Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)

@Gargron While I agree with this, it might also be time to move the work prioritizing federated safety and collective protection to the front of the queue.

Update! You just have to let it oxidize slightly, for a day! It works perfectly now that the shine has dulled just a bit. This is great.

Verdict: you should replace your trackball with a silicon nitride bearing machined to micron precision. You will definitely not regret replacing your trackball with a silicon nitride bearing machined to micron precision.

I am saddened to report that using a high precision silicon nitride bearing in a trackball is absolutely decadent to the touch, oil-on-glass smooth with the perfect slight hint of heft in the motion, looks absolutely amazing and does not work well at all.

@mntmn @andreasdotorg Have you seen what this guy can do with 256 _bytes_!? It's bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

@Gargron clustered notifications are really great, as someone who periodically has a post grow legs and run, it makes the whole experience a lot better.

@arstechnica Never have I wanted more to be a secret third thing.

@mntmn That's what I get for sleeping on upgrades.

@mntmn Just two seconds ago I ran reform-display-config on this machine so I can use the projectors at matrixconf in two days so... just let us know how that goes, ok?

@arstechnica

(In a Lexus design team meeting)

“Ok so.. what do we want this thing to look like?”

“Well, I’ve been thinking…”

“Yeah?”

“What if Darth Vader could scowl, but … like… with his whole helmet?”

“…”

“…”

“What if Darth Vader could scowl with his whole helmet.”

“Yeah, like… the whole thing.”

“…”

“… so….”

“Ok, we’re doing that. That is brilliant and we’re doing that.”

@foone Windows gets this wrong when you’re just copying files.

@foone I would sometimes like to be able to turn on something like “student’s syntax highlighting” in a language I don’t know, that simply explains the operator or form I’m mousing over to me like it would to somebody who doesn’t know the basics yet.

What sort of nightmare complicity is this?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

Genuinely loving the idea that somewhere out there somebody is being radicalized, right this second, by the fact that their phone can't talk to their sneakers.

"Some hope that Nike will open-source the app so that customers can maintain their shoes' original and full functionality."

What an amazing sentence.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/immensely-disappointing-nike-killing-app-for-350-self-tying-sneakers/

Fuck this guy's argument in particular.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware

@mntmn That's where booting from CDs and later USB keys got its start too.

@mntmn Is that copper sink a one-off? It's very pretty.

Watching myself talk is always agonizing, but Carol is such a great speaker and her team's research on code review anxiety and what you can do about it is so good.

Anxiety around code review is an absolutely pervasive part of the experience of being a developer on a team, for people of any degree of experience, and it doesn't need to be that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGQIdFJRtc

@wdenton those aren’t stickers. That’s a modified MNT Reform, a temple that I have erected to my own idiosyncrasies.

Tired: This meeting could have been an email.

Wired: This startup could have been a spreadsheet.