Noah Botimer

@headius Isn't that the way? Once you identify what makes you anxious about something, it's a lot easier to manage. Our minds can be so weird. Good luck; you have plenty of interesting things to share!

I just realized most of my anxiety about speaking at FOSDEM is worrying about being interesting to other speakers in the Free Java room. If I only think about the attendees, I know it will be fine.

I am a developer and love developers and community building, but I do barf just a little when I see people earnestly talking about "devrel". I guess it's mostly the branding and pretty awful abbreviation that turn me off? The jargon treadmill is so obnoxious.

@BKAngryKing @AdamRackis Great accessibility is tough. Baseline accessibility is not too difficult. Many organizations have a commitment on ethical and equity grounds. Plenty of examples of different contexts where something being just another nicety is either totally fine or unconscionable.

@BKAngryKing @AdamRackis I didn't read any spiteful subtext in it. I saw an observation and a question. Then an uncharitable opinion about hand waving on trade-offs. A lot of people were using Bulma when the stance on a11y was basically "dunno; patches welcome". I could not suggest it for serious work.

God help me I'm sure I'll regret this, but, apparently htmx works in part by having api endpoints return pre-formed gobs of html. You post to an endpoint, work happens, and the endpoint returns an updated chunk of html you dump into the document Isn't that bad for accessibility?

@AdamRackis Not an expert either, but I've been around people who are. ARIA can be quite effective at signaling changes, managing focus, and so on. I would not imagine HTMX poses much additional difficulty, given the emphasis on mostly-plain markup. Tough to do well anywhere, tougher in some

The memes are fun but I'm increasingly inclined to dismiss this entire community as unserious people. Circle jerking to wet dreams of Roy Fielding and hypertext is not a legitimate tradeoff for things like accessibility jesus fucking christ this should not need to be said.

@malware_yml That is... it's not rude to encourage openness and helpfulness, but it also legitimate to feel anxious about asking a question of "anyone here" -- whether about the substance, the imposition, intimidating responses... clarifying the duty of seniors to be attentive and kind helps.

@malware_yml Not rude. I've done it a lot, but I think it's important to recognize the trust/safety implied by the private question that is understood to be missing in group. It's also easier to grasp the request from/of an individual. Wondering if anyone will/if I should answer is slippery.

any time a jr DMs me with a question I always ask them to re-ask in the team channel so that it's searchable for future ref, and for others to see - maybe others have the same prob or they have the answer and will get to it faster than I can I was told this is rude and makes them anxious. is that so wrong??????

@kenwheeler All I see is wood paneling and brown vinyl round-back stools with those skinny brass-tone legs.

Back in Jersey for 16 hours, had to cop some veal from a place that still has a cigarette machine

@layerjb Not really. Just bad software with high CPU, bad global shortcuts, and no way to disable or change. Just have to uninstall. Every vendor.

@botimer Sounds like there might be a good story here …

I'm sure companies like Dell employ a bunch of good, responsible developers. I just don't know how every bit of OEM software is permanently garbage. Does anyone at these companies use any of this stuff or do they uninstall it all immediately like we do?

@mjgiarlo @guy_lusignan Another, please

@guy_lusignan "Ay, oh!"

@mallocmyheart Fibonacci 13 story aka "between a day and twelve years"

@botimer 3-4 story points, should be done this sprint

I just need to become a compiler engineer and an os developer and a firmware programmer and a physicist

@kenwheeler @AdamRackis My understanding is that the new guidance is that someone has probably already established a set of components, patterns, and utilities that match your needs. It's less that there's one answer or you can't DIY, but acknowledging that starting from scratch is not for everyone.

@kenwheeler @AdamRackis Isn't this about the same as Linux distributions? For example, way back, Slackware had "disk sets" of grouped functionality. One was core, and you had to pick everything from there (including even networking and compilers). Then there's LFS, Gentoo, and Arch... or Mint and Pop.

What's with the steady stream of unhappiness for React lately? You can still raw-dog install it from npm like the good old days. You don't _have_ to use a framework (sorry Andrew) I'm glad they added RSC / server actions; value is crystal clear for some use cases, but ofc ymmv

@trek My favorite corollary is that most of those conditions or responses/actions should have received some naming treatment -- but that's "too hard". Playing state machine every time instead of having communicable concepts is such a bad bargain. Complexity quicksand.

...but can you do it... at scale?

@kenwheeler With all that gear, start charging your kids $13 for nuggets

lol i found the entire rainforest cafe sound system write up frattalone.com/SCN.htm

what’s the best tech for setting up little speakers all over my house that play ambient jungle noises all day long

@bradneuberg I kind of want to see a mutation that detects other bots and starts calling out. Reflection/amplification might be the best way to surface it enough to force an answer. Or maybe this is just why we can't have nice things as a species.

I think the LLM bots are taking over Twitter, why are all of these essentially the same message?