Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 26

@grebert @irenerd Alt text: Comic: “ADL field guide” Open book. On left page, under the heading “Anti-Semitism”, a woman wearing a Free Palestine top and head scarf yells into a megaphone while holding a Palestinian flag. On the right page, under the heading “Not Anti-Semitism”, Elon Musk gives a Hitler salute.

@ichbindabomb I just wish sense was more common :)

Adding more beautiful error messages to Kitten. These should help make it easier to recover from common errors while authoring.

https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten #errorMessages #design #usability #authoring #SmallWeb #SmallTech #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS #server #framework #platform #web #dev

@ichbindabomb And yet, also:

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed.

A talk from six years ago… about everything that’s even more important today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Go4uPdysU

#technology #tech #society #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #SmallWeb #SmallTech #democracy #socialJustice

@_elena Please do… the more the merrier.

Here’s one of mine in case you need any more fuel for the fire :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Go4uPdysU

@shankarux Thanks and please let me know how you get on and if you encounter any issues. Happy to help if I can.

PS. Love your bio. If only it were the norm, we would be half way to solving the problem.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. https://mstdn.social/@sunscream/113871816154807633

So last night, while recording the preview of Kitten’s¹ improved component model², I made a silly mistake (copying raw HTML into a JavaScript function instead of wrapping it in a kitten.html`` tagged template, easy to do when you’re refactoring to pull out components from pages).

Then, once I figured out what I’d done, I made another one by forgetting to return the value from the function (easy to do when you’re used to using one-line closures as render functions).

I would have caught both of those so much faster if Kitten had helpful error messages for those two pitfalls. And guess what, this morning, it does :)

Attached are screenshot showing the before and after error messages.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² Scroll up the thread to watch the video.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #PeerToPeerWeb #web #server #framework #platform #design #usability #errorMessages #authoring #dev #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #htmx #hypermedia #WebSocket #StreamingHTML #SmallTech

@markuswerle 💕

@thin_line Thanks :) 💕

You should definitely not print this out and put it on people’s Teslas.

#ElonMusk #Tesla #fascism #USA #TeslaShame https://mastodon.social/@shametesla/113865510106282749

@m0xee Yeah, man, exactly the fucking same thing. Thanks, I know we live in a sewer and I’m doing the best I can by USING what’s there. How the fuck is that the same as TAKING MONEY FROM them?

But yeah, sure, what the fuck ever.

Meta are fascists and they can go fuck themselves.

#fascism #Meta #USA #BigTech #SiliconValley https://dragonscave.space/@Woody/113868374275530051

PS/ I make silly mistake while copying and pasting at one point in the video and I don’t catch it right away as I apparently don’t save the file although I thought I had. Anyway, the still frame in the video contains the mistake:

The <h1 morph>${new Date()}</h1> line should be contained in a kitten.html`` tagged template.

(In the video I only catch the issue when updating the example to make into a persisted counter to show off Kitten’s internal JavaScript database, JSDB.)

PS. The code you see is all the code in an app that streams a new date to the client whenever a button is pressed. All of it. No other files. Nada. You start kitten and it works (once you’ve fixed my mistake.) ;)

@debacle Sure.

I mean, if Greenpeace allow ExxonMobil and Shell to sponsor them, they can’t really be that bad, can they.

These, environmentalists (extremists, really) must be off their rockers. There’s no way Greenpeace would allow themselves to be sponsored by ExxonMobil and Shell if those companies were bad for the environment.

No, clearly, these are environmentally friendly companies.

Dril, baby, drill!

Little preview video: Kitten’s improved component model

• Class-based page routes and components
• Object-oriented
• Event-based
• Seamless hypermedia-driven WebSocket-based event mapping and interface updates (Streaming HTML)
• A light server-side live component hierarchy with event bubbling
• Almost as if you’re building a desktop or mobile app instead of a web app…

… another authoring simplification made possible because on the Small Web you build a web app/site as a tool for one person (the owner of the site/app) instead of as a tool for you to farm millions of people.

… still experimental ;)

https://vimeo.com/1049055406

Learn more about Kitten:

https://kitten.small-web.org

If you like what you see and want us to keep existing, we could definitely use your support:

https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #StreamingHTML #objectOriented #eventBased #hypermedia #htmx #WebSocket #HTML #JavaScript #CSS #NodeJS

Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.

It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.

The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.

It’ll be fine…

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#FOSDEM #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook https://mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/113859797648383354

@debacle You should tell Greenpeace that. The idiots have been turning down money from ExxonMobil and Shell for years now. What fools, amirite?

@afewbugs @tansy Thanks. Sounds about par for the course.