Save cartridges were sold separately, but it was plugged into the VCR, so I would switch the source when someone wanted to watch TV and hope no one would turn it off. I still remember a rose I spent hours on and was so proud of, and how it felt to press the power button and watch it go black. 😭

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!). github.com/settings/cop...

In 2023, Niantic's failed pet sim Peridot was allowing minors to post entire videos to public, global chatrooms of them walking around their bedrooms, homes, and neighborhoods. When people would respond under the videos asking why they could see them, previously chatty staff would magically vanish.

I hear you like archives. So I made an archive of archives, so you can look at an archive while you’re looking for archives. archiveofarchives.com

Incredible article detailing humiliating behind-the-scenes behavior of nearly half our city council and those pulling the strings, esp during the clown show that was our council president elections. Grateful to have Jeremiah, the Mercury, and the progressive caucus calling these embarrassments out.

my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down

There are a lot of causes that need help today. I'll be donating to trans orgs in red states as well. But any #pottery sales today and tomorrow will go to support families at a south Minneapolis Public School: art.miriamsuzanne.com www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...

Begging communities to use forums again.

stranger: what do you do for work? me, shamefully: computer

@mattkicks.bsky.social is currently live on Twitch drawing more of his comic if you're looking for chill Monday vibes or simply enjoy dunking on LinkedIn influencer culture. www.twitch.tv/matt_kicks

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

This multi-year campaign of not listening to your users has been such innovative, subversive marketing. To abandon Servo only to destroy faith in your own brand in order to elevate them as the rightful successor? Kind of an anti-ARG, but great storytelling nonetheless.

Macromedia flash

As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work. For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?

So much admiration for Steve and the GN crew's unwavering exposés on what's happening in tech right now while underscoring that it is a concerted effort to transfer the ownership of data, devices, and intellectual freedom from individuals to private equity at the expense of human rights.

A reminder that if you're an old mutual, a front-end-oriented person, or a Portlander, I'm a lot more active (and candid) over on Mastodon — front-end.social/@mandy

You love to see it.

On desktop, FF now has these summaries tied to extended keydown on links—which I've come to learn is something I unknowingly do a lot—so not only does an obnoxious UI now interfere with my natural behavior, but it doesn't even work 90% of the time and I wouldn't trust it if it did.

if anyone’s looking for aknitomy, I’ll be on my own site, which doesn’t quiiiiite have the foot traffic that etsy does. So feel free to share if you know anyone who needs a knitted dissected frog www.aknitomy.com/shop

Thank god CSS isn't owned by a company. Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.

we could go further

Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled. codepen.io/mandynicole/...

Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled. codepen.io/mandynicole/...

Medical negligence the day prior left nurse Adriana Smith braindead the following morning at 9 weeks pregnant. Georgia is forcing her body to incubate until delivery at her family's expense. They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.

A web design app built in the browser that doesn't let you design with actual HTML/CSS, doesn't let you style links, doesn't allow for contextual modifications to variables, and doesn't output semantic code in 2025 is embarrassing and grossly overvalued.

the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines, which eventually spawned the WCAG, was published in 1995. access/assistive tech have been first-class citizens of web tech for 30 years. if you're still "doing a11y" as the last step of your projects, you've never hit the skill floor of web development

But I was promised the stolen item art I FOMO'd under the false pretense of digital scarcity for the stolen character design I spent my retirement on would exist and magically transfer to every stolen idea for a vaporware web3 game until the end of time.

capitalism, and specifically the pressure to maximize economic activity regardless of the social cost, is the biggest impediment to technology that actually serves the needs of the public

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Been writing CSS for 25 years and still only defer to the W3C docs when I can't find the details elsewhere or need to verify them. And every time I do I think a lot about how the poor design and verbosity/lack of examples has pushed visual learners and thinkers—folks we need doing this work—away.

A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.

A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.

"On Monday, Adobe's chief people officer, Gloria Chen, said Adobe would no longer have DEI hiring targets.. [which] included increasing female leadership representation to 30% globally, doubling underrepresented minorities in leadership, and doubling Black representation of US employees by 2025."

I do not want to make things for money. I want to make things to better society. I want to make things because it is fun. I want to teach you about the things I love and for you to teach me about things you love too. I want community to be the currency.

Going back to designing sites entirely out of image maps.

While in line to attend a concert with his parents for their 47th anniversary, @fwmj.bsky.social was swarmed by security and cited with trespassing after facial recognition identified him over a shirt he designed in 2017 that was critical of billionaire James Dolan. www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

Me & my team have been working around the clock to bring the first ordinance before the new City Council that will ban price fixing algorithms in rent setting. As 1 of 2 renters on City Council and the only renter on the Housing Committee, I want to center these issues www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

🦊 I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too. Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres... #YDATUbook #books #unions #1u

ICYMI: Dribbble's new ToS prohibits users from listing their websites, social media, and contact information anywhere on the site to try to prevent users and clients from bypassing their service fees.

Checkmate aitheists, one of my favorite games is going to a website and seeing how fast I can close the tab when I see those words.

Not a single jobs platform I've used that promotes its "artificial intelligence" can even manage to exclude the term in filtered search results.

The children unironically yearn for supercuts and Tiktok mini-docs about public infrastructure and social programs set to deep phonk.

I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”

Building out a new history page for the only milestone that matters.

Finally got around to setting up some OBS scenes with Firefox kiosk mode for capturing interactions in response to reaching 1k likes on this pen. Thank you everyone! 🥲🎉 codepen.io/mandynicole/...

Finally got around to setting up some OBS scenes with Firefox kiosk mode for capturing interactions in response to reaching 1k likes on this pen. Thank you everyone! 🥲🎉 codepen.io/mandynicole/...