Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

The original REPL

I just realized this absolute banger of a UI, being in Russian, might have escaped wider audiences, so I translated it for you. Originally seen in Yandex.Plus

When you really need visual programming but all you have is text

Amazing. So looks like (in all Blink browsers on Windows since relatively recently) reading a user-selected File with a FileReader, and then putting the same file in FormData and sending it, crashes the tab.

I'll just work around this, can't be arsed to make a demo and figure out where to file the bug.

But yeah "file upload crashes browser" certainly aligns with the overall state of software these days.

The most annoying things about software development is that some tasks can be simultaneously very boring and very complex.

Coworker talking about Microsoft Active Directory, a while ago.

Them: And so this is what the system looks like before being added to AD.

Me: We call those systems BC.

No one laughed. Genius is not appreciated in its time.

#infosec

Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale.

I’ll say it again for those at the back:

An ad-blocker is a security tool.

Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.

It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.

When Stalin invaded Finland Soviet Union was thrown out of League of Nations.

When the successor state invaded Ukraine, I got a visit from the head of its successor organisation.