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Reposted Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io)
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Inside of you there are two engineers. One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the right tool for the task. Please, they cry, avoid the awful hacky workarounds! One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the same tool for the task. Please, they cry, make information actually discoverable! Both sob in commiseration together as they end up using 5 separate tools, duplicating the data 3x, and suffer all of the hacky workarounds with none of the discoverability.

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Reposted Anthony, of course (@anthony@bitbang.social)
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Look, I drink a LOT of #tea. And I mean gallons of the stuff every day. People expect on Zoom that they'll see my massive mug appear on camera because I always have a cuppa to hand. I have two of @smolrobots@mastodon.social' Teabots. So you'd think I'd have strong opinions about how you should make it or drink it, wouldn't you? But no. Make it how you like it. Drink it how you want to. Stop getting all bent out of shape because someone makes it differently to how you do. What the hell is wrong with you?

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+1 - in the past I've had it recommended to not inline links and instead include them as footnotes, and I do not like that recommendation 🙃 I want the post to be rich with the context (where appropriate) and it to be linked naturally from what I'm talking about.

Some folks don't like that, that's fine! If it ends up sending someone on a side quest while they're trying to read my post, that's also OK!

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(I'm increasingly suspicious that hardly anyone ever clicks on inline links in text like this, but that's not going to stop me from including them!)

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Listened to Responsive, Generative, Accessible, Unions, The Web - Ethan Marcotte by Schalk Neethling 
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In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling sits down with Ethan Marcotte, a prominent figure in web design known for coining the term "responsive web design." Ethan's journey in the design world spans over two decades, during which he has significantly influenced how websites are created and experienced across various devices.

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Listened to "Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson" on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
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<p>Woody Harrelson feels supercalifragilistic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend; Ted Danson feels scared.</p><p> </p><p>Woody and Ted sit down with Conan to discuss their new podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes), meeting, and pranking each other, on the set of Cheers, houseboat aspirations, and more. Later, Conan consults with his de facto assistant David Hopping about his presence on TikTok.</p><p> </p><p>For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit <a href="http://TeamCoco.com">TeamCoco.com</a>.</p><p>Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847.</p>

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Listened to The Business of Open Source | Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with AndrĂ© Eriksson, founder and CEO at Encore. We talked about how open source develops trust, something I also discussed in the episode I recorded with Reshma Khilnani. For Encore, it’s subtly different, though. In the case of Medplum, open...

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Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space)
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Turned on my PC. Was just about to log in when I did a painful double take. The picture displayed by Windows 10 is a Toucan with the words “AI is playing a critical role in the preservation of the Amazon rainforest” You are correct. It’s fucking nuking it. You fucking shit lords. #AI #Microsoft

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Reposted Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer)
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Tell me about your Boring Technology that gets the job done and gets out of your user's way. Tell me how you made your app or service easy to use and hard to misuse. Tell me how you're encoding an understanding of the importance of consent into your architecture. Tell me how you're treating your employees better than your competitors are treating theirs.