Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson

From the Internet. #RIT ‘16. Aspiring #minimalist. Love/hate relationship with #javascript. | Freelance Web Developer | 🇺🇸 🇸🇻

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2026-10-12 19:53:04 UTC

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“what should I do, consider any of the hundreds of alternatives available to me?!”

2026-09-16 17:27:26 UTC

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one of the biggest problems I find in explaining this technology is just how ludicrous the actual explanations are. People will admit they don’t know how it works, and then refuse to accept the explanation because of how ridiculous it all sounds 😵‍💫 🤡

2026-08-31 15:20:17 UTC

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Some reporting here:
https://www.smamarketing.net/blog/amazon-ai-scraping-exposed

2026-08-31 15:19:54 UTC

Today I saw elevated activity on a client's server... Checked the logs, getting hammered by AmazonProductDiscoveryBot... cool, cool.
Turns out, Amazon will, in some cases, list companies on their marketplace automatically, without consent, via information gathered using this bot.
In other words - they'll try to automatically become a middleman between you and your customers.
How the fuck is this even legal?

2026-08-07 18:59:36 UTC

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*almost* doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I can sympathize, especially since many open source alternatives have embraced the slop machines.
But I really can’t get past the moral bankruptcy of *how* the “bespoke solution” was made.

2026-08-07 17:21:17 UTC

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“existing platforms were complete overkill” for what he wanted to accomplish, apparently.

2026-08-07 16:11:36 UTC

The self host weekly guy is now a slop code apologist. Cool, cool.

2026-08-03 05:38:54 UTC

Apparently IMDB is owned by Amazon?
Not sure when that happened but just now I visited IMDB on my phone, and was briefly redirected to Amazon.
That’s weird, I thought.
Only to find an email in my inbox. An IMDB account was *automatically created without my consent* simply because I happened to be signed in to Amazon.
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit? 😤
Account already deleted – well, my “request for deletion is confirmed”.
I hate this timeline.

2026-07-31 16:51:44 UTC

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In a purposely twisted way, you could say his policy change forced the release of previously private information.
But this is obviously a case of state law. For "doxxing” you'd have to prove the policy change was made *for the purpose of exposing that information*. Good luck with that.

2026-06-17 19:31:08 UTC

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wait, “new Siri” is opt-in, it's not "use new Siri or no Siri”?

2026-01-27 23:48:17 UTC

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FWIW the entirety of the "AI" features (at the moment) are a single sub-menu item when you right click on a file.
I can't find any other mention of “AI” anywhere in the app so of all the implementations it's at least not obnoxious (for now).

2026-01-27 23:40:48 UTC

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If you self-host yes. It is readily self hostable on PikaPods, but not the SeaFile Plus stuff (which, I want for Wikis).
I also don't love the AI shit but, it’s infected every decent option that current fits my needs so, here I am.

2026-01-27 23:30:07 UTC

Today in reducing my dependence on Apple…
SeaFile is very good.
https://www.seafile.com

2026-01-22 16:58:01 UTC

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Are peoples’ memories really so short they can’t spot the pattern?
How many tools and frameworks have we been shouted at about “needing” to learn to “not fall behind” have already come and gone from this industry?
It’s never been true that you have to chase the new shiny object.

2026-01-21 17:02:18 UTC

RE: https://front-end.social/@sia/115934085699878378
Catch me in 2 weeks talking about how I mixed #Laravel and #11ty with some pretty delightful results!
Event details here: https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-29-laravel-and-guardrails-for-llms/
#note17pd…027j

2026-01-01 16:20:51 UTC

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I may have identified the reason
https://cdn.masto.host/vickersonme/media_attachments/files/115/820/753/378/552/126/original/1c4ff7c4771bce31.png

2025-12-22 19:21:03 UTC

Successfully set up a docker container behind an nginx reverse proxy... but my container is erased each time I start it (using a compose file, if that makes a difference).
This is after following explicit instructions on how to do this.
This is par for the course with docker in my experience. Follow explicit instructions that "just work" and... it doesn't quite work.
What assumed knowledge am I missing??
#Docker #SelfHosting #AskFedi #LazyWeb

2025-12-18 13:37:49 UTC

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it’s hard to believe the “kill switch” will actually do what it says. We’ve been told time and time again “AI” will be “opt-in” just to have the features repeatedly turned back on after users have disabled them.
Why is this *any* different?

2025-11-30 08:35:06 UTC

“Even when the generated video isn’t recognizably lifting from someone else’s work, that’s what it’s doing. There’s literally nothing else there.”
https://www.404media.co/openai-cant-fix-soras-copyright-infringement-problem-because-it-was-built-with-stolen-content/
#AI #OpenAI #Sora2 #Copyright

2025-11-13 14:33:58 UTC

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I also had that experience 10-15 years ago when I started playing around with Linux. It felt much easier this time around when I set it up last month.

2025-11-13 14:26:43 UTC

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Any flavor of Ubuntu (I setup Kubuntu because I like KDE Plasma) is pretty much in “it just works” territory, at least in Linux land.
The installer can help you setup dual booting, so you can choose Linux or Windows at boot time, if that would work instead of a VM. Can’t speak to running Windows VMs on Linux personally.

2025-10-30 15:01:43 UTC

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I can save everyone some time:
They're “navigating code quality” by lowering their standards.

2025-10-27 14:27:37 UTC

WIRED’s special edition on AI today has so many good articles, reading it landed on my to-do list because it'll take so much time to get through it.
https://link.wired.com/public/42185248

2025-10-20 17:09:15 UTC

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nearly all of my client sites on Netlify are currently down 🫠 all static, so they should be servable by the CDN and yet…

2025-08-30 02:42:28 UTC

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every person I know wants exactly one thing from their software / devices right now: to work reliably.
Because shit has been horrifically broken for half a decade and people are sick of it.

2025-08-04 15:08:56 UTC

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The Verge’s reporting has seen a massive decline in quality over the past few years. Starting to wonder why I bother following them anymore

2025-07-17 18:49:26 UTC

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Capitalism requires software to be ephemeral in order to perpetuate the lie of infinite growth 🤡

2025-07-16 17:10:08 UTC

VSCode continues to shove MCP / Chat / "AI” nonsense into it with every update so I'm once again revisiting text editors…
There are 3 key things I couldn't give up or find a comfortable workaround for last time I went on this journey (6 months ago):
* Quickly alphabetizing lines of code (I do this in CSS all the time)
* A good "Find in project” experience - I'm too used to VSCode's search experience
* An integrated terminal I can put at the bottom of the window

2025-07-16 15:21:25 UTC

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we have very different LinkedIn feeds 😬

2025-06-10 16:29:45 UTC

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My only concern right now is that so many parts of the UI are hard to read. I'm cautiously optimistic that's just beta implementation issues but… if that's not resolved it's going to be an enormous problem for me.

2025-06-09 19:27:19 UTC

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I’m very concerned about lack of contrast. I have a feeling this will be really ugly with “high contrast” enabled, but we’ll see 😬

2025-05-21 17:14:46 UTC

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Remember when people said this about React? 🤡

2025-05-16 15:50:16 UTC

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good question... I assume it would always show them since it’s not a touch input device.
I'm pretty sure the Magic Mouse doesn't default to “always show scrollbars" because scrolling happens on a touch surface, even though its more like a traditional mouse.
But a mouse with no reported scroll capabilities… my guess is it would show the scrollbars (if a mouse that old even still works with macOS?)

2025-05-16 15:42:32 UTC

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Yes - the default behavior is “always show scrollbars if the input device has a scroll wheel, otherwise hide them until scrolling”

2025-04-23 19:35:19 UTC

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Penpot looks great, but i haven't tried it myself
https://penpot.app/

2025-04-21 14:02:04 UTC

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I left a rather straightforward comment on that exact matter. I get they can’t list everything, but I’d argue CSS is far more common than a lot of choices on the list. An omission so glaring it’s hard not to read it as intentional given the “debate”.

2025-01-20 04:19:50 UTC

Is there a #Fediverse equivalent of #SoundCloud yet? And if not, does anyone want to help me build one?
#AskFedi #AskFediverse #SelfHosting #ActivityPub #FederatedSoftware

2024-11-27 14:25:44 UTC

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It should be fixed in Firefox 133 - make sure you're up to date. I think it just went stable yesterday.
Edit: it's listed as fixed in the 133 beta release notes but not stable release notes… interesting
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0beta/releasenotes/

2024-11-20 15:15:20 UTC

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idk, Republicans have been pretty mad at Google before for "anti conservative bias”. If we play it right, I think we could find an argument to sway them.

2024-11-15 18:50:57 UTC

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The <div> nesting will continue until morale improves!

2024-11-15 18:36:04 UTC

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I can't help it… How many nested divs does it take to display an image?
If you answered 7, congratulations, you win!
Literally, the layout is a grid, the row has some header text and 4 images. Each image is nested 7 divs deep.
https://cdn.masto.host/vickersonme/media_attachments/files/113/488/413/342/601/029/original/a2d3e63c13b34239.png

2024-11-15 18:30:10 UTC

Editing a Squarespace website today and I have to say... The Squarespace editor is a fucking disaster of a product.
Holy shit.
Want to add a custom css class to a page element? You can’t.
Want to write custom CSS? Surprise, it’s actually LESS so things like calc() require special syntax.
Want to download an asset from the asset manager? You can’t. Want to replace an asset with an updated version? You can’t.
And don't even get me started on the fucking markup.

2024-10-29 14:29:49 UTC

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Quick, make a popular multiple author plugin so Matt stea— errr… merges it into core!

2024-10-22 02:31:03 UTC

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so like… RAID0 on an optical disk? 🤔

2024-10-10 22:30:05 UTC

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Hmmm... so the robot can perpetuate your need to use it even further? I smell conspiracy.

2024-10-10 21:16:11 UTC

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They haven't yet invented dog poop detection and avoidance? Bummer.

2024-10-08 01:20:02 UTC

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presumably the wireless card could be replaced, no? that could be a heck of a deal

2024-09-09 18:38:35 UTC

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Landlord wants to normalize using facial recognition to spy on residents 👎

2024-08-25 22:06:32 UTC

Really excited about a new website package I'm launching this week.
"Official" posts and ads start tomorrow morning, but as a special treat for the Fediverse, you can preview it one day early!
If you're a Twitch, YouTube, Instagram or TikTok content creator, let me help you take control of your online presence with a "link in bio" that’s truly *yours*.
Check it out here: https://softclay.software/services/landing-pages-for-content-creators/
(Feedback welcome! Please boost 🙏)
#ContentCreators #Twitch #YouTube #LiveStreamer #Website