Lady @Lady@cat.family

imagine if Inception had just opened with the hotel scene with Mal

superhero origin stories are very funny because in any other genre “why is this character like this” is a closely‐guarded secret they don’t expose until the very end of the movie but in superhero stories it’s in the first fifteen minutes

« Most likely your application is going to contain bugs » thanks for the vote of confidence

who does this

does rails seriously use the attribute name as the value of boolean attributes

who does that

Ajax, otherwise known by its more obscure name, “javascript”

the rails documentation calls this “Ajax”, which is not a word somebody should use in 2021, or ever

the answer is yes, it just submits it using javascript [provided you don’t say otherwise]

« The Rails framework encourages RESTful design of your applications, which means you'll be making a lot of "PATCH", "PUT", and "DELETE" requests (besides "GET" and "POST"). However, most browsers don't support methods other than "GET" and "POST" when it comes to submitting forms. » then will you REALLY be making a lot of "PATCH", "PUT", and "DELETE" requests?

@monorail ofc this hardly matters because eugen is not going to be making a high wage for the world of tech regardless

@monorail in any case German law prohibits him from paying himself “extraordinarily high wages”, to the extent that donations to his patreon are considered payments to Mastodon gGmbH (which i think they are)

@monorail i don’t really know german law but now that mastodon Is A Nonprofit i feel like he might be required to publish more formally where the money is going, idk

@monorail he pays a lot of people according to the opencollective expenses page

https://opencollective.com/mastodon/expenses

mostly for code review

cancelling Ruby/Rails for failing to fully support HTTP Status Code 418

GlitchCat is a good instance and its WebFinger doesn’t even spontaneously break anymore