Elijah Miller (@jqr.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy)

As a society, how have we not fixed the Tornado Watch/Warning debacle yet?

(He says like we fix any of the longstanding issues. 🤦‍♂️)

11.03.2026 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course @jnunemaker was right.

Conductor + Claude + Rails is fucking amazing.

I'm just casually working through 5-10 things simultaneously.

11.02.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Finally worked through the ruby segfaults I was seeing when with Rails parallel tests. Some macOS pg gem forking bs.

But now that it's fixed the test suite went from 150s -> 30s. Life changing for development.

06.02.2026 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@tonydewan.com he’s so good. Been a thing on TikTok for a while.

22.01.2026 03:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This perfectly captures the current state of mess with macOS menu icons.

Feels very much like someone is checking boxes of "all menu items have icons" instead of "the menu icons are useful."

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

16.01.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can we return to the time where taking a loud phone meeting at a cofffe shop was frowned upon?

Not one, but TWO of them happening simultaneously rn.

05.11.2025 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

### key takeaway California’s universal school meal program ensures all students have access to nutritious meals at school regardless of family income. This program combats childhood hunger, simplifies administration for schools, and has inspired similar initiatives in other states. No child in California should go hungry. While families across the country face significant price increases in groceries and other basic needs, California schools have played a central role in making sure that children have access to nutritious meals regardless of their families’ income level. In the 2022-23 school year, California became the first state to provide free school meals to any child regardless of whether they were eligible for the free or reduced-price meals as defined by the federal government. Since then, seven other states have passed similar policies, recognizing the benefits universal school meals provide to families and schools. **California policymakers should continue to protect universal school meal programs to support children’s health and well-being.** Limiting free school lunches to families who meet a certain income threshold would be harmful to children’s health and would also increase the administrative burden for schools. ### WHat is food insecurity? Food insecurity is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In contrast, food security is when all people have access to enough food for an active, healthy life at all times. ### 1. **Reverting to the Federal School Meal Program Would Exclude Many Families Facing Food Insecurity** The California Universal School Meals Program (UMP) has expanded access to school meals to all children, well beyond what the federal government requires. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP), the two federally funded school meal programs, cap income eligibility at 130% and 185% of the federal poverty line (FPL), respectively. In California, that would mean that a family of four must have a total income of at most $39,000 for the children to qualify for free school meals and at most $55,500 to qualify for reduced-price meals in the current school year. However, 44% of food-insecure families in California had incomes above 185% of the FPL in 2022.1Based on Budget Center analysis of US Census Bureau, Current Population Survey for 2022 downloaded from IPUMS. As shown in the chart below, families with incomes above the threshold experience varying degrees of food insecurity. ### 2. **The California Universal Meals Program Can Help Reduce Child Hunger** Income is not a perfect measure of whether a child is food insecure because family circumstances can change, and often do, particularly in a state with a high cost of living like California. In a 2022 survey, parents reported that the UMP has saved them money and time as well as reduced family stress. The UMP has ensured that no child has to worry about where their next meal will come from, regardless of their family situation. ### 3. **School Meals Support Children’s Health and Learning** School meals promote good nutrition and improve health and learning,****according to research**.** Children who participate in school meal programs are more likely to consume fruits, vegetables, and milk at breakfast and lunch, reducing the risk of nutrient deficiencies which can be harmful to health. These programs are also instrumental in supporting students’ health and well-being, with studies showing that free or reduced-price school lunches help lower rates of poor health and obesity. In addition, research shows that school meal programs help students learn and succeed in school through improved attendance, student behavior, academic performance, and long-term educational attainment. ### 4. **The Universal School Meals Program Reduces Stigma Around Free Meals** Moving away from a means-tested approach reduces stigma around free meals, which helps the program reach more students. Research has shown that reducing the stigma associated with means-tested programs increases participation. The UMP has been successful in increasing breakfast and lunch participation as well as reducing the stigma around free school meals and unpaid meal debt. When food access is not tied to poverty status, students are less likely to shy away from grabbing a meal if they need one. ### 5. **The Universal Meals Program Reduces Administrative Burden On Schools** The UMP reduces meal debt by making all school meals free to students. Schools are required to take on extra administrative tasks to account for meal debt, which, according to the California Department of Education (CDE), include collecting and documenting: * Evidence of efforts to collect unpaid meal charges in accordance with the CDE or local unpaid meal charge policy; * Financial documentation showing when the unpaid meal charges became an operating loss; and * Documentation showing when the repayment plan was agreed to by all parties. Additionally, meal debt is an operating loss for schools. Thus, without UMP, school districts would likely face challenges with both the financial and administrative burdens of increased meal debt. The UMP requires high-poverty schools to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which significantly reduces school meal administrative burden. CEP is a federal program that provides alternate meal counting and collection procedures. Namely, CEP schools do not collect meal applications, do not conduct verification activities, and do not classify meals as free, reduced-price, or paid. As a result, school meal administration is far less burdensome and many overhead costs are eliminated. Before the UMP requirement, only 24 percent of schools participated in CEP. ### what is meal debt? Meal debt occurs when students who are not certified to receive free school meals do not have enough cash in hand or in their school meals account to pay for their meals or for the “reduced-price” copayment. School districts set their own policy for unpaid school meal fees. As of the 2022-23 school year, participation increased to 51 percent, prompted by the onset of UMP. However, as part of the CEP application, California schools must calculate an identified student percentage (ISP) reflecting the proportion of students that are directly certified for meals at no cost on the basis of their participation in safety net programs (i.e., CalFresh and CalWORKs) and other characteristics (such as foster youth). Some California schools face challenges with correctly calculating the ISP and are therefore not able to fully maximize the federal benefit. Therefore, with UMP and its associated CEP participation requirement, more schools may benefit from the administrative efficiency that comes with program participation but additional technical assistance from CDE could ensure schools maximize benefits from CEP participation. **California should continue to lead the way in making sure any child who needs a meal can obtain one.** The California Universal School Meals Program not only supports family and child well-being and effective school administration, but it also may promote cost savings if the state can maximize the number of meals federally reimbursed at the free rate. State policymakers should continue investing in this program to maximize federal reimbursements and ensure all children have access to high-quality nutritious meals. By making sure all children receive proper nutrition at school, state leaders can help alleviate food insecurity and support children’s health and well-being.

Yes, I want my tax dollars feeding every kid breakfast and lunch at school in my state.

And I don’t even have kids. But I understand how much this benefits them and all of us.

https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/universal-school-meals-help-all-california-children-thrive/

25.10.2025 16:47 👍 1 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Original post on mastodon.social

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

18.08.2025 09:11 👍 9 🔁 147 💬 10 📌 5

@illbzo1.bsky.social sounds very Subnautica / Death Stranding? I might try it but curious if I have it right.

10.08.2025 23:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a work of art!

(Hint: sale)

08.07.2025 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

26.06.2025 16:14 👍 41 🔁 279 💬 5 📌 0

Heroku has been a real shitshow the last few days. Website down for nearly a whole day, APIs and customer apps down intermittently.

Support site? Down completely.

Status page? Reporting A-OK due to defaulting to that when the page loads, then running 20+ second […]

[Original post on ruby.social]

11.06.2025 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

09.06.2025 14:49 👍 3 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

@thomasfuchs.at but yeah anyways glad it worked! :)

21.05.2025 19:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@thomasfuchs.at yeah. fast-csg was like 10x, and IIRC manifold was 100-500x for my complex shit. I have to assume it's going to become the default soon and the whole idea of preview/render could just go away.

21.05.2025 19:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@thomasfuchs.at 2 things:
1. That preview is suspect and seems to have issues in general as AFAICT it's hack for making the program usable interactively even though rendering is slow, if you Render, I bet it will go away... but don't do that without...
2. Switch […]

[Original post on ruby.social]

21.05.2025 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Original post on ruby.social

@thomasfuchs.at wowza. Yeah probably right, but it might be fine with the newer engine (manifold library) which is easily 2 orders of magnitude faster than even fast-csg engine.

As a dev I really enjoyed being able to parameterize using functions and such, but having watched some power users […]

21.05.2025 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@thomasfuchs.at I know you didn’t ask, but openscad is worth a try.

21.05.2025 02:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With AI we can now directly write legacy code, skipping the annoying waiting period for no one who understands it being around anymore.

17.05.2025 14:48 👍 145 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 0

John Scalzi (@jscalzi) on Threads Hi there, this is your daily reminder that if you should ever feel "imposter syndrome" in your life, all you need to do is look at the current crop of willful incompetents in power in the United State to realize that maybe, just maybe, you're being too hard on yourself and you can, in fact, do the thing

A million times, this. https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DJo5MT6RNma

14.05.2025 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on ohai.social

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

05.05.2025 18:49 👍 13 🔁 348 💬 8 📌 1

Oops meant to send this trailer which is a little less ASMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIrgdM6shNA

21.04.2025 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on ruby.social

Really enjoying Blue Prince. If you like puzzle games it's worth a look.

We’re on Day 45 and the puzzles keep coming…

• I now have a shared album with @indymichelle containing 400+ screenshots.
• Pages and pages in a notebook being converted to digital for better editing.
• And I've been […]

21.04.2025 14:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@illbzo1.bsky.social same

20.04.2025 21:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speaking of poorly functioning Apple products: WTF is happening with this search box which loses focus on every keystroke. Two clicks to get back.

22.03.2025 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

28.02.2025 19:00 👍 1457 🔁 368 💬 14 📌 5

@illbzo1.bsky.social second season out elsewhere!

27.02.2025 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@illbzo1.bsky.social EXACTLY.

17.02.2025 21:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@illbzo1.bsky.social I skipped much of the storyline in Magnolias vs Lillies, so mostly it was just more refined movement but simpler layout and puzzles.

17.02.2025 21:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@illbzo1.bsky.social just finish Ender Magnolias, even more polished version.

17.02.2025 21:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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