Tootfinder

I’ve always wanted someone to tell me I autocomplete them.
:awesome:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/aral
(That feeling when someone makes a Node package with your name. Hey, at least it’s not a German petroleum company…)

aral
An Agnostic Resources Access Layer system. Latest version: 0.2.58, last published: a year ago. Start using aral in your project by running `npm i aral`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using aral.

Just wrote a note about a little gotcha with default values for destructured properties of parameter objects in JavaScript that has gotten me a few times:
https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/ma…

gists/default-values-for-destructured-properties-of-parameter-objects-in-javascript.md at main
gists - A place for me to post and share small, self-contained code snippets.

On my way from Bray to Dublin for this evening’s Codú meetup.
Pop by and say hi if you’re around :)
#bray

Codú - The Web Developer Community | Meetup
Welcome to Codú, Ireland's largest coding community!**Join this group to learn more and attend some of our events.**Whether you're a beginner or an experienced coder, our community is the perfect place to enhance your skills, learn from others, and contribute your knowledge.Why join us? Here's what

Folks, this is a deceptive design pattern. There is a very clear third option here (keep me updated on this campaign’s progress only) that is not implemented for marketing reasons.
I expect better from a platform that exists to effect ‘progressive change across Ireland’.
#ireland #uplift

Loving all the cool CGA art on this weekend’s Draw Together :)
#DrawTogether

JSDB 5.0.0 published 🎉
• Custom classes must have a `constructor` that accepts a parameter object as its only argument. Constructors are run during deserialisation.

• Custom classes can now safely extend other classes (e.g., `EventEmitter`).
• Properties that begin with an underscore (`_`) are treated as private and ignored.
• Objects with null prototypes are supported. i.e., objects created with `Object.create(null, …)`.
Full details:

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

100% test coverage doesn’t mean your code’s bug free but it did just lead me to find and fix an issue in JavaScript Database (JSDB)¹ with a code path that wasn’t being hit that I would have otherwise missed because it was causing the relevant test to pass.
¹ JSDB is a zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log (an append-only log).

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

“…as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.”
Why does everything have to be a fucking market for fuck’s sake?! https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu/112360213078810208

OpenWebSearch.eu (@openwebsearcheu@suma-ev.social)
Attached: 1 image 📧 📫 What’s better than no news? Good news! And that we have plenty of! Our communications team is currently prepping our next #newsletter issue with lots of updates on the #OpenWebSearch Index prototype, Third-Party contributions, up-to-date partner profiles, interesting event tips and so much more. Be among the first to learn about opportunities to engage and stay in the loop on relevant progress. 👉 Simply sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t yet. ht…

If you use a parameter object in JavaScript, even if you specify its shape using JSDoc, you’ll only get errors if required properties are missing; not if there are extra properties provided.
e.g.,
```js
class A {
/**
@param {{
id:string
}} params
*/
constructor (params) {
Object.assign(this, params)
}
}
// Error:
new A({})
// No error:
new A({id: 'x', foo:'bar'})

Is it possible to restrict TypeScript object to contain only properties defined by its class?
Here is my code async getAll(): Promise { return await dbQuery(); // dbQuery returns User[] } class User { id: number; name: string; } class GetAllUserData{ ...

“In Dublin city last year, 94 per cent of all new housing was apartments, 98 per cent of which were for rent. First-time buyers there bought just 75 new houses. In Cork city just 3.5 per cent of all new housing was sold with first-time buyers buying 17 new houses.”

Lorcan Sirr: Don’t believe what you’ve heard: increasing supply won’t fix housing crisis
In Dublin City last year, 94% of all new housing was apartments, 98% of which were for rent. First-time buyers there bought just 75 new houses

@… Hey Sonny, do you know of anything like Watson for GTK 4/Vanilla GNOME?
https://github.com/small-tech/watson
(A starter template that creates app scaffoldin…

GitHub - small-tech/watson: Watson is a best-practices application template for elementary OS 6 (Odin).
Watson is a best-practices application template for elementary OS 6 (Odin). - small-tech/watson

Fuck Israel.
Fuck anyone who supports or defends this genocide.
#israel

Israel-Gaza war: More than 100 killed as crowd waits for aid, Hamas-run health ministry says
Hamas-run health ministry says more than 100 killed as people were waiting for food in northern Gaza.

“Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change.”
There isn’t a fuck you big enough to do this guy justice.
#ExxonMobil #climateChange

Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO …

You’d think folks writing the HTML spec would know the difference between an HTML attribute and inline JavaScript but you’d be mistaken and that’s why we can’t open a modal dialog without client-side JavaScript in 2024.
🤷
PS. What would be great to have is:
<dialog modal open></dialog>
So that a modally-open dialog can be streamed from the server without requiring client-side JavaScript to trigger it open when it loads.

Have some way of opening `

` elements without JavaScript · Issue #3567 · whatwg/html
dialog elements are a great addition and I'm glad they're getting implemented, but a key part of their functionality relies on JavaScript: to open a

you need to use JavaScript to set the o...

“‘I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane,’ said Ed Pierson, a former Boeing senior manager. ‘I’ve worked in the factory where they were built, and I saw the pressure employees were under to rush the planes out the door. I tried to get them to shut down before the first crash.’
‘I would tell my family to avoid the Max. I would tell everyone, really,’ said Joe Jacobsen, a former engineer at Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration.”

Boeing Max 9s start flying again after door panel blowout
The airlines and Boeing say they're committed to safety. Some analysts and aviation experts, however, still have concerns about the Max 9.

Heads up anyone playing with Kitten at the moment (yes, both of you):
I’m in the process of upgrading Kitten’s version of JSDB from 4 to 5.
*This is a breaking change.*
This will affect you if you’re persisting custom objects (instances of your custom model classes) in your databases.
Please see the details in this JSDB announcement post and the linked-to details page to prepare:

I might have formed an unhealthy obsession for chocolate-covered raisins.
🍇 🍫 = 🤤
(Specifically, the milk chocolate Bare Pantry ones with the jumbo raisins.)
#ireland

May I just say that not being able to set your own fucking character limit on your own fucking Mastodon instance without having to fucking fork fucking Mastodon is a fucking pain in the fucking arse.
Thank you for listening and here’s wishing you a lovely day.
#mastodon

Had knives in my throat (not Covid, probably… at least tests were/are negative) so went to see my new GP and we ended up chatting about the OneWheel I rode in on (he took up skating later on in life and tried one in France apparently), the shit factory that is Silicon Valley (he used to be a software dev there before he became a doctor), the Small Web (he digs the idea), and, yes even my sore throat (I’m on antibiotics now). Needless to say, I like my new GP :)

Personally, I’d rather celebrate a day about real living people than a fictitious magic zombie.

The nerve of some people.
*smh*

Capitalism, you’re doing amazing, sweetie. https://c.im/@heysannidhi/112195096654517775

I hope humankind doesn’t learn the hard way that you can’t eat, drink, or breathe shares of ExxonMobil.

Starting to think I was a bit too optimistic bringing my Onewheel along instead of a raincoat.
Ffs the weather here…
#dublin #rain

I miss the days when blockchain was the latest bullshit. Anyone remember NFTs? Ah, simpler times.

@… Hey there, just saw that I can no longer see how many characters I’m over in a post. Can we please at least have a way to bring that feature back. I find it invaluable when posting as I don’t want my post to be automatically split into two or more. Thanks :)

“There are no more words to speak about what’s going on in Gaza. There are no more laws to break. No more appeals… The hypocrisy is obvious. Our collective [humanity] has failed. Human rights have a skin colour and the darker you are the less human rights you have. [They have tried to silence us], they have tried to make us look like antisemites…all of that to make it possible to kill more Palestinians.”
– Abir Al-Sahlani MEP

Trickle down theory is when the rich piss on your head and tell you it’s raining and you manage a coy smile while it drips down your back because deep inside you want to believe it’s true.

Palestinians are not getting killed. They are being murdered. By Israel. In a genocide. With the complicity of the US, UK, Germany and others.
Use the right words.
Blame the right people.
Stop the genocide.
#ceasefireNOW

Draw Together Weekend Special: CGA 4-colour palette 1
Have fun! :)
#DrawTogether #CGA

Aww, a puppy dog!
🦴 🐕
#DrawTogether #SmallWeb

If you’re a web developer using Vivaldi, first thing you should do is go to Menu − Settings − Appearance and, under the Menu section, select Page from the Menu Customization dropdown then right-click on [Developer Tools] under Content and deselect Show as Subfolder.
You’re welcome 🤓👍
Update: You have to do this manually for *every item* in the Menu section. That’s Audio and Video, Image, Link, Selection, and Text Field in order to have the Inspect item top-level.

Ooh, @… just updated to @… version 7 and… *ta daa*, the spurious warnings in the code listings for proper curly quotes and other correct – but sadly underutilised – typographical elements in comments and strings are gone!
e.g.…

app/examples/fetchiverse/index.page.js at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Realised last night that JavaScript Database (JSDB) doesn’t run the constructor on persisted custom objects (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types) when deserialising them because I didn’t know that you apparently have to define your constructor manual…

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, #Threads, etc.):
1. Doesn’t moderate anti-transgender hate on its platforms.
https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fa…

Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

“The GMB estimates that paying 1,300 additional workers costs Amazon over £300,000 a week.”
Amazon would rather do this at one warehouse than have its workers form a union.
This is how much they fear unions. If this doesn’t convince you how important unions are, nothing will.
https…

Amazon Warehouse in Chaos Due to Union-Busting ‘Dirty Tricks’
Facilities at the Coventry site are overwhelmed as the company keeps hiring more non-union employees.

It is Friday, March 29th, 2024. The United States and Israel are commiting genocide in Gaza.
To arm genocide is to commit genocide.
This is a shame you cannot erase. This is a shame a country lives with forever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se

U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
Despite the U.S. and Israeli governments’ growing rift over the Gaza war, the Biden administration continues to authorize major weapons transfers.

“CEO Jim McNerney…repeatedly invoked a slur…Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving…He initially refused to let nearly any of these talented assholes work on the 787 Dreamliner, instead outsourcing…development…The plan would save money while busting unions, a win-win, he promised investors.”

Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

It is Friday, March 29th, 2024. The United States and Israel are commiting genocide in Gaza.
To arm genocide is to commit genocide.
This is a shame you cannot erase. This is a shame a country lives with forever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se

U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
Despite the U.S. and Israeli governments’ growing rift over the Gaza war, the Biden administration continues to authorize major weapons transfers.

“CEO Jim McNerney…repeatedly invoked a slur…Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving…He initially refused to let nearly any of these talented assholes work on the 787 Dreamliner, instead outsourcing…development…The plan would save money while busting unions, a win-win, he promised investors.”

Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

“In its current genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Israel has destroyed every single Palestinian university in the enclave with aerial bombardment or controlled detonation. Medical and engineering laboratories, training courtrooms of faculties of law, assembly and graduation halls, rich collections of books, art pieces, archival and archaeological artifacts, all completely decimated. Decades of Palestinian student academic and political life instantly wiped out.”

Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime
Opponents of the academic boycott of Israel claim that its universities are havens of free inquiry. In fact, they supply vital support to Israel’s system of apartheid rule and are complicit in the violent suppression of Palestinian scholarship.

It’s amazing to me that folks have such a hard time with the very basic concept of “follow the money.”
This isn’t rocket science, people. Where/who you get your money from matters. The people who you surround yourself with matters. The success criteria you adopt matters.

Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?
Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)

“If the International Criminal Court is serious about investigating what Israel has done in Gaza as of the 7th of October – only as of the 7th of October – it will be busy for decades.”
– UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZhGCHnEfuQ

It’s bloody 2024, think we can agree on either wget or curl being installed by default on every freaking operating system by now so shell scripts can have a guaranteed way of carrying out http requests?
I mean it’s been about 35 years. I think it’s about time.
#http #shell

As long as the middle is more concerned with keeping the left out than about having the right in, the right will remain in power. And at some point the middle will cease to be relevant.
🤷‍♂️
#neoliberalism

When I first started calling Silicon Valley’s business model “people farming” I was told I was being hyperbolic and alarmist.
I don’t get told that much anymore.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI

Folks in tech need to have a long, hard think about who else used to monetise people.

Nice! Now do Google. https://eupolicy.social/@euwatchers/112005557688148157

Oh yeah, well monetise you too, buddy!

Don’t you just love getting monetised? I know I do.

Apologies for hating genocide, I must be antisemitic.

@… Hey folks, quick question: any idea why the embed of my video at the European Parliament from your PeerTube instance is showing a password field and lock. (I’m on my phone and haven’t had a chance to view source.) Would appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you :)

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

Made a bunch of performance improvements to Kitten’s startup time. It now launches in under half a second on my machine vs a couple of seconds previously.
Feels even snappier now.
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
:kitten: 💕

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Made a bunch of performance improvements to Kitten’s startup time. It now launches in under half a second on my machine vs a couple of seconds previously.
Feels even snappier now.
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
:kitten: 💕

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Update: I’m apparently not.
See: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111999407825147928
(Not deleting this so we don’t lose the conversation in the comments. Just don’t want new folks getting tripped up by it.)
* * *
Sounds like I’m shadow-banned on mastodon.…

I’m in ur git tools, crashing them with emoji.
🤭
https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/547

Crash when path contains emoji · Issue #547 · newren/git-filter-repo
Tried the git-clean contrib script on a project that has paths that contain emoji (platform: Fedora Silverblue) and got the following crash: $ git-clean --force Error: Passed b'web/\xf0\x9f\x94\x92...

@… @… Bug report: GNOME Web cannot display emoji in the URL bar. The URL shown in the video below contains 💕.
[Bug report: @…

@… Bug report:
OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
Vivaldi Open dialogue after clicking Choose file on a file input: flickering tooltip.
CC @…

@… Bug report:
- OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
- DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
After signing in after sleep, Vivaldi renders at @1x even though my screen is set to @2x.
(Moving the window around or resizing it, etc., re-renders it at the correct resolution.)

Extension Manager is the app GNOME Extensions should be. It not only lets you see already-installed extensions and disable/enable them and access their settings like GNOME Extensions does but, get this… (are you sitting down?) it even lets you browse and install new extensions. I mean, I don’t know why you’d ever want to do that but, hey, I guess this is for all the freaks out there… :)

So, quick show of hands… are you:
* Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people counts.
#israel #palestine #genocide

We don’t want to be ruled by kings like Zuckerberg and Musk. So let’s create fiefdoms ruled by mini-Zuckerbergs and mini-Musks instead.
Gosh darnit something tells me there’s a better solution to this but I’ll be damned if I can put my finger on it…
🤔

Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @…’s account?
Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?
(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)
CC @…

Israel’s tactic in a nutshell: never play defence.
“Committing genocide? What’s that? Are you an antisemite?!”
#israel #palestine #genocide

Israel’s tactic in a nutshell: never play defence.
“Committing genocide? What’s that? Are you an antisemite?!”
#israel #palestine #genocide

Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.…

Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S. donations.

Heads up: if you were playing with Kitten¹ on macOS, you might have noticed that some of the commands were exiting with a truncated header.
This has now been fixed and all commands should look and work exactly the same on macOS as they do on Linux.
:kitten: 💕
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Hey folks,
@… is looking for a new gig after three years at Stately. She’s a designer and front-end developer who writes, gives talks, makes videos, and has been doing a fair bit of dev/design advocacy recently.
Her approach is best summed up in her book, Accessibility for Everyone (

Accessibility for Everyone

I love that (a) Draw Together is so easy to embed (see https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/) and (b) it makes me laugh every time I see what folks have made while I was away :)
Looks like we have a glass of something or other?

Draw Together
Join me as I take you through building Draw Together – a little collaborative drawing toy I made and released over the weekend – from scratch.

In four months, Israel has murdered 100 journalists.
“On Monday 26 February join the special day to #SupportPalestinianJournalists.
The needs of our colleagues working in Gaza have become critical. In the middle of winter, they lack the essentials of clothes, blankets, tents, food and water. Basic goods, where they are available, are no longer affordable.”

International Day for Palestinian Journalists
On Monday 26 February join the special day to #SupportPalestinianJournalists.

G’morning from my sleepy morning face to yours.
💕
#sleepyMorningFace #sendCoffee

Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-jail-ftx-money

Oh no, no more tech-bro land-snorkles?
#Apple

Apple slashes Vision Pro production, might cancel 2025 model in response to plummeting demand
We heard over the weekend that the Vision Pro headset Apple spent eight years and billions of dollars developing was rapidly losing steam in terms of both...

“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”

Wages Not Warrants
Protest photos, remembering Rana Plaza and resisting the crackdown in Bangladesh.

Dear @…,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

Oh, they have a point, do they, you hypocritical son of a bitch?
If they have a point why did you veto every UN call for a ceasefire apart from the current one and then call the one you abstained on non-binding and stress that nothing has changed and you will continue to sell arms to Israel to continue the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people?
They do have a point, yes.
The point is you’re complicit in genocide.

Biden reacts to pro-Palestinian protesters: 'They have a point'
President Joe Biden responded to pro-Palestinian protesters who interrupted his health care speech Tuesday, saying, "They have a point."

“Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, opened the detailed 25-page report, Anatomy of a Genocide, by stating: ‘After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza.’”
https://www.

UN expert accuses Israel of committing genocide
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler-colonial project in Palestine, UN report contends

Spare a thought for this poor little one tonight. He had a lump removed from his leg today. It’s breaking my heart to see him like this.

🤔 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112327500371047267

There’s a special circle of hell for the “This file contains ambigious Unicode characters” overlay on @…
No, it doesn’t, it uses proper curly quotes and other typographically-correct punctuation in comments and strings.
Thought we’d fixed this in Forgejo but apparently not?
Really making me not want to link to my source code on Codeberg an…

app/examples/markdown-preview/index.page.js at parameter-objects
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

It’s good to know most people will choose the option no one chooses :) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112327500371047267

Kitten breaking change: Route handlers, etc., now take parameter objects
Just pushed the API updates I’d posted about earlier to main and to the latest Kitten release.
This change affects:
- Route handlers (all types of routes)
- `onConnect()` handlers
- The default export on main.script.js files
I’ve updated all the examples, documentation, etc., on Kitten to use the new API but if you see anything I’ve missed, please let me know.

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

If a democracy can be destroyed by an election that democracy will be destroyed by an election. How do we make our democracies resilient so they aren’t at existential risk every four years? Is it already too late for some? If not, what’s the way forward? Or do we plan for what comes after and a path back?
#democracy

Cool and normal democracy.
#israel #gaza #palestine #genocide

Let’s build Draw Together… umm, together.
Video: https://vimeo.com/927628184
Blog post: https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-toge…

Just updated the video on my Streaming HTML article so it’s no longer using Vimeo’s video player (which has tracking) but a simple video tag.
https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/
(Sorry it took a little while, it involves a bit more work – but not much more – than si…

Streaming HTML
Building the Streaming HTML counter example. Estimated reading time: 25 minutes. Kitten has a new experimental workflow for creating web apps called Streaming HTML that I want to introduce you to today. Kitten, uniquely, enables you to build Small Web apps (peer-to-peer web apps). But it also aims to make creating any type of web app as easy as possible. The new Streaming HTML workflow is a big step in realising this goal.

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
– Jane Kristen Marczewski (Nightbirde)

If you were playing with Kitten¹ on macOS and noticed that live reloads were broken², they’ve now been fixed.
(Thanks to @… running into the issue today.)
Run:
kitten update
To update to the latest version.
¹

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Today is Thursday, February 1st, 2024 and Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.
#israel #genocide #gaza #palestine

There’s a long-standing bug in Fedora (also in Fedora 40), where the sign-in screen is displayed at the wrong resolution (it doesn’t use the settings you have set in the Settings app).
So, for example, if you have 4K@2x set in your settings for your monitor, the sign-in screen will still display at a tiny 4K@1x.
To fix, download an app called GDM Settings from the Software app and press Display − Apply current display settings − Apply.

I have a feeling it starts with Silicon and ends with Valley. Or maybe it starts with Venture and ends with Capital? Or perhaps simply starts with capital and ends with ism.
https://draw-together.small-web.org

Anyone know why #GNOME exposes a list of applications on the lock screen?
It’s not even the correct list of running applications, you can’t do anything with them, and I’m not sure I understand the logic behind this design decision at all.
#design

Quick heads up, highlight.js now correctly highlights code in namespaced tagged template strings (e.g., kitten.html``, kitten.css``, etc.)
https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/pull/4002
(And Kitten comes with highlight.js baked in. See it in use in t…

Support namespaced tagged template strings in JavaScript by aral · Pull Request #4002 · highlightjs/highlight.js
Resolves #4001 Changes Instead of just matching html and css (and, for completeness and consistency, gql), \.?html, \.?css, and \.?gql are matched, which allows for namespaced tagged template strin...

“UX pretends that capitalism can be coaxed into giving a shit. It chugs along as if UX designers and researchers are the ones who are going to cause a revolution of socialist CEOs who consider users beyond their money and their data.
But the inside secret of commercial UX is that the empathy is just a posture and the businesses benefit from the aura of care without having to entertain it.”
– @…

The Aura of Care.
The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalise on this aura without having to entertain it.

Just learned from @… that the text-wrap property in #CSS has two new(ish) values: balance and pretty.
“The balance value is good for headings, and tries to balance the number of characters on each line so that each line of the heading is about the same lengt…

Better type layouts with CSS
Today, I wanted to quickly share two newer CSS properties that make it easier to create nice, well-balanced layouts. The text-wrap property has two newish values: balance and pretty. The balance value is good for headings, and tries to balance the number of characters on each line so that each line of the heading is about the same length. The pretty value attempts to reduce orphans (instances where one word is all by itself on a line).

In case you’re using Node’s `fs.watch()` directly instead of using a library*, take heed that it doesn’t give you atomic events for file changes.
If a file is being saved, you’ll get one event for every time a chunk is written to the file system. So you have to debounce your event handler.
e.g.,

app/examples/markdown-preview/index.page.js at 579aeabd0ad02768fa62142fa660d25577da33c5
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

So given it’s Saturday night, I thought I’d have a little fun with Kitten and make a tiny collaborative drawing toy.
You have a 20×20 grid and only black and white to draw with and everyone shares the same canvas.
https://draw-together.small-web.org
Have fun looking forward …

PS. Free and open source folks? Listen up! This is how you make your tools better:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@xeenon@mastodon.social/112327515754874024
To wit, how you don’t make your tools better:
- This is the wrong repository for this bug r…

Which option are you more likely to choose?