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2023 March
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TIL Firefox has a "resist fingerprinting" flag, but when I enable it websites no longer know I prefer dark mode!
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Always nice when two of my interests collide - in this case, software dev and #mtg
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I’m wondering if I should become more like everyone else. Should I post “5 Tips to improve your workflow right now!” articles on Medium? Should I be “super excited” to humblebrag about myself on LinkedIn? Should I fire up my Instagram account and splash gaudy “stories” all over it throughout the day? Should I buy some neon background lights and work on an unnecessary 90-second musical intro to my upstart YouTube channel?
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I really enjoyed Interstellar, and also this very late review of Interstellar
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The most interesting parts of this for me were the links to discussions about reverting to the old design. For me the new design is an unqualified win, especially the sidebar TOC!
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🔗 BASES LOADED by kindanice via web
This is the sort of small yet innovative and easy-to-implement game I wish I had the creativity to think of when doing game jams
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Willing speakers should reach willing listeners
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🔗 Pluralistic: Solving the Moderator’s Trilemma with Federation (04 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow via web
Rozenshtein proposes a solution (of sorts) to the Moderator's Trilemma: federation. De-siloing social media, breaking it out of centralized walled gardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of content moderation approaches. The Fediverse, in other words.
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So many new features in this release! Given that I've only ever used Godot for Game Jams, I feel like there's still so much more for me to learn
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"The marketplace of attention was supposed to solve this problem; we were told that the good channels would be elevated by the platforms and that people would stop watching the bad channels. But the marketplace of attention cares only about attention." Frankly we should have known this kind of content spam due to engagement incentives was going to be a problem when the whole industry of SEO sprang up
2023 February
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🔗 A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox via web
"A blog post is a search query. You write to find your tribe; you write so they will know what kind of fascinating things they should route to your inbox. If you follow common wisdom, you will cut exactly the things that will help you find these people."
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Now when you look at it like that, it makes you wonder why we give these people such a large stage while the very quiet majority don’t get a voice at all. The very quiet majority are out there building more than 90% of the web, after all.
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Great interview which includes Keanu commenting on our modern tech dystopia
"I was trying to explain the plot of The Matrix to this 15-year-old once, and that the character I played was really fighting for what was real. And this young person was just like, “Who cares if it’s real?” People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art. It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the nonvalue. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?"
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This color-coded periodic table is just a neat reminder that we are all made of star stuff
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When does the magic of a situation fade? When do we get acclimated to the exceptional?
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In 2015, I came out of a long stint at a company that didn't follow these frontend trends and was baffled at all the JS build systems that seemed wildly unnecessary for most simple sites, yet people were treating them as required frontend material