Siilwyn @Siilwyn@mastodon.social

Want to help Fedora run an official mastodon account?

https://gitlab.com/fedora/marketing/marketing-planning/-/issues/5 #fedora

Cache rules everything around me.

I'm gonna say it. The new default GNOME theme does not look very accessible. Aesthetics are a matter of opinion but I find it really hard to determine active areas of controls and I think others will too. It's a shame.

@Eden https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

kinda mad that this is eternally relevant

Every time I have to use a browser without uBlock Origin installed, I lose a little faith in humanity. How can anyone even browse the web like that?!

"Not all Evergreen Browsers can be Updated" by Bramus https://www.bram.us/2022/02/05/not-all-evergreen-browsers-can-be-updated/

I feel like we're exiting an era of "IE11 is our baseline" and entering an era of "Well, maybe old Safari on iPad is our baseline? Or old versions of Chrome on Chromebook? Or maybe legacy Edge?" It's actually pretty confusing.

british devs starting a new project like
git innit

Design peeve: icons with a none/off/disabled state using a / stroke instead of a \ stroke.

The internationally-recognized “ban” symbol has a stroke from top-left to bottom-right, so it would make sense for your icons to, too. 😉

🚫📵🔇🚭🚯🚳🚷🔞🔕🚱 etc.

You know how docker containers get a random name assigned when you don't specify one yourself? Names are randomly generated and look like "inspiring_pike" or "competent_darwin".

Turns out there's a special check in the code that prevents it from ever generating the name "boring_wozniak" 😄

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go#L844

In the end, we might just need to embrace that incidents are uncontrollable and deploy when we have value to ship to the customer. Perhaps the code freeze is just a sense of false safety?
https://firehydrant.io/blog/avoid-frostbite-stop-doing-code-freezes/

Pokémon style exception handling: Gotta catch ‘em all!

I like typing long messages to teach people things, but for some reason I can never finish a blog post.

💥 Hello command line fans! Today we're launching our new ecosystem of apps and libraries, designed to make developing and using the CLI more fun and powerful. Follow the thread for the details 👇

Okay, why say "web browsers are hard to make, you need a huge budget to do so" instead of

Chrome wasn't built in a day

?

Users of linux distros, what is your preferred package format when not using your distro's repositories?

If you prefer something not listed please reply.

Boosts welcome.