Mountain/\Ash

Web Master who gets around... (on a bicycle)

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@whale True, true.
When I enter different countries and an occupation is needed in the little rectangle box on the small paper slit I write “WEB MASTER”.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@mrkurt Very cool new tech 💜 @flydotio. Kurt, just a small typo you may want to fix “rm -rf $HMOE/bin”

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@levelsio Wow, it’s actually been around for over a decade… likely longer than China had it. But the rollout in China of it is insane. Pretty much a bank of power packs is available outside every single store front - no matter what they sell, groceries, bikes, real estate - everywhere!

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@levelsio Depending on your definition of Europe… it’s been working in Europe for years. https://t.co/V79vI0Dnht

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@asdhuqiwuhdais @mrtechsense @nothing Wrong! https://t.co/GETDNCE4Ol

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@mrtechsense @nothing This is not the flex you think it is: Apples is made using Liquidmetal. This material is stronger than titanium and harder than stainless steel, while reducing the metal waste that sheet pressing would create. The “startup” commercially can’t do the same.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@bunjavascript ‘bun build --no-compile-autoload-dotenv’ & ‘bun run --no-env-file’ essentially do the same… yet the args quite out of whack. Would be cleaner if the args matched.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

I foresee a future where we threaten to kill each other to verify we aren’t AI

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@adamheimlich @memeju1ce @loekalization @basilthegreat Supply and demand. It’s the population market they are currently dealing with.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@honojs Would be nice to add some catching options to hold the remotes response longer and allow reuse between many incoming requests

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

We had a legacy unused PREVIEW vm with 38 secrets. That's $15.20 a month for (at a guess) storing 200KB of data 🤯

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

This is up there with the top @awscloud gotchas. 40 cents per month for storing a key value pair. A text string! 💸

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

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.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

🔥 that’s gotta burn… @bunjavascript latest release notes have a very subtle code example that makes a nice little dig at @SST_dev (@thdxr) https://t.co/lpZHUxaS3Z

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@brunnolou @ImprovMx It’s free to a limit. Nothing wrong with ImprovMX; I’ve used them in the past: but now I set and forget with Cloudflare https://t.co/qih2OYuBiR

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@philw_ Nothing fancy at all; both services use Atlasian Statuspage (eg https://t.co/38s6A0wnda) & the big “subscribe” button at the top has an option to push to Slack.

Our Monitoring Channel also showed that Fly and Vercels outages remedied around the same time too.

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

@haithem_io @rauchg Coincidence?

[Mountain/\Ash @mountainash]

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.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 69th Birthday Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web!

#InternetHistory