I didn’t realize that the trick to getting a bunch of developers to clearly articulate what they’re after was just to call it “prompt engineering.”

Thoughts on SSH host certificates and how they could have made the Github situation less bad: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/65874.html

@rixx That is really neat! Going to give it a try.

@nat Because it’s the default and “standard”, mostly. Same reason I use React/jest/etc.

@rixx Oh, that’s neat, I didn’t know that was even an option! How do you do that?

@rixx Ah, I add it to known_hosts so I don’t actively look for it. Come to think of it, I wonder when my local SSH client is going to start being unhappy with the public key…

@garyowen There were, but there were also a lot of executives who fundamentally did not understand the impact of the iPhone.

@ethanschoonover Not a strong preference, but a moderate one for Reeder’s UX. I loved NNW from back in the day, but something about Reeder’s shortcuts and behavior meshes better with how I want to use RSS.

With so much political shouting about trans issues, it’s a refreshing change to read about the human beings who are affected by it all (gift link)

https://wapo.st/42Ff9LO

@garyowen Yeah, but I worked in Windows Mobile in the late ‘00s, so I’m also well aware of how Microsoft can completely fail to own entire industries too!

@rixx I’m impressed you take the time to recognize it! 😲

Ruby 2.7 goes EOL next Friday. #ruby

I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:

If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems

"My designs were so deceptively simple that it was easy for people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that nobody understood, were considered geniuses." -- Radia Perlman, the woman who developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol, an innovation that made today's Internet possible.

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#WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #Design #StrongWomen #Tech #STEM

@nat @isntitvacant Markaby is still my favorite HTML templating engine.

@josephholsten It’s a sharp tool, to be sure.

This is a very cool idea for commenting out a node in a tree in KDL

Can I just remind webdev folk that, if you're providing a service without thinking of WHEN people will use it, you run the risk of that service being inferior for the use?

In this very real example, the PG&E status map, that really you only need when your power is out: the default SHOULD be a low-bandwidth version, since you're far more likely to want to see it when your power is out and have no internet.

Don't be like these guys, please.

While I am more on the side of mocks than a lot of folks I know, I did like this article a lot, especially the diagrams: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2023/03/13/confidence-from-facade-tests/

Personally, I hold that mocks are really mainly useful when you have good abstractions.