Notices by Ænðr E. Feldstraw (aeveltstra@mastodon.social)

@fesshole lmao!

@fesshole I count myself as lucky for having found my spouse, due to our shared interest in music and theatre performance. I don't think I'd be able to stay with someone long-term if they only know Beethoven from the dog movie.

@fesshole isn't that a little on the nose, from your mom?

@mcc Software engineer here. I feel that daily. Between things I can't change to things I'm not allowed to change, every day is a struggle. And the real pain: I know what computers are capable of. People just refuse to let it happen.

@clacke How's this?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/128929826

@clacke I'll write one. Good prompt!

25 Years ago I majored in Political Science and Comparative Culture. I never finished that study. But it did open my eyes to the pervasiveness of politics. My posts here tend to focus on developing software, securing information, making music, and my family. I strongly believe that those unaware (or ignorant) of politics and history wind up making software that hurts lots of people.

@WarnerCrocker I wonder what they expected when they decided that the US President is, in fact, above the law? How is it that none of these justices vetoed that decision for recognizing it only results in a dictatorship? How dare they still claim to be the Supreme Court, rather than Trump's Private Puppets?

A long time ago when developing a software application using the MS VBA programming language, used to automate MS Office applications each of which seemed mostly a black box full of wizardry, I noticed one of the procedures failed to have the desired effect.

Why the procedure failed we never figured out, but we fixed it by duplicating its final instruction. Yes: just do that twice, for good measure.

"Return even harder," as @puniko puts it.

Cybersecurity be like

@dansup that's the spirit! Haters gonna hate. Ignore and move on.

@dansup @loops Does it page from one loop to the next using standard keyboard buttons (page up/down, space) and mouse/touch gestures? If so, that'd make me happy.

Move Files: a #tinytool

We released a tiny tool that moves files.

It is written in the #haskell programming language. The full source code is available as #FOSS (free and open-source software) on CodeBerg, here: https://codeberg.org/OmegaJunior/move-files

You will need to download the #GHC and cabal to compile it.

Please don't replace #GUI widgets with images. This is supposed to be a sliding on and off switch. An image replaces the check box. But if that image doesn't load, the result becomes #unusable

#usability #accessibility #webapp #software #failurenotes

@Gargron Please avoid devolving into Microsoft Outlook, which won’t even let us copy a user’s email address anymore without opening yet another dialog screen that also refuses to let us copy the shown email address unless we specifically press the copy button. They created 3 actions and a wait time for what could have been as simple as ctrl-c.

@tk The Musky wishy-washy car?

@puniko Wow, that's hard.

@hypolite Why sad? Doesn't everyone carry around a multifunctional communicator that at the very least displays current time?

Remember today all USA cell phones will sound a test alarm. If you have a phone hidden, turn it off.

@youronlyone Hello! Do you perchance speak native Pinoy? I'm looking for names of weekdays. Does Pinoy culture count time in weekdays like Israelites and Europeans do? If so, how do they name their weekdays? Are they named after deities, planets, a numbering system, or something else?