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masto ui grump 

@Xkeeper I tried to fix this years ago but they wouldn’t let me

Jessica boosted

@noiob nothing like some global warming to make the richest company on earth look like fools

like this actually makes it impossible to search our source code or jump to most files in our repositories on GitHub, which sucks because it’s also the source of truth when addressing specific lines of code?

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hi I work at a company called “Buildkite” who make a CI product, half our damn source code is in directories called “build” because that’s the namespace of large percentage of the model objects we use

this sucks

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still being bitten by the fact that GitHub’s repo file search stubbornly ignores directories called “build” in the year of luigi twenty gayteen

looking forward to humans moving into space because it’ll mean we finally have to address the fact that computer time zone representations are currently fundamentally broken

just like anything that isn’t “convection via heat spreader directly onto the user’s lap” would be great honestly

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when will the cowards at Apple make a MacBook Pro that’s got decent thermal management so it’s actually usable in summer

I appreciate what you’re doing but I’m not joining another Slack so long as the platform has zero community safety or moderation features.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: Slack is *not* a good fit for your community, and they do not want to be.

Steam: to take on Discord, we’re launching an extremely broken chat service

Discord: we’re uh, selling games now I guess

today I learned: git emits some warnings which are fatal

fellow marginalised people in tech, do you have strategies for responding in a kind, polite & constructive manner when your inputs are dismissed out of hand for a presumed lack of domain knowledge or presumption of being a bystander?

I find it difficult to avoid being frustrated

it’s not even internally consistent what are you doing 2016-me

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tfw you look at your old code and go what the fuck was I thinking with this syntax style

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