Won't Work

ever since the first day they've been introduced, these tag lists on the youtube homepage have felt weirdly offputting to me. i couldn't explain why then and i still don't think i can today, but there's something very unnatural, in particular how the labe…

Search: "what knobs are there to tune node.js for optimal performance and how do i know if my use case benefits from tweaking them" Expected Result: technical details about why the defaults are as such and if any use cases would benefit from tuning them R…

before i get started, this post is going to talk about the concepts of reading and writing code, including tools like traditional ide autocomplete that works off type information. if you aren't writing or reading your own code, or evangelizing that lifest…

there is a meme in (usually) web "frameworks" you may have heard of called "convention over configuration". unfortunate circumstances led me to experiencing the asp.net core ecosystem's version of it, and i hear ruby on rails is also a large proponent of…

lets start with the humble auto-incrementing integer. it looks like this: 67 it's wonderful in it's simplicitly and can work for quite a lot. it's main downside in most applications is that you have to allocate one from the database, so you can't do things

lets say you want to make a web thing that you intend other people to host on their own servers. unfortunately, by thinking this very thought you immediately locked your codebase out of several efficiency tricks other software intended to be hosted privat…

this is a probably long-overdue post trying to sketch my vision for the activitypub stack and the mastodon client i made to prototype it's user-facing bits that i am never actually shipping ever for various reasons ranging from "getting disillusioned from…

this post can loosely be considered in a series with how to not regret c2s and an outpost vision, as everything mentioned in all three of these posts is in service of one vision. some things in this post may be weird without taking into account something…

alternate title: the most annoying person you've ever known has just gotten a reason to become even more annoying (via mia) a little before this post ought to go up, mastodon, iceshrimp.net, misskey (and it's many forks), wafrn, and any other fedi software

this post is mainly going to be me rambling to myself, trying to clarify my own thoughts to myself. you're welcome to read it, and may even agree with some of my "takes", but i'm not a particularly good thinker so there will probably be a lot wrong and li…

obligatory disclaimer no, i'm not publishing the patched binaries i'm already worried posting this by itself might cause legal trouble. something something learning and educational purposes only does anyone even read these disclaimers?

this post can loosely be considered in a series with small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice and an outpost vision, as everything mentioned in all three of these posts is in service of one vision. some things in this post m…

i keep on seeing people repeat these mistakes [^over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over] again, maybe writing them down somewhere [^will_help] [^over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_over_and_o…

isn't it strange how both of the federated social networking protocols just casually expect you to jump all in to their ecosystems?

driver devs only care about the newest, shiniest generation and we should collectively stop pretending otherwise and leading newbies in before swiftly abandoning them to their own once they actually go though the installation process. a linux that cares a…