georg fischer @snorpey@mastodon.social

"This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 mins, then sorts... with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to-discussion ratio... because controversial pieces tend to produce a disproportionate number of comments..."

http://hn.elijames.org

The idea that Google’s interest in replacing the URL might stem from a desire to consolidate AMP honsetly has me quite worried. See https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/amp-urls and https://adactio.com/links/14316

AMP is a fucking atrocity https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/

imagine generic AP servers in every language you know, with pluggable frontends

Imagining if Mastodon called instances "neighborhoods" instead. The metaphor works really well IMO and doesn't sound like robot-speke.

Ein ruhendes Android-Telefon, bei dem Google Chrome im Hintergrund läuft, gibt in einem Zeitraum von 24 Stunden satte 340 mal den Standort an Google durch.

Das ist das Ergebnis der wohl bislang umfangreichsten Studie zu Googles Tracking-Verhalten.

https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/

"What do you mean be 'hard coded' in the program?"

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So far my fav way to find people here is browsing the followers/following lists of the people I follow and who follow me.

Don't

"I'd like to add you to my professional network on Mastodon."

Vanilla is now more expensive per ounce than silver (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44006176). So when you hear "Vanilla JavaScript" think "something increasingly rare which should be treasured"!

Junior dev: "I found the bug"

Senior dev: "I found a bug"

"Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?" by Steve Klabnik https://words.steveklabnik.com/is-webassembly-the-return-of-java-applets-flash

Thankfully, the answer is no. 😁

"The current state of web design" http://fczbkk.com/current-state-of-webdesign/

RT @textfiles@twitter.com
So, 500px, which positioned itself as a Flickr alternative, has announced they're deleting/removing access to all Creative Commons photos on their site. Like, tomorrow. https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005097533 NO warning.

Cheap roomba!