Okay #fediverse, hit me with your static-site-comments solutions!
I've been using Disqus on one site and direction to tweet me on another, and neither option sits well with me anymore.
Besides directing all my readers to #Mastodon (and why wouldn't I?!), whatcha got?
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fediverse book club when?
not the directly political kind but, like, the let's-all-expand-eachothers-horizons kind
“Apple's number is finally up - and why we've gone our separate ways while I continue to use macOS”
https://hackernoon.com/apples-number-is-finally-up-and-why-we-ve-gone-our-separate-ways-while-i-continue-to-use-macos-5471f1935ff3
hey if this post gets 1000 boosts then i'll be ashamed of a thousand of you
(Or read about the dig at https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/pagina/de-opgravingen-index — it is a serious archaeological study, not just a jumble of objects)
RT @sarahdal@birdsite: They drained a canal in Amsterdam and put everything they found online https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
I wonder how hard it would be to write something like what I describe in this post (even if it's just the flowcharting part at first)?
https://jjg.2soc.net/2018/06/28/a-universal-hierarchical-designer/
this is how particle physics works
RT @paniq@twitter.com: was googling for "worf, son of moog", not disappointed
I met him once, at MiniCon, circa 2008. I wasn’t all that impressed; his schtick seemed gratuitous and cruel. Possibly he was more entertaining back in the seventies.
Harlan Ellison is reported to have died. John Scalzi has an obituary in the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-harlan-ellison-john-scalzi-20180628-story.html
hey u know what is a good thing for accessibility?
get a machine running mac os, turn on the screen reader, do the screen reader tutorial all the way through. now use your app for an hour with only the screen reader - turn off the screen or something
It’s baby bunny season 💛🐰
I wonder how we'd explain the concept of "cute" to aliens...
"aww, isn't he cute!"
"what?"
"over there, he's adorable!"
"human, that's an apex predator that routinely kills and eats mammals far larger than you"
"his box was too smol but he still sits!"
"fucking humans"
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again on social-media and content 'curation', responsibility, accountability Show more
this is a really nice bit of documentation http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_cluster_comparison.html
annoyed with whoever designed the bzip2 file format for making all of its first ten bytes be printable ASCII. that's, like, textbook How Not To Magic Number.