)

The practically unlimited post length of #qoto is really such a liberating thing. I wish other #mastodon instances would follow suit.

I use #spotify when I need to cast my music, either to my upstairs Roku or basement Chromecast. For personal playing from my phone (both podcasts and music) I despise Spotify's broken flagship app, and more generally dislike their server/socialized model. For now I am pleased with Simple Music Player https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer/ . Simple has a good name and makes quality stuff, and this music player seems to check the crucial boxes.

SimpleMP https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.lighttigerxiv.simple.mp/ had issues with constantly rescanning my fairly large music collection, and also making it tough to find newly downloaded things (like my daily podcasts).

Mucke https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rocks.mucke/ oddly refused to access my Download folder (where said podcasts live) for "security reasons" that no one else seems to have. I quit it there.

I loved the style (that is, absolute lack of style -- no homescreen!) of #DialogMusicPlayer https://f-droid.org/en/packages/phone.vishnu.dialogmusicplayer/, but it couldn't seem to do playlists, which makes it no good for music playing where I would have to add each song individually, after it finishes playing the last one.

I just upgraded my #Firefox and it was a big one, apparently. I had something so that f4 closed tabs (since C-w is "copy" in #emacs). But what was it that let me change that key? Oh, look, my notes/blog kept track of that for me, from 2021! https://orys.us/v4

@ClickHouseCI I might have to try that. But I knew the file and WHERE in the file it was, but I didn't know what string was missing (at least, how much was missing)

I was found out that some key code got deleted from my day-to-day task setup. Thankfully I've been keeping that directory under version control and, with #emacs #magit, was able to find out when I accidentally deleted it and restore just that, keeping other changes to the file. This process was intuitive (= without referring to any documentation) with magit; I'm not sure how I would have done it with raw #git.