Brewed my final cup of basement kombucha today. It was delicious but kind of a pandemic project and I just haven't had time to work on it. I've had the best results with ginger and cherries, also tried mountain dew but the hallucinations were too violent. If anyone wants the SCOBY let me know.

Files have always been the superior interface, this is still true. When I had 100k mp3s I couldn't even use iTunes because the fcking indexer would crash trying to load all of them into the interface. "Songs/Artist/Album Name/01 - Title.mp3" was a perfect interface, fast to load, and easy to use.

I'm gonna put you in a postgres transaction deadlock brotherrr

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate

Don't read negative reviews of a restaurant to learn anything about the restaurant, read them to learn how insane the reviewers are. Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.

HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)

On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️ html.energy/html-day/202...

Anyone have some pics to contribute?

Interesting variation on the "give us a link to our shitty spam site so we can improve its page rank" grift. Most of the time it's something like "Hello, I'm a teacher and my students wanted you to add this link!" but this one rolls in like Bluto from Popeye.

Trying to figure out how to process this.. I love the idea of simpler browsers but I think that conversation is over.. cutting all of the funding for browser development seems like a great way to shove everyone into hyper addictive social media apps on monopolistic app stores and kill the web.

Rainy day airport vibes

Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwiches are dope, if you're ever in the PNW try one

That's a wrap! #atmosphereconf

Small scale (Raspberry Pi) atproto @bad-example.com #atmosphereconf

@aendra.com discussing trending news feeds and @xblock.aendra.dev #atmosphereconf

"You can't scare people into using shit.. you give them cool things that make them love themselves" @rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf

Really enjoy @rudyfraser.com's attempt to put DID hash on badge #atmosphereconf

@rudyfraser.com discussing Blacksky #atmosphereconf

There will be an #atmosphereconf breakout session today to build a client that looks like this

@dholms.xyz #atmosphereconf

@jay.bsky.team discussing the late John Barry Barlow and the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace #atmosphereconf

@wang.social of @skyseed.fund #atmosphereconf

@bmann.ca #atmosphereconf

@ngerakines.me with @smokesignal.events #atmosphereconf

Attempting an artistic shot of the amazing photographer @danielhuckmann.com #ATmosphereConf

"The company is a future adversary" @pfrazee.com #ATmosphereConf

@pfrazee.com documenting the only things that should be allowed to exist on the internet #ATmosphereConf

A rare moment of Seattle sunshine for @blaine.bsky.social #ATmosphereConf

I'm happy to announce that the transition of all of Bluesky to a single raspberry pi near a pile of sodas has been successful

You're welcome

The junker computer at the front desk is faster than everything in this picture

I was staying at a friend’s house in Austin, Texas. She was working on a startup and her user experience designer kept getting into the detail about how the user interface *looked*.

Running on a frozen lake

It's interesting to think of the CO2 cost (assuming conventional electricity sources?) to train GPT4 as "200 flights from New York to San Francisco", which happens every 2 days. andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...

If I made my own branded tub of energy drink powder that vaguely tasted like a Blue Hawaiian and had California cancer warnings on the label, would you buy it? Asking for a friend

I was walking on a frozen lake just before midnight. This was before phones, so I had to look back at the lights onshore to see if the world ended.

CF uses AI to "detect AI*", but they call it "machine learning" so people uninformed about AI will think they're not using AI to be anti-AI. Great example of why we should be calling all of this stuff Machine Learning and not AI. *This is almost certainly generating (millions of?) false positives

I see a lot of "AI blocker lists" adding Applebot, but Apple uses that for everything (ex: previews of sites), then looks at Applebot-Extended in the robots.txt to decide AI permissions. Great way to get your site blocked from a search engine if Apple is forced to run their own post Google breakup.

Surprised to learn there's actually been some work on AI-specific changes to robots.txt spec www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

OSS dev protip: give your next released library an intensely offensive and/or sexual name and you won't have to do perpetual free maintenance for corporate developers. I would use a robots.txt generator named BezosAndZuckGivingEachotherHandjobs, but Amazon won't!

Mike Judge predicted the future way more accurately with Idiocracy, so I don't want to hear any smack talk about Beavis and Butthead

When someone asks how to find you online and you give them a twitter profile instead of your home page

With the advent of more "flavored" "characters" coming onto Bluesky, I've been playing around with block/mute lists. There's some pretty fun ones. Curious if they're using sentiment analysis or direct human curation for the really big ones: blueskydirectory.com/lists/all

HELP! THE WEBSITE IS FLOODING! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! CLICK THE WATER TO HELP US DRAIN IT! capstasher.neocities.org

I'm running an ht://dig search engine on @neocities.org sites to see how well it works. ht://dig was made in 1995 and hasn't been updated since 2004. There's a curious, notable lack of simple modern HTML-specific search engines you can take off the shelf and just point at a list of web sites.

"“The Pipe Strip” is a 3 panel western comic by cartoonist Jim Davis. It was published on the 27th of July, 1978 in US newspapers under the United Feature Syndicate network. It had an immediate and profound cultural impact" hieronymous.neocities.org/Pages/docpip...

the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...

"Friendly, adventurous, and endlessly interesting New Zealand sailors, that also were important contributors to foundational dweb work" Starter Pack: I know clicking a button is hard work, but please put in the sweat equity to invest in your future by following the legendary dominictarr.bsky.social

Everything I see from Threads is so amazing. A perfect 50/50 between random strangers telling you about their sick pet or bad marriage and brands grimly flirting with each other. Facebook is one of the coolest companies ever to exist. No one else could come up with this.