feel like I should have a blog or something where I make a post every time I get sent the same link by 3+ different people

singleride.nyc by @obtusatum.bsky.social !!!!! Amazing!!!!!!

always feel a little gross when I have a Makefile target to actually run the program, not just to compile it

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

Remember this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Goog...

save the date :0 !!! html day 8.8.2026 ! @htmlenergy.bsky.social

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

need a dedicated device for messaging

data gathering tools…

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

why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.

memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though

Paying my water bill on the city's blog.

"blog" is now a synonym for what people used to call "website"

introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse

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

making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh

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

​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

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

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

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

They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone

Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔

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.

Tag yourself

What if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code

welcome to my new forum: something nice. we'll pay you $10 to join.

I like all of these but especially the quotes -- very "vivid assertions"

I should have a "Recently:" section on my website

lazily evaluated environment variable

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

programmable barcode scanner

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.

"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."

filesystem that automatically deletes orphaned files (any file not referred to in a text message, email, document, etc)

What are the heaviest, most solid websites you've seen?

"There is virtually no other script that works for Scrabble other than the Latin alphabet, because virtually every other script is more complex"

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..

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

The subway. Somehow being physically in motion, though at rest, helps my mind stay grounded and engage with whatever I’m currently looking at

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.

What are your favorite spots to go and scroll on your phone?

It's a similar energy to the "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" book

"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?" harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/d...

chat-as-bubbles culture (SMS, phone, graphical) vs. chat-as-log culture (IRC, IM, desktop, TUI)