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I make some bits of the web Elsewhere: http://200ok.blog/ https://mastodon.social/@200ok https://www.instagram.com/200ok/ Melbourne, Australia (recently ex Sydney). he/him

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Shalalalalalalalaaala

11.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

come to think of it, it's almost a surprise Teenage Engineering haven't released an electric fiddle

10.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Confluence digest email header with scribbles on top of a badly laid out heading

Confluence digest email header with scribbles on top of a badly laid out heading

Every time I see this, I'm absolutely gobsmacked they shipped it. This is enterprise software, not a teenager's notepad. But if you're going to go that way at least include a Universal S or something and properly lean into it.

10.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now would be a good time to release a report into price sensitivity of different forms of energy generation capacity.

Wind = nil
Solar = nil
Oil = holy shit
Gas = hold my beer

09.03.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Web Components Demystified online course | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer A comprehensive, premium course about building dynamic, fast, resilient apps with standard web components.

Want to learn all about web components this week? My 8-hour online course, Web Components Demystified, is on sale for $10 through March 13th. Use the code JUST10

scottjehl.com/learn/webcom...

07.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

Just to complete the set: yes you should always check - and I mean really check, go read their policies - any independents on your ballots. They remain wildcards who could be anywhere at all across the political gamut. #auspol

07.03.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you consider yourself a leftie, you really need to be voting Green and preferencing Labor and Teals. It's as good as you are going to get for the time being. You don't have to wuv any of them. But keeping the Coalition out is a sound tactic. #auspol #SoAnywayVoteGreen

07.03.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can find some actually-left to far-left candidates if you really dig in senate ballots but none of the parties you regularly hear about are far left. The idea there is a large radical left movement is a deeply ridiculous take from clickbait factories. #auspol

07.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People need to accept that Labor is centre-right, not left. Coalition is right to far right depending on the reigning internal faction. Teals centre-right only because environmental issues are considered "left". Greens are centre-left. Most other minor parties like PHON are far-right. #auspol

07.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

With LLMs, developers are QAs now.

Developers generally being surprisingly bad at QA* could not possibly be a problem with this model.

(* "whaddaymean? It has tests!")

07.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Request for developer feedback: focusgroup Β |Β  Blog Β |Β  Chrome for Developers Try out focusgroup and comment on the proposal.

Exciting! Request for developer feedback: focusgroup HTML attribute "a proposed declarative way to add keyboard arrow-key navigation to composite widgets such as toolbars, tablists, menus, listboxes, etc. Replaces hundreds of lines of JavaScript boilerplate." developer.chrome.com/blog/focusgr...

06.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Needs a "holy shit ship it immediately" button.

07.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Like Cockatoos
Like Cockatoos YouTube video by The Cure - Topic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvu...

05.03.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Simon the Magpie has probably already wired one up to a circuit-bent children's toy and run the output through a homemade reverb made of slinkies.

05.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No right to relicense this project Β· Issue #327 Β· chardet/chardet Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

Of all the things to bring Mark Pilgrim back online.

github.com/chardet/char...

05.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Once We Were Spacemen on Instagram: "Wait… time for what? What’s it time for?" 300K likes, 12K comments - oncewewerespacemen on February 23, 2026: "Wait… time for what? What’s it time for?".

If they're messing with us, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end them.

www.instagram.com/p/DVHV3_ljlh7/

04.03.2026 06:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2000s: code is free (as in speech)
2010s: code is free (as in beer)
2020s: code is free (as in puppy)

27.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

That's going to turn into payola faster than you can say "sponsored result"

01.03.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

27.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 9892 πŸ” 2800 πŸ’¬ 202 πŸ“Œ 128
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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI Department of Defense and artificial intelligence company were unable to reach agreement before deadline

Amodei is right, the tech isn't reliable enough for military use without guard rails. The big shock is that the AI companies are trying to resist even a little bit.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

28.02.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

> "Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons, and there are no laws or regulations yet that cover how AI could be used in mass surveillance."

edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/t...

25.02.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

- put that "person" through your performance review process?

- assess the single-"person" risk created if they "know" everything about a codebase or process?

- assess their flight risk? (if the vendor folds or suffers a system collapse tomorrow, what happens to your org?)

(2/2)

25.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you accept that AI agents act like a human team member, do you also...

- specify what level that "person" is operating at (junior, IC, senior)?

- specify who hires, manages or fires them?

(1/2)

25.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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x86CSS x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

> "x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS."

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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una.im | border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web Learn about new geometry capabilities with this game-changing experimental CSS feature.

I've been experimenting with an upcoming CSS feature called border-shape lately.

It's really cool what you can do with it: lots of practical applications + it opens a lot of doors for non-rectangular UIs!

Try it in Canary w/experimental web platform features on, & read more:

una.im/border-shape

19.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

18.02.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 20520 πŸ” 6590 πŸ’¬ 468 πŸ“Œ 455

Incredible how much the media has spent talking about hate speech laws and yet none of the thousands of articles on Hanson mention she recently was found by a federal court of breaching hate speech laws.

19.02.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 307 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

FENTOOOOOOOOON

19.02.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera πŸ˜†

18.02.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 10586 πŸ” 2685 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 261

It's got this terrible pain in the diodes down its left side

19.02.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0