@anon_opin I'm around there age-wise and have committed approximately 0 hours of my life trying to be interested in sport.
luckily I don't feel I've wasted those 0 hours yet.
Oh look, another Mastodon instance is protecting the fascists from my horrifying incivility toward them. Big surprise that it's Hachyderm, eh, @davidgerard ?
Twenty five years ago today I started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple Computer.
Which means Safari is now old enough to rent itself a car. But let's not speculate about my age.
I'm still sad I can't use Safari on my Windows PC. Alas, I lost the battle to keep it there. But at least WebKit's DNA seeded or influenced most browsers we use today.
And I'm proud of that impact. Along with the wonderful team I built who made it all happen. Here's to another 25, friends.
Cheers. 🥂😊💖
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
I take your "browsing the web in text mode on a pomera" and raise to "using the fediverse on a toshiba libretto 50ct running MS-DOS" 🤣
"if you want to be a good developer, hone your curiosity" This Friday I am hosting Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon on my Podcast "Coffee With Developers". What should I ask him? The best question gets a VIP ticket for https://wearedevelopers.us, others can use "ilovebacon" for 50% off!
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100214-20-years-of-solving-unsolvable-problems
@mooseallain.bsky.social I do not have any questions at this time (but wtaf??)
This AI doomerism is completely misplaced. I hate AI. In its current form it’s inherently unethical. But I’m not afraid that it becomes conscious and wants to kill us all. What I am afraid of is that my doctor’s office is replacing the receptionist with AI and I can’t get through to a human when I need it most.
@Anomnomnomaly BookSmauging ftw
@ryanc joke's on them, I try to configure RAMdisks on everything.
Uno Reverse!
STOP DOING SWAP PARTITIONS
HARD DRIVES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE RAM
YEARS OF LINUX SYSADMINNING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going beyond CLOSING A FEW TABS
Wanted to avoid the OOM killer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ZRAM
"Yes please give me a dedicated 64GB logical volume of SWAP. Please give me unresizable block devices trapped at the end of my disk." - STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED
LOOK at what Neckbeards have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fdisk and GParted Live USBs we built for them. (This is REAL PARTITIONING, done by REAL LINUX USERS):
# mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
# echo /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
# swapon -a
"Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open."
They have played us for absolute fools.
A few people have asked whether books will be available at these shows - and the answer is yes, for each show there will be a local bookseller and I’ll sign books at the end of the night (should you want me to, that is).
Tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.