Conor O'Neill 🐢 @conoro@mastodon.social
▶ Slow Running: http://conoroneill.com , ▶ Tech: http://conoroneill.net , ▶ Product @ nearForm, ▶ 🇮🇪 Irish, ▶ 🇪🇺 European
Microsoft Releases 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
Scrap Aluminum "Skeleton" Guitar | TIG Welding
Today I have learned that there is a 1:1 wordstar clone called wordtsar, that's actively developed.
https://wordtsar.ca
#TIL
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Open source sustainability
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/
Scenes from Ice. Fire. Grit. | The 2017 Western States 100
Utterly brilliant idea.
As I've said before, if you suffer from "lifestyle" illnesses, your first prescription should be for a step-counter and a nice cushioned pair of runners.
Welcome to Brumbria: should the West Midlands become a national park?
Britain's National Parks review launched.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-parks-review-launched
An Animated Guide to Nature’s Best Wayfinding Secrets
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wayfinding-tips-tristan-gooley-animation
Myrtle Allen, Who Elevated Irish Cooking, Dies at 94
The Irish ‘Fool’s Chair’
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2018/06/19/the-irish-fools-chair/
Sunsetting React Native at AirBnB
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-native-1868ba28e30a
I think this is the first time #PeerTube is being used by a major organization? Blender just made its own PeerTube server because YouTube blocked its videos worldwide. https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009077941676986368?s=19
YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
When MIDI Was New, Part One
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/06/15/when-midi-was-new-part-one/
Pebble gets a second chance with Rebble, create an account now
https://androidcommunity.com/pebble-gets-a-second-chance-with-rebble-create-an-account-now-20180617/
My favourite thing on planet earth right now.
"First Test Drive in the 70MPH Barbie Car"
"Keeping Node.js Fast: Tools, Techniques, And Tips For Making High-Performance Node.js Servers"
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/06/nodejs-tools-techniques-performance-servers/
Starting to suspect I just need to leave the "social internet" completely.
The same assholes, of every hue, are everywhere, justifying why their particular brand of assholery is justified.
Meanwhile the vast majority of reasonable people are cowed into silence online by these mobs.
