(gobsmacked)"We'll be less activist if you be less shit"
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Creative Coder, Technical Speaker, Principal Software Engineer
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, Demoscene Artist and Size Optimizer✨ on the web, Pico8, PC and Atari ST
@microsoft
, Demoscene Artist and Size Optimizer✨ on the web, Pico8, PC and Atari ST
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Proton MailSo #Meta's new #Threads app needs your health and fitness info. It also needs your browsing history and your location, and your purchases, and...well, it seems to need everything. If you want to get fully creeped out, here's the whole #privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.
Jess👾A little tip for a world where fascism is on the rise:
If you want to figure out who the fash/fash apologists in a organization are, propose a rule:
No Fascists Allowed
Everyone who complains about that rule is a fash or fash apologist and shouldn't be trusted.
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦In 1995 computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth wrote "A Plea for Lean Software". In 2024 it is entirely normal for simple software to be shipped as a 350MB package, or for it to have 1600 dependencies. In appreciation of Wirth's legacy, I wrote a 2024-era Plea for Lean Software, updated for today's computing horrors: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert's writings
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. The really short version: the way we build/ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to 350MB packages that draw graphs, and simple products importing 1600 dependencies of unknown provenance.
If you are a demoscene or creative coding enthusiast with an eye for tiny things, the Nano Awards 2023 Nominations are opened.
See https://graphics.social/@lovebyteparty/111755783191984672
And if I may, I made a few tiny productions in 2023 which I'm quite happy about https://demozoo.org/sceners/12102/ esp. EXPI, VENERA and KFRN✨👩🚀
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Nolan Lawson"Weird things engineers believe about Web development" by Brian Birtles https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/
I've worked on both a browser team and as a web developer; this largely jives with my experience.
A lot of web developers have very dogmatic views about "you should do things like this, not like this," but working on a browser, I honestly feel like it's way more nuanced if you actually understand how browsers work. Which is often a mess of hacks and quirks that only make sense if you've been there
Weird things engineers believe about Web development
I wrote most of this post sometime in 2022 but I think it holds up alright in 2024 so I decided to publish it for posterity. I don’t really like doing posts like this—I’d much rather share some innocuous learnings or tips but it turns out I have opinions too 😓 Sorry! 2024-02-21: I’ve added a few reflections at the end of the post. 2024-04-27: Developpez.com has produced a French translation of this post. Since I quit Mozilla and went back to full-time Web development, I’ve discovered a few surprises. It turns out Web development is actually pretty hard, Web developers are actually very smart, and some of these frameworks and techniques we mocked as browser engineers aren’t so bad. Oops. At the same time, it turns out some Web developers have ideas about browsers and the Web that, as a former browser engineer and standards editor, I’m a bit dubious of. Here are a few of the things that surprised me.
The Meteoriks33 jurors, 2.000+ releases, 10 categories - we have our work carved out for us! Please help us by using Pouet's and Demozoo's recommendation feature, and see you next at MountainBytes Demoparty in February for our big nomination reveal! Join us there if you can, otherwise it will of course be live streamed!
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Noelle 
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
