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They were when we called them 4GLs.

It's a great looking site. I'll keep it in mind once I use up more of the ink I already have!

Guildenstern: No, no, no — what you've been is not on boats.

I read this play for the first time last week and this exchange really stuck with me.

The brain perceives amber as a "bright" color that contrasts well with black, without the headaches that come from staring at white light for hours.

Activision bought Infocom in 1986, and Microsoft purchased Activision in 2023.

I agree so much with this. I used Replit extensively to prototype things in different languages and share my work with my teammates, who could then suggest tweaks to my ideas. We never came close to the limits of the free tier, but I paid for it anyway because I loved the product.

The magic is definitely gone.

I'm coming up on 50 years old, with 26 years in this industry. I work as an engineering manager/director these days. I've worked at startups and bigger companies -- they all have their problems and neither is better. I'm sick of layoffs. I'm sick of hype cycles. Honestly I'm ready for a career change but it would be a huge pay cut and lifestyle change for our family.

I love it! I did something similar at my last job that ran when you cd'ed into a directory

Can I control those robots using VR?

Correct. The GitHub Action was doing

`git pull origin ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}`

In the pull_request_target action, $github.ref is the name of the branch, which in this case included a curl request for a shell script, a pipe character, and bash.

Not just a custom thumbnail. It has to have the YouTube Face[1] too.

1. https://www.avclub.com/why-does-everyone-on-youtube-make-the...

Under $100:

A sleep blindfold with Bluetooth headphones built in. It's helped me become a deep sleeper.

Location: Boston, MA USA

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Typescript, NodeJS, etc (modern web stack)

Résumé/CV: https://hiredanatoday.com/

Email: hello [@] hiredanatoday [dot] com

I've been in the tech industry for 25 years and I've led remote teams since the early 2010s. Looking for a VP or Director of Engineering role where I can build out teams, help engineers level up, and build a great culture.

I loved Blue Wave. My first "real" open source C program loaded your editor and tacked a signature onto the text when you exited. I then set that program as the editor in Blue Wave and got signatures on my BBS posts just like on Usenet.

I'm getting flashbacks to Intel's 667MHz processors

I just watched a Youtube video of it and I DEFINITELY need to check this out. They seem to have captured the feel of the old web perfectly.

It's moreso the fact ActBlue shares your contact info with (seemingly) every politician they support, so you're constantly sending STOP to candidates you've never even heard of.

I'm mostly impressed this person has an SP4 that still has a working battery and no screen issues.

Swing Education | Multiple Roles (front-end) | REMOTE (USA only)

We’re looking for software engineers to join our growing engineering team. You’ll partner with product management and design to architect, implement, test, iterate and maintain features that will bring unprecedented technology to the school and substitute teacher marketplace. You’ll play a key role in helping us modernize and reimagine our codebase, infrastructure, processes, and products. This role will meaningfully impact Swing Education’s mission to ensure that learning never stops in K-12 classrooms.

We have a diverse, supportive Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) team that values experimentation, learning, and personal growth. Your fellow engineers will help get you ready to contribute quickly. We also have lots of exciting work in the pipeline, ready for an engineer like you!

Technology:

  - Front-End: Typescript, React
  - Cloud: AWS
  - CI/CD: Gitlab CI/CD, Ionic Appflow

Sr. Software Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/swingeducation/jobs/sr-...

Software Engineer II: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/swingeducation/jobs/sof...

It's a formal certification exam for engineering disciplines that need licensing. You usually have to pass two exams – FE (foundations of engineering) and PE (principles of engineering) before you can even be considered for a license.

"It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact"

- Terry Pratchett

I love seeing IAAP accessibility certifications on engineer resumes.

Yeah, I can kind of explain that as much as anyone can I guess. Someone made a page called The Far Side as a content farm. Great nostalgic brand for Facebook's main demographics = easy engagement. There's only 4,337 actual The Far Side comics, so they also run typical "boomer humor" strips from about the same era or apparently make their own low-effort comics. Lots of content with lots of engagement means the algorithm is likely to show it in people's feeds even at the expense of posts from their friends and groups they joined.

I think it's called Nabla9's Observation?

This is giving me flashbacks to Web 2.0. We won’t need web sites anymore! Everything will be an API and we can have our own custom front-ends to all these services!

It sounds great on paper. If I were selling widgets, I might want an API so people have yet another avenue to buy widgets and put money in my pocket. But at that point I’ve lost control of the widget-buying experience and I can’t collect as much data on the audience of widget buyers.

Public APIs disappeared as quickly as they showed up and companies focused on partnerships. You can’t ask your voice assistant to order you a pizza from the local joint, but if you say “I want a Pizza Hut pizza” we’ve got you covered.

I expect this product to go the same way. People will find a way to block their browser automation and the universe of things it can do will shrink until it’s a glorified timer and to-do list. But if you want a medium stuffed crust and a side of wings, we’ve got you covered.

We can have a free web or we can have a web that replaces app stores completely. We can't have both.

I personally prefer a completely free & open web, but I understand that means I'm going to be installing binaries for some things. I'd much rather have to download netflix.exe than have the current state of browser drm for example.

ScreenShieldKit is the gold standard for iOS screenshot blocking. They have a messaging app called Confide that includes the feature.

(It's not the app I worked on but it's out there as an example)

This is basically it. Yes, there are a million ways around the best protection (even on mobile!) but it's all about user trust and setting norms.

I just spent a year and a half building and rolling out a web version of a popular native app. We had to make a lot of compromises to get it out the door.

Native apps can block screenshots. Apple doesn't always like it, but you can plead your case to the reviewers. Web apps don't have an API to prevent screenshotting or to know when one is about to be taken and hide their contents. This is important to protect privacy (nudes) and people have come to expect it.

Know what's interesting? Screenshot protection is available for Encrypted Media Extension (DRM) video if you have Hollywood $$$.

Browsers (on desktop) also have dev tools built in. They make it easy to download any image you can see even if we put all the right click prevention scripts and CSS hacks in the world in place. Imagine having to explain to the privacy protection team that you can't disable dev tools for your site when that's not even an issue on native mobile without extra steps.

Those are platform wide issues, and I seriously doubt the people setting web standards are going to be on board with new standards that keep information (even very, very personal information) from being free.

I've championed the web since 1996. And PWAs may be fine to replace some basic e-commerce and information apps. But the platform needs to make some changes before it can totally replace native apps.

The Falcon 3.0 box was huge just to contain this manual. The game had so much depth and the manual somehow was able to make it make sense.