I recently learned about the vscode-pets extension, you are welcome

“Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers.” https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html

The hardest problem in tech is convincing tech people that tech isn’t the solution to every societal problem.

Hello, I’m the hacker with the secret modern apartment. People call me when they need to track things down, and fast. My screen is all black with a 3D map and green text. I smirk. These people have never jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace. https://twitter.com/libyaliberty/status/1365920886793019394

Worry less about people disabling JavaScript for websites.

Worry more about JavaScript disabling websites for people.

Sometimes I feel like you could pitch re-branded RSS as a hot new startup.

✨ It’s a site ✨ where you read other sites/newsletters ✨ with zero bullshit ✨

See this video of Tom Cruise?

Well, it’s not Tom Cruise.

It’s AI generated synthetic media that portrays Tom Cruise onto a TikTok user using Deepfakes.

Seeing is no longer believing.

The simplest fix of all

This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It’s like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… http://radio.garden

why does every website landing page look like this now?

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple #HTML https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

— ❥ “Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you’ve created?”

Don’t https://twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1363577109411684352

Metallica not being able to play their own music live because of DMCA that came about in large part due to Metallica’s advocacy of it is a hell of a full circle.

Every episode of Popular Space Show™

Programming: Coming up with new ways to put textboxes over data since 1968.

It is orders of magnitude harder to add a static/server render to a client-side JS site than to add client-side JS to a static/server render.

OMFG! http://imissmybar.com 🙌🏽💕🔥 this website recreates an entire bar atmosphere, you can tailor loudness of:

—bartender working —people talking + full room —rain on window +serving drinks —street + night ambience

I wrote up an analysis of an explorer hang that @FreyaHolmer hit. It’s an O(n^2) algorithm (quadratic) in icon layout. And it happens when icon display is disabled. So that’s funny. Oops, did I give away the ending? https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/

At a NASA Earth meeting 10 years ago, a white male post doc interrupted me to tell me that I didn’t understand human drivers of fire, that I def needed to read McCarty et al.

Looked him in the eye, pulled my long hair back so he could read my name tag.

“I’m McCarty et al.” https://twitter.com/J_Dot_J/status/1360954779082571779

are facebook evil? well, they’ve been instrumental in the rise of fascism across the world and they profit off right-wing violence, but also they made graphql, so who’s to say

If any person behaved like an app—rifled through your address book, fitted a tracking device to your car, obsessively logged what books and TV shows you watched, and wanted to disturb you at any moment of the day or night—you’d throw them out of your house and call the police.

You can build a solid D&D party with Kate Bush’s promo pics.

never forget where u came from

Really cool: a “vibe” search engine https://twitter.com/marty/status/1359163230690623489

A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter

I love this! 😃 https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1358962776253730817

I’m Sorry I’m Being Difficult Again by Asking You to Write Code That Doesn’t Kill Me Or Track Me

🚨 Announcing my new side-project, https://dogsof.dev! It’s just pictures of dogs of people who make websites. If you make websites and you have a dog, I’d love to add them to the site!

This is the best basketball match ive ever seen!! 😂😂

A theory about PHP https://www.commitstrip.com/2021/02/03/a-theory-about-php/

Demented Toys by Obvious Plant Confront Harsh Realities and the Mundanity of Life https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/02/obvious-plant-toys/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

This is Gen, the happiest corgi in the world. He’s been blessing us with his facial expressions for years, and it’s about time we honor his magnificence. 14/10 (IG: genthecorgi)

I never tick “always open using this app” and yet I always open using that app

I made a new thing!🎉😃

Built a JS library that uses iris tracking to predict the direction of a user’s gaze.

Thinking about a11y, I built a keyboard demo people can control with their eyes 👀⌨️

Demo: https://gaze-keyboard.netlify.app/

Code: https://github.com/charliegerard/gaze-detection

#MadeWithTFJS

tomorrow marks the start of a perfectly rectangular February, something that we only get on the calendar once every 200 years!!

I like to remind Alexa daily that she’s a glorified egg timer so she doesn’t realise she could Skynet me at any moment

(Submitted by @mmeeeoooowwww)

I did something dumb 🤓

Formidable’s @moonsspoon examines what makes futuristic UIs feel so impressive, then breaks down how they can be built.

https://formidable.com/blog/2021/future-ui/

This is a work of art

👉🏻 “South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support”

🔗 https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-government-releases-its-own-browser-just-to-re-enable-flash-support/

The facepalm is strong with this one.

According to this thread, Twitter tracks the links you click.

You can check if you clicked on any links on Twitter for the blog ran by North Korean hackers.

Request your Twitter archive, download it, and look at the data in user-link-clicks.js.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1270789059888254977

👉🏻 “Form Validation: You want :not(:focus):invalid, not :invalid”

🔗 https://www.bram.us/2021/01/28/form-validation-you-want-notfocusinvalid-not-invalid/

Today I learned that aggressive baby goats have to wear horn noodles to avoid hurting each other

i put eyes on the cat’s bed and could not be happier with the result

Now this is patience….

El comer guiso de lentejas es acaso el argumento más aplastante que se puede esgrimir a la hora de humillar a quienes bancan el verano. No hay nada como el guiso de lentejas.

my favorite part of the pandemic is attempting to do things “before it gets dark” like characters in oregon trail

when you’re trying to track a parcel

VBAを使わないExcelゲーム第6弾、テトリスができました。

ドラクエで課題となっていた「よく分からないがなぜか動く」を解決し、処理速度が遅くなる原因と対策を見つけることが出来ました。

実装方法やファイルは後日ブログで公開します。

#Excel #NoVBA #テトリス #Tetris

👉🏻 “✋🏼🔥 CS Visualized: CORS”

🔗 https://dev.to/lydiahallie/cs-visualized-cors-5b8h

by @lydiahallie

My girlfriend animated her 2021 mood and honestly? Same.

I like it when it’s really 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐.

Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread:

1. 📸 Dan Dinu

I’ve been creating a tool but now contemplating of even releasing due to limitations. You draw a 2D sprite, set the depth of each ‘pixel’ and presto a 3D model! Since you’re working on 1 axis you can probably guess the limitations. Would love to hear your ideas? #gamedev

Te amo, JONADIBUJOS (https://youtube.com/c/Jonadibujos)

I despise slow Web sites! And I’ve been coming across too many of them lately! Too many!

Optimize your images! Optimize your assets! Use less JavaScript when you don’t need more! Build more responsibly!

I have to stop with the exclamation marks!

!!

the queen’s gambit ♟️

This is what VR was made for.

yo this is incredible https://nyti.ms/3sgR63x

Interesting timing attack with tainted <canvas> + CPU rendering https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defense/2021/01/11/leaking-silhouettes-of-cross-origin-images/

do not disturb me i am blooming

Well, that’s just stupid. https://twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234

“The End of My Journey” - Personal Artwork, 2021

me going on a stupid little daily walk just to feel something

The more you learn & the more experience you gain the more you know that there are no absolute right & wrong ways.

How should I embed this? It depends on the context. Which framework should I learn/use? It depends on the project and… What’s the best way to…? It depends on… https://twitter.com/sugarpirate_/status/1348044775887233024

I’ve made a special Lockdown Cinema for my laptop to replicate the big screen experience

IMPORTANT DATE UPDATE:

Today is π day! It is March 314th, 2020.

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021 https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/image-optimizations/ by @cramforce

Loads of great #performance tips in there, some I didn’t know of before (like the decoding attribute 😯)

remembering this github comment

👉🏻 “Optimal Overlay Finder For Readable Text on a Background Image”

🔗 https://codepen.io/yaphi1/pen/oNbEqGV

by @yaphi1 ?

Proud Boy tries to rip up a rainbow sign, but fails due to a powerful gay enchantment placed on the sign. (Seattle, 2018)

Flashback to a 1985 try to implement DRM for games using scrambled letters on screen and a physical plastic lens to make them readable. Mostly frustrating the legal buyers much like the “You wouldn’t steal a handbag” videos did to DVD owners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpn9sLNg-6k

I’ve seen multiple reports of systems being taken down by y2k bugs that were “fixed” back in 1999 by remapping 1900-1920 to 2000-2020, and now it’s 1921

this is the very core, the pure essence, of What’s Wrong With Software Engineering

A cool dog’s photo taken in the 1800s

finishing touches for my study are finally done 🌷 looking forward to working and learning in here next year!

still waiting on some cable management clips in the mail

could i interest u in plant?

la historia del bebito gigante ha llegado a su fin

The Dogs of 2020

Don’t claim “SSGs are bad” when you mean “SSGs are bad for content that is not static”.

While we are on it: A hammer is bad for drilling holes.

Acabas de recibir el lengüetazo canino de la buena suerte, no lo ignores y recibirás la buena suerte

Y vos pasaste años estudiando algoritmos de sort. Era por acá. https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1343635489027403776

If you’ve never seen a reindeer posing under an aurora before, today is your day. https://bit.ly/3nIon4Z

Study

@jaffathecake @DKundel @chaos_monster @DasSurma @bendhalpern @forem My take has been (and still is) that you should send HTML wherever you can, and use JS to augment. It renders faster, and it’s resilient to JS failures.

It is a shame that as a community we’ve made it harder for people to do that by default.

At some point server-side rendering will be repackaged as “just-in-time static site generation” and I’m actually kinda looking forward to it.

nyand gate

Oh Robert…

http://wumo.com/wumo/2020/12/22

✈️ NEW DOC 👨‍✈️

We talk to @AsoboStudio and @Microsoft about the impossible goal of recreating the entire planet for @MSFSofficial.

• And the effect of releasing a game about exploration & travel, while most of the world is grounded.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/0w7q1ZFfsxs

“pontifex” sounds like the name the pope made up for himself when he was 14 and just getting into online gaming

How you know this is REAL engineering: if they’d put in two normal drawers, they’d have vastly more functional space.

This is basically the furniture equivalent of using kubernetes at your startup https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1339304718263144448

An Odd Bird

reject embrace modernity tradition