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hperrin

@ hperrin @lemmy.ca

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  • There’s still plenty of amateur web stuff around. It’s just not nearly as big a percentage. Lemmy is kind of amateur web stuff. (Not calling Lemmy devs amateur, it’s just not a big corporate bullshit platform.)

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  • I mean, since we’re talking about it, I am so happy that Flash is dead. It was an absolute nightmare for support, accessibility, security, and open source code. It wasn’t quite as bad as ActiveX, but it was pretty close. Let’s all collectively agree to never implement any technology like Flash into the browser again.

    Let me explain the open source code part. Before GCC, C compilers were closed source and expensive. This meant that if you wanted to work on an open source project that was written in C, you had to buy a compiler. That’s the same as Flash. There were open source Flash players, but as far as I know, there were no open source Flash compilers. Just Macromedia/Adobe. So anything open source written in Flash/ActionScript was only accessible to people who could afford the software license. That sucks.

    Speaking of accessible, Flash was not. If you were browsing the web with a screen reader, the vast majority of Flash content was completely walled off from you. The accessibility implementation in Flash had to be specifically coded for, unlike HTML, which is relatively accessible by default.

    For a while, Flash was the way people embedded video into web pages. This was neat, but again, a nightmare to work on. Flash players required very specific video encodings, so you’d likely have to transcode the video to embed it or at least remux it, and for a while, that wasn’t free. It also meant that a different piece of software was requesting the video as that which requested the page. This could cause some very difficult to track bugs.

    Not all systems supported Flash, because why the fuck would Adobe give a shit about Unix? At least there was Linux support for the player, but if you wanted to make Flash content, your choices were Windows or Mac.

    Last, but not least, Flash refused to die for a long time, which ultimately held back the industry. For almost a decade, it was very common to have to mux two copies of the exact same streams, just for people who were still clinging to Internet Explorer and Flash. People were really pissed off when websites stopped working when browsers abandoned Flash, but that was the fault of naive web devs who built their sites in a faulty, insecure technology. They didn’t get the blame. The browsers got the blame. And a lot of them kept Flash around well after its development had been discontinued, just for that reason.

    Good riddance, Flash.

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  • Correct. And I haven’t talked about it in years.

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  • Because it tastes good.

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  • Do we? I’m a web dev and I haven’t talked about Flash in years.

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  • Sometimes at the drive through they’ll give me sweet tea instead of unsweetened, and the sip of that hits me like a freight train. I don’t know how people stomach it.

  • The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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  • How about Coalie’s older brother, Black Lungie?

  • GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark trilogy

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  • Though it’s not technically unique to Port87, I haven’t seen any other email service that lets you do it with simple toggles. Sieve is more powerful, but also harder.

  • GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark trilogy

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  • I could not possibly care less about GoG’s marketing emails. They all go into a Port87 label that is set to mark them as read and not notify me.

  • Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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  • Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.

  • TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old

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  • You can definitely tell from their commercials.

  • Finally

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  • The way my email works, there is no inbox. Everything goes into its own label. So everything from GitHub is in the “github” label, everything from Home Depot is in the “homedepot” label. Home Depot’s label is set to mark everything as read and not send me notifications, because unless I’m looking for something in particular, I don’t care about their emails. And it doesn’t matter if they change their sender address, cause it’s the address I gave them (hperrin-homedepot@port87.com) that has the label.

    This also means there’s no context switching when I’m reading my emails, cause I read everything from one sender all at once. So all my Chase emails about all my credit card transactions aren’t mixed in with all my Steam notifications about what’s on sale and all the emails from my bike club, etc.

    You can email my “bare” address, hperrin@port87.com, but it won’t go to me. It’ll auto respond to you with a list of my public labels and tell you to email the right one.

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  • I don’t have an inbox. I use https://port87.com/ which only has labels. The labels I care about are not set to mark everything as read, so those are the only ones I check, and there’s no context switching cause every label is only emails from one company.

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  • https://port87.com/

    The labels I actually care about are not set to mark everything as read, so I just go to those labels and read through each email. There’s no “context switching” cause you’re reading emails from the same sender all at once.

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  • This used to be me. But I invented a better email system, and now it takes me like 10 minutes every couple weeks.

  • Norwegian royal scandal: Son of crown princess to stand trial for rape

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  • Is that how his head normally looks?

  • Is it possible to have a full install of Windows 11 on thumb drive?

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  • Technically possible? Yes. Will Windows installer let you do it? No.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Buy POTUS.

  • Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

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  • I do not understand why this keeps happening. It’s not that hard to configure a database correctly. I would assume even a vibe coded platform could do it, but I guess not.