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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Watching The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time, and I gotta tell ya, after 30 years of build-up...I have to think this landed differently in 1993 because I'm just really not seeing it.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

Lua Carousel: A lightweight programming environment for desktop and mobile devices

I just published this thing on itch.io.

https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

Source code: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/carousel.love

@exquisitecorp Here you go :)

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• 30-second video of my tool showing a code editor sharing the screen with the programs inside it. I demonstrate a few different programs with 2-3 dozen lines of code each: * A colorful pattern in a circle that moves where you tap, demonstrating interactivity * Pacman animating across the screen eating pellets. I bounce between these programs to demonstrate that they start and pause as I do so. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Mastodon mugs are very comfortable to drink from. I’m really happy with how these turned out. Shout out to @dopatwo for all the official artwork as always! Only 125 left in stock!

https://freshstore.co/collections/mastodon

#Merchtodon

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• The Mastodon winter mug held in a hand in front of winter decorations, like candles and a penguin shaped cookie jar. The mug itself features little elephants playing in the snow and building an elephant shaped snowman.

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

scalzi ("Scalzi") wrote:

This just went live: The John Scalzi Humble Bundle! Get a whole bunch of my books really cheap - and support the literacy charity First Book, which provides books and literary resources to kids in need. A perfect way to stock up on my eBooks. Please feel free to share around!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨") wrote:

Newest Google bullshit: artificially make loading YouTube in browsers other than Chrome slower by 5 seconds https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Erik (📚🧑🏻‍💻👾)") wrote:

Wow! Finally watched „Intelligence is not enough“ by @bcantrill!

Intense delivery? Yes! Great message: Also yes!

Highly recommend it.

https://youtu.be/bQfJi7rjuEk

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

moshboy wrote:

magazine screenshot (1987) https://archive.org/details/beep-magazine-1987-10-600dpi-ozidual/Beep%201987%2010/page/152/mode/2up?view=theater

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• pixelated enemies: a scorpion type creature with a elongated skull head and sharp claws, a boney creature with some armour (huge shoulder spike pads), holding an axe and a jelly like transparent blobby mutant type creature with two eyes down the bottom of itself, no arms or legs.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Look at this silly creature…

#CatsOfMastodon

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• Black cat. His name is Jiji.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I finally wrapped up Higurashi 8 last night. It was cute! Way, way, way, lighter in tone than the entire rest of the series. That's to be expected, I guess, since the premise for this episode was that they were constructing their ideal timeline after learning everything they could from the previous ones.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

A post of appreciation for all the people who plan and cook a #Thanksgiving dinner.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The principles and vision behind this are exactly why we developed Web Components to just *be* HTML. Increasing access, interop, and view-source-ability are precious to those of us who build the platform:

https://html-first.com/

/via @fugueish

Mastodon wrote:

If you want to see the merch in action, or share your own pictures wearing or using it, check out the #Merchtodon hashtag! All of the revenue (excl. shipping and tax) supports #Mastodon development.

Mastodon wrote:

The shipping cost is flat no matter how many items you buy, and if the total is over £70 you get free shipping. If you are ordering from the EU, you don't need to worry about customs, as the store is opted in to IOSS.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mcc wrote:

Reverse GitHub Copilot, it doesn't write any code for you, instead it asks you to explain your code with non-specific questions and through the rubber duck effect this causes you to notice bugs and/or realize yourself how to proceed with coding. On the inside it is literally just Eliza (1964)

Mastodon wrote:

New #Mastodon merch is now live just in time for Black Friday! A new, cozy, winter-themed mug, tote bags, and reprints of enamel pins, t-shirts and stickers—limited stock and 20% off!

https://freshstore.co/collections/mastodon

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• The Mastodon winter mug. On it, you can see little colorful elephants build an elephant-shaped snowman, with snow and fairy lights in the background.
• The Mastodon winter mug, from a different angle. You can see more elephants playing in the snow, and the Mastodon logo on a blurple-colored sky.
• The Mastodon enamel pin, featuring a happy elephant fly on a paper plane, with the Mastodon logo on the side.
• A Mastodon sticker pack, featuring 3 round stickers with elephant adventures, and one Mastodon logo sticker.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW you read an essay about one person's experience with SALAMI (LLM) generators and wonder... "Wait, was this just an absurdly long form ad?" 🤔

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Happy Thanksgiving! Looking for a podcast to listen to while you prep the turkey or clean the dishes? Check out the @oxidecomputer and Friends episode that @ahl and I recorded two years ago in which technologists give thanks for the technologies for which they are grateful:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/talking-turkeys-2021-11-22

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Surprise, some spiders do it face to face.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/23/well-now-i-know-how-spiders-celebrate-thanksgiving/

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• male and female S. borealis, just after completing coitus (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

Symptoms. #comics #cartoon #robots

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• Person: So, what do you think is wrong with me? Robot doctor: Let me enter your symptoms into the system. Oh. Oh, I see. Hmm. Person: What is it? Robot doctor: Well it seems the problem is that you are human. Person: Oh no. Robot doctor: You just kinda wear out over time.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The aliens have landed, and are trying to sell us crap through AliBaba!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/23/i-have-proof-that-the-aliens-are-here/

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• I don't know what this thing is, but it's not human (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Kind of a surprising to my brain to see St. Vincent and The Roots cover Portishead, but wow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pti9Jh1nwRE

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

To all you turkeys: we've declared our house a sanctuary!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/23/not-in-my-home/

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• Turkeys reading a newspaper that says "Ax-murders on rise again" (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." -- Martin Golding

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every time I think "hrm, maybe I shouldn't use Workbox and should instead roll my own", I find another useful bit of the Workbox ecosystem that changes my mind.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

davidallan@mastodonapp.uk ("David Allan") wrote:

Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Western Scottish Highlands and another example of being in the right place at the right time to catch a burst of autumnal sunshine, highlighting the colours of the season. Sometimes, luck is on your side!

#Scotland #highlands #autumn #landscape #photography

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• A tree-covered promontory on Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Western Highlands. The colours of the autumnal season being highlighted by a burst of sunshine. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Because it continues to save my bacon on regular basis, shoutout to @koush's awesome Vysor PWA: https://app.vysor.io/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Because I dug them up for colleagues today, enjoy these indispensable web performance posts (and associated video) by @TheRealNooshu :

https://nooshu.com/blog/2020/12/31/how-to-run-a-webpagetest-test/

https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/10/02/how-to-read-a-wpt-waterfall-chart/

https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/12/30/how-to-read-a-wpt-connection-view-chart/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THmJwZPGAuQ

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner :vm:") wrote:

I didn’t know I needed to watch a dog and a tortoise play as friends, but here we are.

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx-8PLELRq0/

#Animals #Tortoise #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Mastodogs

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• Multiple scenes of a small dog and a larger tortoise interacting with text that reads ‘why their friendship is so special.’ 1: dog carrying toy and bouncing around tortoise with text that reads ‘they’re always happy to see each other.’ 2: dog sharing toy with tortoise with text that reads ‘Skippy brings Tilly his favorite toys.’ 3: tortoise walking up to ledge where dog is standing with text that reads ‘Tilly always looks for Skippy and waits for Skippy and even climbs stairs to reach him’ with tortoise walking up shallow steps to get to dog. 4: dog and tortoise eating watermelon then lying in backs near each other with text that reads ‘they eat together and nap together.’ 5: older clip of puppy bouncing around tortoise with text that reads ‘they’ve been drawn together since the moment they met and love each other despite their differences.’ (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I guess Michael Voris won't be representing the Church Militant anymore.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/22/we-wont-have-michael-voris-to-kick-around-anymore/

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• Michael Voris has a personality problem (remote)