They think they’re important and smarter, held back by incompetent idiots. Tech narcissists abound.
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They think they’re important and smarter, held back by incompetent idiots. Tech narcissists abound.
More synth money
To be super clear: Actions are great & will keep working afaik. GitHub Marketplace (for both Free actions & Paid apps) has never been good or helpful. I've been on the partner program for years, waiting for it to be better. Not going to happen.
GitHub are gonna start blocking Actions releases from Marketplace. That is, unless I agree to new, onerous terms. I can't possibly find the time or resources to review this agreement (OR take on its new risk), just to be part of the "marketplace". My action is OSS & Free. Absolute bullshit.
If you need to get something done today, here's 2 hours of Japanese Ambient/Electronica. Nice braining music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnd...
Don’t worry chaps, we also have a disappointing labour govt that promised to be better than the Tories, and, aren’t. The MP you’ve reposted is greens, of course
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🚨 GitHub image-actions 1.3.0, out now: Before: Compress all repository images until there isn't anything left to compress = Runs slow, kind of helpful After: Runs strictly within your PR - new and updated images get compressed = Lightning fast & awesome github.com/calibreapp/i...
forgot to say: enjoyed the questions!
On more than one occasion I misread or mis-clicked and realised immediately after I thought some questions were a bit esoteric, do you have score statistics? would be interesting to see 🤠
petals flying off
I got 4-5 wrong when I took it a couple weeks ago. I started to do the long one but I ain't got time for that 😅
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image-actions docker image has been pulled 677,000+ times and likely compressed tens of millions of images. Feels good man 🙇♂️
⭐ After 5 long years, I've released 1.2.0 of image-actions github.com/calibreapp/i... To recap: - You add image-actions to GitHub Actions - image-actions runs on each Pull Request - JPG, PNG & WebP images are automatically compressed & committed - Your PR includes optimised images ✨
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Coffee drawer looking stacked
Ugh, sucks 😩 hopefully you can find someone empathetic enough to help investigate & get it repaired. Super frustrating
Damn, my experience has been decent. I assume they ran hardware checks on it and nothing was reported?
Did you book an in store genius appointment?
Spot 🤙
Hope your lower back is feeling good today Andy
Agree. I switched back to SPD only and have one pair of shoes now. I can actually walk in them, and they’re better out in the field for hike-a-bike
I know plenty of Queenslanders who don’t own a pair of trousers, or any jumpers. Shorts and t-shirts 365. Victoria is not that warm 😅
Starting the long trip home to Australia with a quick night in Warsaw, then back to Australia and the last 7 days of winter
Thanks a bunch for patiently explaining all these tricky details over and over again! It’s a real bummer that Google couldn’t (for once) come up with something more straightforward. There’s so much context and nuance that’s needed to understand it, and it kinda takes away from the overall value.
Remember making rounded corners with extra divs and transparent gifs? We lived through some bad times!
It didn't fit for the purpose of my post and would have muddied the message. If I were to write a more general post (not strictly about performance), I'd say semantic, assistive technology accessible HTML. Comparatively, semantics don't offer much to viewers, but accessibility really does.
Early on in my career, I was so excited about all the colour, motion, shape, depth, and creativity I’d get to add to the web. But really, the majority of what I got to do was concatenate strings into different boxes.
Want to build faster websites? Here's how: - Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint - Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!) - Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times - Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate Then keep doing that.
Is that like… a real thing that has happened? Or something that someone is (perhaps needlessly) worried about? IMO having a “baseline 2025” label is a good way to keep stragglers tethered to somewhat current availability. TLDR: baseline is good. I’m team baseline.
If tha image sux, hit da bricks
In most cases, I won't even read it.
I hadn’t heard that response. For me, it’s been the opposite: if a feature is Baseline, then it’s good to go. A bit less granular than caniuse, and an easy distinction to understand.
Forget your memories; We can create new, shittier ones using AI that consumes more energy and water. Don’t worry, we’ll all be dead soon.
Oh he LOOKS super cuddly. I think I'd be awestruck… and before you know it, here I am without a face 🙃
and people say Australian animals are scary
When you see an American doing anything borderline dangerous it’s always more badass because the medical system is so unfathomably unaffordable
That law exists in Victoria and it doesn’t seem to stop drivers aggressive behaviour. I regularly ride 10kms further to start my favourite route, just to avoid roads. That’s in the inner north, where the best cycle paths and connectivity is. It might be better, but it still sucks
Can’t wait to use this 🙇♂️
Still waiting for technology to bring us together, rather than tearing us apart, making us anxious and lonely 😢
It’s quaint that we’ve relied on a system of honour for so long, and also super fucked that LLM companies were like “oh that’s not for us”
Europe is so much more calm and sophisticated. I can see you plotting a move before the trip is up 😊
I saw a post on hacker news today that was some young hacker saying they changed their sleep schedule around Claude usage limit resets I logged off after that
I’ve cycled around Poland a bit this past week and am shocked by how much more relaxed drivers are here. They wait, leave gaps, and generally behave well. In Australia, almost every ride involves someone in a car being aggressive, shouting, or making dangerous close passes.
Is this Fords take on Volkswagen’s MEB platform that effectively means a couple of different chassis sizes shared by all their models? According to the MEB wiki page ford had some vehicles in cologne using MEB, but I guess that could be a stop gap?
This is a pretty fun insight! How did your customer respond? Did they see customers having a bad experience in-store as worth fixing? Or something to 🙈 until new devices are rolled out?
We have a Cycling Brands leaderboard that sources CrUX data and ranks using normalised proportions of fast LCP, INP and small CLS per device type. I just updated it to include the 3-4 TDF brands I'd missed a few months ago. calibreapp.com/tools/websit...
Sounds like a hardware issue. I’d take it to the store
This is nice
(More prevalent in the EU) being interrupted by a cookie dialog for EVERY bloody website. DNT preferences should have solved this 🫠
Anyone got the DL on email #accessibility? Do folks just use the text-only versions or does proper HTML markup matter?
For sure — afaik all of the major models are trained on stolen content However a distinction in this case: Perplexity ignore/do not read robots.txt, a common mechanism site owners use to set bot rules. When security systems detect & block, Perplexity mutates user-agent to hide & continue
I do not say this lightly: Perplexity are aiding fascism with Trump’s propaganda. www.axios.com/2025/08/06/t...
Unsurprisingly, Perplexity does not understand consent. Perplexity intentionally ignores robots.txt, and mutating user-agents when blocked by detection systems and (of course) did not reflect that they are not gaining CONSENT from site owners. www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/age...
But also yes Australia has garbage culture too
I meant more than Australia, where I live. It’s self explanatory that the USA is a tire fire 🙃
We also swam at this moody basement level pool and sauna, pretty nice 🧖♂️
I’m not saying Europe has more culture or that this is my normal taste, but this hotel has been operating since 1887 — this is the epic breakfast hall at Grand hotel Łódź
Referring to Jacob
I used Spotify for a decade or so but they continually made everything worse until I ragequit. Currently on Apple music, bandcamp, physical records
Dude has been living off writing a sensible paper on acceptable user delays for 20 years, I honestly do not know why he’s been held in such high regard
When I first became aware of XSLT in 2005 I though “oh jeez, this is terrible, I hope I never have to use it”, and after 20 years I can tell you — I’ve been successful.
Caught a ride through forest along the beach on the R10 “velo baltic” trail from Łeba today
Cops tried to stop this #acab
Also shoutout to my buddy Rob who lent me this bike bag. He hand delivered everything to me and supplied the pool noodles to protect the frame better. Legend shit
Packed a gravel bike for a few weeks in Poland for vacation with my partners family It’s winter in Aus, and summer in Europe 😍 Time to catch some sun 🌞
Rough. A few years ago I lived “on the wrong side of the street” — one had 100mbps cable, the other, ADSL that disconnected regularly 💀
No kidding, I guess my point is that social media seems to be a net bad for society, because society is sick due to our environment
At home I have 1000 mbps and it’s pretty well distributed in major cities, tho a lot of people probably would cap out at 100mbps. Still, ~300ms latency to the USA and Europe 😬
Tbh social media seems to turn (some) people into absolute psychopaths. I’d be ok if we all had to log off a bit more
I’m on a long haul flight to Europe-it has free starlink internet access
In Australia we call those people cunts, but they lack warmth and depth… so, we’re gonna have to workshop this a lil more
With AI you can appease your parents with a thin veil of care. Don't worry, we'll all be dead soon 💀
let's crank out the Ouija board and solve this shit Chris!
it’s definitely a 10,000 hours level dedication task to become well-versed. I appreciate a bunch of people actually don’t have time for that. No slight to anyone, except the people in-tech-industry who devalue this skill.
This is a really good point and it's why we see so many slow, janky web experiences. It's a massively undervalued skill
This course looks good! Worth a bookmark 📚
Yeah some contact is fine and the penalty foul looked to be both players jostling with each other, then a simulated fall. In a bunch of games I’ve watched similar incidents weren’t given as a foul. If it was in the midfield, wouldn’t have been called. I didn’t see the hair pull, but is often a red
No, I’m the better looking Ben Schwarz
Agree. If there was an edit button I might have improved, but alas
Real jerk behaviour
It is a contact sport 😀 it’s an inconsistent penalty for sure
“I don’t like CSS” is coded speech for “I never learned CSS”
That penalty was not a penalty! Italy were robbed 😡
If Aussies needed another reason to not be a patron of Coles supermarkets… then consider that Coles have a contract with Palantir. Y'know, the same Palantir that are aiding the US government creeping fascism and surveillance state. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
Aye! Cheers for the shout Julien 🙇♂️
Just found this page and wanted to add: There's a clear design system documentation page about colour accessibility by team role 🤩 www.skyscanner.design/latest/acces...
Want to build faster websites? Here's how: - Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint - Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!) - Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times - Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate Then keep doing that.
💡 CSS Tip! Do you know that you can use offset() to place images around a circle? And if you combine it with the new sibling-*() functions, you can have a perfect placement that works for any number of elements! css-tip.com/images-circle/
I am not fabulous nor wealthy, but is there a donation form somewhere?
Skyscanner’s design systems team tediously audited all their colours. They reduced, fixed and renamed, simple stuff but a good outcome. medium.com/skyscanner-p... #designsystems #css