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Should i be giving a shit about my posture?
  • My hot take is that short-term posture doesn't matter all that much. If you have bad posture but you get up every 20 minutes and stretch/do chores/exercise for 5-10 minutes, you probably erase the original issues.

    My one-two punch, if you're looking for advice: make sure you use a chair that makes good posture easy, with your keyboard+mouse & monitor height well separated on your desk (if computing's the main thing you're doing as you work). And then make sure you're getting a lot of activity throughout the day. Spans of 2, 3, 4, etc. hours just sitting at your desk will be really bad for you, no matter how good your posture is.

    I guess what I'm saying is if you can either focus a lot on posture or focus a lot on physical activity routines, prioritize the latter. But both are certainly important.

  • Adam Conover standup on Why Cars Suck
  • Adam's been making some of the best YouTube takedowns of corporate tomfoolery for a long time…glad to see him turn his talents towards an epic takedown of automobile culture! 😆

  • Can we have a discussion about the rhetoric in this community?
  • Yeah, I don't care for the those kinds of jokes. However, I care for tone policing even less. Maybe the occasional comment like "ok buddy, maybe that one went a bit far" is fine, but now we're having a entire thread about it and now I'm spending my time commenting on this instead of commenting on what is actually a Big Deal which is that cars in urban settings suck monkey balls.

    (sorry monkeys!)

  • I need some clarification on ul li vs divs
  • Test in screen readers and see how content is being announced.

    Lists have certain semantics which are very useful. Definitely good in navigation (aka nav > ul > li).

    Grids are also useful BTW—we don't have specific "grid" tags in HTML, but using ARIA attributes you can set up grids which might map onto div tags or even custom elements.

    Personally, I'm much less concerned about ul/li than I am "div tag soup" which is a plague upon modern web development. Use div tags sparingly, and almost always see if you can reach for either (a) a more semantic HTML tag (e.g., key/val pairs should probably be dl/dt/dd tags, not list tags), or (b) custom elements…yes, authoring tags with one or more hyphens which are purely for developer comprehension and hanging CSS off of is perfectly fine—recommended in fact—and in some cases if you need some JS component logic as well, then boom you have web components.

  • Hey guys, I just wanted to share that I made a browser extension that enhances the ChatGPT UI
  • All right, I'll correct you because you're wrong.

    What bothers me is an open source tool enhancing a proprietary service which by its very nature breaks open source licensing and in face copyright protections of all sorts across the entire internet.

  • Hey guys, I just wanted to share that I made a browser extension that enhances the ChatGPT UI
  • Not downvoting because I appreciate the effort…but ChatGPT is about as opposite from the ethos of open source as you can get imho. 😄

  • [discussion] Bike/pedestrian-unfriendly retail & shopping centers
  • Maybe it's a PNW thing? Except for a few "big box" chains, virtually every market I can think of with a local flair offers indoor seating here.

    Can't speak for other folks, but I always look for a proper bike rack. Seems like good etiquette.

  • [discussion] Bike/pedestrian-unfriendly retail & shopping centers

    I was surprised that even here in Portland, OR…not far from downtown…I was on my bicycle and pulled into a small shopping center. I guess you could call it a strip mall, but it was pretty small and completely surrounded by small residential streets.

    So imagine my surprise when (a) I couldn't find any bike parking in front of the main grocery store. I had to walk entirely across the parking lot and over to the side of a dentist's office. Then (b) I went back to the grocery store and discovered it had no indoor seating. There was plenty of room from what I could tell—they had an entire wall dedicated to greeting cards and another entire wall dedicated to flowers. But nope, nobody can sit here—even though they have a significant large deli! They did offer a very bland outdoor seating area over on the side of the building, but given it's been windy and a bit drizzly I decided against it. (Also it was deserted for obvious reasons.)

    Folks, I am so weary of bike/pedestrian-unfriendly retail. The accommodations car drivers get that we don't continues to astound me—even in areas which are presumably "progressive". 🤨

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  • Ruby, absolutely. Still brings me joy with its expressiveness and flexibility.

  • Announcing VitePress 1.0 | The Vue Point
  • Looks nice! I like that idea of a Markdown page being itself a Vue SFC. Pretty clever.

  • Tesla Cybertruck: A Tragedy On Four Wheels [Adam Something]
  • I'm all for making fun of the Cybertruck, and anything from Felon Husk really, but I'd bet real money that thumbnail photo was doctored. I tried searching around for verified photos of rust but nothing substantial came up from a reputable source. Anyway, just wanted to point this out.

  • Nilay Patel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
  • Oh yeah, thanks for bringing that up. And maybe we stay away from WordPress.com now with all the weird AI stuff they've been up to. 🤪

  • Nilay Patel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
  • I all for removing barriers to entry in this space, and if you're talking about self-hosting everything and wiring up all sorts of bits and bobs of various services together manually, yeah, it's very technical and daunting. But somebody can get started on Ghost, or WordPress.com, or Buttondown, or ConvertKit or whatever. Lots of ways to write early and often online. Buzzsprout is pretty rad for podcasting as well.

    The problem usually boils down to distribution like Nilay said, not hosting. Fediverse seems like a real solution here. Honestly I've never been as successful at both blogging and podcasting as I am right now. This isn't merely a glimpse of some old-school internet nostalgia trip. It's a whole new world out there and it's actually better. 🤩

  • How common is it to code review like this?
  • Squash merge into the main branch. It's the only way to fly. (just my 2c!)

  • Nilay Patel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
  • I'm a blogger and a web developer, so IMHO:

    Blog-style sites have never been as cheap to run as right now. For small-to-midsize sites run mostly as static sites, it might even be close to free.

    Virtually all cost is in the human labor, and the challenge of running a sustainable business model like subscriptions off of "words" which I think are valuable but getting audiences to agree is very hard.

    But we might be seeing a turnaround here. I'm hopeful!

  • We should make more random friendly comments here on Lemmy
  • My daughter told me she was getting paper from the other room to draw on, and as she ran off I replied "Sounds ink-credible!"

  • The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent - Dhole Moments
  • Opt-out is bullshit, it's unethical. Unless people specifically give their consent to their content being used for training data, and are compensated if they wish to be compensated for that privilege, then it's just not morally defensible. Legally defensible? Sure, maybe so. But we don't like to support companies who are merely abiding by the letter of the law, we want them to abide by the spirit of the law and of treating their customers with respect and consideration. This is not that at all. 😕

  • Review: “Star Trek: Picard – The Art and Making of the Series”
  • Yeah, it was a mixed bag at times plot-wise, but I lost my shit when the you-know-what suddenly appeared on screen in Season 3. I was screaming and screaming at my TV. 😂

    One of the best damn moments in all of ST fandom for me.

  • Mayor Wheeler expresses frustrations as lights go out during budget meeting
  • right out of a friggin' Portlandia episode 😂

  • jaredwhite Jared White @lemmy.world

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