Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 3

ah, Teddy Bear month https://youtu.be/cILZ_cB3_so

PUT THE UNTITLED GOOSE IN SMASH

it's KIND OF WEIRD to think that Germans just grow up knowing that there's *literally tons* of explosives buried around the towns they live in that MIGHT blow up at any point especially if disturbed but they probably won't so it's just kind of taken as a fact of life

I'd previously mumbled about how growing up in post-WW2 Germany is a bit weird because construction work keeps turning up unexploded bombs and everyone just kind of goes "oh, okay, another one of those"

there was one found in Nuremberg again yesterday but when searching for news reports about it I'm just finding other articles about one found in February (also in Nuremberg)

here's a screenshot of the "related articles" bit from one of them

who will be the fifth

#Tusky 9 is out!
Creating polls, improved search, always expand content warnings, and more!
Read the full changelog here: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v9.0

:blobcoffeeraccoon:

A friend suggested today that it's time for a manifesto and I agree. Another friend in another conversation mentioned that "free software" and "open source" are not relevant terms for what we need. I also agree.

It's time for something new. A new, community-centered ecosystem.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the way forward for us is to build a dual-purpose Commons: one where our communities can freely partake and share and collaborate and learn and build each other up, while those who seek to profit on their own terms put cold hard cash down.

One of my favorite subtle changes that Firefox and Chrome made recently, and which I really appreciate, is making it so the backspace button doesn't go back anymore.

Can't tell you how many times I've been editing a piece of text, lost focus, pressed the backspace button, then the browser navigated back and I lost my work. Alt+left exists; I don't need the backspace for this.

IT DOESN’T NEED AMP. It’s entirely static, is as fast as or faster than AMP sites, and is served from a fast global CDN with aggressive caching.

I’m INCREDIBLY tired of Google abusing their position as the global search monopoly to push their tech on sites or fear being demoted.

I launched a new blog this week. It's stupidly fast, uses zero external JS or CSS resources, is responsive, and supports modern features many sites don’t like dark style support. But Google just emailed me saying they might deprioritize it on Google because it doesn’t use AMP.

heyo, code people friends! Just thought I'd let you know about this helpful testing resource I ran into a few years ago: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

it's a long long list in various formats of bits of text that are liable to cause Problems when you use them as user input, from control characters to fancy unicode to things that look like rude words to simple script injections