Pain is a thing of the mind. The sausage can be controlled.

I realised that I’m reading this post when I’m supposed to be in a meeting.

Lost a little of its acid.

Yes, the generated SQL query. It basically consisted of a lot of WHERE x IN (1,2,3,4) clauses for all the document IDs that matched something or other, and then repeated for the next JOIN. Small company, CTO was our direct boss and in the same open-plan office.

Lots. But one that springs to mind is a custom CMS where a new dev decided to print out the sql generated for a particular content type on paper. He took it to the CTO without comment.

What was wrong?

It was 12 pages.

It’s not very good, but it does have some really good moments, and some really good ideas mixed in with the less-good stuff. It’s worth watching. Just put your fingers in your ears and la-la-la through all the Klingon retconning and inappropriate pathos. There are moments where the emotional storyline are good, but they cry wolf too often.

safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.

Sounds like they explicitly don’t want to federate. Unless it’s a parody site, I guess.

it’s not like being exposed to other people’s content would change them in any way

Or if you simply hate people who use screen readers.

I have to stop myself doing this too, but more because I’m really bad at accents and they all come out like I’m taking the piss at the best of times.

I’ll be your data point on the other side of the record: Tailwind is the worst thing to happen to the web.

you have an animated tattoo?

This is not a particularly relevant comment, but you reminded me of when I was a kid and a friend had a TV on a stand opposite her bunk-bed. She didn’t have a remote control, but she did have a long stick, and she was amazing at pressing the buttons from like 2m away. Proper life skill.

Which is incidentally the opposite of proprietary products, where if you give it another go in a few years it either doesn’t exist or is enshittified.

1. The same is true for Bsky but people don’t complain about it there. It asks you what server you want when you sign up, etc., which is what people complain about in the Mastodon journey.

2. Most people aren’t on locked servers. By which, I mean the majority of mastodon users are on the .social instance which is the default when you sign up on the official app/site and is open to anyone.

3. Not an accessibility issue.

The big reveal comes when you realise the paths are in fact, relative.