I need to refer to Earth as “this terraqueous globe” more often 🐋

"I feel like they designed the building in Figma"

Nose-operated phone apps where you have to touch the phone with your nose

some sort of equivalence between "Last seen"/read receipt (modern messaging) and online status (older AIM, MSN, etc, and Discord)

I like the phrase "keyboard-based computer" -- reads like "carbon-based lifeform" and also lightly suggests the possibility of alternate conputers

after so many years on this earth using a keyboard-based computer i am still discovering new emoticons… i think that is beautiful U_U

a boardgame that does, genuinely, work for any number of players

a boardgame with hidden information. the information is never revealed to anyone.

sometimes i look back on old projects of mine like yea that was lowkey visionary

I don't know if we really need usernames or display names given that we have profile pictures tbh

Someone on this subway train is reading a physical magazine... :O

"event listener" somewhat more passive connotation compared to "event handler"

+ a lil indicator light right next to it that flashes anytime a program accesses that structure

i like the idea that your browser history literally lives inside your address bar, like the data structure has to exist in a physical scope on the screen (that address bar UI element)

there's an increasing number of things that I can effectively only do on my phone, not my laptop -- laptop as 2nd-class citizen

"*I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine" (it reminds me of Minecraft or Roblox or Web 1.0 or early PC BASICs, how you need to have stuff around you that is unpolished and feels achievable to copy)

This feels like the same kind of vestigial metaphor as floppy-disk save icon or telephone headset icon (or even files and folders at this point)

(sort of a calibre-guy energy to this guy, IMO)

Honestly all survey papers should include a graphical taxonomy of related work.

Normal

more and more i feel like the thing I need from a read-it-later app, or a bookmarking tool is *provenance*. Why am I reading this, where did I discover it from, etc.

tomorrow at 11am 👇 tea + snacks provided! make sure to RSVP!! boshis.place/events/25-11...

This used to be how they made desktop wallpapers too…

Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Question from my rare book cataloging class! What is the longest amount of time you have spent working to catalogue one rare book? (You can DM if you don't want to admit it "out loud"). We are fascinated to hear your answers.📜

"I could probably dig down into the water table and find better software"

if you are a “maps never work indoors” kind of person, try the target app while in store at a target

It's not using the exact same cut and cloth as the past, not text-over-sockets, but the new world that's held up here for despisememt here looks so much like all the virtues and upsides of what the author is celebrating, that the old world only quasi delivered.

you can read posts like pappp.net?p=969 in an inverted way as a _critique_ of the Unix philosophy, that Unix just hasn't been good enough to construct a modern desktop environment and it's necessary to invent a new philosophy

html tags should have timestamps of when they were created

leaning into this text editor/visual editor dual, i've made the code colourer detect comments like /*====*/ and turn them into sliders. I really like how plain old source code remains the 'source of truth' for all state and the editor just doodles over it.

WHOLE EARTH CATALOG access to tools [black sky] [gibbous Earth] [surface of the moon] Spring 1969 $4

setting up a computer somewhere to continuously rerun your program to find a nondeterministic bug. once the bug appears, the computer halts the program and calls you on the phone, so you can connect a debugger and poke around that exact living program state

are u thinking of sunlit.place?

What's the website for when the dappled light filters down between the trees...

A phone with an insert coin slot

That could be us! We could do that here! #atproto

a laptop with an Insert Coin slot

(remembering my mom trying to read that hugo winner the windup girl years ago & it's sort of where I realised that thing where you figure out how a sf world is built based on like diegetic hints & non-explanations is a skill separate from the skill of making sense of normal narratives)

a social network where you can see all your friends' battery levels

unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally

The most important factor when designing the syntax of a programming language is how it communicates your language’s brand identity

It also feels slightly subversive and very Lispy to present "which syntax do you want?" at the beginning as just a surface customization, like choosing your editor's color scheme.

files should store metadata of how long it took to decide on / type in the filename, so you can distinguish between the "askjdljkasd.txt" and the "Untitled (2).png" and the "Employment Contract - Oct 2023.pdf" classes of name

one of the most important emoji reacts in any messaging system is the 'acknowledgement but not approval' react -- it's 😮 in Facebook Messenger, ‼️ in iMessage, etc

"Here it is, in Fortran; I wrote it 47 years ago."