Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 3

> inkscape 1.2 released

That's unnatural! Inkscape is supposed to be 0.46.x! You blink and a decade or more wooshes by.

Still waiting for anyone in the office or any visiting interviewees to comment on it.

It took some of them two years to discover and comment on the fact that my mug, thermos, my usual office pants and half of the shirts I would wear to the office were all pink, so I'm waiting patiently.

@RussSharek @krusynth @docpop @wcbdata @vkc

If the icon is "a..z" with an arrow up through it, I suppose that makes unambiguous sense as "ascending as you go up", i.e. descending order.

So then I don't have a logical complaint, only my complaint that my conditioning tells me the arrow should be the other way.

> What do you think about the sorted bar stacks, with the longer bar at the top for decreasing and the longer bar at the bottom for increasing?

@hypolite Sounds intuitive! Maybe it's because it's so intuitive that I don't remember ever seeing one, like a good movie soundtrack you don't remember hearing. 😊

Addendum: Except for the parts that literally literally run on Excel.

@davidculley I've been here since 20. 16 when I had a GNUSocial instance. I have seen it grow and grow, I really like it, it is the only place I know where microblogging really works and stays true to the connected village feel that 2009 Twitter had, before it became all angry

Bluesky still feels very ragey to me.

@hypolite I kind of get where they're coming from, values go up as you go up maybe? But it doesn't match the word. And I don't go up from the column header. Or maybe they mean that the uppiest value comes just after the header.

Whatever they mean, it doesn't work for me and it's not how I remember any of this iconography being in the 90s. Whether you were in Excel, Lotus Notes or Explorer, I'm pretty sure up was ascending and down was descending.

"Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who are great at writing code are terrible at shipping." I think not just big tech: many orgs are like this. #Technology https://werd.io/2024/how-i-ship-projects-at-big-tech-companies

Late Night with Seth Meyers: "Rebecca Ferguson Completely Takes Over Seth’s Interview (Extended)"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq…

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

-- Blaise Pascal

Ideally, we would explore software in the glue-and-duct-tape cowboy mode, and later as our domain was better understood we'd go back and rework it with the knowledge we've gained. But nobody has the time; New exploration beckons, and in a competitive environment you need to move forward just to stand still.

Islands of careful development exist, and you occasionally get lone wolves, or non-profits with resources, who can work on a common problem with particularly bad existing solutions, but they are the exceptions to the rule.

@eigen I struggle a lot with this, and I think "Worse Is Better" is exactly the key.

I think "Worse Is Better" is equal parts on one side an intrinsically good and important thing and on the other side a disease brought on by capitalism.

Prioritizing resources, releasing early and often, avoiding overengineering and focusing on value are agile and lean practices, and I believe they are good practices.

Thinking shortsightedly, suboptimizing and failing to use resources efficiently from a societal perspective are capitalist problems, and can be amplified by agile and lean processes.

We poop code because it's easy to measure, we release features instead of long-term infrastructure because it's easy to measure, we build new things instead of maintaining old things because it provides visibility, we build towers of leaky and haphazard abstractions because time to market is king.

@eigen "and rare, high-impact events aren't usually handled well in any context: not just software"

Yes. This is a collective action problem, and difficult to solve within capitalism.

Wonderful, wonderful, sweet, slow and thoughtful interview with Robert Picardo (Emergency Medical Hologram on "Star Trek: Voyager" 30 years ago) on entering the Star Trek family and lifelong commitment, living the Star Trek life, and on being the bridge between the past and future of the franchise in the upcoming "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy", which may come out early 2026.

TVO Today, The Agenda: "Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=2SAb93Cdm0…

#StarTrek #voyager #StarTrekVoyager
#StarTrekStarfleetAcademy #StarfleetAcademy
#RobertPicardo