I you like games and don't want them killed, this is a good thing to take a look at: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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Write code. Play video games. Go walking. Eat food. Breathe.
Tim Berners-Lee warns the web could divide us
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOHyLkp7TpE&si=RBZJWGA5pDWekX9E
#BBC #TimBernersLee #www #WorldWideWeb #1997 #Internet #HTML #HTTP
@danhon @pluralistic Why has RCS not been mentioned here?
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I’m like 50% convinced that JavaScript needs native YAML parsing and serialization.
I find it hard to argue against anything you've said here. I also find it worrying and saddening. I think our relationship with the internet will change dramatically over the coming years.
My feeling is that we'll be communicating more with our real-life contacts and that the "golden era" of meeting and talking with strangers on the internet will come to an end. I would feel duped and like I'd wasted much of my time if I were to engage in conversations with AI. I mean, I stumbled across your post here on Mastodon and I don't know you, but felt I wanted to reply as it's an interesting post. But what if you are a chatbot? I'll have wasted the past few minutes of engaging with you.
On a more philosophical note, perhaps I'm wasting my time anyway, even if you're human? Maybe we could become close friends, but the chances are slim. It's these kinds of thoughts that people will be grappling with. I'm already engaging far less with social media than I used to.
1979: BEHOLD! The LASER-OPERATED Future of SHOPPING
This is interesting. My experience of "pair programming" has been mostly positive. I find working with a partner towards a shared goal more motivating than working alone. The sense of not wanting to let your partner down provides a good incentive for doing good work.
Mapping this experience across to a job-share, I can see how this could benefit employers as well as employees.
It does, of course, depend a lot on who you partner with. In cases where you don't align well with your partner, it can definitely prove a less positive experience. And I guess that's where these apps come in...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67413201?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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The principles and vision behind this are exactly why we developed Web Components to just *be* HTML. Increasing access, interop, and view-source-ability are precious to those of us who build the platform:
/via @fugueish
1978: Dr Mansfield's MRI MEDICAL MARVEL | Tomorrow's World | Science and Nature | BBC Archive
"Now you have two problems..."
NES Zelda Map Recreated By One Person Using 25,000 Lego Bricks
https://kotaku.com/the-legend-zelda-lego-fan-massive-large-nes-nintendo-1848449305
Lego Lost At Sea: How a search for five million figurines lost off the coast of Cornwall in 1997 uncovered an underwater world of plastic toys
Hardly anybody follows me here, but for anybody who does and wonders what's going on with my posts, I'm going through my Twitter timeline and picking out the interesting things that I tweeted about over there, in order to toot them over here. I don't know whether I'll get through my whole timeline, but I can't bring myself to just outright delete my Twitter account... Yet!
Just finishing another round of curation on my Plex media server, whilst trying to ignore the wise words of Gérard Mclean...
"Everything you create on your computer will just be digital junk when you die and get thrown out onto a big dumpster that your kids will hire to sit in your driveway over the weekend while they take a big shovel approach to your former life [...]"
An oldie, but goodie!
Thousands Of Dollars Of Rare Factory-Sealed SNES Games Unearthed After 27 Years In Storage https://nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/thousands-of-dollars-of-rare-factory-sealed-snes-games-unearthed-after-27-years-in-storage #RetroGaming #SNES via
@nintendolife
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#DailyRetroGame 212: Blue Lightning (1989)
This one was a big ol’ After Burner rip off. But given that the home ports of that game were dreadful, the Lynx game gave its owners a brief period of smugness in the 17 seconds before their console’s batteries ran out. During that time they got to enjoy perhaps the most remarkable visuals on a handheld at that time – albeit twinned with rather repetitive gameplay.
Play it on: #AtariLynx
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An important habit of mind for PMs to break is the siren song of tech-stack popularity contests.
Popularity of a stack is not an asset to your team *unless the stack's essential properties matches your user's needs*.
BigCo's using a stack is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
A large community is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
Documentation is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
The ability too hire is not a reason to adopt...you get the idea.
Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/16/apple_lenovo_blind_fail/
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