Micros

Micro-blogging platforms like Bluesky and Fedi are built around following people, not topics. This is good in that I can create meaningful connections with familiar faces, but bad in that I pass up great content because I can’t just follow the parts of people’s feeds that interest me.

Sometimes I wish I could follow someone’s tech posts without their politics, or their design without their hot takes. If you’re wondering why I don’t follow you, it’s probably because of this. I still love ya!

(I’ve come to find this is somewhat doable via word filtering, although it is a bit finicky, not comprehensive, and introduces potential for false positives. I’ll trial it and see how it goes.)

I barely find myself needing CSS ‘hacks’ anymore. Most stuff I need to do is kinda just a thing now.

Thanks to all the many people who’ve made this a reality!

Were I omnipotent ruler of this world, I’d probably delete glitter as my first action.

I found it interesting that WebKit maintains a collection of ‘quirks’ – hardcoded, website-specific fixes and tweaks.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

I’ve spent the past several years thinking Vite is pronounced ‘vite’ rather than ‘veet’. I’ve gotta start watching more dev videos or something…

While fundamentally a flawed format, there is something beautiful about the crunchiness of a .gif.

Took some time today to update my uses page.

https://vale.rocks/posts/uses

The fact that you can use touchscreens with the back of your fingernails really bothers me.

Mullenweg just keeps adding fuel to the fire that’s actively cremating him.

Sorry for being MIA these past few days. Russia and Turkey both banned Discord, so I’ve been tied up with Revolt. We’ve had some 250K users join in the past 4 days, bringing us to over 450K users total!

If you aren’t aware, Revolt is a FOSS chat platform and decent alternative to Discord that I work on.

You can check it out at https://revolt.chat if you’re interested.

Are people implementing lightboxes with <dialog>, custom implementations, or something different? Would love to hear!

The lack of jokes connecting ‘GitHub’ and ‘hub for gits’ is deeply disappointing.

Does it bother anyone else that it is top not inset-top, like margin-top?

I hope you all remembered that tonight is the 21st night of September.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,150,897! I would have jumped in earlier was it not for the invite system. I got access just before they opened it up.

Messed around with some fun HTML colour values. “sonic” outputs blue.

https://codepen.io/OuterVale/pen/wvLbjpZ

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Always gets a laugh from me.

https://madeupandprobablydoesnotexist.com/taskbar

Genuine exchange I just had:

Person: It’s broken on mobile.

Me: Do you have a Samsung by chance?

Person: Yes, I have

Me: Do you use Samsung Internet?

Person: I’m not sure what that is. I use the default browser.

Me: I shall refrain from using the selection of words I’d like to.

Seriously, how is Samsung Internet still this much of a clusterfuck?

I pretty much exclusively browse CodePen on Chrome, despite Firefox being my primary browser.

Mozilla, you need to catch up.

Honestly pretty disappointed we haven’t gotten an Ask Jeeves AI.

A mark was missed.

Everyone else listens for their fan to spin down so they know their code has finished compiling from halfway across the room, yeah?

Great moments in Revolt development:

RUN yarn install --frozen-lockfile
RUN yarn build:deps
# RUN yarn typecheck # lol no
RUN yarn build:highmem
RUN yarn workspaces focus --production --all

https://github.com/revoltchat/revite/blob/master/Dockerfile#L9

One great use of LLMs I’ve found is as dynamic WordPress documentation generators.

WordPress is really poorly documented. Especially block themes, which are a mess in more ways than just documentation.

People who have a minimap in their editor, why?

I had one briefly back in the Atom days, but it was never all that useful. I’ve found having breadcrumbs at the top of my editor fills every minimap use case I can imagine.

Interested to hear how people use them and if I’m perhaps missing something.

This is a quote from Gian-Carlo Rota’s Indiscrete Thoughts that I think applies particularly well in the context of development:

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

Finally got around to setting up my ‘uses’ page.

If, for whatever reason, you’re interested in seeing some of the tech and stuff I use, feel free to check it out.

https://vale.rocks/posts/uses

The JavaScript Registry looks really interesting, but every time my brain sees JSR, it thinks JET SET RADIOOOOOO!

Everyone else spams the up arrow key to find a previous command when it would have been faster to just type it out? Right?

Server upgraded and everything running again.

Bumped up to 8GB of RAM from 4GB, cleaned out the case, installed a new 4TB HDD, and migrated from Debian to NixOS.