mathew ✅ @mathew@mastodon.social

Ugh, I could have sworn I had a nice clear example of custom constraint validation around here somewhere...

This article pretty much covers the whole RMS situation.
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84

I've been wondering for months when RMS's #MeToo moment would arrive.
https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794

I thought I had a bug because the timestamps were an hour off. After messing with the database for a while I suddenly realized they're *correct* because they're an hour different -- the production server is one hour east, in a different time zone.

Any JavaScript front-end frameworks I should look at to make life easier?

Requirements:

- No virtual or shadow DOM.
- No mixing JS, HTML, CSS together.
- ES6 modules.

MIT Media Lab's moral vacuum over taking money from Epstein harkens back to when they failed to help Aaron Swartz for fear of alienating corporate donors.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-moral-rot.html

I'm trying the whole mailing list thing.
https://buttondown.email/meta/archive/the-weekly-whatever-not-written-by-bedbugs/

Recently wrote about Apple Card and Brexit on my web site. (Separate articles.)
http://meta.ATH0.com/

Google bypassing GDPR protections you say? Fancy that!
https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/

Reasons to stop buying from Amazon, number N (I've lost count) of a series:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon-next-day-delivery-deaths

If you've ever wanted to move files bigger than 4GiB around on USB drives, this is good news:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-readies-exfat-patents-for-linux-and-open-source/

A lot of people have missed the point with the Apple credit card. Whatever you might think of the company, it's a product nobody else has tried yet: a credit card that tries to maximize user privacy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/

The feeling of terror and desire to procrastinate when faced with running a large chunk of new code.

The feeling of relief when you knock out a few bugs and it basically works.

http://meta.ath0.com/2019/08/i-like-big-buttes/

Me: I shall get expensive corn-free soy-free organic parrot food for the parakeets.

Parakeets: Ooh, dried poop under the perch. *nom nom*

Andy Ngo thread.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1163895246213779458.html

(Sees name on screen)

"Hedgecock... Oh yeah, that's also one of the rejected Pokemon."

"Uh..."

"It's basically a hedgehog..."

"What is wrong with your brain?"

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/08/15/bandcamp-buchla-synths-music/

I have returned home from a vacation in the deserts of west Texas. I can report that it looks just like Red Dead Redemption. Saw some tumbleweed, roadrunners, lots of cactus and vultures.

Mostly for @ceejbot :
https://gamerant.com/30-50-feral-hogs-skyrim-mod/