Web Master who gets around... (on a bicycle)
was Australia, now Switzerland
Joined December 2006
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Spotted an advert for “pervert glasses” in a Taipei shop window… I wonder if this was intentional by @RokidGlobal … if you zoom in you see “Creep” showing on the HUD.
This latest #appleevent shows some serious lack of inspiration in the "color department"... unless that inspiration is coming from down-under.
🤖 Made with AI
 showing the new burgundy and whatever-blue iPhones in a grassed football stadium clashing over an NRL state-of-origin football.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HR0Bt2oa0AAM2HU.jpg?name=orig)
ALT An [AI generated image](https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6aa1f00322e481918b9b33b440d09f9c) showing the new burgundy and whatever-blue iPhones in a grassed football stadium clashing over an NRL state-of-origin football.
This is up there with the top @awscloud gotchas. 40 cents per month for storing a key value pair. A text string! 💸
ALT A screenshot take in the AWS web UI of the prices panel for "Secrets". A table shows $0.40 per secret per month, $0.05 per 10,000 API calls, 30-day free trial available.
Mountain/\Ash retweeted
Cookie banners.
Just visited a US website, from the US, that ships a 457.11kB (minified!) JS bundle of a GDPR "banner SDK" from a "trust" provider. Over 3x the size of React. It ships its very own version of jQuery inside.
Going to the "trust" provider website yields a 5.3s LCP (i.e.: 5s+ to load the first screen completely). 53% of visitors experience a similarly terrible loading experience. They couldn't care less.
This is the stuff that's silently destroying the web.
• For most users, these providers have gamified beyond belief your ability to actually block cookies. The primary buttons are always "Accept All", even when you "customize your preferences". More often than not, they're cheating you into accepting everything.
• The amount of JS they ship, downloading from a 3rd party website, is destroying the web's performance
• The aesthetics and function of websites is massively compromised. In the spirit of "privacy and trust", they're eroding the open web in favor of proprietary platforms.
• They undermine the product engineering teams' efforts. I've met so many amazing design engineers who spend countless hours honing experiences, only to have them destroyed by cookie junk.
Cookie banner slop has to stop.
🔥 that’s gotta burn… @bunjavascript latest release notes have a very subtle code example that makes a nice little dig at @SST_dev (@thdxr) bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.1.31#iter…
While I’m baffled that a “professional hacker” can’t figure-out email HTML encoding, I’m regularly saddened by the fact that @gmail continues to put these emails in my Inbox.
Mountain/\Ash retweeted
Happy 69th Birthday Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web!
#InternetHistory
ALT Happy 69th Birthday Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web!
“Bleep bloop bleep bloop rapii poopii poop bop. Time to get up. You silly little nerds wake up!” 🤓🎶🎉
The Swiss registered business name “Tell Co” (in reference to the infamous William) really should have been reserved for use by a phone or internet provider.
I always chuckle inside when I'm brought back to our pipeline dash to see what the hold up is... and there's that little Bezos there looking meh
Really @gmail ?! How is this still getting through to my inbox?
The bitcoin fad has come and gone and still this obvious spam makes it through.
ALT Bullshit email about some spammer pretending to be a hacker on my PC with cam access demanding crypto
How to say CDNs are fudging ping times without saying CDNs are fudging ping times… blog.cloudflare.com/the-day-… #prefmatters
“master” became “main”, “blacklist/whitelist” are updated to “blockedlist/allowedlist” - what’s become of “white lies”?
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This felt... therapeutic.
Deleted code is the best kind of code.
ALT 6,000 lines added, 150,000 lines deleted of code changes
