Notices by Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)

List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Lists of Falsehoods Programmers Believe

If any journalist going to WWDC is reading this, I would love it if you could press folks involved with App Review to give a statement on what their plan is for when armed DOGE agents extrajudicially seize the app store's datacenters in order to deploy tracking software to migrants & trans people's phones.

Not a shitpost; this is a serious question. This is not a plan that we will get to develop after the fact. Do they have a hot spare of their trust root in a different jurisdiction?

this is an excellent example of why awareness of gender-neutral pronouns is important https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3ll7xn343y222

Referring to the CIA agent named by the fascist clown-car group chat as "her" is leaking an additional bit of information about the named agent, a sloppy and embarrassing own-goal by Goldberg in a story just full to bursting with sloppy and embarrassing own-goals, even while he is trying to be responsible.

I am obviously not going to be *too* mad at him. But using gendered pronouns all the time when discussing persons of indeterminate gender is just a bad habit we should all be trying to break.

I did it and you can watch it, if you are interested. Pretty chill, just slogging through interacting with the macOS notifications API, with not much in the way of running anything, but still, if you would like to watch it, here you go: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2415076217

Oh hey it's that time that I said, in just a minute or two come watch me do some #python #opensource #livestreaming on various things

I will be streaming on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ at 10AM US/Pacific (or, in about 11½ hours from this post), writing some python code and generally trying to pretend that progress can be made and that things still mean things.

Oh and probably doing some UX work to make my password-memorizer actually generally useful, like making it emit notifications about its schedule.

sometimes just the threat of an *implied* audience can make me pay attention

maybe the real executive function was the friends we made along the way

going to go live in a moment at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official — please feel free to drop by and help me finish adding websockets natively to twisted

this one was chill even by my standards, to the point of sedation (disregarding spam, exactly one word in chat, iconic) but I did in fact make a bunch of progress on websockets https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2410923169

@jalefkowit in hindsight you can definitely see Elon's hand poking through into the design and manufacturing processes in the earlier models, with the panel gaps and the big stupid iPad knockoff and the racist assembly lines and so on, but yeah, the Cybertruck is a dramatic gravitational collapse, a veritable black hole of his personal id

@onelson @chrisjrn getting rid of GNU would be such a big improvement to _so_ many people's lives, and yet

@Gargron not only did I not know that the button was there, now that I have clicked it, I have no idea what it does

Don't tell independent journalists what tools to use, or police their language or terminology, unless you have some reason to believe that they're not going to send you straight to spam. It's the same dynamic with volunteer open source maintainers. You don't have to give money, but give *something*. File some good bug reports, volunteer to triage, write some patches, do *something* before you start demanding that the project make major direction changes or similar.

The general rule that I *try* to follow in situations like this is "first, establish a relationship".

If you're going to make unprompted demands of someone or even give them unsolicited advice, you need to give them a reason to care. There should be *some* level of reciprocity involved. Find a way to support their work. Join a common organization. Develop some resources to *help* them do the thing that you're asking them to do. Just… something. Anything.

I have complicated feelings about Taylor's work and I definitely do not fully endorse the argument she is making here but there is an undeniable emotional truth to these words that I think we should all consider before chiming in about platform/tech choice, however politely we think we are when we attempt to do so

(edit: original post was deleted, so, for context, Taylor Lorenz was very upset by someone telling her that "Substack is a nazi bar and many won't boost links to it".)

The original quote was not an exhortation *to* "eat the rich!". The version attributed to Rousseau is: "When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."

I am confused by the fact that rich people look at the people shouting "eat the rich" and try to shut them up, rather than *give them literally anything else to eat*. In the quote as in real life, "the rich" are the *last* option. Everybody *wants* to eat something else.

@TTimo I am staring at that ethernet cable and thinking that I am clearly seeing Chekhov's attac

@jacob speaking for myself I feel like I have a long view of the industry where I can understand the sorts of cycles that it goes through, and can make broadly accurate long-term predictive statements. but understanding what *part* of the cycle we are in right now, how it differs from the previous iterations, when the next turn of the wheel is likely to happen (etc) does make that long-term understanding pretty worthless to anyone trying to decide what they should do *now*