It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin! Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy online […]

rectilinear #3d rendering always takes a guess where your screen is, relative to your eye. i say, "eye," because rectilinear rendering assumes you only have one. so if you have one eye, and know where it is supposed to be (usually right in the middle, but distance to screen is a shot in the […]

Rugged tech is so much fun! RuggOn makes a MONSTER of a Windows tablet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VElMQscWKf0 I hope we see more of these ideas in consumer grade gadgets. #tech #Technology #technews #review #gadgets #geek #windows #tablet #Video #YouTube

Are you part of an open source project with a community of users, contributors, and/or third party developers? I want to interview people about their projects with particular attention to how codebases, documentation, project management tooling, and community spaces are constructed. On these […]

What we really ought to do is proportional representation and ranked-choice voting. The two party system made the mess we're currently in But that's not on the stupid ballot

"It seems, some days, these days, like we're a bunch of cops, hunting for who's messed up (trigger warning: all of us). … as if the worst of who we've been is the whole of who we are." — Ross Gay

"Writing off is one of the sadder literary endeavors, don't you think?" — Ross Gay

It was more honest when they said “disrupt” https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115454239809320634

I capitalize Autistic when I am referring to us as a people, and I lowercase autistic when I am referring to it as a diagnosis. What do you think? #actuallyautistic

Free software scares normal people https://danieldelaney.net/normal/ Yup, so true...

New Comic Strip Found: Baldo - 2025-11-01 https://www.gocomics.com/baldo/2025/11/01 #comicstrip #baldostrip

the Italian language seems to carry this freedom of emotional expression that makes the rest of western #culture look austere. I have just begun learning Italian and I really love it. #sociology #italy #anthropology

I think the wealthiest I ever felt was spreading out a haul of candy from trick or treating as a kid. #halloween

#sfba food providers feel strain as SNAP benefits are set to run out https://www.kcra.com/article/bay-area-food-providers-snap-benefits-run-out/69209556 #news #headline

@narF IMHO we need some kind of quantitative metrics, otherwise how can we tell whether we are going in the right direction or in the wrong direction? This is what people use today: https://fediverse.observer/stats and […]

The president is—literally—demolishing the White House. What a visual for #american #institutions.

I wonder if #unyt would make a good platform for #semanticcurrency ( PS: still unsure if #nonquant might be the right slightly more general category of #economics without balance sheets. )

Flickr World #photography Day Contest 2025 Winners https://blog.flickr.net/en/2025/09/04/announcing-our-world-photography-day-contest-2025-winners/

Fedora Workstation 43 brings a few niceties like @gnome 49 and a new video player, but also an important change. With this release, Fedora Workstation will be Wayland only as we finalize the migration to the new display server. It's been a long road getting to this point, but the day has come […]

There hasn't been nearly enough coverage of this. Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research […]

Cool, lenses in #http4k are transclusions for the HTTP protocol, itself. https://www.http4k.org/ecosystem/http4k/concepts/lens/ #kotlin #www

DaK is a document format for analysis, as the next generation beyond Jupyter notebooks and spreadsheets. Jupyter is great for quick analytics but the cells get out of sync with each other, and the kernel dies, and the name and value of variables can drift. Once a notebook starts having […]

The DWeb HQ team @dweb is working on DWeb Camp 2026. Give them feedback on where in the world you think would be a fit. https://social.coop/@dweb/115424781985654403 (yes, @dwebyvr.org is working on #dwebcampcascadia 2026, too) #dweb #dwebyvr

It's 068FE! Almost the last "day" of 068yr. #hexunixtime

And to be clear, this isn't a criticism of the protest. I think it's a great start. Even if most folks decide to walk away as soon as the dictator is gone, we're still fellow travelers for however long that takes. I'm just saying, if we're going the same way then maybe we could hang out for a […]

@virtuous_sloth Here it is. Ok less UX design more how behind the scenes. https://dev.to/svsharma/the-surprising-tech-behind-mcmaster-carrs-blazing-fast-website-speed-bfc Srsly, anyone looking to do anything e-catalogue related should use this as an example. Actually Im amazed that McC hasn't […]

@virtuous_sloth A front end designer did an hour review of their online catalog breaking down all the GOOD design and UX choices made, not to mention the tricks their devs pulled to make it _LIGHTNING FAST_. Will try to find. But yes - my role only necessitates me using it 1-2 times a year […]

welp. my phone bricked. fuck it. I need help. #askfedi Can I get #WayDroid (#android #lineageos) to use my phone number somehow for calls and everything? Is there a service for this? Do you use your #linux / #fedora laptop for #telephony?

It's almost the #hexadecimalunixnewyear in #hexunixtime. The current year is #068yr, going into #069yr on (--rfc3339=seconds) 2025-10-27 23:28:00+00:00 check yourself! in your (linux) terminal (with GNU coreutils date 9.6) you can do this: dc -e '16i 069 1000000* Ao p' which should return the […]

welp. my phone bricked. fuck it. I need help. #askfedi Can I get #WayDroid (#android #lineageos) to use my phone number somehow for calls and everything? Is there a service for this? Do you use your #linux / #fedora laptop for #telephony?

dropping my phone in the water at the beach has, both fortunately and bizarrely, transformed my usb c port into a usb a port.

2/After joining our Chamber with my business (Kyloson), I was pleasantly surprised to learn what it actually does. Of course the main goal is to help small businesses get business; ppl gotta eat (including me). But the way we do it is through being part of the community at a deep level.

#nowlistening to “The Short Drop and a Sudden Stop” by Xploding plastiX. https://tidal.com/browse/track/3147129?u=

do you remember when we had to remember things? … me neither.

LOOK AT THIS FUZZY LITTLE GUY! LOOK AT HEEEEEM!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DMX4IF-1A4

“We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence. […] We've created a perfect storm: tools that amplify […]

The sentiment that the #unixphilosophy is dead or bygone (or whatever) seems not uncommon. I want to assert that it is timeless, and not tied to Unix, nor any particular computing environment. And I posit that breaking complicated tasks down into composable parts, each handled by a specific […]

i just gotta *toot* my own horn i think brevity and distillation of an issue down to its essence is a super power of mine.

@autistics #actuallyautistic if i still had an office, i’d need a poster of this for it… https://www.instagram.com/p/DP_aFP5iFbP/

I think the Android security crackdown is a golden opportunity to build an app that delivers the Unix philosophy to the masses.

For anyone else considering the seasonal pursuit of carving a pumpkin and spending time looking through dollar store toolkits or scrolling through dozens of identical crappy plastic tool sets in attractive clamshell zip cases on Amazon, let me save you some time. The magic term you want is […]

It's almost the #hexadecimalunixnewyear in #hexunixtime. The current year is #068yr, going into #069yr on (--rfc3339=seconds) 2025-10-27 23:28:00+00:00 check yourself! in your (linux) terminal (with GNU coreutils date 9.6) you can do this: dc -e '16i 069 1000000* Ao p' which should return the […]

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

dumb shit I do when I'm sick. consciously advise my 6-yo son which liquid polymer clay to use to soften the clay, and let him walk away with just a "be careful, it's messy" regrets are for later. #shittyparenting

I'm interested in the AG-UI protocol. I wonder if it could take a significant step toward humanizing many of the aspects of #uxd that I have been critical of for decades. yt video: How to Make Agents Talk to Each Other (and Your App) Using A2A + AG-UI […]

I think it's "harder to hire than ever" because #hr is looking at resumes instead of having real conversations with real people. #jobs

when everyone is accelerating, what competitive advantage can you gain by taking your time? #business

I wonder if anyone would pay me to implement Sesame Street for game consoles. I listened to Forever Ago (with my daughter at bedtime a few days ago … I recommend it) about Sesame Street. I happened to be familiar with the history of the show already, but it strikes me that gaming, now, is where […]