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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[โ€“] banause@feddit.org 1 points 14 minutes ago

The one thing that the Fediverse wanted to destroy: not being able to cross post across social media software.

What people do: ๐Ÿ“ธ

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

ban my boss from forcing me to include gigabytes worth of javascript.

making me do it with 2gb ram is only going to make me suffer while trying to do it.

[โ€“] greasewizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hot take: node.js was a mistake

[โ€“] libewa@feddit.org 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

And it's my fault, and I'm really sorry.
~ Ryan Dahl on node_modules.

[โ€“] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

No monitors above 1920x1200 and they must code in bright sunlight at least 8 hours a day. I'm convinced some websites look like ass because the developers haven't look at anything below 4k. Maybe ever. Some may not have seen sunlight in years. Not everything needs to be made for dark viewing with white text everywhere.

[โ€“] Mikrochip@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Oh god, yes, I wish they had to work in a bright environment. Every other website (and even some desktop applications) feel like it was coded by someone who hasn't left their basement since Obama was still in office.

I mean, seriously, how can people unironically say stuff like 'black text on a white background hurts my eyes'? Turn on the fricking lights damn it. Staying in badly lit environments is bad for your eyesight anyway.

Also, while we're at it, I am also not a fan of grey text on a grey background. Okay, rant over.

[โ€“] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

It's you! You're the bugger who replaced all the mild amber streetlights with harsh blue-pumped mini-suns!

[โ€“] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Designer != Web developer

Your anger is misdirected.

[โ€“] Prox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Bold of you to assume most sites and apps have designers.

[โ€“] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Even the ones that don't agree following designers, just not ones they work with.

Those giant JavaScript frameworks, and more importantly for design, CSS frameworks don't pop out of thin air. .

The entire world was and still is in material design because it reads the blessed Google design.

[โ€“] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

"I can build my website in 5 minutes using SquirtSpace or Bro-Daddy! Who needs IT anymore."

"I asked ChatGPT to prompt Claude to build my site."

[โ€“] python@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

My work laptop has 64GB and it legitimately takes 5mins to delete my node_modules folder ๐Ÿ’€ Though that might just be an SSD speed bottleneck ig

[โ€“] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

2GB? Barely enough for the VM of the Docker of the flatpack for the cloud mouse driver's DRM!

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Dicker is the new container virtualization technology.

[โ€“] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 16 minutes ago

I'm worried about the size of my container. Is 2gb big enough?

[โ€“] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

it uses middle-out compression

[โ€“] mr_account@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘ˆ

[โ€“] gens@programming.dev 23 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

4k fullscreen uncompressed picture is a bit under 24MB. (3840*2160/1024/1024*3 = 23.73)

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Which is why you show a lower-res preview as default. Don't want to wait a fucking minute to decide if i like your picture or not.

Which reminds me, Chrome/ium/Firefox's dev tools have a bandwith limiting feature. A lot of so-called web developers don't know that.

[โ€“] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

Really? I did a little web dev as a side role when I worked in a small shop and even I knew about those tools.

Reducing load times under highly throttled speeds was like crack to me.

Yes entire page load was 120kB. But what about 76kB? 2 hours well spent damn it!!

[โ€“] glibg10b@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

I used to have hard drives smaller than that.

[โ€“] wiccan2@thelemmy.club 45 points 6 hours ago (4 children)
[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Your 100 MB webรคpp is still shit, in every metric.

[โ€“] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[โ€“] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Yeah, they said "inch every metric"

If you can't do it in 64K, it's not worth doing.

  • Somebody important who used a CoCo and then IBM.

Instructions unclear, the site is now best viewed with at 640K Transcendent HD.

[โ€“] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Bill Gates said you'd never need more than that.

[โ€“] FishFace@piefed.social 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I want to load more than one website at a time, so 2GB is generous

[โ€“] autriyo@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe give them around 8GB for the machine they're doing the development on? Assuming they're not running windows...

I think 2 would be to little for the OS, development environment and whatever else someone needs.

[โ€“] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

2 should be enough, if you don't use an electron based ide. This used to be normal

[โ€“] autriyo@feddit.org 1 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

They still need to browse the mess they created :D

[โ€“] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 27 minutes ago

Yes. 2GB is plenty.

[โ€“] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There were websites that did way more than the typical framework bundled REACT crapfest with way fewer resources 20 years ago - those developers didn't have any problems making them.

The free lunch of being lazy and expecting the user to upgrade their way out of bad, inefficient code needs to end.

[โ€“] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago

As long as they are forced to test in a browser sandboxed to 200mb that's fine