Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch is a great show to watch if you’re into watching people launch rockets and review the video later that night and talk about launching more rockets.
Crows and Magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests in giant F.U. to humanity and evolutionary biologists more specifically.
www.theguardian.com
Apparently #Erdogan finally agreed to allow Sweden into #NATO after remaining members agree to pronounce #Turkey “Ter-kee-ah”.
Elon Musk can say whatever he likes about Mark Zuckerberg and #Threads. Zuckerberg wasn't born into apartheid wealth like Musk. He earned every penny through intellectual property theft like any honest business person.
So this U.S. Supreme Court case of Smith versus no one is either a litany of incompetence or a brilliant conspiracy.
Question: Given that daily reading limits at Twitter prevent real-time news providers from getting their content out to everyone, what is Twitter without all those content providers?
Answer: A right wing disinformation and hate speech machine that shows you the occasional animated GIF of a deviant wagging his dick in your face.
Elon Musk's decision to add daily reading limits to prevent data scraping also has the following impact:
The travesty of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that take away basic rights to opportunity and body autonomy is partly the failure of Congress to make these rights laws that the court is required to uphold.
StackOverflow has introduced Labs, an enhanced developer experience that uses AI to streamline the process of insulting and demeaning people looking for help.
stackoverflow.co
I liked the Internet better when it wasn't a handful of proprietary social media platforms run by narcissists.
The #Reddit CEO saying that the API transition time and pricing changes are “a business decision they won’t undo”, in addition to threats of replacing moderators who don't reopen subreddits, is a short-sighted dick move. I've gone from thinking Reddit will die a slow death to wishing for it.
This is that one time that life should imitate art. No, seriously.
www.theonion.com
Mac Pro Tip: When copying a git repository directory to your network file server using rsync, try this:
rsync -brtlvP --chmod=Fu+w --delete-before Code/MyProject/ /Volumes/MyServer/Code/MyProject/
This will copy the files with timestamps but no other attributes, and will also give the file owner (you) full access rights. This ensures that you (or even Windows users with access rights) can overwrite the directory contents later because local read-only files (e.g. in the .git directory) won't be read-only on the server. You can also change the chmod option to customize the rights, like ensuring everyone has full control.
The recent change to Google Chrome that removes the option to accept a self-signed certificate is another reason developers need a system-wide “Developer Mode” that removes these barriers erected for the normies. It's hard to code with Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al. holding one of my hands all day.
Unless the audio recording was made with a tape recorder onto magnetic reeled media, the “tapes” that newscasters keep referencing are not “tapes”. They are digital recordings. They, of all people, should know this.
And now we have the first X-ray taken of a single atom, courtesy of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois-Chicago, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.
Microsoft Teams is adding an avatars feature but I wish they would first focus on basics like working microphone audio on macOS. I have to perform a test call before my meetings every time I launch Teams, otherwise I sound like the monster in your closet.
www.thurrott.com
My favorite iOS Mastodon app is being released for macOS on May 23, 2023! It’s elegant and feature-rich on iOS. I can’t wait to use it on my Mac.
#apple #macos #mastodon #app #recommendation
tapbots.com
Mimestream is the BEST macOS email app for people who use Gmail. I’ve been using it throughout the beta period and subscribed immediately when they released 1.0 today. It’s great!
#apple #macos #email #app #recommendation
arstechnica.com
Web developers rejoice! There's an easy way to animate the height of an HTML element even if the height is dynamic, determined by its content, with only CSS. This is typically used for navigation menus and the like, and now it's much easier to code and maintain.
The strategy is to actually animate the grid-template-rows not the height. For example, take the following HTML markup:
<div class="menu">
<div class="inner-wrapper">
<p>Here is some content.</p>
<p>Here is some content.</p>
<p>Here is some content.</p>
</div>
</div>
The CSS for this markup would be:
.menu {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 0fr;
transition: grid-template-rows 100ms;
}
.menu.active {
grid-template-rows: 1fr;
}
.menu .inner-wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
}
Initially the outer div will be hidden since it has no overflow and the grid template rows are zero. When you add active to the outer div element's class list, the browser will animate the transition from zero row height to 1fr, which essentially means the height it needs for its content to render.
CNN giving Trump a national stage is bad enough. But the audience laughter about his liability for sexual assault, and at the victim, is truly sickening.
Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
