JKB @jkb@octodon.social

Google Tag Manager in approximate GitHub terms:

* GTM accounts == GitHub organisation
* GTM container == GitHub repository
* GTM workspace == Git branch

Someone in the comments of 30 weird chess algorithms suggested a "tragic backstory" variant where every piece has a vendetta against a piece on the opposing side that killed its father and just does everything in its power to capture that piece. I love it

#CSScamp @TatianaTMac@twitter.com gives us a 4 steps to properly apologise because everyone does mistakes:
1 resist the urge to centre yourself or make excuses
2 apologise for impact
3 make a plan to fix
4 remember for next time

This Twitter thread about depression is too real (CW for mental health, self-loathing, and oversharing): https://twitter.com/anne_theriault/status/1150933721224306694

is your child texting about C++?

idc - I don't const
dps - dangling pointer spaghetti
lel - linker error, lovely
kys - know your STL
irl - I'm rvaluing lvalues
smh - segfaulting my heap

Sex was invented in 1782 by John Sex, who mistakenly fell upon his wife while bathing and was subsequently excommunicated by the Catholic Church

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

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I've seen this video circulating the fediverse, on how to deal with Nazism.

It's absolutely worth watching if you haven't already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7iMAtWNAfI

Ever wondered "WTF is going on" in those related content image grids at the bottom of the articles your read", here some interesting analysis of the dark underbelly of ad-tech: Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply

"We've come up with a one-liner on our vacancies page that lets people know how awesome our company is and how cool it is to work here. Something that really tells them who we are. An authentic message, full of originality. This will definitely get anyone interested in working for us.."

"wOrK hArD pLaY hArD"

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Why the F*ck would you split up a two-line login form? Literally only asks for "username" and "password".

Your split up "login wizard" has *more* buttons, requires *more interactions* and breaks password managers.

You are making things worse.