Notices by jbr (jbr@mastodon.social), page 2

At this point I approach software more like "a journey of exploration through an unknown space” than a preordained building process, so it's really humbling to be reminded that other fields can show a customer a rendering of a product and then materialize that product without adjustment or correction. There's no prototyping or iteration, they just do it right

I'm horrified imagining someone walking through literally any software construction site I've been involved with. “Oh yeah, that wall section over there is from an earlier revision but we didn't fully demolish it because it's not really in anyone's way currently.”

@mattly to be fair it *was* 2011

@mattly I was always impressed with tracker’s update frequency but do remember being annoyed that it *forced* a reload. I like how elk does that when it’s installed as a pwa: it offers an update but continues to function until you reload. I guess tracker didn’t version their api

@mattly I was really impressed when I switched iPhones recently and @ivory retained all app state including scroll position between devices after transfer

@mattly it seems like this depends on how much interaction/friction there is for the update? I’d be totally happy if every app could background update as soon as a bug was fixed

Why do we even support three term mayors, #pdx? I didn't know Wheeler _could_ run again until he announced he wasn’t

How do newspapers not have an ad free subscription tier? I have never clicked on an ad on the WaPo, but I’d happily pay a margin over whatever cpm they’re getting by showing me low quality ads. How is that not an option?

After a decade of contracting, it may be time to think about doing something other than that. I have no idea what that would be, though, or even how to find out. Maybe it’s time to find out what I do when I grow up

shocked someone who very publicly undermined vladimir vladimirovich's authority ended up in a private jet crash

iOS/security folks: what would cause an orange background on the time in the top left of an iPhone? Mic usage? How do I figure out what app is recording without my consent? Have I somehow been zero dayed? Retoots welcome, I’m moderately concerned about this

@mattly 😢

Have something you enjoy but only do once in a blue moon? Have I got a month for you!

It’s wild that this whole thing might just be a grudge from when he was ousted on his honeymoon?

So I guess you could say Elon wasn’t over his X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

@mattly I don't really have much of an opinion on namespacing, but I'm sure it's been discussed (eg https://samsieber.tech/posts/2020/09/registry-structure-influence/)

Is it just me or is the primary rust terminal coloration library really uncomfortably named? There's a long history of that word in America and it's not a neutral one.

@mattly even then, are there “many users can have their own logins to administer a single account, with granular acls and audit logging” masto/fedi implementations? Their needs aren’t the same as a single user server or a general purpose community server

What can mastodon/fediverse do to make risk-averse entities feel safe establishing a presence on here? A friend just texted that there was a plume of smoke at a location and I realized that Twitter is still the best way to get realtime updates from the city fire department. Is there a fediverse/activitypub server that would be easy and trustworthy for a local government to sign up for, with multi user access to a shared account etc?

and why is it always the most senior engineers who write the longest files