The space pirates boarded, cybernetic eyes blinking madly. They hacked the ship's software update library.

"At last! Patches for our eyes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #RepostFrom2015

#unity #gamedev

tech be like:

hiring a staff engineer: one req, six hours of interviews

promoting to staff: a ten page promo doc requiring months of effort, feedback from dozens of colleagues, and approval by six layers of management

… and then we wonder why the average tenure is so short.

Pickling: The really obvious missing feature of all web browsers https://chrisdone.com/posts/browser-pickling/

@glennf @gruber A great feature for any Mac with ≥2 USB C ports would be built-in cable testing. You plug both ends of one cable to the Mac, and the OS automatically detects that, no UI needed, and pops up a dialog saying “this cable supports x mbps and x Watts power delivery”. That’s it, there is no step 3!

@glennf @gruber A great feature for any Mac with ≥2 USB C ports would be built-in cable testing. You plug both ends of one cable to the Mac, and the OS automatically detects that, no UI needed, and pops up a dialog saying “this cable supports x mbps and x Watts power delivery”. That’s it, there is no step 3!

Why are so many C developers self-taught? Because C doesn’t have classes!

“AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions

Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations

i just got the best pop up I've ever received on a website, on @stefan 's website

Я случайно потратил всю ночь на то чтобы написать узкоспециализированный пост с аудиторией где-то в сто человек, и теперь все мои соцсети узнают об этом: https://medium.com/@kojoru/how-to-set-up-merge-queues-in-github-actions-59381e5f435a

It occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.

software license where you're not allowed to attribute the original author and must pretend that you wrote it yourself

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta