zeska - Network

Me: prevent leather sticking to metalGoogle AI Overview: to prevent leather from sticking to metal, ensure both surfaces are clean and dry,...

Me: prevent leather sticking to metal

Google AI Overview: to prevent leather from sticking to metal, ensure both surfaces are clean and dry, and consider using a flexible adhesive"

I feel really irked by how products that can be this wrong are being forced on me.

Most sites the actual html is unreadable right? I wonder if we should embrace that and make like a graphical bytecode well optimised for...

Most sites the actual html is unreadable right? I wonder if we should embrace that and make like a graphical bytecode well optimised for compression. A set of virtual machine instructions for going "put this here", "write this in this font there", "make a text box"

Once upon a time the paradigm was "let the browser choose how to display things" but so much of modern web development first requires you to counteract those features. It's a mess!

I wonder if what we need is a brutally lean graphical markup language and renderer, not as an entirely serious replacement for firefox or...

I wonder if what we need is a brutally lean graphical markup language and renderer, not as an entirely serious replacement for firefox or chrome, but just poised to stand in as an open ecosystem alternative.

Perhaps it could in some small way be a deterrent to the big browsers getting _too_ anti-consumer? If I have the option of leaving the bloated html/js ecosystem, well.. that changes things right?

Do you think there's any room in people's imaginations for a rethink of html?The browser war seems like it's going to a dark...

Do you think there's any room in people's imaginations for a rethink of html?

The browser war seems like it's going to a dark place but modern browsers are too complicated for any one person or small group to seriously reimplement.

When I was playing with my blog pelican theme I tried to make it work well in dillo too but dillo is just soooo cut back it was hard to make what dillo showed make sense and still have control over the page layout.

I doth wager that thy be fun at partyes

I doth wager that thy be fun at partyes

I am worrying a lot over whether I will carry instinctive patterns and reactions into the new place I'll be working. Especially with the...

I am worrying a lot over whether I will carry instinctive patterns and reactions into the new place I'll be working. Especially with the much longer and more frequent commute and tiredness that comes with that.

I want to have a positive relationship with my day job again. I don't expect every day to be amaaaaazing but I want to feel like I'm building something again and in a position to tackle longer term problems.

Completely depressed and drained after work today.The good news is I've handed in my notice, I'm getting out of here in just two...

Completely depressed and drained after work today.

The good news is I've handed in my notice, I'm getting out of here in just two more weeks.

Twitter? That's my ex now 💅

Twitter? That's my ex now 💅

Another technical problem resolved by my magic spell."Have you followed the steps in the readme?"

Another technical problem resolved by my magic spell.

"Have you followed the steps in the readme?"

Do you rotate which oven hobs you use for routine tasks so that none of them feel left out or are you a monster?

Do you rotate which oven hobs you use for routine tasks so that none of them feel left out or are you a monster?

"It's all you guys fault and nothing to do with our contradicting requirements, spiralling business logic, or us insisting that you...

"It's all you guys fault and nothing to do with our contradicting requirements, spiralling business logic, or us insisting that you do as we say and stop questioning things."

This morning our tech lead told us to write code with fewer bugs for anyone still wondering what passes for leadership at big corpo.

This morning our tech lead told us to write code with fewer bugs for anyone still wondering what passes for leadership at big corpo.

*sighs angrily, resetting the days-since-last-school-nightmare counter back to zero*

*sighs angrily, resetting the days-since-last-school-nightmare counter back to zero*

I feel like I failed those people and made a permanent place in my heart for them, even if they don't know it, and even if those same...

I feel like I failed those people and made a permanent place in my heart for them, even if they don't know it, and even if those same people are now rabidly clamouring to ruin other people's lives.

It's heartbreaking to think that there are men just walking around out there being the most awful people possible, probably as a shield...

It's heartbreaking to think that there are men just walking around out there being the most awful people possible, probably as a shield to stop anybody truly saying something about their core that could hurt them, but also that they're desperate for just a tiny bit of kindness that nobody can find a way to show to them because not only can they not stop hurting others, but that they can't even demonstrate a single other thing about themselves.

But there were some accounts I still think about that were even worse. Their entire online presence consisted of ironic facades and hate. I...

But there were some accounts I still think about that were even worse. Their entire online presence consisted of ironic facades and hate. I pored over these accounts looking for something good. I spent days pondering them. Thinking about them as I went to work on the bus or shopping.

And to this day I don't know what they expected or imagined I might say? I ended up so angry and sad with some of them I told them as much. Others I just felt I had to "overlook".

And with some of those it really wasn't easy. There were people responding who I wouldn't usually want much to do with and who would...

And with some of those it really wasn't easy. There were people responding who I wouldn't usually want much to do with and who would not have been kind to me if they'd met me in most other contexts. But regardless the point was to give everyone a chance so I pressed on where it was difficult and wouldn't otherwise have really wanted to compliment those people.

On twitter I once replied on a big account's post about men's mental health that if any man wanted a compliment that they could...

On twitter I once replied on a big account's post about men's mental health that if any man wanted a compliment that they could reply and I would compliment them.

Hundreds of replies started coming in from all kinds of different people.

Every single responder I researched their account and tried to find something nice to say about that person.

Can I compliment their physical appearance in a photo? Can I compliment an action they took or something they said on the platform?

Absolute toddler logic from some of the most highly paid people you've ever met.

Absolute toddler logic from some of the most highly paid people you've ever met.

Readability and legibility are complex problems that some people's careers are dedicated to optimising.Just because you wrote some...

Readability and legibility are complex problems that some people's careers are dedicated to optimising.

Just because you wrote some information in json and json is labelled "human readable" that doesn't mean people will have an easy time scanning through your dense blob of squiggly characters and complex structure to spot the thing that they need.