Notices by brennen (brennen@mastodon.social), page 10

@jplebreton and if anything, the currently-hip stew of hamburger menus and randomly placed button-like elements that might or might not produce a dropdown of some sort and so on - well, it all feels a lot like the worst of that era in computing when every application was just as likely to arbitrarily reinvent basic interface elements and interaction models from scratch, sometimes half a dozen different ways in the same program...

seasonal signifiers: 🎃 🍂 🌨️ 🌽 🧣

me: :polarbear:

@earthtopus if the mice who ate my soap a few years back are any indication, rodents are often not terribly discriminating about things that are kinda fat-adjacent.

(could have been beeswax? that stuff seems to get gnawed on too...)

@allan @Modern_Industrial hehe "left handed cigarette"

@aeonofdiscord @thatcosmonaut yeah, quite possibly.

anyway, here's hoping they both burn to the ground.

@aeonofdiscord @thatcosmonaut it's just that it seems like people feel pretty much obligated to do advertising on one of the two near-monopoly platforms. it doesn't seem like there's much in the way of (perceived, at least) alternatives for them to turn to.

@aeonofdiscord @thatcosmonaut you say that like their "customers" have any real alternatives.

i'm boosting this because i was still thinking about it when i woke up this morning.

@OhMyGodMyKnees unfair to lizards.

@djsundog now i wonder where the years-since-1900 thing was first introduced...

@letthewatersroar welllllll...

@earthtopus @hfrazey based on considerable recent experience, not all that much.

(my primary use-case for a leaf blower of late is getting playa dust out of all the camping shit; i will probably not attempt to apply a flamethrower there.)

@letthewatersroar @vilmibm (i also have no idea where deliberately "antiquing" furniture fits into this, but i know it makes me want to light something on fire.)

@letthewatersroar @vilmibm well hrm.

that's actually an interesting notion: pre-distressed clothing for mass consumption as kind of a backdoor aspirational/faux-quality thing?

though i'd be surprised if the origins didn't partake just as much from quasi-punk aesthetic and fumbling around with working-class signifiers. or whatever was happening with stone-wash denim in the 80s/90s...

@djsundog is this software written in perl by any chance? :)