ghosts? in my shell? it's more likely than you think.

If you finish a nonsensical toot with IYKYK, you can really make people feel out of the loop.

I can hear a mouse in the wall behind my desk. It's been there for days. I trapped several other mice weeks ago, and sealed the hole I think they're coming in through, but there's one (?) left that won't come out. It won't come out for traps, no matter where I put them. And the cats meow at the […]

Gemini is cool but unfortunately unsuited for low-spec and retro computers because it requires TLS. I wonder how feasible it would be to design a new TLS-like encrypted transport using Ascon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascon_%28cipher%29) that could actually run at reasonable speed on retro […]

We are modernizing the user interface Pray we do not modernize it further

Are you looking for a better approach to federated chat than #matrix or #xmpp? I'm working on #chatterbox, a simple, straightforward federated chat protocol that, ideally, will be more user-friendly (and developer-friendly) than either […]

One upside to having a weird personal domain is that I can instantly recognize spam when the title says something about my business, "Nels".

Another thought re: Chatterbox and https://toot.nels.onl/@adam/115119481028785546 One of my main goals is ease of implementation, and that's the value that my current API isn't living up to. Maybe the solution is to keep the websocket and protobuf but drop the attempt to mimic gRPC. Just […]

I've been trying to design a new federated chat protocol, Chatterbox, that improves on Matrix and XMPP and is simpler to use and implement than either. But, after a lot of work designing a WebSocket+Protobuf API, I've had to ask myself... why isn't this just REST? […]

Just discovered emdasche, how have I not heard of him before, this is great https://emdasche.bandcamp.com/album/look-back-a-pok-mon-ruby-and-sapphire-indie-rock-arrangement-album

With age verification showing up on a bunch of sites all at once for seemingly no reason (Spotify? Really?) and laws like the EU's Chat Control being seriously considered again, it seems like corporations and governments are conspiring to lock down the open internet. But if that's really their […]

literally nothing that anyone involved with AI on any level has said in the intervening decades has shaken my ironclad conviction that we are a hundred years out from a skynet-style self-sustaining AI situation. if the alignment-bro apocalyptic scenario were to take place, where suddenly there […]

Made it to UB3 with a Luxray+Zeraora+Oricorio+Pichu deck. This deck _obliterated_ UB1 and UB2, but UB3 is still a wall I can't get past. The decks stay the same, but the players get much better. #pokemontcgpocket

Me, after having to help with a family member's computer for ten minutes

I haven't played OFF, though I know most of the plot because YouTube. But I always appreciate a new Toby Fox soundtrack. And this song... *chef's kiss* Incredible. Perfect epic, menacing, yet oddly somber boss theme. Been listening to it on repeat. Tricky Tony does it again […]

Coffee?

Marowak EX with Will is _so much fun_ in Ranked. It's not a meta deck. And I don't know if it's good or I'm just lucky. But I've been doing great in Ultra Ball with it; so much of this meta is weak to Fighting. #pokemontcgpocket

animated homestuck adaption by vivziepop with john egbert voiced by toby "radiation" fox (credited with nickname). am i dreaming. is this a bit. what

To err is human; to if err != nil { return nil, err } is golang

free as in freedom motif

My ideal package manager design for a programming language: * Packages are downloaded over a P2P system, like BitTorrent or IPFS * The package manager runs as a daemon and seeds all downloaded packages * There is also a centralized site, which is a directory that maps packages to […]

Tried revisiting Ludwig (my Lemmy clone project) today. I've been experimenting with Cursor and AI-assisted development--yes, yes, I know, but it's actually nice for speeding up boilerplate tasks! And it's surprisingly good for C++... so long as you never trust it with memory management. One […]

Something I'd love to make if I had the time: actual "collapse computing" utilities for uxn that can read and edit real file types people actually use, providing a way for tiny 8-bit emulated systems to usefully interact with those files. For example: * ZLIB port that can open zip and tgz […]

Random semi-crazy thought that just might work: Musk/X isn't using the trademarked words "Tweet" or "Retweet" anymore. In fact, after the rename, any references to these words have been completely scrubbed from the site. The trademark is as good as abandoned. So... could we, collectively, just […]

This is really sad to hear, but I think many of us watching knew FediTumblr was always at high risk of never happening https://mastodon.social/@verge/114772712385223128

i think more games should have Bowser Spaces

[Deltarune Chapter 4 Spoilers] YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG 🎃

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.

its hard to say how many things are _intentional_ homestuck references in deltarune because reading homestuck makes you unintentionally reference it for the rest of your life

Why do my project name ideas keep getting sniped... 😔 So I've been working on a federated chat protocol. Kind of like Matrix, but ideally much easier to implement and not E2EE. The name I had in mind was Chatterbox (which, surprisingly, has not been used for a chat app that I'm aware of) and I […]

One thing that bugs me about Deltarune Chapter 3 (not CWing this post because I'm not going to mention any spoilers): there weren't any great songs. At least not any that I immediately wanted to look up on YouTube and replay. And that's weird for Deltarune, Chapters 1 and 2 had so many! Maybe […]

[Deltarune Chapter 3 full spoilers] Just finished Chapter 3. It was a lot of fun! The Rouxls Kaard segments, especially, were hilarious. And Tenna is another entry in the grand Toby Fox tradition of Weird Little Guys with tragic backstories. At the end of the last Tenna fight, I was thinking […]

[Deltarune Chapter 3 early game spoilers] Wow, I didn't expect Chapter 3 to just... explain the Dark World like that, right off the bat. It's exactly what everyone though it was, but still. (But they're still not telling us what Ralsei is...)

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ by Benjamin Aster is incredible! Editable Minecraft-style world, entirely CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state, paused animations for controlling […] [Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]

"CLI", pronounced "silly",

Saw this beautiful Pac-Man fractal in Graz, Austria. #pacman #fractal #streetart

who WCAG 2.2 AAA Compliant reacted this

The cloud is just someone else's computer. Specifically, Bill's.

https://owlsintowels.org/ You're welcome. 🦉 #owls #birds #wildlife

My server has been up for a while now and things are _mostly_ running smoothly, but there are a few instances I still can't fetch anything from and I don't understand why. So far I've noticed this issue with hachyderm.io, mastodon.art, and tech.lgbt. I had a lot of connections on hachyderm in […]

Hello, Fediverse! I recently moved from @arnelson and I'm now self-hosting Mastodon from a server in my living room! I don't think I've actually posted an introduction before? I'm Adam. I write code. In theory, I use Mastodon to talk about programming and tech and my own side projects (which I […]