rubah @rubah@mastodon.social

Settle down and watch hours of classic BBC computer shows! https://hackaday.com/2018/06/30/the-bbc-computer-literacy-project-from-the-1980s-is-yours-to-browse/

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1013014381385445376

RT @foxville_art@twitter.com: Since people asked, here are some tips that have helped me to color POC skin, hopefully this helps people out who want to diversify their work!
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Ask for help when you need it. It sounds simple, but trying to handle everything without help causes stress and anxiety for a lot people.

People complain for a reason. Complaining allows people to vent their frustrations to people who understand. It helps you understand yourself and get it all out there. Vocalizing your feelings is healthy.

Shut up, Jacqueline.

If you're ever in doubt about boosting, like "people have already seen this, probably, so there's no reason for me to share." Remember that there's always someone who follows you who doesn't follow the person who posted to begin with.

Someone will almost always benefit from boosting, whether the author or the viewer. Like we learned as children, it's good to share! 😄 🙌

This is the Hubble extreme deep field. With the exception of (from what I can find) 3 foreground stars, every object you see in this picture is a galaxy. Can you find the foreground stars? Know the trick?

we generally don’t use chauffeurs as specialised driving skill providers. we might drive a vehicle that requires manual shifting of gears. we refuel. we refill wiper fluid. we check oil. we look up what warning lights mean in the manual. we might even take care of cooling liquid or change tyres. we also have an idea when we need to take it to the shop.

i feel that when we say ‘we can’t demand to make everyone into a coder,’ we apply a definition instead of thinking about reasonable expertise.

in the discourse on #decentralization of the web, #indieweb, #users vs #corporations, i keep hearing the point that we can’t aim at making everyone into a coder.

i think that subtly misses the point. our current divide between the web-tech-savvy & the users is a result of the web as a business. but with longer-established tasks, like driving cars, we accepted quite a bit of tech-savviness as an expected level of expertise for ‘end users.’ we need to find that for the web.

.@mhall119 is developing an ethical alternative to #MeetUp called #GetTogether.

There's already a flagship site up and running:

https://gettogether.community/

The dev is working on #ActivityPub support and is requesting feedback on what more needs to be done:

https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60

If you're interested in helping federate GetTogether, join the discussion at the link above.

#Alternatives

Last week I was in St Ives in Cornwall and took the chance to do some landscapey things! Lots of attempts to paint the sea because the colours there are fantastic. also featuring some Actual Seaweed and Sand.

#mastoart #pleinair #watercolour

This is what my #Alakajam game looks like as of now, with ~18 hours remaining. I've mostly concentrated on the code and writing, and it is a functional but buggy game about a struggling farmer.

Well, maybe more of an interactive narrative thingy than a game...

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

if you know any afab trans people on the fediverse send them my way because i wanna follow em, I'm sick of not being able to relate to anybody here