/looks at Ao3/ Centralizing on a platform that does not have an actual DBA yet does their own bare-metal hosting was, perhaps, a mistake.
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Next in my #introduction posts featuring Stuff I’ve Made:
This is the Chernobyl Dice: a Cold War era themed quantum RNG. It uses the clicks of a Geiger counter nestled next to an array of uranium glass marbles to generate random bits displayed on Nixie tubes.
This is a *disgustingly fair* dice and I’ve run the tests to prove it, lol
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/02/roll-the-bones-chernobyl-style/
#intrductions #arduino #maker #stem #ttrpg #nuclear #physics
I've been playing around with some very simple WASM in Rust stuff and even though it is simple and is taking me twice as long to write as it would in a language I am more familiar with (mostly because of things like 'not knowing how range operators in Rust work), when it actually works I want to cackle maniacally.
Was trying to do some work to clean up my theme to make it sharable, but I'm running up against the lack of grouping containers, and the fact that different objects have different HTML representations depending on what page you're on...
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I wrote a 3000+ word case study about the making of fonts for Pentiment, the latest game from Obsidian. 🎮🔤
The case study is the story of making an extremely thorough toolkit of digital fonts to let the team at Obsidian accurately, warmly, and legibly recreate the writing of people living 500 years ago. In total we drew over 2,700 glyphs (including inking these by hand with authentic writing tools). ✍️
#typography #design #typefacedesign #pentiment #gamedev #history
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Digital Preservation Folks! We at the V&A are looking for a consultant to help us learn more about our digital collections and assets and about how best to care for them into the future. More details here, deadline 31 January 2023: https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/digital/open-call-digital-preservation-at-the-va #digipres #museum
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There’s an attempt to have a Boston local OWASP conference this year (BASC 2023). I’d love it if you thought about submitting a talk. Since I’m sure you have interesting thoughts on Application Security. Boosts appreciated. https://owasp.submittable.com/submit/244150/cfp-boston-appsec-conference-april-1-2023
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My spouse & I will cover the #clarionwest application costs for 5 speakers of Dravidian languages. Spread the word!
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my little seal #cats 
this new instance isn't much federated, so please boost this belly
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Sorry I've been extremely offline. This time of year can be extremely taxing, and my new neighbours are very insistent that I give them lots of attention.
'why does everyone use Discords instead of forums these days?'
idk, because running a forum largely costs money, and basically all the big forum software options have had various horrifying security issues over the years? (jk nobody pays attention to security issues)
It's not that Discord is good for this, it's that Discord is free and easy.
Every time someone someone describes their software as 'lightweight' and then step one is 'install PHP' (or, slightly better, 'install Node') it's like... no, actually.
(also 'database-free' is not a selling point, we invented DB software for a reason and while the sqlite team may have some debatable idealologies, it's an extremely portable format that doesn't require additional system dependencies)
The slightly awkward feeling when it is the 31st and you still don't have a comment or even a kudo from your Yuletide recipient... (I got nice comments from other people though, at least)
Just did a post about my two new cats over on Dreamwidth! https://momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org/471184.html
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My only #NewYearResolution will be 'use your stickers', as it has been every year for a long time.
It's not just sticker-specific, but a reminder that leaving the sticker on the sheet does nothing. Choosing something to stick it on means it will bring you joy. Might that joy be impermanent? Yes, but everything has the potential to be impermanent, and what joy is there in leaving the sticker on the sheet?
Burn that nice candle you bought for the smell. Use that bath bomb. Enjoy that snack treat. #UseYourStickers.
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It is kind of incredible that we, as web users, still don’t have a common solution for triaging, managing, and storing the info in open tabs.
A huge part of the development of the modern personal computer and the web itself was achieved as a way of chasing after the ideal Personal Knowledge Management system. Douglas Engelbart’s vision built on Vannevar Bush’s memex idea, which itself built on the ideas in card catalogues, libraries, commonplace books, and thousands of other systems going back through the centuries.
At the moment, it feels like every single person I talk to has their own homebrew Pinboard workflow, text file format based on a handful of plaintext manifestoes, elaborate Notion setup, or intensively customised Obsidian vault receiving input from twelve other IFTTT integrations.
(I write this while in the act of building an Apple Shortcut to give me the link triaging feature I have wanted since forever.)
Most of the folks I know who aren’t Extremely Online seem to just hope like hell that the browser window they keep their tabs in never closes.
#Obsidian #Notion #bookmarks #Shortcuts #Pinboard #Raindrop #PKM #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #Zettelkasten #Hypertext #memex #ADHD #LibraryScience #WorldWideWeb
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The "Clear" system -- in which airports and the feds make life worse for everyone but those who spend to enrich a monopoly company -- describes so much of America these days.
It's disgusting, but somehow normal. https://slate.com/business/2022/12/clear-airports-line-tsa-precheck.html
