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The new Google Assistant voice model struggles with place names. I found one that makes it hallucinate. Welsh speakers: I apologise for my pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

This has left me wanting a Welsh Pokémon though. Pokemwn, perhaps

As someone who also tried to migrate to Mastodon as well, @patak.dev addresses many of the reasons I think Bluesky has a much better chance of sticking this time around. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

setting twitter to light mode so I wouldnt want to use it https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif?hh=216&ww=330

JavaScript is all you need? Microsoft has released a scripting language that allows you to make LLM-based scripts with simplified JavaScript. microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/ https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/

It's exciting to see so many folks from the tech community join this week. If we haven't met, I'm Geri 👋 I'm a designer working in design system and accessibility. I occasionally write nerdy stuff and speak at events. This is Arthur, my Frenchie, who looks even goofier on 3 legs.

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Give me a gold star!!!! I finished the FULL FIRST DRAFT of the script for my next web comic!!! 30,000 words!!!!!!!! I could cry. I actually finished a story.

Thanks to the starter kit feature, not only is my social graph almost fully-healed over here, but I’ve found a bunch of new people I didn’t know before! Very exciting! Wave if you’ve never heard of me before!

Gists are such a good idea because the amount of code sample images without alt on twitter was grim

if i ever see you using bitwise math in javascript i will shoot you in the face with a bazooka unless you can explain why in detail with notes

One thing I noticed on Twitter was how my engagement had slowly been dropping in the last 6-months. I don't plan on cross-posting there anymore, but for one last one, earlier today I did one as a test to see. My audience there is 40x bigger... same engagement.

to be fair, you find everything to be easy to build from scratch

Apple have finally dropped the requirement for 5'5'' (iPhone 6, 7, 8) screenshots! 🎉 The only required screenshots are now 6'9'' (iPhone with the dynamic island). I'm so excited about never having to fake those tedious 5'5'' screenshots every again. https://www.figma.com/community/file/1352686667495694112/app-store-and-play-store-asset-requirements

Hello folks! I just realised I was added to a design system starter pack so I thought I’d share the work I did on the GOV.UK Design System (2017-2018). As a service designer, my focus was on the service aspects: contribution, assurance, support and community. https://ignaciaorellana.com/casestudies/designing-the-gov.uk-design-system-service/

Was gonna try run the bsky web app locally but I upgraded to node 23 and my node-gyp broke so instead I’m gonna throw the laptop in the lake and buy a new one

I can assure you that I am not someone you want to get stuck talking to at a party unless you are into obscure JavaScript runtime bugs

Absolutely!

Although I actually also remember CSS zen garden in like sixth grade. Idk!

MySpace team over here!

I struggled to find the right gif to represent this .. Bane came to mind but this will do better. BBSes are part of my origin story. First websites in the 90s. 👴💾 https://media.tenor.com/gnXL1vdsASQAAAAC/hackers-jonny.gif?hh=249&ww=498

How did you get into web development? MySpace? Comp sci? Made the jump from print? Bootcamp?

Hey All 👋🏻 I’m Laurie, I’m a Software Engineer at Netflix working on a kotlin, graphql, typescript, react stack. I’ve written and developed a lot of content in the past, but admit to being delinquent these days 😅 laurieontech.com https://laurieontech.com/

dev.to blog: instead of using a language feature that has existed since the Clinton admin, you should be using this alternative which isn't even in the draft and was first mentioned last week at an ECMA whiteboarding session

Bit late to the game, but I've made a Front-end Friend starter pack 😊. I know I forgot people from this, but I think it's a good start! go.bsky.app/FfLUXeQ (I also made a CSS-only one: go.bsky.app/JQYmgQH) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Big Ball of Mud may be the best software engineering paper ever written. Every paragraph has me violently nodding along

People don’t understand how important this is to scaling decentralization. Even the data isn’t that big of a deal. But the traffic? Game changer For reference: on mastodon, hachyderm goes through 1TB+ of egress data a day. The network charges for that alone would bankrupt most people [contains quote post or other embedded content]

🌠 For years, the #1 most requested feature in CSS was Container Queries. We wanted them so badly! Well, they’ve arrived… and none of us are using them. 😂 I think I know why, and I just published a new blog post that will hopefully change that! Check it out: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/container-queries-introduction/

I got promoted here at the big G. It feels completely surreal because I started so long ago as a little jr level L3. Today I'm an L7 and my official title is entirely too long to post. I've been blessed to have a job that I've loved so much for this long.