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The most important slide from #EmberFest 2026 🥰🫂🤗
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Michal Bryxí
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- Won't lose my time with anti-vaxers.
- AI user AND critic.
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Source code for my talk on #EmberFest 2026 Prague: 4,207 Days of Uptime: Evolving an Ember App Without a Rewrite
https://github.com/MichalBryxi/EmberFest-2026-Prague-4207-Days-of-Uptime
#EmberJS #Ember #IT #PublicTalk #Conference
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- Why is there this one pink lanyard next to the black ones?
- No reason. You can have it if you want…
- 🤩🤩🤩
If you've been wanting to move your activity history from Strava to FitPub but dreaded dealing with the export files, I made a small browser tool that does the heavy lifting.
Drop in your Strava export files, it decompresses the .fit.gz files, splits everything into correctly-sized ZIP batches, and hands them back for upload. No install, no server, runs entirely in your browser.
👉 🏃🏻♀️ https://vast-ch.github.io/strava-archive-to-fitpub-batch-import/
#FitPub #Strava #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource
5 star rating system is broken by design. This is the stuff #Airbnb hosts have to deal with. Message from my host basically begging to not nuke them down in this nonsensical thing.
My #EmberFest talk is titled “4207 days of uptime” and I forgot why the heck such a specific number? Like when did I even fill in the CFP?
Went through commit history to figure it out.
Found out that it’s the diff of the dates from (essentially) the first commit until the exact day of the conference.
Smart-ass past me 🤓
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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone It's a HW device (barcode scanner) of given store passing information to other device (cashier desk), so I don't see it as a threat vector.
Plus ... honestly ... things like NFC-scan-proof wallets are just a snake oil costing more $$$ than what they actually save.
For example: QR code payments are the norm in Czechia and Switzerland. While some kids can tamper with things, it's more of a myth than real threat.
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Calling AI output “slop” is just our fear of losing agency.
In case you were not aware: Sharing routes from #strava with non strava users is not possible. They will not let you view the route, download #GPX, edit (a copy), nothing. The only flow allowed is to register to do even the most basic things.
So please before sharing, make sure that the other person actually has strava account. Or use any other service that does not put basic things behind login.
#Locus #LocusMap
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Self checkout. Person of a poor eyesight tries to desperately find a QR code to scan. At a very visible, prominent, in-your-face place is an ad for Minecraft. And guess like what a Minecraft zombie looks like to non-nerdy person? Yep. Did not scan either.
#UX #RealWorldUx
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@stux@mstdn.social One randomly sees this toot. One gets very excited. One checks wiki as the fastest place on earth for updated dates of death. One is very disappointed…
Did I say before that this will happen? Yup.
Do I still internally scream that this is a thing? Also yup.
Does that provide me a tremendous value? Triple yup.
Am I just silently hoping that someone will come up with principal solution instead of those monkey patches? 🙏🙏🙏
#ClaudeCode #AI #Coding
There is this funny “language blindness” happening in my head: Since I’ve been using English more than my mother tongue (#Czech) for years now, I can’t tell which language I’ve used in conversations with fluently #English speaking people from my country. It just doesn’t register - language used is not part of a memory. Just that the information was passed over.
Anyone else having this?
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social Most banks also suck in the basics of banking: Easily send money out (or sometimes even in), see monthly/yearly breakdown of my spendings, have a useable address book, speed, security, …
The bar for technology nowadays is to "not piss me off". It's a bit shocking how hard is it for technology to meet that bar :nkoFacepalm:
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@lkanies@hachyderm.io Thanks for the middle paragraph. Means s lot to me. I’m sure would still to many of ex/puppet/perforce folks.
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You don’t not want computer to do your work for you. You just don’t want it to strip the value out of your time & skills.
Both are just side effects of uncontrolled capitalism & the way we redistribute resources.
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- I hate when people use “nobody” as absolute stance of people’s preferences. Here it feels adequate with some minor statistical errors.
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Al changed the cost structure of software. It didn't change the value structure. The value is no longer the code you write. It's the taste, judgment, and constraints you encode into the system that shapes what Al produces. — Dave Mosher, Test Double
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My friend knew what they wanted to do. But because there is no button, obscure tech jargon a just heaps of half-arsed #UX treatments, they thought that there is no way to do what they wanted (there isn't btw: they don't use computer & there is no export button on iOS), they had to lean onto the wisdom of the authority (me) to figure out how to do this extremely trivial thing instead doing it on their own.
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@mpblack@mastodon.social Sad thing that both can be true:
1) Apple ecosystem gets more buggy
2) It is the best ecosystem there is
I wonder if there is an image format useable for "streaming progressive enhancement":
- Image file can be cropped at any point from beginning to Nth byte and the image could be displayed with _some_ level of representation of the _entire_ image
- The more of image data is preserved, the more sharp/detailed/precise the image can be rendered
This could have an amazing application as images for websites would not have to be downscaled and cached. Clients would just load "enough" for given view
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@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io 🙋 Many emails (as wall of text one has to read) would not have to exist if this would be a thing.
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“Na zdraví” translates as “to (your) health”. And is a toast before drinking (beer).
#EmberFest
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@ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social Gosh, this is so ignorant it hurts. An LLM agent can have context, history, access to your personal tools and accounts. You can literally tell it to “Answer John. On-site availability. Next week.” and it will pull out the request, your calendar, your commute options in given times, and will likely also avoid options where you would need to be on a zoom call while in train.
You can not do this “by hand” as easily. And pretending so is just short sighted.
Personal opinion: Nowadays it’s extremely rude to try to call someone, let their phone with missed call and NOT to send them a quick message with tl;dr of what you wanted.
Maybe it’s just the Millenial in me, but a missed call will cause panic and lack of explanatory message will make the panic go to overdrive.
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@jan@social.janantos.com Inverzní logika pro ně-plant-based podniky je stejně validní. Takže tohle je jen žádost o upozornění na špatnou kuchyni 🙃
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This has been on my mind since I’ve heard the “check URL” nonsense for the first time ~20 years ago.
I know nothing. I do not trust my judgement. My own judgment is super easily skewed by external factors.
Nobody should be scared to click.
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town Any system that can’t potato with Emojis nowadays is sus.
```
~/Library
# Command to count direct contents of `Application.*Support` folders
./Application Support: 208
./ApplicationSupport: 208
./Application%20Support: 1
```
[starts internal screaming]
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The attempts of security vendors to compete on this level are always just a patch:
1) No systemic OS support (yeah, sort of, hacky, but no)
2) No transparent chain. No agency of the user.
3) Incentivised by $$$ so flops out as fast as it’s built.
Conference website: Here is an invite to a tech conference 🎊
Me: Oh cool, nerdy stuff, so I can just import the whole schedule into my electronic calendar, right?
Conference website: [stares blankly]
Me slowly turning into Padme: ... right ... ?