A very amateur gamer speaks:
So No Mans Sky was half price in the Steam Store. And I have a MacBook. And it works on Macs now. And their return policy is really good.
So I gave it a go to see if it was much better than the Switch version.
And Oh My Goodness this is why you all have Xboxes and stuff!! š
It occurs to me that I donāt have a mental model for ā¦ hmm ā¦ dynamically ābindingā stuff in React.
I want to compile some React thing that will load in the browser that uses an API provided by some other thing that someone else compiled that loads in the browser.
Seems simple but Iām scratching my head here.
Anyone?
š Hah. Nice. Someone built a WASM-based #Laravel playground inspired by the in-browser #WordPress Playground
š The second post in my now-Iām-an-EV-bore series.
This one is about which electric cars we looked at, which one we bought, and why we bought it.
https://rosswintle.uk/2023/07/the-electric-vehicle-what-and-why/
I really don't think I can take another cricket match like that.
My stress levels would quite like this Ashes series to be over.
š I had 100% given up on that cricket match on Friday morning. What. A. Rollercoaster.
š I discovered LightningCSS today. Looks like a great replacement for a bunch of build tools for CSS. Built in Rust! Perhaps I can remove a bunch more fragile npm dependencies?!
Oh. But I need to `npm install` it?
WHY?!
š¤ Today Iām thinking about supply-chain attacks in utilities that are written in Go, Rust etc and compiled.
With tools like esbuild and LightningCSS, we only have a single dependency, rather than the hundreds/thousands of dependencies in the tree for an npm-based tool.
But if something is written in Rust and itās using some off-the-shelf crate/package, would I know about that?
Do all tools dependent on a library get flagged if a package is found to have an issue?
Can I say I frickin LOVE that womenās sport has grown so much these last few years. How it was never such a big thing before I donāt know (*).
But itās great that itās a thing now because itās damn good.
(*) – OK, yes, the patriarchy, I DO know
@JPEGuin Hello. Just subscribed to race control, mostly for team radio. But itās not working. Any ideas why?
I get the play buttons. But clicking does nothing.
Is this feature broken?
Iād like to see a version of this where the final panel is someone riding a bicycle and being shouted at.
š» The previous post, by the way, was a reaction blog to this REALLY FREAKINā EXCELLENT episode of This American Life that looks at intelligence – artificial and otherwise – from a number of different creative angles.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-earth
š¤ I donāt remember who recommend it, but DANG this episode of āThis American Lifeā that tells stories about intelligence – artificial and otherwise – was good.
So good I had to write some thoughts down about it.
"Is ChatGPT clever because it _has_ "theory of mind", or is it stupid because it _lacks_ the instincts that keep a toddler alive.ā
The route to death of a social network on my mobile is:
Level 1. App deleted. Try to use just the web app on mobile.
Level 2. Ignore on mobile. Only use on desktop occasionally.
Level 3. Stop using altogether.
Current status:
Facebook: Level 2.5 – just need schools to stop using it for critical comms
Instagram: Level 1 but only for school stuff
Twitter: Level 2
Can you believe Iāve NEVER been on TikTok?
Threads opinions
*Opens Threads.*
Whatās all this stuff in my timeline from accounts that I donāt follow?
Oh, itās an addictive engagement machine.
No thanks.
*Deletes Threads*
I guess I always thought that posting on my blog was keeping my content out of the social companies. But are they just seeing it all anyway and attributing it to me?
Iām trying not to talk about the Threads app, but if itās federated does that mean Meta will scrape my Mastodon content and use it in my social/ad profile?
And is this something new? Are Meta/Twitter doing this already?
Do they need permission? Do they have it already?
I'm at that point of being not-very-well where I can do things sat down, with my brain, but the moment I try to, say, walk somewhere, I'm exhausted.
Alsoā¦ can people stop talking to me please? Especially the small people who have SO many words.
Why are people – governments mostly, but corporations and individuals too – not looking at the climate, utterly freaking out, and making big, serious, fast decisions? Who is leading?!
World's hottest day since records began https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66104822
OK. Beta 3 of #WordPress 6.3 is out. It's fixed the command palette styles.
My opinion: They shouldn't release the command palette in this form. It's too early. It's REALLY inconsistent. People will be put off the whole idea.
Put it back in the plugin until it's ready.