Roy Tang @roytang@mastodon.technology

Survey: Do you have an active personal blog? Can you provide a link? Not one of those things where you're trying to earn money from the site, just casual blogging about whatever. I'd especially like to see any long-running blogs.

Echoing my pinned post from twitter (https://twitter.com/roytang/status/905431727681572865): If anyone has any questions about Java, Python, Django, Sql, Javascript/node and general software dev stuff, especially for Pinoys, I'm willing to answer where I can. 15 yrs industry experience :)

Shared via pocket: Simple CSS Pattern to Dynamically Abbreviate Text https://joyheron.com/css-content-breakpoints

New blog post: Weeknotes 2021-04-18 https://roytang.net/2021/04/weeknotes-2021-04-18/

Shared via pocket: Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinfo.html

New blog post: Chrome Floc https://roytang.net/2021/04/chrome-floc/

Bond film no. 8: Live and Let Die (1973).

Moore feels a lot more "generic white guy" than Connery was. Maybe I just need to get used to him. Young Jane Seymour is here! There's a bayou chase scene here that goes on just a bit too long and had superfluous cop characters. All the voodoo stuff felt weirdly out of place. There's a character named Tee Hee! Most ridiculous villain death so far.

New blog post: Ted Lasso Season 1 spoiler-free review https://roytang.net/2021/04/ted-lasso-s1/

New blog post: Programming is hard, but anyone can be a programmer https://roytang.net/2021/04/programming-is-hard/

Shared via pocket: Everyone Is Still Terrible At Creating Software At Scale https://margint.blog/2021/04/05/creating-software-at-scale/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

New blog post: Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian https://roytang.net/2021/04/without-their-permission/

New blog post: Weeknotes 2021-04-11 https://roytang.net/2021/04/weeknotes-2021-04-11/

Shared via pocket: Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism https://kottke.org/21/04/ted-chiang-fears-of-technology-are-fears-of-capitalism

Shared via pocket: Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-experts-will-lie-to-you-sometimes

Shared via pocket: The U.S. Is One Step Closer to Establishing a Research Program to Block the Sun https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-u-s-is-one-step-closer-to-establishing-a-research-1846552421

New blog post: Got my first Sinovac dose in Quezon City https://roytang.net/2021/04/first-sinovac-dose/

Bond movie no. 7: Diamonds are Forever (1971). Connery's hair starting to go a bit gray in his last appearance. More Blofeld than I'd expected (harhar). Space laser! Plenty O'Toole seemed pointless, there just to die. A lot of cheesy lines from the assassin henchment.

These movies would be a lot shorter if they just shot Bond whenever they caught him. The action scenes in all these old Bond films always feel so jarring compared to modern ones. Limited by the technology of their time I guess.

New blog post: Blogs of Yesteryear https://roytang.net/2021/04/blogs-of-yesteryear/

"The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care." - Hugh MacLeod

New blog post: Book Reviews: Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett https://roytang.net/2021/04/discworld-city-watch/

New blog post: Weeknotes 2021-04-04 https://roytang.net/2021/04/weeknotes-2021-04-04/

Bond movie no. 6: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Only Lazenby appearance. He was fine, I suppose. Tracy probably best Bond girl so far. I liked the ski scenes more than Thunderball's underwater scenes.

Loose continuity. Was confused by Blofeld not recognizing Bond after they already met in the previous movie. Apparently, the novel order was reversed. Also, did Bond just leave him stuck in a tree assuming he was dead after hunting him relentlessly?