Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 16

geez this field is a mess. tutorials 6 months old are out of date. i'm dependent on stack overflow for answers to everything.

i wouldn't want to scare anyone away, but i would be tempted to give dire warnings to folks looking to get into web dev.

there is a shit ton of bs involved that has nothing to do with building apps or changing tech culture. our tools are busted & confusing as fuck.

it's only because i've been at this so long that i can calmly navigate this quagmire.

old: Surveillance
new: Googly eyes

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/microsoft_windows_10_crisis/

"In 2014 Microsoft decided it could do a better job if it discarded a lot of software testers. This bright new dawn was lauded at the time by Peter Bright at Ars Technica in a piece titled "How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century". Testers were soooo 20th century.

The previous month, Microsoft had laid off many of its Windows testers."

Well this explains a few things

Every generation of phone designers have even longer thumbs and soon they will have diverged into their own freaky species of hitchhikers and funk bass players

if your IT person isnt trans are they a cisadmin

We have to do something NOW.

"The Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish... an explicit and uniform definition of gender ...as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with... any dispute... would have to be clarified using genetic testing."

Source: Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html

This won't just affect trans people. It won't just affect intersex people. It will affect everyone https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html

This is not a time to debate or discuss how this is par for the course, how this is just republicans being republicans, how we need to take back the house.

This is an EMERGENCY, not a conversation. This is a CALL TO ARMS, not a get out the vote effort.

Get your feet in your boots, get your boots or wheels on the ground, and get protesting to protect our trans comrades. Put on your privilege armor and get the fuck out in the streets. NOW.

Favorite website doesn't have a dark mode? Add these two lines in the Stylus extension and it will:

html, img, video { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg); }
html { background: #fff; text-shadow: 0 0; }

(It works nearly everywhere.)

you know in france, they call the fortnite burger a battle royale with cheese

You: English pronunciation is random and lawless. It is a chaos language no one can make sense of.
Me:

https://ha.x0r.be/posts/chrome-is-a-google-service/

Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome.

(I created a blog for occasions where 500 characters just aren't enough)

https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/ a lovely technical post on how to get 16, 256, 512 and even 1024 colours out of an original CGA