Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

mozilla didn’t just directly profit from a situation where only large browsers manufacturers had any say in the direction of the web, they actively created it

remember when W3C leaned too hard into user-centric design and modularity and new X·M·L technologies

and Brendan Eich, noted homophobe, grew concerned with this, not because of its impact to ordinary people, but because he thought that monolithic web browsers manufacturers would wind up losing out to newer, bespoke applications

and so he got Mozilla and Opera together to write a letter saying that the future of computing on the web should take place entirely within the web browser using nothing but HTML, CSS, and a whole lot of Javascript (a language he created)

and they forked HTML from W3C, setting up WHATWG, an organization controlled entirely by web browser implementors, to decide the future of the web going forward

and then Mozilla used the fact that they were “the only nonprofit with a seat at the table of standardization organizations” in their fundraising campaigns for the next decade

nobody writes programs which solve real people problems anymore

has anyone created a better rich text editor for macOS than Bean, a program i first learned about on Open Source Mac Dot Org in 2010

or has innovation well and truly stalled since the early 2000’s

first commit of the new year

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff/ec88b220b74e7a92e727a104be39c7b4a6b03dc1

(it may not work on Linux; i might have used an incompatible option for `touch´)

this is very much just a minimum viable implementation right now; there’s more to add but this WORKS

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/blob/HEAD:/README.markdown

• they know they have an image problem and are entirely disinterested in fixing it

• they are far from the only open-source/tech advocacy nonprofit on the planet and others do it better

• dunno why people keep defending them considering the above

is there a frontend for these yet which isn’t mozilla-branded

did i just discover a bug in libxml2 or

played “My Best Friends” for @Satsuma and they were NOT having it

Take your Electric type like Jolteon,
Against Leafeon’s Grass the battle’s no fun.
Reach higher with Fire—go Flareon!
Think twice about Ice to be number one.
Water’s in order if you want to be slick.
Espeon’s the best bet when you get Psychic.
Umbreon’s the key to your Dark mood,
But Sylveon won’t leave you with time to brood!

how do you do the things you do? share with me your secrets deep inside. what kind of lesbian are you? are you loyal thru & thru? do you have a heart that’s true?

probably won’t finish my new static site generator makefile by the end of today but hopefully will by the end of new years

happy holidays!

is www.gnu.org down for anybody else or is it just me

programming languages that do one thing well are great

like Makefile and executing shell commands to update files

or XSLT and transforming XML trees

or Ruby and making it impossible to know where any one method is defined

love them for that

libxslt has a (configurable) maximum recursion depth of 1500 which does mean that if you can’t reasonably chunk your markup language into smaller pieces than that you can probably only process things which are very small

i bet you could write an efficient djot parser for it though