One of my favourite weekends of the year, so much good baseball.

Walked by this a dozen times and never noticed before 👋

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Have reached the point in my life where I have opinions about which newspaper stock the crossword is printed on 🫠

Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users. Another necessary post by @aardrian.bsky.social

Sports event of the year coming up

Started out my week long vacation by cleaning out the bathroom vent. Think I’ll claim victory 🏆🎉

This is amazing

Discovered Antinote recently, well worth $5 for a lifetime license. Similar to Raycast Notes or Stickies, if either app is your jam

It's a holiday and I'm sitting here installing Tailscale and creating exit notes on my local network 🤓

💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility

You should check out this video from @glassbricks.bsky.social, one of our frontend developers. We were pretty convinced he's a real person, but now not so sure who's pulling the strings

I wrote a little newsletter about Balatro, and addiction, and both of those things at once. www.anxietyshark.ca/just-one-more/

Afternoon jam while I'm writing, some Waxahatchee Tiny Desk music:

I was going to post something else this week, but the structural inability of global corporations to govern platforms seems inescapably relevant. www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

I still remember reading a magazine article about HTML at a bookstore in 1995. Memorized what I could, went home, created a basic page in Notepad and opened it up in Internet Explorer 2.0. It blew my mind after my limited programming experiences with QBasic 🤯🧑‍💻

Trying to move internet service to new address. Available at 9999 and 9999B but not 9999A because it’s not in the “system”. It’s the same building. Fun times!

In case you missed it. #WordPress www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/2...

I wrote a thing plank.co/en/what-i-le...

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

Introducing Autoblue, my new WordPress plugin for Bluesky! 🦋 Autoblue will be available for download later this week, and allows you to automatically share your WordPress posts to Bluesky, and display likes and replies from Bluesky on your site. autoblue.cc (more in thread 🧵)

I picked up my first basket from Lufa Farms yesterday. They're a Montreal based service that grows some of their own produce and sources from local suppliers. I was blown away by some of it, I received some flat-leaf parsly, boston lettuce and bok choy, which all still had the root balls attached!

An interesting read on the development of a new typeface for the Paris metro: "[a] more enduring design prioritises simplicity and functionality, drawing from fundamental shapes without excess embellishment. When usability aligns with basic human needs, design tends to stand the test of time."

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

Here we are again. Let's go! Starting to seem like a small city, instead of a ghost town 👻 🏙️

Have picked up a Christmas tree. Will decorate at some point. To be honest, I just love the smell of it in the apartment for a month or so.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

People are excited about things

I have stopped watching baseball

People are excited about things

Took a break and wandered into the kitchen. Baseball is still happening in the background

There were bouncing balls but he got his man

Everyone has beards

I’m watching baseball

Watching commercials ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still watching baseball

I’m watching baseball

I guess I’ll go old school twitter and shout into the void, or just whisper

🤷‍♂️👋 Getting started with Blue Sky (also dusting off an old Mastodon account)