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shadytrees
·letzten Monat·discuss
The Balatro game that Fable spit out (Flipside) https://play-flipside.netlify.app/ is buggy but fun. Fable also fixed one of my personal pet peeves. Unlike Balatro, it comes with a calculator to preview the score!
shadytrees
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Scroll through his X account -- Charlie Kirk and DHH content are some recent entries. He is one of those people who thinks tech should be apolitical without really interrogating what apolitical means or how it affects people who have been marginalized by politics
shadytrees
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity

If Cloudflare wants to defend the future of the web, maybe they could also throw a few dollars towards projects with better governance and aren't helmed by a BFDL with a spotty record and are written in a more future-proof language than C++ [0]. (For example, Servo.)

[0]: In Kling's own words! https://web.archive.org/web/20250819053816/https://awesomekl...
shadytrees
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
If you're interested in reading more about leaded gasoline, I highly recommend Jamie Lincoln Kitman's in-depth article about it from 2000. It makes the case that the US government played a key role in allowing bad science to spread https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lea...