Alex R

Because I'm in my feelings: thank you to everyone who fills this place with art, or music, or prose, or poetry, or game prototypes, or fun new apps, or jokes. We're dancing apes that live to smear ochre on the cave walls and imagine it a herd of bison. To tell ghost stories around the fire and […]

People are quick to accuse the PHP patch of being LLM-generated, but we should also consider that PHP is just Like That

Reminder (because I needed it) that you should also be inventorying any home servers/homelabs for #PHP apps today

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

questing 5 #comic #art #fediart #mastoart #cat

Tech people are the worst at evaluating passkeys: part the umpteenth. Passkeys are meaningfully better for most people's security (and many, many tech people have password habits that are much worse than they think they are)

The internet truly peaked with Top Glove Corporate Video 2013 English https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52VwF2I4oq4

Michael O'Leary (2026):

The internet truly peaked with Top Glove Corporate Video 2013 English https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52VwF2I4oq4

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/117378417461740571 some more iOS dev pro tips: - if a method is deprecated, that means apple finished working on it. it's actually more stable. - if the main thread becomes slow, create a second main thread. - if a view isn't appearing, set its zPosition […]

Roko's basilisk is never more than one incompetent backhoe driver away from being defeated for all eternity.

Kit the fox never fails to delight me :neofox_drake_like: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tQ1v4TCeY

It is a big day for #Firefox with the release of Firefox 157. I have been involved in a small part of this update for quite a few months now and I am really pleased it is available for more people to use. This update brings some subtle interface changes as well as bringing back compact mode and […]

pose/repose #caturday

RE: https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/117326847885939161 now this is revolutionary praxis

'May contain **molluscs** ' don't threaten me with a good time

what did we do for lunch before Ms Kim Chi invented her eponymous fermented cabbage side dish

please look at this old Tomb Raider promotional footage that was clearly mocapped, but only from the waist up and also they didn't calibrate it properly or fix it in post at all https://www.twitch.tv/retropals/clip/CrepuscularDirtyWoodpeckerCorgiDerp-m238QVRMmneeKrjm

yer MUM is processing Vulkan shaders (39)

they should make a version of autumn that has good tomatoes

eInk Carta 1300 is stunning. 300 dpi and no colour filter layer makes my eyes happy

I wasn't expecting much, but it does sound like Valve really nailed it with the Steam Frame

I think a youth misspent mucking around with console emulators has left me without the pathological fear of 'black bars' around video content. I just don't get it at all – they're literally not illuminated; you can just not look at them. Plus it's a good place to put subtitles and playback controls.

Does anybody have recommendations for a team level @1password replacement? In light of their backing DHH and his repulsive views I'd like to be able to recommend a replacement for my company. We need shared vaults, TOTP, and centralised user management and vault recovery as a minimum. #1password

#Audacity 4 is a really cool case study in how to do a comprehensive UI overhaul that people are actually really excited for (which is vanishingly rare in this industry). If you haven't seen it, @tantacrul's video from last year on the astonishing amount of work this was is fascinating […]

nobody ever tells you about the foam rollers as a kid

A garden intruder spotted! #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Went to the Ulster Museum's last night and coloured in a dress to look like a bumblebee. I can fully recommend going to a museum and doing this

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@alex/117123845543160909 Thanks for all the votes! Interesting to see that using an off-the-shelf identity provider (whether self hosted or not) is roughly as common as relying on a framework, which might be a reflection of how complex auth is, now, with MFA, Passkeys, SSO […]

I tracked these down out of curiosity. Here's the proposed packaging and receptacle labels to be used EU-wide (and in Northern Ireland) from 2028. Apparently everybody agrees that colour is useful, but nobody wants the same colours, so this is the current […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

The most popular pattern on ravelry right now is simply called The Garment

Once again for those in the back: 'enshittification' does not mean 'UI change I don't like'

I would do unspeakable things for a `:first-in-row`/`:last-in-row` selector in CSS #WebDev #CSS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074 Big wins here, especially getting rid of the current multiple sidebar design. People struggle enough to use (or even notice) a single sidebar IME, so two was really pushing it

The fired Rockstar workers are asking supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead, to directly support the union's legal costs as it approaches next month's employment tribunal.