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  • OH: Today: "We will not use, read, or sell your data". One year after rollout: "We've updated our policy. Click accept or lose access to your device/service". #tech #privacy #AI

  • Why I 🧡 the web: This is going to sound odd, but it's Friday. I was addicted a bit with this "web paddle #game". https://raould.github.io/pn0gstr0m/ Have fun for a few minutes.

  • Not a "it's #crypto so I already can make fun of this" time. Instead this is a cautionary tale of having secret keys/info in public repos. Mistakes happen, be careful. "Developer posts secret key on #GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes" https://cointelegraph.com/news/web3-dev-loses-40k-github-key-leak

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    "Ice" is an #opensource tool for #MacOS that acts as a menu bar management tool. Some are looking at this now as a Bartender replacement, although this doesn't seem to be as full featured yet. https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

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    #Adobe policy updates. If you use their products for confidential projects, this might be worth being on your radar. Because it's come up in the same conversation – just going to here for my records (and anyone else) this list of alternatives for #Adobe software. https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives #webdev #design #photoshop

  • I of course used to use #Adobe big time in my early web days. Once they went subscription, I did annual for a few years then dropped them for Pixelmator Pro (a #MacOs app that I paid a one-time fee for, but paid to update later). https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/ Not only does it do 90% of what…

  • Which of the three types of people are you? If you don't drive vote based on how well you know yourself).

  • In reply to @davidbisset. Wildcard is the #OpenAI partnership though. That is the anti-matter to Apple's "Privacy sell" matter. Meaning it could cause a huge explosion or that it can channel an advancement of warp drive if done right.

  • Next week #WWDC predictions? #AI wise easy: Nothing that's going to match or top Google, Microsoft. #Apple will focus on iterations and practical ways intelligence is incorporated into the OS. This will extract a cry of "Apple is behind on AI". Which they are. But not worried. They'e always been fast followers. If they don't…

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    Mistakes happen. Not coming down hard on #Shopify here but this scare probably could have been prevented if this $25m a year business maybe didn't put all their eggs in one basket. #OwnYourOwnContent Imagine doing that much $$$ and you could be seemingly wiped out in 7 days with no recourse.

  • "Why We Don't Have a #Laravel For #JavaScript… Yet" https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2024/05/29/why-we-dont-have-laravel-for-javascript-yet

  • It's been a half of a century of #SQL already. #database https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/fifty_years_of_sql/

  • Making a tic-tac-toe game with 'randomness' using pure #HTML and #CSS. Without #JavaScript. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2024/05/17/noJS-2-stochastic-boogaloo.html

  • "20 Years of #Blogging On my own website" https://jeena.net/20-years-blogging via @jeena "…it's mostly for me to sort out my thoughts about some topic and to document something that has been going on which I might want to come back to in the future and read from a different perspective."

  • Why new #CSS features aren't getting fast adoption as one might think. https://mxb.dev/blog/old-dogs-new-css-tricks/ "While there are many different reasons for the slow adoption, I think one of the biggest barriers are our own brains."

  • "Why we're lucky #WordPress is here" via @davew http://scripting.com/2024/03/21/125505.html "WordPress is, among other things, a perfect time capsule of open technologies from the early days of innovation on the web."

  • https://tenbluelinks.org shows you can set "Google Web" (what some are calling Google's AI/clutter-free search results) as your default search engine. #Google #AI

  • True. "VCs aren't your friends". https://openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent-your-friends #business #investments

  • When it comes to #tech I see: 1. Glass half full2. Glass half empty3. Potential for glass to be great.4. Potential for glass to be misused.5. Want to know how the glass is made.6. Question if it's a glass.7. Where am I and why is there a glass in front of me? #pessimistic #optimist #realist…

  • What's new in #PHP 8.4 via Brent at stitcher.io. https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-84

  • OH: "What's the difference between a light bulb and a #programmer? A light bulb stops working when it burns out." #programming #webdev #burnout

  • Web #developers: If you haven't read anything about accessibility then this post of simple (quick and dirty) might be a good start. #a11y https://www.tpgi.com/quick-and-dirty-accessibility

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    Starting work on someone's legacy codebase realizing with TERROR it's not built with the framework you expected. #webdev #programming #memes #JavaScript

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    CSS Text Box Trim examples. It's a #CSS property that allows you to remove the leading whitespace from a block of text. Useful for removing the space between the top of the text and the top of the container. #frontend

  • “It's getting hard to use and recommend #Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web” #openweb #browsers https://ntietz.com/blog/firefox-and-the-free-web/

  • Happy Anniversary to BASIC. Turns 60. 🎉 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/ I believe my first #programming language (if you don't count LOGO) was Apple Basic. #history

  • React Bricks CMS. "The only headless #CMS with true Visual Editing. Turn your #React components into visual editing blocks." (I bookmark CMS for inspiration and research – it's got a bold claim, i'll give it that). https://www.reactbricks.com/

  • I'm recently bookmarking posts and podcasts that fall under the heading of "My Dream #CMS Wish List". https://kevquirk.com/what-would-my-dream-cms-be This one is from @kev – Have a flexible UI– Ability to proof read content– Be a social space– Cross-post to wherever I need it to– Integrate with Git– Be easily extensible #WordPress #Ghost #Blogging

  • "2024 is the year corporate #opensource died" https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead via @@geerlingguy "…it's totally different when you build your product under an open source license, foster a community of users who then build their own businesses on top of that software, then yoink the license when your revenue is affected. That's called a bait-and-switch."

  • So the AI Pin (first attempt at least) is a dud… and it looks like the #Rabbit 1 might be… just a lie? If true (that's still an if) then looks like another cash grab or just plain trickery. https://github.com/rabbitscam/rabbitr1 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135250 Meanwhile I'm using #AI on my already existing hardware -smartphone and desktop –…