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Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

Chris McLeod

Reposted the "live" client side version of my https://rs.sjoy.lol page at https://rs.sjoy.lol/live

Still works great, apart from a few bits of parsing not working so well. I have put more work into the RSS/Atom parsing in the static version, and they don't work quite the same way so I can't just copy and paste.

Some links are missing, and possibly some of the posts won't be the most recent ones...

Either way, it's kind of fun to have a server side and client side version going at once :)

RS.S JOY.lol | dev

A page full of links to front-end dev and dev-adjacent bloggers, their RSS feeds and their most recent posts. The page refreshes at least 4 times a day. The blog cards are randomised each time.

I worked on #Lemmings and am therefore old.

“It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network”

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network

It's the 33rd anniversary of Lemmings! The classic videogame from Dundee's DMA Design, which helped put Scotland on the global games map.

The Scottish Games Network

made some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-seriously images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or so help me funny

1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience
2. Do not reply with a software suggestion
3. This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.

YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message.

more in thread + https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

The Original Stickers to Manage Replies By

Now at donotreply.cards/ Much social software doesn't let you manage replies, whether coarsely or in a fine-grained manner. Sometimes you just want to spout off! Sometimes you don't actually want people to reply. Here's some images to attach to your post that might help. Feel free to steal etc.

Flickr
The horrible truth is that the image we have of any given decade's design aesthetic is actually false—the truth is actually the aesthetic of the previous decade, with grime and tobacco stains on top.

Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Update: As many have pointed out, you *can* use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it

Sneaky preview of a draft post I'm working on. Mostly a breakdown of what I'm using for what, as well as the "why" behind it where appropriate

opened up pixelmator to do a thing, and this was already on the canvas

i do not remember making this, but i will absolutely not apologize for it

Anyway my point, if I had one, is that I feel like I have some very recent and valid experience on the sticking points that are likely to throw people off, or what will be far too confusing and abstract to try and learn first.

I've just had enough people push back lately that I want to highlight that it really wasn't very long ago that I was that person. All the "modern" stuff involving the command line and node modules and all that - all new.

We won't hook in beginners with the command line.