Hi! Iβm Ryan. Iβve been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks, and Bridgy Fed, which connects them to the fediverse.
ContentsThe danger of bad critiqueBut I was told this stuff was uselessReal activists shipThatβs pretty over the topThe dumb critiqueItβs βuselessβ and produces βnonsenseβEnergy consumption as a primary objectionStudents will use it to cheat!Examples of actual, important issues β¦
did I mention that I did a #GameDev lol? https://jalcine.itch.io/jponga it's pong in #Godot!and it has auto deploy support which was very easy to do and gives me a lot of excitment for trying to do more of it for the lulz β¦
As my experience with web components grows, my personal view of how to build a web component is also evolving. In some cases Iβve gone back and refactored older components with the new knowledge and experience Iβve gained. In other cases, these older components sit as evidence of β¦
Thereβs been a recent flurry of articles about web components, with advice on how to shape them as extensions of HTML. I decided to dig in, and see how these βHTML web componentsβ could become a part of my own workflow. Despite a few rough edges, Iβm excited to see where this β¦
I had certain expectations of the possible, informed by decades of building things. Some stuff lay within my zone of talent, while others lay far out of reach, in a place of broken ROI.
This statement was written before the Al-aqsa Flood, during which Palestinian fighters broke through the fence around the open-air prison known as the Gaza strip in 29 locations. We condemn Israel in the strongest terms, & support the liberation of the Palestinian people. We know β¦
I used to use Makerbotβs Thingiverse as my 3D printing sharing platform of choice, but itβs gone way downhill over the last few years. However, Printables, run by Prusa (makers of a very popular 3D printer), is quite nice, and provides way more functionality and way less jank. β¦