Jon Williams
shovemedia@triangletoot.party
<p>UI engineer & UX</p><p>Ran a poetry slam in the 1990s and an arcade bar in the 20-teens. Had fun and lost money on both.</p>
Posts
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Post #4169892
Gonna make a new playlist, called Songs That Still Slap With A Blown Front Passenger-Side Speaker
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Post #2460966
Vivid dreams last night featuring a bus that accelerated like a race car, an ex wife, and Demi Moore
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Post #2460965
All GitLab had to do was sit back and let MS continue to drive GitHub into the ground and reap the rewards of being a safe place to land for the customers who flee. But no. No nice things for you.
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Post #2301277
I’m calling it now: Democrats are going to trample the GOP in the next couple of elections; the hedge funds, private equity, etc will respond by rug-pulling a market that’s been over-bought for years; the media will then push the narrative they’re handed: that the crash is the result of left wing economic policy; and the public will guzzle it down mostly unquestioned.
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Post #2301276
I’ve only experienced something like this a few times in my life, but a couple years ago I had a dream: in it, I was on a Zoom call with my boss who was letting me go. “Sorry it didn’t work out” etc I didn’t think much about it at the time because I didn’t recognize the person on screen, but imagine my surprise when I got hired by someone incredibly reminiscent approximately a year later. He quit a few months before I lost the gig, and while I don’t believe in The Woo, I’ll admit being spooked
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Post #2301275
Reckoning with bitrot on a JS project ca 2021 and pondering a from-scratch rewrite and/or walking into the sea
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Post #2301274
FontAwesome: hands down the best icon library on the planet, with the worst developer experience imaginable
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Post #2301273
It is 2011 and I spend too much time babysitting the Grunt build but at least I’m not doing everything by hand. It is 2012 and I spend too much time babysitting the Gulp build but at least it’s not Grunt. It is 2018 and I spend too much time babysitting the Webpack build but at least it’s not Gulp. It is 2024 and I spend too much time babysitting the Vite build but at least it’s not Webpack…