Padraic Harley @pauricthelodger@mastodon.social

Meanwhile, at Facebook...

A great explanation from one of the developers, of why #wsl (the #linux layer on #windows) is so slow.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425272829

Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history

@matrix :

"Neat URL" is an amazing Firefox extension which cleans up all the utm_shit parameters

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/

"Nobody likes a lying asshole."

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/

Mastodon as a Sidebar (Firefox add-on) by @soapdog is really neat! Just tried it out today and it works surprisingly well. Uses Pinafore under the hood, so you can log in to multiple instances. Pressing Shift-Alt-M will close or open it. Cool use case! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-as-a-sidebar/

Something that often gets missed out when talking about on-call culture are a pair of concepts that go hand in hand: continuous feedback, and paying down tech debt.

We often speak about these in other aspects of software engineering but I think they're actually most (1/)

"My dad says you have a weak WiFi password and poor taste in movies."
- My kid talking to the new neighbour just now.

Awkward...

@strypey

Back in the GTalk days, you could talk to your entire Google contacts list via federated XMPP.

So even back then I had way more contacts on XMPP than GNUSocial or Identica.

Google played a large role in killing off XMPP usage and the day they announced sunsetting GTalk was when I realized they're just another embrace-extend-extinguish monopolist.

Society needs self-hostable, scalable and functional alternatives to surveillance capitalist systems of manipulation and censorship.

GSuite - is it treated differently in terms of data collection vs a free google account?

The short answer: no. The data is still collected. Some wordplay around policies regarding consent.

So dont think that paying for google services sets you in a different class of surveillance.

You Need Neither AMP Nor PWA to Make Your Website Load Fast: http://tonsky.me/blog/pwa/

"It would’ve been ok if ServiceWorker was a tradeoff: you pay complexity fee but get exciting new capabilities. Except you don’t. Nothing useful that you can do with ServiceWorker you can’t do with HTTP cache/AJAX/REST/Local Storage. It’s just a complexity hole you’ll sink countless workhours in."

I was thinking that mastophilia could be a good word to describe love of Mastodon until I realised that it really just means love of boobies.

On the Edge team, we had a *whole team* dedicated to finding compat bugs, reducing them, and reaching out to site owners with fixes. Sometimes we would reach out to a site owner and they'd say, "Sorry, you don't have enough market share for us to bother fixing this bug."

This is where we get -webkit prefixed CSS in the standard, as well as de-facto standards and "works best in Chrome." This is why both Opera and Edge switched to Chromium.