Running DOOM on a Landline - https://joshumax.github.io/general/2021/08/11/running-doom-on-captioncall.html

Damn @slightlylate, those are some nice printing styles you got on https://infrequently.org/

A very strong case made for RSS by Nicky Case in a “4 minute intro…”

https://ncase.me/rss/

(There is an irony to tweeting this, but I promise I spend more time reading RSS than reading Twitter.)

On this date 25 years ago: The first known MP3 rip of a song (‘Until it sleeps’ by Metallica) is released.

👉🏼 “This popular Facebook app publicly exposed your data for years”

🔗 https://medium.com/@intideceukelaire/this-popular-facebook-app-publicly-exposed-your-data-for-years-12483418eff8

Any nametest. com Quiz like “which foot fungus are you” on Facebook is the worst for your privacy and the results are pure random anyway. Tell everyone.

How a Mini drill tool defeated security on the Xbox 360 | MVG

Watch : https://youtu.be/RyW0lXnoFOA

#Xbox360 #KamikazeHack #DVD

Just going to throw it out there that good security design requires building systems that resist compromise even by entities who design and run the system.

If your “security” relies on pinky-swears and governments not abusing their power then…you don’t have security.

“A satirical title generator for designers seeking a title apart from other designers.”

This is fun 😃 https://designtitles.com/

Can we just own our devices from the metal to the software as well instead of slowly replacing everything to be a thin client for a cloud service that we don’t get ownership of either

Why are users hated so much? We are much the reason for their so called “incompetence”.

the council will now decide your fate

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

How to Meet the New Accessibility Requirements of the Shopify Theme Store https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/theme-store-accessibility-requirements

Commendable that they put restrictions in place, but the better message here would be “how to build an inclusive store that attracts more users”.

A Moth Mage

Run Internet Explorer 5 in your browser! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/run-internet-explorer-5-in-your-browser/

Parece que a Paula no le gusto el regalo

great fact: a nanometre is the distance your nails grow in one second. i had my Nano nails painted 41 days (3,546,000 seconds) ago and they’ve grown ~3.5 mm (3,500,000 nm). 😃🔬💅🏻

This is so awesome, I love it! https://twitter.com/crab_feet/status/1421808369560473602

hire this person immediately

these captchas are getting downright philosophical

I AM DYING

I just got a copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD

Here’s what annoys me about youtube videos.

I’ve been watching youtube videos recently, and I noticed something out of the ordinary.

I will now explain what it is that annoys me.

And if you find this annoying as well, smash that like button and subscribe.

@jaffathecake @Dygear @jtaylor025 @ShawnAxsom We gave a talk about how we did that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsTt7Tja30Q

「へんがお」

ノートで作りました

Ranty blog post posted. Trust in Software, an All Time Low

https://underjord.io/trust-in-software-an-all-time-low.html

It’s always DNS. Check your blogs folks. https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1418317333119049735

@SwordOfLirio Parece que alguien escucho hablar de la gran crisis de la basura del 2000 (?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooB5iIqZnB0

Hey, with some friends we decided to do a little telephone art game together 😳

We made two teams and started from one design, each artist had to make the character evolve (stronger and stronger). But we could only see the design of the artist before us.

Here’s my team😎

Billionaires right now… #Billionaire #space #JeffBezos #comedy #skit #VirginGalactic

I fully support this new trend happening on tiktok right now (sound+feels on)

a³+2m²+c-8f(i+e)

ah yes, a³ plus two square meters plus the speed of light minus 8 times an unknown function f of the imaginary unit plus euler’s number

It’s just four David Bowies.

Building an accessible image comparison web component https://cloudfour.com/thinks/building-an-accessible-image-comparison-web-component/

Reaching people on the internet in 2021 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

It is so easy to be smug about this as a “web person” and go all “we told you so, all the time, we did”, but we also failed to match the siren song of closed platforms/apps with good monetisation.

@shanselman “If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” - Carl Sagan

That time Carl Sagan called out Star Wars for being too white and the audience didn’t know what to do 💀

This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all.

In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW

Voy a hacer un hilo con lo que pasó entre ayer y hoy al que voy a titular “MI PAIS” Empezando por la mascota que era argentina y se metió al vestuario a festejar

“No one cares about your gender” let’s play fact or cap.

me: can’t believe we didn’t date sooner

her: umm haha. this is a date..?

microsoft excel: [ripping off waiter mask] 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎

If you don’t fix the usability of your product, it’s just a matter of time before a developer uses it and decides to make an alternative.

This is such a ridiculous idea I love it.

Page transitions with <marquee>??? https://twitter.com/TerribleMia/status/1410336351006826498

Then @fimion chucks an IntersectionObserver on it to stop at certain pages: https://codepen.io/fimion/pen/VwbYgNw (Works best in Firefox I see)

lolllzzz 🤯

I know of no better way to catch up after some time away than RSS.

As a… – visitor I want to… – accept cooki… oh, close the special offer moda… oh, close the invite to surve… oh, close the chat windo… oh, wait for ad placeholders to shift the layout before I give up and close the tab so that… – I can see the ‘before you leave’ modal

Los penales sólo con sonido ambiente. Lo que estábamos necesitando antes de irnos a dormir. Mirá que te como, hermano.

UI is the bottle.

UX is not having to think about the bottle.

👀 http://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/smoke-and-mirrors/

Yet another @CodePen from me about Logic Gates, but it’s :has(). This is :has() selector Emulation #20! Powered by CSSOMTools #css

▶ Demo: https://codepen.io/RockStarwind/pen/yLbBzvR

Hi👋I have a special news 😍

I made my website using #HTML and #CSS

♥️http://www.dianash.dev♥️

please take a look and comment below your idea🙏

Source code is available in my GitHub 👉https://github.com/dianaash/myWebsite

#KidsCanCode #GirlsWhoCode #CodeNewbie #CodeNewbies #programming

It helps to remember: everything is a remix. We’ve all learned from those that came before, and are still learning from each other today and every day as we create fresh “new” content. We learn, react, create, share, and repeat.

✏️ Solutionism https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2021-06-28-solutionism

contemplating IRL progressive enhancement

My 2-year-old daughter’s favorite stuffed animal, “Meow-Meow,” is a critical service in my house, so I run a highly available three-node Meow-Meow cluster.

Here’s how it works:

1. Three observer processes monitor the current Meow-Meow leader (wife, oldest daughter, and me)

So let’s talk about video game preservation, data hoarding, and Minecraft.

(🧵 thread)

have you ever loved databases so much, you wanted to write a children’s story, draw cute things, and sing a song?

well, I did! you can watch my talk* from @bangbangcon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhxY5jwZdfw (my talk starts around 32:26, if you don’t have time to watch the full hour)

Thanks so much everyone who joined for my talk today! Always such a joy being at @bangbangcon 😊 Thanks a ton to the organizers & production team making it all happen!‼️🙌🏽

Replay already available on the conf site! Slides with resource links are here: https://observablehq.com/@anjana/piet-bangbangcon https://twitter.com/AnjanaVakil/status/1395771268956266499

super excited to be taking part of @bangbangcon after watching many talks last year! 😎 📦 ✂️ https://twitter.com/bangbangcon/status/1395080791063810051

I’m proud to have debuted the world’s first GIF-based port of Doom on AO3 at #virtualbangbangcon! Play it at https://archiveofourown.org/works/31295183

Have you noticed GitHub links now look a bit different on social media? @jasonetco shows how and why we built a system to dynamically generate over 2 million Open Graph images daily 🤯

https://github.blog/2021-06-22-framework-building-open-graph-images/

!!Con 2021 Talk Recordings are online! Check them out at 🎥 http://bangbangcon.com/recordings 🎥

Thank you again to @confreaks for making it happen!

6 intense weeks of work, 2 all-nighters, and an incredible community of artists to get to this point. I’m proud to present the Top 100 Render Montage for the #alternaterealitieschallenge!

https://youtu.be/iKBs9l8jS6Q

Original Soundtrack by my best bud @Feverkin

A little side project from @thebadagas and me: http://www.window-swap.com Open a new window somewhere in the world. Hope this place on the internet helps reduce your lockdown blues in some small way, too. (Works best on desktop)

when wolfram alpha gives up because your input is too complex, consider also giving up

Google Photos automatically stitching together photos to become panoramas can have excellent results. Here is the cool dog chasing his ball in the water we met this weekend in three states on one photo.

Game of Life running a Game of Life.

Since the Game of Life is Turing Complete, it is capable of simulating itself.

https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

What an incredible explainer for @apachekafka! by Mitch Seymour

More docs could use interactive storytelling to teach this way, it’s wonderful. Hat tip to @jkup for sharing

https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/

As an… – excel user I want to… – have fractions automatically converted to dates so that… – I can spend 01-Oct of my day manually changing them back

@unpacker @Asher_Wolf I can’t believe people are doing cyber crime with only a single monitor

me rn

My TV just said the the End User Terms changed and I needed to agree to them. I WANT NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP WITH MY TV.

This surf inspired furniture brand is using the Instagram grid to create a micro site and I think it’s pretty novel.

https://instagram.com/salty_furniture?utm_medium=copy_link

Annoyed that I stumbled upon this amazing story after submitting my assignment on Right to Repair, but holy moly it’s an infuriating read on corporate greed and the profit games played.

Loved to hear about Huang investing in Kytch though.

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

“It’s important to highlight just how much a megabyte is, how much potential it has. The fact that webpages are three megabytes is huge because most webpages are not doing that much. For typical webpage, there’s no good reason why it shouldn’t be under a megabyte." @eatwholegrain

🐧🐧🐧

It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate.

¡Hola! Les presento a Binancio 👋

Un bot que se dedica a analizar el mercado #P2P de @binance para sugerirnos el precio ideal de intercambio entre criptomonedas y dinero de manera simple y rápida 💸

Si te interesa conocer más, follow the white rabbit… 🐇

please enjoy this duck

👉🏼 “Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript”

🔗 https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/

Seamcarving in JavaScript - sweet. I remember @quasimondo doing that in Flash in the long ago.

Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance: https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-point-two-million/

I’ve been working on this optimization experiment for a while now. Feels good to finally get this post published!

Pueden ver mi charla de ayer acá 👇🏽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDEE1XtrIw&t=19

we’ve updated http://poolsuite.fm* — all new features, icons, themes designed by @basstrien 🌴🔥

• formerly known as “poolside fm”

👉🏼 “Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement”

🔗 https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

The UK government using common sense. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpRDZzZHs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJ06KvhN0E

[■,■,■,■].map(■→●) ⇒ [●,●,●,●] [■,●,■,▲].filter(■→true) ⇒ [■,■] [■,●,■,▲].find(●→true) ⇒ ● [■,●,■,▲].findIndex(●→true) ⇒ 1 [■,●,■,▲].fill(●) ⇒ [●,●,●,●] [■,●,■,▲].some(●→true) ⇒ true [■,●,■,▲].every(●→true) ⇒ false

@cassidoo “memoize, which is like memorize but in a baby voice”

literally will stick with me for life.

I’m very happy to announce the release of my new album, Wake Up Calls, composed entirely out of endangered British bird song! I hope that it will help us to become more aware of the glorious polyphonic sound worlds that surround us. http://smarturl.it/wakeupcalls

I’m back from a week at my mom’s house and now I’m getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I’ve been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

Remember when you wrote HTML in a plain text editor and then uploaded that to your website host using FTP? Good times.

“This blog post is dedicated to why you should have your own (independent) blog.”

Why you should have a blog (and write in it) https://leportella.com/why-have-a-blog.html/

— If you don’t have your own blog yet, read this post. There’s a big chance it will make you want to create one (& write in it)

Fucking finally

The real reason they discourage MRIs during pregnancy is because then people would realise they’re incubating nightmare demons and would be rightfully terrified

I have been continuously disappointed by the usability of gnu docs, so I’ve done some hacking and made single page (searchable!!) html builds of some info(1) pages, fixed the css, and posted them on my Web site

Sample: https://docs.jade.fyi/gnu/ld.html All of them: https://docs.jade.fyi/gnu/

New video! I promise this story about microwaves is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y

movie details: the lighthouse (2019) had to be shot in black and white because robert pattinson looked like mario in color

@pawelgrzybek @SaraSoueidan Here is a little bookmarklet i copied to get the url for channels that have a name and not an ID from the browser itself. It also works for channels with id.

Navigate to the channel and run it. Sometimes you need to refresh the page for it to work.

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2020-05-11-youtube-channel-rss/

Friendly reminder for all RSS users! You can subscribe to GitHub projects and YouTube channels using RSS.

https://pawelgrzybek.com/rss-feed-for-youtube-channels-and-github-project/

#rss

running this selfie through the gender swap filter on faceapp until i am unrecognisable as a human LETS GO

“RSS Readers: Yet Another Case for Semantic Markup” by @BenDMyers

https://benmyers.dev/blog/rss-semantics/

— I’m in the middle of an article around the same topic. There’s much to be said about optimizing for Reader Modes and reading apps. 💯