Stuart Langridge

RE: @zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com

Mr. Blue Sky
Please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long

RE: @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

I’d love to see the Safari team say, we could make our platform the absolute best at web apps. We could lead on that. And people would trust us more than Google. There’s an open goal right there for us; all we would need to do is be allowed to take the shot.

RE: @matthiasott@mastodon.social

This is an interesting post, which I need to re-read in a lot more detail to formulate my thoughts about it!

@janl@narrativ.es couch question: how does using JWTs for auth (so no _users entries) interact with couch_peruser? I don't mind manually creating the userdb-(hash) database for a given user who uses JWTs rather than _users to auth, but how do I grant that JWT suer permission to edit the userdb-(hash) database? We're a bit confused over here :-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/viktor-orban-concedes-defeat-as-opposition-wins-hungarian-election

Nice.

Péter Magyar isn't great, but he's not Orbán. And this is another pushback against the fash, globally, and that's a good thing in itself. I hope Magyar does the right thing by Hungarians from now. And that this is one more harbinger in a whole sequence of ongoing harbingers.

I have heard it said, occasionally a bit contemptuously, that everyone thinks the music they grew up with is the best. I’m not sure that’s the case, or at least I’m not sure that a lot of people who think this are actually correct. But having just sat in the pub which obviously has some sort of eighties playlist and caught myself singing along to Terence Trent D’Arby, Paula Abdul, AND Hall & Oates and knowing all the words, it might be true about me

signs you are an old web developer; remembering that <select>s have a value property now only after you've written select.options[select.selectedIndex].value

People who know about calligraphy: is there somewhere which sells a sort of "starter set" for a complete beginner who's left-handed, and has brush pens? There are plenty with nibs and ink, but I think the person I'm buying it for would find nibs and ink a faff, so I'm thinking of brush pens. But I'd like a complete set, with pens, paper, and a book or so explaining how to do it, and I can't find one. Should I make one by buying the separate parts? Which book and pens if so?

Wow, trying to find an image of something like a page divider by online search is now completely taken over by sites called something like millionsofstolenpngs.com which presumably just crawl everywhere and steal images and serve them back up for money, isn’t it?

when they invent time travel I'm going to go back and buy Doug Crockford increasingly nicer sandwiches until he defines a multiline syntax in JSON from day one

RE: @osnews@mstdn.social

"OK we want our website to know which software you have installed"
"You can't do that"
"Sure, but we want to do it anyway. Maybe we have the software listen on a port and then we can try loading stuff from that port?"
"No. Zoom did that so it got banned"
"OK what about we edit their computer's local config?"

sigh. the shitty arms race continues.

@paul@status.kinlan.me heya! I was chatting with someone who asked about https://discover.apps.chrome and how one gets other PWAs into it. I said I didn't know but I knew a man who might :-) Is there something I should point them at, or I can get them to drop you a mail if you prefer?

RE: @amyedge@toad.social

This is described as "delivering unparalleled access to the Trump White House", and indeed, it does seem to mean that that White House is being delivered unparalleled access... to your phone.

Happy birthday to @popey@mastodon.social!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rob5B1a3kcE

German speakers: what would a nice-sounding, idiomatic, poetic translation be of "Im Dunkel ewiger Nacht liegend, erinnern die Gänge unwillkürlich an die Irrgänge der Labyrinthe"? It's a... motto, maybe just a quotation, from Dieter Ahlborn at https://www.erdstallforschung.de, about the Erdställe. I obviously have a rough idea what it means, and machine-translation confirms, but machine translations are rubbish

you have never known glory like trying to read a German book from 1903, scanned (not very well) by the Internet Archive, and then machine-translated into English. Stuff like this is only one of the forty reasons why I am not a historian.
On the other hand it is a lot easier to be able to do this while in my living room than it presumably would have been thirty years ago when I'd be on a plane to Stuttgart with my copy of Deutsch Heute in hand, so well done humanity on that

RE: @sil@mastodon.social

Updated to iOS 26. So far, it doesn’t seem to have much on the way of performance issues on my 13 mini, which is reassuring. I don’t _like_ the new UI as much, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles, I guess. (Seriously, who thinks the attached is better? It was perfectly clear in iOS 18.)
I have declined to age-verify. Not clear what, if anything, I’m now cut off from. Haven’t hit any barrier yet.

RE: @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

What a choice. I either stick on iOS 18, which has a vulnerable browser and I'm not allowed to not use it, or I update to iOS 26 which will apparently make my phone unusable because the new liquid UI requires too much GPU power for my 13 mini (plus age verification?).

Depressed about this choice. Even if I take a "third way" of leaving iOS again, which I'm gonna with the next phone, I was hoping to put it off until Christmas because phones are expensive so I have to do something now at least.

@kayserifserif@sunny.garden OK, I feel a little like having to ask this means I’ve wholly missed the point. But I wrote a coem, and I’ve made myself happy by just reading it out loud to myself with the right cadence, but… it doesn’t work. Honestly, I’ve got all the joy I need by having even tried to do such a thing, so if you say: asking for _technical support _ means you have missed the point, man, then sorry. But should this work? It’s called “What we do next”, if that makes a difference.

RE: @kayserifserif@sunny.garden

poetry plus the web. I am a big fan!

RE: @owa@mastodon.social

A deep dive, and worth reading to understand the detail here.

because I hate you all, I curse you with the new and terrible knowledge of https://100jumps.org

RE: @VOLEwtf@crispsandwi.ch

this is distressingly accurate