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Negative12DollarBill
@Negative12DollarBill

• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land
• Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar
• Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets
• I run a couple of bots.
• I have been in #WebDev for many years, did a lot of #perl; currently working in a manual job while I try to get back into programming/dev work; it's difficult at my age!

User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.

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Tell me how long you've been in #webdev without telling me how long you've been in webdev.

I remember a colleague writing a regex to detect URLs, and I had to point out that it should include the new-fangled HTTPS as well as HTTP URLs.

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Lisa Melton · 29w
Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™. Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea. F...
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I often miss a really great post because the timeline is strictly chronological.

That is, I don't see it the first time around.

Then I *do* see it because one of the people I follow boosts it. The system works.
Scott Jenson · 39w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9l2d4pcmnaarn32e6xyfxvl4ggwnytq9qx0r7tz34hpky8pdn33svt9nqv Oh, I'm afraid to tell you that it is actually VERY broke. That's why I'm exploring th...
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I would love to see that feedback in detail then. And only new users?

To me it doesn't look substantially different to Twitter, Threads or Bluesky. I would think users of those systems, or even Facebook, would find it familiar.
Scott Jenson · 39w
This is a hypothetical. This is for feedback/comment only. Here is a simple layout change to the current web client for #Mastodon. Assume you had a preference so you could choose this or today's exist...
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I don't hate it. But I don't look at the current layout and think “there's clearly something wrong here”. I don't want things to change for no reason.

If this was offered, like the Advanced web interface, as a non-default option, fine. But it definitely, as they say “ain't broke”.
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Scott Jenson · 39w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9l2d4pcmnaarn32e6xyfxvl4ggwnytq9qx0r7tz34hpky8pdn33svt9nqv Oh, I'm afraid to tell you that it is actually VERY broke. That's why I'm exploring this. I appreciate it's not broke for you. But we've got lots of user feedback that this is overly com...