This is only true because the Chrome team in particular has decided to make it true. Old websites used to work until you decided it was okay to repeatedly break things that worked for a decade because you think everything can be rewritten or abandoned like a Google product
Is it any surprise that the browser vendor without a long term support channel is also the one that constantly breaks websites by pushing poorly-tested changes to "stable" and deciding it's okay to break standards compliant code as long as it doesn't impact their services?
Jun 22, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Happy Pride Month to the gacha-playing mlm furries out there
The event landing page this time has such a good intro
Nov 25, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Google always had really lax access control on internal documents, bugs, mailing lists etc which at this point is very useful as a way to provide an excuse for firing any and every union organizer
Yes, you had access to read that document, but were you AUTHORIZED? You were not
A similar trap Google sets up for employees is that they pressure you (even during orientation/new hire training) to learn about how various internal systems work so that if you ever move to a different employer, you're tainted by all sorts of secret google IP
Nov 14, 2019 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
why the fuck would you even want this? this is not a feature. you're just exposing information about the user's desktop layout for no benefit to the user
it's one thing if some app decides to stop doing work because i tabbed away, but quite another if it decides to fuck off because some window happens to cover it up on the desktop momentarily. software does not work like this on any sensible operating system
Jan 11, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Unity got played so hard by Improbable, I feel sorry for them:
* Improbable has an obscene amount of money[1]. They don't need Unity.
* Improbable (in the long term) threatens Unity's revenue as a competitor[2].
1: crunchbase.com/organization/i…
2: unity.com/solutions/real…
* Improbable had first move advantage here, and clearly used it[3]. News stories were ready to go w/blog post.
* Unity was clearly preparing for this with ToS changes[4]. Improbable could easily monitor their moves.