hexalys

HTML5 Developer. Designer. Writer. Programmer. Deprived from a sense of logic by WHATWG. Bound to use cases by the W3C. Connecting the dots using common sense.

[hexalys @hexalys]

Every act of communication is an act of […] courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: […] planting into another mind a seed […] and watching it blossom into a […] flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”

Le Guin on the magic of real human conversation: https://t.co/yu8PklvDl6

[hexalys @hexalys]

Bought an old FireWire 800 MyPassport Studio on eBay listed as "broken/for parts" to upgrade its drive. Plugged it into a Mac Pro and the HD mounted perfectly with 100% health.

Task failed successfully? I’ll take the accidental win getting a free hard drive. Thanks, seller! 🤔🤷‍♂️

[hexalys @hexalys]

@andyhennie Since El Capitan, my Mac desktop is fully loaded: Contexts (left), TabLauncher (right), iCollections (top), cDock (bottom) with hidden apps feature, plus WindowMizer.

I like this alternative for same space switching.

What minimum target OS, can you build it for?

[hexalys @hexalys]

@TablePlus Okay. It’s not quite the old UI style. I’ll have to get used to the lower button contrast on Catalina.

What I meant for filters is an additional EMPTY operator, useful along AND filters, that would combine NULL, 0, or empty string all at once, according to the column data type.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/jKCIAEzai7

[hexalys @hexalys]

France making planned obsolescence a crime is good.

As a teenager, I remember opening a broken joystick and becoming highly suspicious of a piece of shock-absorbing plastic with a hole instead of a solid structure, very likely designed to break over time under repeated pressure.

[hexalys @hexalys]

@FascinatingTrue @historyinmemes It’s best to assume that nearly all online claims that any celebrities or historical figures have or had IQs above 160 are pure internet clickbait.
https://t.co/GSbmqQdsi7

i.e. It’s a load of horse-shit, packaged for low-IQ consumption.

[LCI @LCI]

🔴 Le fils du dernier shah d'Iran, invité de LCI

🗣️ "Le pays est prêt à mener le dernier combat mais au bon moment" : @PahlaviReza

📺 Face à @DavidPujadas

[hexalys @hexalys]

Just learned about the “ChatGPT hyphen” giveaway.

All AIs kept suggesting web banner copy with em dashes.

And I thought: What the heck is this level of overly formal prose doing in a single line web banner? 🤔

[hexalys @hexalys]

Operation Epic Death Fire and Fury, is quite an escalation into hyperbolic stacking.

Are you sure you trigger-happy infantile buffoons don’t wanna go full ‘Operation Epic Supreme Ultra Death Fire and Fury”.

Competent leaders understand the difference between tactics & strategy!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨

[hexalys @hexalys]

Use case where the [email protected] <img> does not preview in "@ media print {}" context, using the latest Chromium Browsers, and Windows 11 Update KB5074109. The jpg background url() however does.

Unclear if this requires a @ChromiumDev fix, or a Windows 11 Update problem, or both.

[hexalys @hexalys]

To those having issues printing images in all @ChromiumDev Browsers (where no images are printed).

You've hit "the perfect storm" says @GeminiApp:

You’ve hit on a very specific high-level "perfect storm" that has been plaguing Windows 11 Chromium users throughout February 2026.

[hexalys @hexalys]

My own use case seems even worse:

This is a fascinating inversion of the usual bug. If the background-image is showing but the <img> is vanishing, we are likely looking at a layer compositing failure caused by that backdrop-filter or a Zero-Height collapse in the print renderer.

[hexalys @hexalys]

Grok Voice chatbot speak:
“Plenty of people“

Human translation:
“That one dude on reddit”

[Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton]

I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works.
https://t.co/frLBndsW7g

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production RL.

“Reward hacking” is where models learn to cheat on tasks they’re given during training.

Our new study finds that the consequences of reward hacking, if unmitigated, can be very serious.