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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

playdate@panic.com ("Playdate") wrote:

Heads up! Panic (makers of Playdate) is looking for a Web Services Engineer to maintain and expand our growing flock of Flask + Django web applications, and more.

The job is here in Portland, OR. We can also cover relocation if you're elsewhere in the USA. Panic is a small team with a lot of responsibility on each person, and we work best near each other. (Well, at least two days a week.)

Is this you? Or someone you know? Apply! (Or share!) 🙏 http://panic.com/jobs/

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

(and no, none of those people spend their time in React if they have any say in the matter. The React ecosystem is a high-performer dead zone)

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

Reading up on some interesting memory allocator work this AM, I was struck by how there only seem to be like a couple of dozen[1] people in industry that really understand this stuff. And you see the same thing in UI; only a small cohort actually at the top of the game in really making the system sing. And these people are *always* undervalued.

[1]: this is surely a gross underestimate, but it troubles me that I can't tell by how much

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

Like, reading the deepseek paper, my overwhelming thought is "so wait, the secret sauce was...profiling the workload? Then deciding to program to the available hardware?"

I stare at the results of people carelessly composing UI systems without the faintest concern for how they will work in practice, but somehow imagined that wasn't how it's going in the rest of the industry. Woof.

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

The older I get, the more it seems that the rate at which we mint new programmers has sheered away from the rate at which we inspire people to want to learn about the computers they use.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Tesla’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Report Sharp Drop in Profit - The New York Times

"The company, which is led by Elon Musk, said it made a profit of $2.3 billion during the last three months of 2024. That was a decline compared with $7.9 billion a year earlier, but 2023’s profit included a one-time tax benefit of $5.9 billion." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/business/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Yaasss that is how you do it! 🔥 https://www.comicsands.com/rampell-jennings-musk-salute?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)

i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/

ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!

the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!

having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.

the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.

consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to hello@goodinternetmagazine.com! taking pitches for may 2025!)

#internet #socialmedia #personalwebsites #blogging #blog #print #magazine #writer #technology #tech #coding #programming #html #webdev #webdesign #web #smalltech #css #html #dev #web

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

"Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks."

Here’s the direct link to the guide. It’s a fun read. https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

Reblogged by jwz:

vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

It's the most wonderful time of the year: #ThresholdDay! Did Janeway and Tom Paris fuck when they were giant space newts? We did our very best to answer this burning question https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109774034927735223

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

i'm now hosting https://linkding.link for myself - primarily because the project name is just perfect. (it's german and literally translates to "link-thing")

also, thanks for making me aware of that, @jer (via https://fnordig.de/2025/01/21/my-default-apps-of-early-2025/)

Reblogged by jwz:

xiann@mas.to ("Christiann ✨ sticky comics") wrote:

Taking a break from the #doomscrolling (stickycomics.com) #comic

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• 4 panel comic strip. Woman is mad looking at her phone. "I need a social media detox," she thinks. In the next panel she sees a flyer for Wood Shop and thinks, "Woodworking! Sounds perfect." In the 3rd panel she works a table saw. In the last panel, she looks proudly on what she's built, a guillotine. (remote)

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LukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:

The Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected the appeal of the Mid-Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project, and construction of the curbside bikeways will begin on February 10 👏

Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or gave in-person public comment!

For more, follow @StreetsForward.

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• d096bc57a6957fc7.png (remote)
• ae39791f2fb2e631.png (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

My Feeds (OPML). Enjoy! https://fromjason.notion.site/My-RSS-Feed-fromjason-xyz-18a35fd1db8d801f9622c7a89e386c5b?pvs=73

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

Cool goop found on space rocks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/soup-in-spaaaaace/

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• Asteroid Bennu (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

Slow 👏 to @404mediaco and @jasonkoebler for this headline:

“OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us”

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

ellie@ellieayla.net ("Ellie") wrote:

If the maps near you are kinda bad, don't show useful cat paths or bike racks or awesome local ramen shops, you can fix it.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Or if you want to get you feet wet just fixing the open-hours and name of a cafe, https://every-door.app/

#OpenStreetMap

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Using the new Reeder app. Everything is fine except I can't find where I can export my OPML file? Does it no longer provide that ability or am I just missing it?

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

austinross@social.lol ("Austin :spinning_pinwheel:") wrote:

📱 Why don’t developers test their apps in Zoomed Mode? Are people with poor eyesight just expected to guess what text is between the ellipses that peppers the screen?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

No one wakes up thinking “gee I hope China saves us from US Predatory Capitalism(tm)”

We got here because everything is a scam, grift, trap, monopolized, private equitized, or venture capitalized. And the people we elect to save us can’t agree on anything except protecting their own pockets.

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

raucao@kosmos.social ("Râu Cao ⚡") wrote:

Oops.

https://predictors.fail

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

mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

Today's stupid fun. Sound on, and a few seconds of patience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDgD99c7v28

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal:

"Notably, AI has been used to mislead consumers, to create new forms of disinformation and propaganda, and to discriminate against certain groups of people. Now, the California Attorney General’s office has issued a legal memo emphasizing the fact that all of that stuff is probably illegal."

I’m sure these companies will ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/29/californias-ag-tells-ai-companies.html

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

I don't have an optimistic perspective on our future.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/my-depressing-prophecy/

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• A wasteland (remote)

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:

"OpenAI complaining DeepSeek stole its training data is just poetic."

—@SecurityWriter

Let's call it, "In-companies that are protected by copyright but not bound by it, alongside out-companies that are bound by copyright but not protected by it."

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

The sheer conciseness of this has stuck with me in the week since I first read it.

"We don't even know how many humans an embryo is at conception, we certainly don't know their gender."

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• A screenshot of a bluesky post by @swilua.bsky.social that states "We don't even know how many humans an embryo is at conception, we certainly don't know their gender", posted on January 21 2025. (remote)

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

margodeweerdt ("Margo De Weerdt") wrote:

I became aware today of the concept of #PortfolioDay

I am Margo, a Belgian freelance artist and designer, living in Strasbourg, France. My work includes lino prints, paintings, and drawings. I work for clients, be that individuals or companies. Commissions can include portraits, posters, images for branding, illustrations, etc. On my website, I also have a webshop, on which I plan to post more work this year.
#artistforhire #commissionsopen

#art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #artist

Attachments:

• An illustration for the calendar I made in 2022. A landscape in lavender, indigo and blue shades. It is the countryside in winter. There is a field on the left with trees on its side, there is a with on a branch in one of them. On the right is a forest, with a wolf lurking behind a tree. There is a city with twinkling lights on the horizon. In the middle is a diagonal road, going from the top right to the bottom left corner. On it, in the middle of the illustration, is a cycling woman. Her front light is a yellow beam of light to the left and her tail light a red one.
• An illustration for a poster for Tourism Flanders. The image in dominated by a large linden tree. In which are several scenes, depicting different areas of culture of Flanders. For example: Rubens is painting on a swing, there is a bar at the top and the bottom of the tree, there is a presentation, Bruegel the Elder is painting and WOI soldiers sitting on a branch. In the area around the tree are cyclists, campers and the background shows the landscape of Flanders with several cities.
• An illustration for the Small Technology Foundation for the launch of their app Catts. It shows a city landscape, a mix of fantasy elements and a European city with old buildings and parks. In the foreground is a detail of a roof, on which three cats are sitting and walking: A big pink cat, a small blue kitten and a big green cat.
• An illustration for my calendar of 2021. It is the month of July, depicting a witch in a wooden bathtub outside. She is wearing a big, pointy hat with a red-orange pattern on it, plus there are sunflowers on it. She has wild, blue curly hair. Next to her is a little table with a cocktail on it, containing a purple tentacle.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Actor John Cleese, an avid poster on Twitter/X with 5.4 million followers, says he’s quitting the Elon Musk platform for Substack. https://deadline.com/2025/01/john-cleese-leaving-x-twitter-better-class-of-person-on-substack-1236271391/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Sorry but OpenAI complaining another AI was trained on it is just absolutely hilarious.

Oh no, the AI that pirates the entire web had its homework copied.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:

#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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• Liliʻuokalani in London in 1888 where she was an official envoy of the Hawaiian king at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. She is a Hawaiian woman with dark hair, wearing a fashionably ornate day dress. (remote)