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."

somebody on tiktok asked us to make the hair bigger, and also to make the hair smaller, and also we love a certain plumber so... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

This was extremely good

you should be able to share your digital location with friends the same way you share your physical location

Working on a workshop called shader shade where it’s a shader workshop and then at the end I send your shader to be printed on a shade

Good morning 🙂

Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)

I’d say it was like Kyle Chayka’s idea of “airspace” taken to a more extreme level, like a hyper-airspace, but I think that idea was more about common design attitudes than specific replication. The leaf wall is precisely duplicated like a logo without actually being one.

Be very careful to only paint inside the conversation window. Do not, under any circumstances, paint over the EULA.

"Mark as Unread" brush that you can paint over a conversation to selectively mark messages (or even individual words or links or lines inside messages) as unread for you to revisit later

but yeah what should it be? take the timestamp of the message and mark all messages from then onward as unread… across all your conversations. ignore any request to "mark unread" if you've sent a reply after that point. you can't turn back the clock that easy.

"The funniest comments are the ones that add ambiguity"

here's my take: downpour.games/~v/flip

i wonder if they discussed what "Mark as Unread" should mean for a chat does it mark the latest message as unread (incrementing total unread count by 1), does it mark the latest 'run' of N messages as unread, does it produce a 'synthetic' unread status that's different from the natural one?

I’m so glad the author kept this bit in 😂

In this image, the text the angels are holding seems to be printed on a soft piece of fabric rather than something more rigid like paper or stone. Maybe the history of using fabric or silk as a medium for printed information is something that still needs to be explored… #printonsilk #bookhistory

next weekend!! click + drag yourselves over to boshi's place for a celebration of the computer mouse and other pointer devices as important and under-appreciated game controllers! we'll be focusing on novel and unexpected uses of the mouse as well as some custom modified mice.

Html energy but we actually learn touchdesigner and exchange webgl shaders

good signs for websites: - Prof. Dr. style (limited/no CSS) - bare MediaWiki or DokuWiki - no HTTPS

capability that I've wanted for a long time is to tag phone camera photos & screenshots with the current commit/branch/repo state that I'm taking a picture of

dither proxy where you access a URL through it and it tries to convey the essence of the page sending as few bytes of data over the wire to you as possible (dither all images down to 1 bit, cut out fine DOM and CSS layout in favor of roughly positioned blocks)

your computer should store the provenance of every Wi-Fi password it remembers, so you can have a leaderboard of which friends have shared the most passwords with you & you can see which passwords you typed in by hand or scanned from a QR code

had a wonderful “next chapter celebration” before i left nyc! :.0