On the off chance that you're a Magic player, you might be interested in this variant I came up with — it's meant to reduce mana variance and make life generally nicer (especially for new players): https://murtaugh.github.io/MTG-Lands-Pile/ #mtg #magicthegathering

Has anyone else noticed that DNS propagation has been taking longer/is more inconsistent than usual? Or is it my host...

Holy shit Noem is out

It's interesting all the things that are going to become commodities in the next decade. Custom software is just the tip of it. The trillion-collar-valued AI models themselves are already being challenged by highly-competent home-brew AI models.

The new tron movie really is a bunch of sad bullshit

oh christ, i somehow missed that monotype got bought by public equity in 2019. explains many things 🤮

I use em dashes all day every day — do i really need to cease because it's also a trait that LLM's have picked up?

I've been playing with Claude (yes, I know, but in some ways AI is here to stay), and I just spent the afternoon upgrading a 20-year-old site. I didn't ask it for a redesign or to re-write the code or anything, but I had it scale up text and UI, replace archaic system fonts, and replace ancient […]

Just discovered a street musician from my youth in Madison, WI on Youtube — total blast from the past, and amazing he's still at it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbObQRg3xg6saNVnXtjqIQ

I've built a couple of little web apps so far this year, but I keep getting to step 9 of 10 and letting the fear of post-launch criticism scare me into continuing to fiddle with them and never actually releasing them. Fear of Reddit is real.

Sam Darnold sounds like a name Tom Arnold would come up with if he was trying to stay incognito.

i only wear gas station sunglasses

i understand the appeal of tailwind, but it gives me the ick. i hate it.

Are the new Kate Bush Fans also familiar with Peter Gabriel

AirBnB has been a thing for 20 years? And a couple open AirBnB tabs can still take down a brand new M4 Macbook.

I just remembered suck dot com. Sigh.

I played some rare in-person #mtg yesterday for the Lorwyn pre-release — super fun! — I lost badly in the first round to a super nice guy who helped me fix my deck after — In round two my updated deck trounced a guy who has always seemed like a bit of a prick, and I was right, so that was fun […]

I have always believed people when they say representation matters. But today is the first time I understand. https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/115902161534156158

My mildest hot take is that The Dark Crystal is 50x better than Labrynth.

Gruber strikes again: "This outage matters, because I’m on Verizon" Stay classy.

I've been missing notifications from my partner because my ADD brain skipped the first one and I thought it was safe to assume all these toggles were emotionally symmetrical. I'm using a Sequoia machine and a Tahoe machine daily — I'm already sick of Tahoe. #macos

TIL New York garbage trucks have steering wheels on both sides

I have a theory that you can tell when a movie or TV show is overproduced or has too much money when all the characters look like they’re wearing close the belong to their older siblings. All the costumes (and sets and hair and makeup, TBF) in Stranger Things are so optimized that they feel too […]

holy shit i just googled next year’s design and for god's sake get on it now https://mastodon.social/@nazhamid/115737676757092019

Trump's cruelty about the Reiners has been the last straw for a lot of folks, and this is a real “Let's forget about the fact that you're coming a little late to the party and embrace the idea you showed up at all" kind of moment.

Holy fuck Rob Reiner

Belated realization: The Hangover and Stranger Things S1 have the same story structure.

Are you old enough to remember in the late 90s when people were coming up with concepts for virtual spaces that were basically just graphical representations of malls — you would "walk" down “hallways" and shop in "stores” instead of just using the web. A particular group of people were so […]

A muscle car with an insanely loud exhaust just screeched down my block totally blasting the neighborhood with Evanescence's Bring me to Life.

I'd love to get a post-mortem on the whole Mullenweg incident and see what finally got him to shut up for a minute

I'm sorry every body I tried to update some cloudflare settings yesterday, I knew it was a mistake

I'm not a Gruber fan, but I just read his piece on Alan Dye leaving Apple and it fully explained the inexplicable last decade of Apple UI design for me. I recall hearing about Dye's ascension and it made sense at the time — the Watch was the next Big Thing for and he lead the Watch team. But […]

Hey Apple, where's the search bar? Oh right, it's under that visual pile of slop in the upper left corner.

I only just now discovered you can double click the edge or corner of a Mac OS window and it will extend itself as far as it can in that direction 🤯

If you need an example of why Apple's new "UI floats over content now" approach is bad, I was wondering what the heck this new fist bump button was in the toolbar of my mail client... Of course it's not a button, it's emoji in the email I'm reading, but when […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cooked blueberries are almost always a disappointment.

Here's your yearly Die Hard checklist: 1. Starts with Christmas music 2. Ends with Christmas music 3. Takes place during Christmas 4. Takes place during a Christmas party 5. Is about a man reuniting with his family 6. But he has to fight to save his family 7. And learns to set aside personal […]

Switch Angel live-composes electronic dance music by *coding* it. If that's not enough, she explains everything she’s doing in a perfect narrative voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

Kim Davis can crawl back into her hole now

thank fucking christ the court did something good for once

I'm watching Tenet again just to see if it's better than I thought, and I'm not sure yet, but everything we all said about the sound levels of the dialogue still holds true. Much too quiet.

the radii of window corners in Tahoe are driving me up the wall

This is both the right thing to do and precisely what the administration wants https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115380152677742239

I just got a notification for a spam calendar event. Unlike email apps, my calendar has no mechanism for dealing with spam — Ican't even delete it without notifying the sender.

It's interesting that (as far as I know) no one has applied a rural/urban metaphor to federated platforms. You can live in a big city, with all the noise and conversations; you can live in a suburb, with less noise but less culture, more sameness; you can live in the country, in a small […]

just got an email from Medium and it really took me aback that they're still trying to make it work

I watched the most recent episode of the Taskmaster Podcast and the participant explained that he did all his tasks "two Novembers ago" 🤯 I had no idea they worked so far in advance, what an enormous logistical challenge that must be.