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Now is a great time to mention dwitter[0], where people post "dweets", trying to draw and animate interesting visual effects with a limit of 140 characters. [0] https://www.dwitter…

While I think we've all settled on Cory Doctorow's concept, I really wish it wasn't called "enshittification". It's hard to take the phenomenon seriously when I sound like I'm just…

I extend my prayers out to those of you who have pointy-haired bosses looking to seem trendy in their public reports by implementing this.

Tangentially, I'd like to shout out both Miguel's work both in explaining the Flask web development framework for Python as well as his work developing Flask-SocketIO, both of whic…

What’s lovely about this post is that it follows the rule of bold claims producing interesting counters. Here’s my hat in the ring: I have had a really good time with the Elektron …

tangentially, I'd like to give thanks to Miguel Grinberg for getting me started on flask and sockets in python via his posts.

Fortuitous timing. I just started writing daily on https://ds0.xyz whose backend I recently updated to employ tagging, but I haven't covered anything worth reading*. How do people …

I recall termite colonies also have interesting an interesting behaviour that resembles an analogue for an organ that other animals are acquainted with: lungs. https://news.harvard…

Yeah, I was pretty intimidated just looking at it for the first time. Seeing my purchases in plain view like that tipped me over into using a competing mail server. https://www.cnb…

Bob Nystrom's other roguelike-related posts on that blog have been a big help for my personal fiddling with gamedev.

I'm wondering if there's a parallel for nutrition. I'm a pretty poor eater, as it stands.

Sorry to go on a tangent, but that's John Lurie on the left in the second photo by Andy Warhol. I'm surprised to see he brushed shoulders with Basquiat and the rest.

I've wasted eons on Slant. I love opening up a huge field on hard and clicking away at my virtual rock garden.

Saw a cat with a bunch of garbled motivational poster text. Drove me over the wall with laughter at work.

Since my genre of choice is dance music, I use Soulseek, which I think has done a great job of carrying Napster's torch. The trouble is that many of the tracks I'm into come from t…

A pleasant Icecast-using website is n10as (pronounced "antennas") radio[0]. I'm a longtime listener. Personally, I like to use Icecast alongside Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ softwar…

Goodhart's law comes to mind: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

>unless it's being repeated without any attempt to consider broader implications. That's just it, I think. The meme was taken in by a crowd that itself does not practice introspect…

Evan James has a good writeup on the sort of anxieties around society that sprung up the NPC meme [0]. There's a portion which I think has a kernel of truth, although it is definit…

"The real answer to solving technology addiction is the answer to sustainably solving most problems: innovation spurred by capitalism." I find that when capitalism spurs innovation…

While it may be a good idea for people to delete the Facebook app from their phones and and stop logging in as often, it seems to me like any user tracking on the part of Facebook …

I wouldn't worry about it too much. The vast difference in contexts (literary circles, high school classrooms VS. HN comment pages, Slack chatrooms, developer podcasts) ensures the…

Does someone want to explain the rationale behind the color picker at the side of the page which sets the text and image tint before slowly reverting it back to its original light …

Instagram is a space where influencers were deeply affected by a purging of bot accounts (although I can't remember the year this occurred). People made posts in droves complaining…