"If the train leaves every 5 minutes you don't care about a timetable. If it leaves every 2 days you want to know *exactly* when it leaves"

Great analogy from Marcus Hamrin reflecting on planning, estimating and software delivery.

Anyone absurdly competent in UE5, Unity or Pixel Game Maker MV and feeling incredibly generous for the holiday wanna volunteer to dev me a sandbox to build in? I keep having the worst time even with premade projects. #gamedev

take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

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Hey @purism any timeline on upgrading the instance to Mastodon v4 ?

Ukraine faces a winter of blackouts & a war due to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

This evening, at 8PM, we will switch off the lights of 🇪🇺 EU buildings in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

You can do it at home too to #LightUpUkraine

#StandWithUkraine

Mary had a little Lambda
S3 its source of truth
And every time that Lambda ran
Her bill went through the roof

@GossiTheDog Also, the chances of an update breaking stuff is significantly higher when you fire entire infra teams with no handover. Just saying.

@lebout2canap @apps Première image (style MS Office pré-2007) : classique. Seconde image (style MS Office post-2007, celle avec le ruban) : Notebook. (J'ai trouvé l'info dans la description des images 🙂)

A small part of me is filled with self-loathing for how much pizza I can eat in one sitting. The rest of me is filled with pizza.

@lonekorean I've heard good things about css-for-js.dev (if that's the kind of thing you're looking for)

Can I commission an artist to make a hand lettered sign that says “Sorry About Your Website, Elon.”
I’m hungover and feeling petty.

When your fellow developers set the maximum digits for financial data in the database to 1000 and you have to gently point out that just 100 digits is more than enough to describe every atom in the observable universe.

Humans are just really bad at this whole "exponents" thing.

#Overkill #Mathematics

@Lockdownyourlife I've heard good things about Block Party but it's Twitter only. Would be great to convince them to port to Mastodon (and expose whatever APIs they'd need)

@pepperraccoon Just got myself a set of postcards; I really like your art style! Might send them all, or frame a couple. We'll see 🙂

@LouisIngenthron @oatmeal a little bit of both, since it also supports software development :)

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-im

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

@jv2o21 @elonjet And I'm guessing this is just a fuel stop on his way home from the world cup. So make that four years, probably.

@josh Can I add alt text after posting an image? I don't see a button for that.

@condor666 @GossiTheDog @Gargron consider following a few prolific boosters like @donmelton, that'll liven up your timeline real quick ;)

In one week I have gone from "ugh Mastodon looks complicated and too technical" to "I want to become a tech reporter so I can write about this, also I kind of want to found an instance?"

Say what you will about Elon, he's getting women into STEM

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