Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 47

Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor - Ken Shirriff: https://www.righto.com/2023/02/8086-interrupt.html

Fascinating read, took a bit for me to wrap my head around it.

P.S. I recommend https://simplecss.org/ , it gives a great base to build upon!

How to choose between developer tools - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/how-to-choose-between-developer-tools/

Wonder where he's getting the impression "CSS impacts performance more than you might think", from my understanding of the underlying tech I'd say aside from downloading CSS should have negligable performance costs.

On the otherhand as an implementer I must acknowledge CSS frameworks aren't incumbered by backwards compatibility to decisions innappropriate for today.

@Ateriath Sounds useful!

Guidelines for Discussing UX - @scottjenson : https://jenson.org/discuss/

These look like great tips! More-or-less what I try to do, but having it written down by someone who knows what they're talking about really helps.

I'll definitely be referencing it in any UX process!

Hmmmm, Argonaut's site code still do with nice starchart decor... Not sure where to find that?

But I've updated it, added some more distinctive fonts, & ensured it had a decent darkmode!

https://argonaut-constellation.org/

I lightweight want to make a new desktop environment experiment which uses all the fancy new portal and cross-desktop APIs, but implements them in the most Windows 95 way possible. To prove it can be done and actually serve that experience if that is what people want.

#GNOME #Flatpak #Linux #OpenSource

@suricrasia Happy birthday! Hope you have something special planned!

@debbryant @osi Definitely worth keeping an eye on this to see if any strategies come out...

Conspiracy theorists have such misplaced trust I don't know how to address it...

Found a tool which allows me to use the fonts I want on my Haphaestus website!

Conversion to webfonts + @font-face rules takes a bit, but I only really need to run it once!

@scottjenson Though those repos which don't require UX do typically require DX...

@lispi314 Well, non-devs frequently seem unable to wrap their heads around how general our jargon is...

There's real issues to discuss, but I wish it didn't get wrapped up in anti-intellectual misappropriation of jargon! Incidentally, Al Jazeera's "All Hail The Algorithm" covers these issues very well...

I've finished drafting grid layout for CatTrap/Haphaestus, I just need to write some test code! I even implemented alignment!

I have been ensuring that this successfully compiles, though a refactor to cut down on duplicate may be called for once I have it working.

After that: Integrate the 2 layout formulas & hook up CSS properties... And hopefully get something running in time for LibrePlanet talk...

@mangoiv Really it strikes me as perceived ease, "email me a link to your fork" (amongst other options) sounds easier to me. No need to sign up for yet another service!

@mangoiv Yes!!

Though I find it can be roadblock to that if we leave our projects on GitHub, leads many to assume that's the easiest way on us to contribute...

CatTrap height computation has been drafted!

Though I don't think I computed the final sizes correctly...

i hope, though, that this exponential flood of inhuman content will finally make it impossible not to see that we all have inherent value regardless of what we produce or consume.

care about the world because caring matters. make art because it matters. *you* matter. each of us contains infinities the machines will never understand. don’t let them try to tell you that you can be replaced; you can’t. none of us can.

always ask yourself who benefits from your apathy, your overwhelm, your exhaustion, your loneliness.

And yes I'm aware of how much indies currently rely on these automated recommendations. Which would leave many defending them.

This would be quite a disruption, which in this case might be beneficial.

Maybe it'd be good to prepare in case this happens? Build solidarity with other indies?

@ByronCinNZ

Software engineers delude themselves: "clean" or "simple" code is a myth. I've never seen it in my life.

All useful and enduring code necessarily becomes complex. You need engineers who can handle complexity, dive deep, make order out of chaos, propagate institutional knowledge via documentation and teaching.

Occasionally, code needs to be rewritten from scratch. But this is best managed by those intimate with the old code, who know its strengths and weaknesses, where the bodies are buried.

This topic hasn't come up much, but there is an important case that could have significant impact on how the web currently works. Gordon Campbell covers it in Scoop. I don't have the same hand-wringing the-sky-is-falling reaction to this. In fact I can envision many positive effects should the plaintiffs win.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2302/S00034/on-how-the-us-supreme-court-could-ruin-the-internet.htm