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how it started / how it's going

35 years ago today, NeXTSTEP 1.0 was released.

@sophaskins The World‘s most hated Audio Tools (tm)

@svenpetersen191 @AnnatarTheMaia Will you publish the results on your page? I'd also be curious.

kids who would run windows defragmenter and sit and look at the little squares change colours are programmers now

@fasterthanlime Don’t have it enabled by default, it’s only ⌘ + ⇧ + . if I should ever need it. If I do, it’s mostly because I need to step into .config or .ansible (BSD/Linux tools on macOS) or something like that. I frankly don’t see the point, like you said, too.

@IntNostalgia I‘m in the same boat.

What was the first operating system you had used?

Found the prompt that bash uses 🤯

This summer will mark the 20th anniversary of my NES reviews of Simon’s Quest and Jekyll & Hyde, when I created the character which became AVGN. I’ll be celebrating the occasion a little early, reflecting on retro Castlevania games again. Coming very soon.

✢ Visual Studio Code 2007 ✢

Alternative Wissenschaft so wichtig ☝️

Holy... good lord. IP over Thunderbolt 4 between two Mac Minis. support.apple.com/guide/mac-help… CC @yacineMTB @elegyals

We just had the first ever DM conversation between two @ladybirdbrowser users on this website! 🤓🐞🥳

@IntNostalgia Visual Basic 6, time to rename the form (and code unit) to something useful!

What comes to your mind first?

ai bros are just the worst they are actively discouraging an entire new fleet of noobs getting into software engineering with literally no proof that ai will take over software in "6 months."

@mubix a

Nerd Psychopathy Test: (what do you enter into the following dialog box?)

The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won't get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years. But try selling that to a bean counter

After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead. This is unacceptable. We didn't make it up, this is what @microsoft @microsoftteams actually did: #comment:4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#c…

The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"