happy 1700000000 to all who celebrate🎈

i know that people brought up the story of google supporting xmpp in google talk for just as long as it suited them in the current #meta discussion. what i didn't see brought up: facebook chat actually supported xmpp as well (… for just as long as it suited them). the reasoning behind it was to "integrate it everywhere", i.e. make it harder to avoid it.

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/10/integrating-facebook-chat-everywhere/

i think https://limited.systems/articles/frugal-computing/ by @wim_v12e is one of the most important texts i read recently. even though its premise is grim - that "[b]y 2040 emissions from computing alone will be more than of half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 1.5°C" - its promise is a very bright one. that by reducing, reusing, maintaining and recycling, everything old may become new again.

this is a screenshot of a text-only page from the official typescript documentation* proudly displaying that it takes more than an entire second to load. again: text only. some very highly paid engineers worked on this, creating tools for thousands of others. all those wasted cpu cycles…

* https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.html