Ben Delarre

@bendelarre
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Wrangler of web app technology. Maker of things both physical and digital.

A tiny and super cute mushroom duo! Their caps glow strong and bright when switched on.
These nice little shroomers fit in every shelf or corner and seek for a new home.

For sale, only CHF 50.-
Can ship to everywhere but USA.

The duo is battery operated, everything is hidden under the wooden tree bark.

Please like and re-toot, my little business is struggling ;_;

#mushrooms #fungi #art #mastoart #mosstodon #Pilze #smallbusiness #forest #moss #nature

Executives: "You can all go 10x faster now, you're empowered!"
Managers: "Yes let's go team!"
Managers schedule 10x as many meetings to go faster

Execs: "Look, even designers are shipping code now! So much empowerment!"

Engineering: "Fuckit, APPROVE, I don't have time to review anymore. Have to get to the next meeting about the designer vibe coded feature we're shipping tomorrow."

Execs: "Quality matters.".

Engineering: FML.

If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.

These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/

/cc @pluralistic

Apple’s Interoperability Commitments to the UK’s CMA Promise Nothing - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy

It says something about your country of residence when half the ads in your Reddit feed are advertisements for immigration to other countries.

The ultimate lagging indicator.

American business has no idea of the impact that is happening due to the brain drain right now.

Scoped custom element registries allow using different custom elements with the same tag name (e.g. <fancy-button>).
No collisions!

✅ Embed multiple versions of the same lib
✅ Use 3rd-party libs without breakages

In Edge and Chrome 146!

Need it in other browsers? ➡️ https://github.com/web-platform-dx/developer-signals/issues/364

Scoped custom element registries · Issue #364 · web-platform-dx/developer-signals

This GitHub issue is for collecting web developer signals for Scoped custom element registries. The CustomElementRegistry() constructor creates a new custom element registry that's separate from th...

GitHub
And yes I know you can render to a canvas efficiently but certain browsers have limitations on how many canvas allocated pixels you may have at any one time...
Another day, another situation where I wish <img> could take an ImageBitmap as a property.

I'm not all in on the AI coding thing. But there are days when replacing colleagues with an LLM that just gets the work done is really tempting

If you're a senior+ engineer you really need to be returning value these days doing things actual humans are required to do like being proactive, taking ownership, making good plans and sharing information

Writing code, let's face it, isn't the job. Your job is to be figuring out how you build without it falling apart & needing a rebuild a month later

Awarding your peer employees with "Recognition Points" to be redeemed at Amazon via a third party Award website is peak Capitalist Hellscape.

Just give people time off or actual bonuses. We don't need a bloody gamified points system to tell each other we're doing a good job.

So apparently Walgreens has a system to transfer a prescription from one pharmacy to another...

Apparently it's possible for the pharmacist to "do it wrong" and the system corrupts the prescription magically making your prescription invalid.

You then need to call your doctor and have them reissue the prescription...

Which because this is America, they charge you another in office visit fee for.

Technical and systemic failures abound in this country.