Vincent Tunru @vinnl@mastodon.social

The feeling when your new CI setup works on the first try.

Any moment now

Me: Oh great, someone on StackOverflow posted the exact question I have. I can probably find answers that are useful to me here!

*scrolls down to see answers*

StackOverflow community: Question closed as off-topic for not being useful to others.

Wow! Insert `/info` into a .gov.uk URL like the following, and you'll get that page's metrics and the user needs it's supposed to address: https://www.gov.uk/info/carers-allowance

(Hat tip: https://www.reddit.com/r/userexperience/comments/ceru3p/if_you_add_info_to_a_govuk_url_like_this_itll/)

In this case, I was lucky that my debugging routine included testing in Private Browsing, which happens to also be a new window. How on earth I would have reproduced the bug otherwise, I have no idea. How do 10x engineers deal with that?

Those elusive bugs, which get triggered by some usage pattern that you, the developer, never seem to exhibit.

Who uses multiple browser windows? Are tabs not good enough for you?

And of course, the actual fix turns out to be a one-liner.

Question: as a lowly employee of a very homogenous small-but-growing organisation, what can you do to increase diversity in that organisation, along practically every axis?

Parts of the org want to grow this, but do not quite know how to, I think. Lots of hiring is via our own network, which probably doesn't help - mine is not that diverse either, unfortunately.

If I can provide feedback to our job ads, I suggest fewer masculine-coded words. What else can I do?

I just learned that websites can mark password fields as `new-password`, and that at least Firefox is working on using it to autogenerate strong passwords for new users. Together with Mozilla's recent focus on Lockwise, this should make password managers a lot more accessible to more people.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion#Preventing_autofilling_with_autocompletenew-password

I'm not sure what people mean when they say that WebAssembly is the new Flash. Flash was bad because:

- it did not integrate with the rest of the DOM, at all.
- it frequently made your browser crash or grind to a halt.
- it was proprietary and controlled by a single company.
- it came with considerable security risks.

None of those hold for WebAssembly, as far as I can see. Is the problem just that it's harder to 'View Source', like it is for minified Javascript?

> In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

> We answer this question in the affirmative: (...) merely 93% of paint splatters parse as valid Perl.

The idea is very funny, the presentation is hilarious.

http://colinm.org/sigbovik/

Aargh. I just pressed Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W, and after a restart of Firefox, the Google Inbox tab I had open started redirecting to Gmail >.<

"I don't really want to argue against optional chaining because it's so popular and I don't want to make enemies, but here's how *other* people might argue against it."

- @rauschma