Omar Rizwan
@omar.website
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still homesick for the ice / omar.website
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ae
10 days ago
something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F
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Laurel
11 days ago
save the date :0 !!! html day 8.8.2026 !
@htmlenergy.bsky.social
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html energy
4 months ago
effects of HTML: - mood lift, euphoria - increased giggling and laughing - creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily - boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny - sensation of insight - intense feelings of wonder
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need a dedicated device for messaging
15 days ago
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data gathering tools…
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16 days ago
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yeah, you can't program your phone from your phone and really be a peer of the Apple/Google software on it, so in some sense it's not a "computer" at all, it's closer to a video game console than a PC
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18 days ago
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snufkin
19 days ago
why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.
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parker higgins
27 days ago
memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though
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Michael Marquis Albright
28 days ago
Paying my water bill on the city's blog.
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"blog" is now a synonym for what people used to call "website"
29 days ago
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introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse
29 days ago
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eee pc / other netbooks were cool category because for the first time they weren't 'laptop', where 'laptop' in the 2000s was a pretty expensive, slightly more portable replacement for a desktop
29 days ago
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making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh
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about 1 month ago
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
about 1 month ago
This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free. The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day. 1/4
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David Zipper
about 1 month ago
​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
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wifi network that your phone automatically connects to that only exists inside a Faraday cage box that you have to put your phone inside, so you can never see or use your phone while it's on the network
about 1 month ago
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Tom Taylor
about 2 months ago
Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world.
satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk
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Satellite Eyes
https://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk
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henry
about 2 months ago
has anyone played around with Airpods apis (head tracking for spatial audio)? my hope is to play around with controlling an app without having to look at a screen.. would be an interesting design challenge and would be great when walking around, on the subway, or just a diff experience
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They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone
about 2 months ago
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VIEWS project
about 2 months ago
Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!
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Anatoly Shashkinđź’ľ
about 1 year ago
Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔
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Red Blob Games
about 2 months ago
Trying to find a good way to build intuition around distance field fonts: how about comparing it to a map? The land is the filled text, the beach is the outline, the ocean is transparent (optionally a glow/shadow effect). Not sure whether this will make sense to the reader.
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Tag yourself
about 2 months ago
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What if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code
about 2 months ago
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snufkin
about 2 months ago
welcome to my new forum: something nice. we'll pay you $10 to join.
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I like all of these but especially the quotes -- very "vivid assertions"
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about 2 months ago
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I should have a "Recently:" section on my website
about 2 months ago
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lazily evaluated environment variable
about 2 months ago
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Maggie Appleton
2 months ago
More shared context because ~everything is said out loud, in detail It’s makes computing more social and shared in the sense we understand what the other person is trying to doing on their otherwise silent and unshared screen. Doesn’t scale to more than a few people in a space, but nice for a pair
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programmable barcode scanner
2 months ago
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Alice Wickenden
2 months ago
Milton tangent complete, I am returning to my work on erased/struck out/obliterated inscriptions. For many reasons they aren't the easiest things to locate in online catalogues. So if you come across any fun ones (esp. in books published prior to ~1750), here is a public request to think of me.
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"Lighter shades of gray will fade more quickly than darker shades, due to the nature of thermal paper, so bi-level printing is preferable if long-term legibility is of concern."
2 months ago
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valuesbased.software
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values based software talks
http://valuesbased.software
2 months ago
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filesystem that automatically deletes orphaned files (any file not referred to in a text message, email, document, etc)
2 months ago
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What are the heaviest, most solid websites you've seen?
2 months ago
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"There is virtually no other script that works for Scrabble other than the Latin alphabet, because virtually every other script is more complex"
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2 months ago
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CL
2 months ago
I love looking at tlds and finding phrases that resonate to turn into websites (or the other way around) but buying domains also adds up over time - does anyone have tips on archival when they inevitably fade away? I'm thinking of connecting it to my main site too..
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Max
2 months ago
whats your single purpose utility web tool that you have unreasonable loyalty to? mine is this unremarkable diff checker for some reason
www.diffchecker.com
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max
2 months ago
The subway. Somehow being physically in motion, though at rest, helps my mind stay grounded and engage with whatever I’m currently looking at
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JauntyWunderKind
2 months ago
south facing front porch. upper patio. drive out to ocean point. jefferson memorial. the kogod courtyard in the National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian American Art museum. a park. maybe possibly will have a laptop too, do some work/play.
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What are your favorite spots to go and scroll on your phone?
2 months ago
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It's a similar energy to the "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" book
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v buckenham
2 months ago
"Another terrifying idea: how did these adults not know precisely what the dog meant, or where it came from, but still manage to live their lives?"
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dog mural
http://harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/dog%20mural/
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chat-as-bubbles culture (SMS, phone, graphical) vs. chat-as-log culture (IRC, IM, desktop, TUI)
3 months ago
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parker higgins
3 months ago
my Tide Sword hasn't really been working on tough stains... anyone know if there's something mightier?
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srrrse
3 months ago
Damn it’s not possible to deadlock a spreadsheet is it. Truly a technology ahead of its time
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Reading
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Object Freedom 1.02
Object Freedom 1.02 Currently attempting to figure out the issue with Object Freedom with Babies/Toddlers and Pets. The module for humans/pets may need to be removed completely, at least at the time.....
https://fwaysims.tumblr.com/post/717134368680853504/object-freedom-102
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