Notices by Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)

Love this from @tim about why HTML is a language (fuck your semantics) and also the most important programming language ever. https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

This is the dumbest naming strategy I’ve ever seen in my life. Way to take the worst things from Apple and somehow make them even more confusing. This is not an improvement, Dell! via https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement

Jimmy Carter :(

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from my family to yours!

Holy fucking shit https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/nyc-subway-fire-woman-death/index.html

Big news! We’ve got a new free tier of GitHub Copilot right inside of VS Code! https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/

@Ric by default it does include prompt or suggestion collection but you can turn that off with one click by going to https://github.com/settings/copilot and deselect “allow GitHub to use my code snippets from the code you editor for product improvements.” This feature is NOT enabled for any Business/Enterprise account and Pro users have the option to turn it off during signup. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/managing-copilot/managing-copilot-as-an-individual-subscriber/managing-copilot-policies-as-an-individual-subscriber#enabling-or-disabling-prompt-and-suggestion-collection

You know the real irony is that the game was called “Mario is Missing.”

The last 14 hours: a thread 🧵
8:15pm I arrive at the airport for a flight to Seoul. I realize I don’t have my passport.

It is not at my parents house and I’m unable to find it. I’ve lost it in the last 24 hours.

I start to research emergency passport options.

At this point, I’m still planning on going to Seoul unless there is some sort of grounding.

Fun fact: Delta’s reservation line (for Diamond Medallions anyway) is not working. At all. Like the lines are down.

10:00am - My mom tells me my old passport was found in the parking lot of the doctors office. Of course, this is now too late as I’ve already had my old one canceled. RIP good photo

10:20am - I learn South Korea has declared Martial Law

8:15am - my mom (who has driven 45 minutes in traffic to the doctor’s office where I was on Sunday) reports they do not have my passport. I proceed to get a new one

9:00am - I am told I’ll have a new passport at 2:30pm with much worse photo than before

9:05am - I rebook my flight for tomorrow am

12:00am - I make an appointment at the Atlanta Passport Agency for 8:30am. Shoutout to my mom who had a copy of my birth certificate, as my other copy was 3000 miles away in Seattle

8:00am - I’m informed I can’t use my good passport photo that I got 4 months ago and have to get a shitty one at CVS

Anyway, if you thought you had a bad day, please feel better it wasn’t mine

Remarkably, I haven’t screamed or cried once. All you can do is laugh.

Ok #lazyweb - I’ve been doing Duolingo for the first time in like 11 years and it is sort of spammy and I don’t know how much I’m learning but they are about to make me subscribe to Super. But are there any better alternatives? My fear is I’m not learning that much.

Amazing new error message at ATL

OK, this kind of fucks. Too much personalization is cringe but this is a nice touch from Marriott. And now I shall put on Netflix and sleep.

@phaedral maybe we need to be better and smarter about how we work tho. Because this hasn’t worked. I’m not saying we need to do the autopsy now. I can’t event contemplate it at this point. But we have to reassess our tactics and our leaders if we ever want the work to produce positive results. And that starts by acknowledging that we lost. We lost. And there is no sugar-coating that. Our work was not good enough. Our work was rejected.

Once again: we’re allowed to be fucking heartbroken and angry. I’m not saying that we can be mad forever. I’m saying we’re allowed to be angry and sad today. All this “now it’s time to work” bullshit is just that. Bullshit. People are allowed to feel what they feel. And be fucking honest: the work wasn’t enough this time. At all. At all.

It will never not be funny seeing the non-Atlanta-based CNN anchors attempt to explain metro-Atlanta to the general populous. Like, you have people who you can bring in to explain this to everyone! Like, these people are in the control room in Atlanta! Your network was founded in Altanta!