Asbjørn Ulsberg

@bitbear
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@steadicat @bendelarre: the bad norms stem from narrative inversion; the idea that DX is what matters _most_, rather than the idea that the lived experience of the user is paramount.

I've called this "trickle-down DX", and it's just as thoroughly falsified at this point as the Laffer Curve.

The outcome of this broken narrative is the mis-application of inappropriate abstractions in situations where they can't possibly pay for themselves (CSS-in-JS, Redux, hydration, etc.)

God makes LGBTQ people and God loves them just as they are. They deserve the same rights as everyone else. Anyone who says otherwise is a bigot and you can tell them I said that.
#GodLovesGays
If Mastodon DMs are “only mentioned people posts” then they shouldn’t be called DMs — they should be called something else. Not because “direct message” isn’t technically correct, but because it already has an assigned meaning (“private message”). The easy fix isn’t to attempt to re-educate every single new Mastodon user, it’s to rename the feature to make it clear what it does. UX matters.

Please don't use social media, such as Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, etc to send messages you wouldn't want others to see.

Use something like Signal or Telegram for that instead.

The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.

MASTER BOOT RECORD - SECOND REALITY - PC Demo (1993) - Cover / Remix

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Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.

After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.

This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.

Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.

Shameless plug for a fellow retro-head - Friendchips, a C64 album with some pixel art!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nerdnation/friendchips-c64-album-and-pixel-art-by-alex-of-pegboard-nerds/description

FRIENDCHIPS: C64 Album & Pixel Art by Alex of Pegboard Nerds

FRIENDCHIPS is a retro Commodore 64 music album and pixel art project by Alexander Odden, one-half of Pegboard Nerds.

Kickstarter

“Fun fact: #SimCity was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground because the game would be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”

Boring like too many real places ruined by too much parking?

#parking #ThePowerOfParking #cities #urbandesign #transportation #mobility #urbanism #urbanplanning
https://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-for-people-not-cars

We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars

The way we live is shaped by our infrastructure—the public spaces, building codes, and utilities that serve a city or region. It can act as the foundation for thriving communities, but it can also establish unhealthy patterns when designed poorly.For...

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This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.