Rob Campbell 🐙 @robcee@mastodon.social

Alright.

Let me present to you, the new documentation website:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

I ported the API docs over (and improved them), the administration section is more cohesive, the design is responsive now

‘WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

At the end of the day, I sold my company,” Acton says. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.”

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook/2407

Did you know you can use the 2x lens to shoot panoramas on iPhones with two lenses?

y'all, please send virtual hugs to the Brazilian people tonight, who lost their entire national museum in a catastrophic fire. thousands of artifacts that date back thousands of years were lost, as well invaluable artworks from many cultures. this is a terrible loss for humanity.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/20-million-historical-artifacts-destroyed-in-brazil-national-museum-fire/

as an anthropologist, artist and a lover of brazilian culture, and as someone who studied tupi, this loss is staggering and tremendous.

Following up on yesterday's toot about algorithmic color palette generation:

If you're into #golang I've written a little package called "gamut" that does color palette generation and much more:

https://fribbledom.com/posts/gamut-package-to-handle-color-palettes/
https://github.com/muesli/gamut

Contributions welcome!

Just a reminder for anyone looking for a new instance: registration is currently open on https://humanities.one, an instance for Mastodon users interested in #anthropology, #archaeology, the #arts, #ethnicstudies, #genderstudies, #history, #linguistics, #literature, #philosophy, #politicalscience, #religion, etc. Professionals, academics, students and amateurs all welcome.

So this is going on right now in my neighborhood for Aretha Franklin

This blog post is a really good summary of various CLI utilities that are (arguably) a step up from #linux builtins. There are several in there that I use, along with several that I decided that were overcomplicated, and a couple I hadn't heard of and want to look into. https://remysharp.com/2018/08/23/cli-improved

(Via @angristan)