Business idea: A restaurant that has a sushi train thing, but instead of sushi it has French pastries on it. I call it: THE CHOUX CHOUX TRAIN.

Why does every project have the trajectory of:

“oh yay, I got it working!”

“Hmm but I could polish it just a little…”

“Why in the hell do I have to write my own parser for text in the clipboard from scratch? What the fuck kind of plaintext standard removes the line breaks?! I need those, you bastards! Every single person on the W3C is now on my list, may god have mercy on them BECAUSE I WILL NOT.”

tired: this meeting could've been an email
wired: this youtube video could've been a blog post

I was not made for the 9 to 5. I was made to follow a gang of raccoons around the city in an effort to figure out where they keep their garbage treasures.

Please keep your private keys private folks. They have that name for a reason.

> webpack 5.88.1 compiled with 106 errors in 5681 ms

every time i interact with the js ecosystem i come away miserable

PSA

You DON'T need to have ANY of the below to be trans:

* Noticeable gender dysphoria.
* Strong dislike of your genitalia, body, voice etc.
* A desire for HRT or surgery.
* A medical diagnosis.

It's enough to feel that your gender doesn't match the one you were arbitrarily assigned at birth.

You don't need anything else to be valid

#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #agender #genderfluid #genderqueer #GenderNonConforming #cisnt #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+

Have you ever wanted to make a "you wouldn't steal a car" meme, but been disappointed with how lame the existing meme editors are?

I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

The Job Accommodation Network provides a list of several dozen disabilities, limitations, and accommodations. “This information is designed to help employers and individuals determine effective accommodations and comply with […] the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).”

https://askjan.org/a-to-z.cfm

I was a child, I had childish things. But when I grew up, I was able to afford a lot more childish things. I have way more childish things. I cannot stress how much these rule.

I'm SUPER excited to announce the launch of Rad Reader! 🤩

A calm tool (OSX, Linux & Windows; 6MB & Electron-free!) for reading and following RSS feeds. I've been working on this for the past months during spare time and it's my first journey in making something polished enough to sell!

To celebrate its launch the price is reduced to 4.95 USD (34% off) for the rest of the week! If that feels like a lot, please try the free demo!!

Boosts very much appreciated!

📚 👉 https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader

Men would rather invent a whole JS framework than learn CSS.

The work of Margaret Armstrong, one of the most successful book design artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/07/book-designs-armstrong/

Fellas, over at Dreamwidth we're gonna read together New Spring, the prequel of The Wheel of Time series, starting tomorrow

We're doing this book only, so there is no need to commit to read the whole series if you find the idea overwhelming

It has been pretty fun to talk about the other books in the comm and we'd love to have more people join us

https://tar-valon.dreamwidth.org/

#WheelOfTime #WOT #ReadAlong #BookClub #Dreamwidth

Hypothesis: The Fediverse consists almost entirely of adults.

I expect most youths are drawn to the large corporate social networks; but those of us who took the effort to come here have likely experienced the Internet before most of those existed.

Of course, the only way to test this is by collecting data using the most scientifically rigorous method available to me: a Mastodon poll, lol

(I expect this will only reach English-speaking Fedi, but do boost if you're able)

⬇️ What is your age? ⬇️

I adopted a site in May, and have now finally finished revamping it!! https://emotion.oubliette.nu/

Emotion is a website directory of anime, manga and video game shrines, which are a specific type of fansite.

If you can, please spread the word (especially due to the URL change) so that visitors and creators can keep finding their way to shrines for a long time. 🥰 They're truly one of my favourite things in the world wide web.

#shrines #indieweb

I just released a book on itch.io!
Its about populating your #fansite with ideas for things to include and guides to get your started.

#writersoOfMastodon #writersOnMastodon

https://marinehaddock.itch.io/lets-make-a-fansite

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Please come and see my new metadata band. We play Dublincore.