Strange, isn't it, that the values of real people — the things most of us truly care about — are not reflected at ALL in the values of our hegemonic capitalist consumerist culture...

The real luxuries:

• a good night's sleep
• slow mornings
• freedom to choose
• time for fun and play
• listening to birds singing
• long walks
• a good book
• favorite home-cooked meal
• colorful sunsets
• ability to freely express yourself
• day naps
• a good conversation

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

« Ah-HA ! Graffiti! » were advertising is everywhere else.

How to link webmentions.io messages, likeCount, replyCount and reportCount to a personal blog with a few JS lines.

I also agree: if you act alone on your free time, then go for simplicity. You have a limited time budget and it should be fun.

Trying new ones when they are needed makes also sense, but only when they make sense.

The article is well written and connects multiple topics: line of code and care work to the software, computer architecture and speed, its industry and more.

Debian 12, for comparison, is 1,341,564,204 lines of code. For comparison, Google Chrome is about 40 million lines, which is in the same ballpark as the Linux kernel these days. No one, even a team, can read these entirely.

Computers aren't much faster now than they were a decade ago, and they will probably never again return to the rate of performance improvement they had for 60 years up to the mid-noughties.

The thing is, that doesn't scale very well. On the desktop we have four-core machines and now we're moving to eight-plus cores, but a single person can't use that very helpfully, so instead, we're getting computers with a mixture of high-performance but hot, power-hungry cores, and lower-performance, cooler, but more electrically-efficient cores.

A limit to multiple cores is the Amdahl's law: even if a program can be made 95 per cent parallel, the maximum speedup you can get is about 20 times, no matter how many processor cores you throw at it.

It is estimated that up to 88% of the data stored in the cloud is ROT (Redundant, Obsolete or Trivial) #DataROT.

There are also "dark data": data collected by companies in the course of their regular business activities, but which is not used for any other purpose.

The service JS bin is often used for one time sharing, stores currently 130 GB of code. Most of it is ROT.
The current apps are designed to create data that live forever. Maybe it is time we set deletion time to the data, or at least an expiration time.

So there are some ideas of the author.

One possibility is to introduce more friction in to the process of creating data that live forever. An account can be needed for example.

Email clients could be designed in a way that encourages (or even requires) users to configure settings for automatic deletion after a certain time period.

When companies make it so easy for us to create junk data at virtually no cost, while making huge profits themselves, they shouldn’t be permitted to pass the cost of cleaning it up onto the individual. They need to take responsibility for their own sprawling data problem, and its planetary impact.

Blog post about it https://blog.lyokolux.space/posts/2024-02-25-about-data-storage-and-gathering-everything/

What is the maintainable way to build things?

For CSS, how do you structure tokens?

1. Naming things: --umap-color-darkBlue?
2. Give a meaning to names: --color-primary: var(--umap-color-darkBlue);

Lorsqu’on envisage un commun sur ces 10 prochaines années, comment trouver une stratégie maintenable qui s’inscrira dans la durée avec enthousiasme ?

Le contraire de Tailwind :/

However, most of the content being produced is not to make you better, it is solely to convince you there is a hack to ‘success’ and to attain it you just need to do this one thing. [...]

The fact that people believe there is a hack to everything is really the issue. Everyone wants a quick, easy fix. [...]

There might be ways that appear shorter, or might shave some time off sometimes in very specific circumstances, but they simply don’t exist. They can’t exist. Otherwise, they would just be ‘the way’.

A great media query for example disabling custom fonts!

There are no real guidelines on how to create posts. There are no expectations you need to fulfill, no boxes you need to check. There's nothing you have to do besides doing whatever you want.

Meadow realized:

• the writings are influenced by the reading and their style
• there are no real guideline in how to create posts and what is needed to fulfill.
• the way Meadow write solidifies over time and contradict with the two upper points.

Pourquoi est-ce qu'il y a du financement public là-dedans? Cela n'est pas durable, pour peu d'avantages pour la population (mon avis) et est donc à perte. L'argent pourrait être mieux employé.

Project Wallace is a set of CSS analyzers that check your complexity, specificity, performance, Design Tokens and much more. And all of that in a single web app.

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