Mastodawn

evol Feb 16

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Lu wilson Feb 16

writing code should not be the primary way of contributing to free open source software

evol Feb 16

Lu wilson Feb 16

free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

evol Feb 14

blinry Feb 13

I was wondering what would happen if you played Newton Wars (aka Gravitational Combat), but had a full visualization showing you which target/planet you would hit when shooting in that direction with that force!

So I wrote a #glsl shader to figure that out, and it's really pretty!

This is how it works: If you hover over a red pixel in the diagram, you can be sure you'll hit the red planet! The lightness is how soon you'll hit it.

evol Feb 9

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jason Feb 7

I've had a theory for a few years that most software engineers don't actually like software engineering. Had there not been money in it they would have followed a different career path instead of getting a CS degree from a 4-year college (or boot camps).

LLMs align with this theory. The people who are excited that something else is doing their job for them are the same people who picked the job for the salary, not the joy.

evol Feb 4

Ivan Reese Feb 2

What an ignominious end. Flash deserved so much better.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/adobe-animate-is-shutting-down-as-company-focuses-on-ai/

Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI | TechCrunch

Adobe Animate will be discontinued on March 1, 2026, as Adobe shifts its focus to AI.

TechCrunch

evol Feb 3

mcc Feb 2

TFW you are told to implement harfbuzz but instead implement fizzbuzz or, perhaps more dangerously, the reverse

evol Jan 30

every time I find an hour to resume working on a project, I burn all that time just updating dependencies and fixing breakages ;_;

evol Jan 27

Jade Jan 27

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

The Cloudflare Blog

evol Jan 19