(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

I really loathe when people say blanket statements like "Learning from X is not effective"

People learn differently. Saying "Learning from books is not effective" may be true for you, but not for someone else

I don't learn well from video content

I learn great from exercises and small tests and yes, books

You *should* learn what your individual team members styles are and enable them to have resources that work for them

Code only says what it does:

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html

Implementing a web browser is literally impossible.

"The total word count of the W3C specification is 114 million words […]. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications."

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html by @drewdevault

We will be hosting an AMA on our AI Discord — hosted by one of Mozilla’s innovation engineers — about AI building challenges and take a sneak peek of all the innovation projects we’re cooking up: https://discord.gg/96TfbRr7?event=1182689641195900938

For Innovation Week, we are sharing experiments to make AI accessible to all — continuing to innovate and fund projects for the good of humanity.

Meet Memory Cache, your privacy-focused, personalized AI assistant. This smart AI agent “learns as you learn” and offers unique insights based on your browsing history and documents. 

Learn more here: http://future.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-memorycache

Is anyone with JavaScript interested in maintaining the Abricotine Markdown editor? It's being abandoned by its author. Abricotine is slow to start but otherwise the best Markdown editor for Linux in my experience.

https://github.com/brrd/abricotine

“[Ada & Zangemann] Introduces readers young and old to the power and peril of software. It also highlights the accelerating effects of sharing software freely—creating conditions for direct and indirect collaboration which can be a metaphor for the conduct of science. Behind it all is a backdrop of ethics of knowledge sharing upon which the arc of human history rides.”

~ Vint Cerf, Computer Scientist and One of the Inventors of the Internet

@kirschner

Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser's context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?

Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.

I do not want to be given iron-fisted control over my child's media habits, particularly as they grow up, but every "parental controls" app and setting is based on the idea that I need a way to prevent my kid from learning that trans people exist or that people say "shit" sometimes, not that I want to just give them a device which has the stuff that we have put on it that does not *advertise* other things to them constantly. I have no interest in preventing them from seeking out information.

Wow. Talking about license plate registration stickers has actually caused me to stick up for one of those typically 'murican values.

Do we really need a differently-colored sticker every year to signal the car is properly registered in this day and age of enforcement cameras with OCR hooked up to central databases? Strictly speaking, no.

But it's a nice alternative to that sort of surveillance tech being everywhere which I'd rather not normalize.