Notices by Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org), page 3

@hongminhee I meant that “pre-release” is the stupid term. Call it “development” or “unstable.”

@hongminhee It’s a stupid term for it. https://semver.org/#spec-item-9

@hongminhee But… it was already *released.* It’s in a public source code repository. You can download it.

I think you mean a “development” release.

@hongminhee @fediversereport How do you “pre-release” open source software?

@newsmast The #Newsmast app simplifies and sands down too much of #Mastodon to be my daily driver. Examples I’ve found so far:
• moving inline hashtags such as those above to the end of the post
• reducing accessibility by smashing CamelCase hashtags to lowercase
• no way to limit posts to “unlisted,” “followers only,” or “mentioned only” (a/k/a “private” messages)
• no draft posts
• no apparent way to set content warnings or honor filters

I’m trying out the #Newsmast app for #Mastodon by @newsmast.

Interesting idea, trying to bootstrap discussion by curating other accounts and hashtags into “communities,” then encouraging users to post to them.

#SocialMedia #technology #tech

I’m looking forward to following #Bluesky accounts here. It seems like the other side has lots of knobs for twiddling opaque algorithms and all my follows, but precious few for moderating what I see from the *individual* “knobs” I follow there.

@andybaio Wasn’t that #Yahoo at first? Sites were added and organized by hand IIRC, and the name stood for Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works.

#TechnicalDebt #TechDebt #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #development

@evan @popey A PWA is the moral equivalent of an Electron app with a shared runtime. Count the latter too?

@evan Remember the HTC First with #Facebook?

Or the #Amazon Fire phone?

@neffo @troed @dukope I also carry a torch for the #Amiga, having grown up in #Commodore's backyard in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and owned an #A500. But both the #Workbench 1.x and 2.x-onward default red mouse pointers were garish. probably deliberately so to contrast with the TV-friendly background colors.

#RetroComputing #CommodoreAmiga

@NanoRaptor oh Brother

@es0mhi Next year will be my thirtieth in this field. I’ll let you know how it goes. 😁

@feoh @spacewizard Some advice for @jimsalter from this #Perl hacker: publicly yucking someone else’s #programming yum is a career-limiting move

@clacke @gwadej As a nerdy white boy in the Philadelphia suburbs, I connected more with #3rdBass than, say, #BeastieBoys’ “Licensed to Ill." The latter’s following sample-heavy “Paul's Boutique” was more my style, though. I'm also a fan of Bomb Squad era #PublicEnemy from the same period.

Fun fact: “The Gas Face” helped launch the career of masked British-American rapper #MFDoom (then known as “Zev Love X”):
https://songwhip.com/mf-doom
https://songwhip.com/madvillain

#HipHop #music

@gwadej :: gives @clacke the gas face ::

https://songwhip.com/3rd-bass/the-gas-face

@Perl Happy 36th #birthday to the #Perl #programming language!

v1.0 then:
“Perl is kind of designed to make #awk and #sed semi-obsolete […] The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).” https://github.com/Perl/perl5/releases/tag/perl-1.0

v5.38.2 now:
“Perl is […] now used for a wide range of tasks including #SysAdmin, #WebDev, network programming, #GUI development, and more.” https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro#What-is-Perl%3F

@james And here’s hoping someone realizes those skills are very transferable to other languages and platforms

@delfuego @TomSellers @electronjs After using the above command and pulling down any available updates, I still have the following vulnerable #Electron-based apps on my #Mac:

#AdGuard for #Safari (Electron v18.3.15)
#HTTPie (21.2.0)
#Jabra Direct (16.2.2)
#Keybase (22.1.0)
#Logitech Logi Options+ (23.1.1)
#Logseq (24.6.3)
#Postman (18.3.5) @getpostman
#Rancher Desktop (20.3.8)
#Microsoft Teams (19.1.8)
#WhatsApp (13.6.9)