kethinov

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by kethinov 3y ago
Love that site. I used their page on Secret of Mana as a reference [1] during my work making ROM hacks for the game [2] and a large focus of my work was restoring content that was cut, including unused graphics, dialog, and even unused musi
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by kethinov 3y ago
Attitudes like that are why so many "real applications" have things like progress bars assembled from divs and JS instead of using a progress element or show/hide toggles assembled from divs and JS instead of using details&#x
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by kethinov 3y ago
I think what that person meant was if browser default styles made semantic HTML look more beautiful, it would probably reduce the incentive for lazy devs to make div soup. Like imagine if every browser preloaded a dozen attractive classless
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by kethinov 3y ago
The argument is we'd be better off if ES Modules were never proposed or implemented because the require syntax is better. By splitting the ecosystem, the developer experience has been made worse for no tangible benefit. Like this is no
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by kethinov 3y ago
Can we have valid[0] HTML5 with semantic HTML instead of table layouts next? [0] https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...
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by kethinov 3y ago
As I understand it, JavaScript's JIT isn't quite as performant as binary compiled from a low level language like C. I'm presuming that Codon's performance is closer to that than the performance of JavaScript's JIT,
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by kethinov 3y ago
If I understand this correctly, it takes Python code and makes it as fast as C by compiling Python code into binary like compiling C to binary. I want something like this for JavaScript. Given how much stuff is written in JavaScript now, th
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by kethinov 3y ago
Can confirm. I was one such member of this underclass working as a developer on Gmail in 2007. The pay was quite low by bay area developer job standards at $25/hr with no benefits. I loved the work, the product, the people, my boss, th
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by kethinov 4y ago
The governance is certainly the main issue, but bad governance is easier to sustain when those who aren't impacted are more likely to go around denying the problem.
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by kethinov 4y ago
There is a perception among the broader public that techies want to automate all the jobs away and don't really care what the people displaced do to earn a living afterward. Bland, inadequate platitudes thrown out advising people to ju
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by kethinov 4y ago
They are famous because they're rare. There's only so much room in the economy for that kind of purity. Try getting a tech job almost anywhere and insist on a pure GNU stack running on hardware that has no nonfree firmware and see
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by kethinov 4y ago
This is amazing news. I've been arguing this is needed since the day the App Store launched in 2008, most of the time to people who judged me as arguing for what they perceived to be a fringe view they judged to be absurd on its face.
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by kethinov 4y ago
For sure. This setup is hacky as hell but it works well, so I'm sticking with it. :)
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by kethinov 4y ago
Have you run into problems with nitter.net rate-limiting you? I added about 60 subscriptions and they frequently don't load. I suspect I'm probably overusing the service... Edit: looks like this could be a good solution: https:&#
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by kethinov 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I just tried it out. Nitter + an RSS app like Vienna is a neat solution for replacing Twitterrific on desktop. The UX isn't as good, particularly with quote tweets just showing up as links instead of embe
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by kethinov 4y ago
Twitterrific no longer working might be the last straw for me with Twitter. I can't continue to use it if there's no way to get a non-algorithmic timeline where I can read every tweet starting from the oldest not yet seen allowing
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by kethinov 4y ago
No Mac version yet it looks like. For anyone interested in a really nice Mac client for Mastodon, the best one I've found so far is this specific fork of Mastonaut https://github.com/chucker/Mastonaut (the origina
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by kethinov 4y ago
They're literally banning mentioning your Mastodon handle. Unbelievable. Like Paul, I will not be adhering to this absurd new rule. If they ban me for that, then I guess that's that.
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by kethinov 4y ago
That would be an easier argument to accept if people were more honest about it. Or honest with themselves about it and more self-aware that that's really what it's about: not wanting to learn new things or the perception (real or
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by kethinov 4y ago
Since Paul wrote that, people have made so many more things part of their identity, including JavaScript which he points out in the essay was not a particularly identity-charged topic in 2009. With the rise of the frameworks, it has become
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by kethinov 4y ago
What's expected of a salaried employee by the sort of boss who has that expectation is a fantasy. Very few people actually deliver that. What people actually do is their assigned tasks, complete that in well under 40 hours, then spend
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by kethinov 4y ago
Maybe if we don't want people to hide it, we should eliminate the stigma and stop threatening to fire people who do it. Maybe instead we should focus on measuring performance through the work people deliver instead of micromanaging wha
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by kethinov 4y ago
Turns out that billionaires tend to not want to do that, so it also turns out that using government power to compel them to do so using the power of taxation is the system that scales best.
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by kethinov 4y ago
Democracy is the worst way to decide things, except for all the others.
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by kethinov 4y ago
There are principled reasons to be against charity, namely that charity redistributes money to causes arbitrarily and undemocratically rather than to causes decided by a majority of people voting on what causes to support. When the governme
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by kethinov 4y ago
I saw that episode of Battlestar Galactica. It was generally unpopular with the people.
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by kethinov 4y ago
I am hoping vanilla JS will some day replace all the frameworks as the core features the frameworks have get absorbed into web standards natively, like what happened to jQuery. It's already perfectly possible to build a modern SPA UX w
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by kethinov 4y ago
I thought it was a good thread. For those unaware of the missing context, what he's talking about is how in the 2010s, progressive enhancement — long seen as a webdev best practice — was largely replaced by a JS-first approach by JS fr
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by kethinov 4y ago
A project like this is vital for software preservation. The closest thing to it besides what the author listed in the article is Apple's Rosetta, but add that to the list of similar but not quite exact comparisons noted by the author a
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by kethinov 4y ago
Servers that preserve that exact experience with those same game settings exist.

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