Notices by Joe Lanman (joelanman@hachyderm.io)

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

David Foster Wallace

Classic

So Amazon Prime has ads in the middle of stuff now? They really want us to pirate huh

Any thoughts on paying into a pension vs overpaying on mortgage?

'Impossible' to create fabulous coat without stealing Dalmatian puppies says woman

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Not a great sign that Glitch.com's latest version of Node is 16, which is very old and out of support, and the default version is 10! Seems a bit dangerous. Shame as it's such a cool site

A carrot makes a pretty good stick but a stick does not make a very good carrot

Not sure how much clearer a war crime can be

https://www.msf.org/gaza-msf-condemns-deliberate-attack-convoy-transporting-staff-resulting-one-death-and-one-injury

#palestine #gaza

20 years ago you could make a website using php/python, mysql, html, CSS and JavaScript. And you can still do that today, and that's really cool. Don't worry too much about hype cycles of new web tech
#dev

I know Meta is awful but it is worth thinking about how bad an org culture has to be to launch Threads with no alt text. Surely it has to be illegal to discriminate against disabled people like that
#accessibility #threads #meta

Very cool, the W3C Design System refers to our GOV.UK Design System heavily - both in design and guidance. For example they link to our form validation guide (which I helped write) here:
https://design-system.w3.org/styles/form-validation.html
#W3C #designSystem #frontend

What's your favourite isometric game?
#gaming #videogames

@thomasfuchs With its overwhelming influence via search, Google has led us directly to current web. Most quality content behind paywalls, leaving weird content farms full of deceptive patterns. Things could have been different

Wow, @penpot's SVG import is much better than Figma's!