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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
atsuzaki@types.pl wrote:

eating cherries right now (you should too #stonefruitsummer), and i want to take a moment to share that Bing cherries, the most popular variety today, is named after Ah Bing, the Manchu Chinese American foreman who helped cultivate it.

for 35 years he worked at the orchard in Milwaukie, OR. he left and was never able to return due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bing-cherry

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

A weekend with the family.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/14/recovery-time/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹") wrote:

@NfNitLoop
I really like pimutils with vdirsyncer and ikhal. I can manage my contacts and my calendar and store data on a caldav/carddav server.

aerc, my tui email client, can access my synced contacts, too.

https://pimutils.org/
https://aerc-mail.org/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NoFood4u@wetdry.world wrote:

Torrent client but you can chat with your peers

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

extra virgin

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

Do not be confused, because Apple sure isn't.

Cupertino knows the web is both *massively* profitable for them today (~$19-20BN/yr free and clear, or a 90-95% profit margin by my estimates) and also a threat to the App Store, which is why they're doing everything possible to stall, delay, and deflect attention from their responsibilities to fairness under the law.

@owa has an update on the latest shenanigans here:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

this whole conflict wherein multinational corporations demand unpaid labor from hobbyists is only happening because the free software movement has built stuff that capital is not capable of building for itself

just so we're clear

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
HighlandLawyer wrote:

@Unixbigot @futzle
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Tried to draw Bruno Bucciarati from Joji‘s Bizarre Adventures in the style of the anime/manga. 😁

Yes, I‘m currently watching Golden Wind. ✌️Bruno is best mom.

#MastoArt #sketch #sketchbook #JojosBizarreAdventures #BrunoBucciarati #portrait #doodle #fanart #anime #manga

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@adele any particular favorite CLI/TUI tools recently?

I recently discovered helix editor and have been enjoying that. (And already miss a lot of its keyboard navigation when I’m back in other editors.)

And I started using jj-vcs as a better git client.

When I write scripts for myself these days, I use Deno because you can easily include dependencies in a single file. I recommend https://jsr.io/@david/dax for easy shell scripting and prompting.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@adele my last Android phone, and last phone with a physical keyboard, was the G1 developer phone. I’d flip out the keyboard and ssh into my IRC client on the way to/from work. But latency was awful for anything interactive like text editing.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

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

Had missed this.

Very few technologies whose graves I'd go out of my way to piss on, but Android Instant Apps and AMP deserve a similar place in hell, as much (or more) for the way their teams operated as the tech they shipped:

https://www.theverge.com/news/686573/google-android-instant-apps-shutdown

via @grigs

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
JacquesC2@types.pl ("Jacques Carette") wrote:

It is weird to see the continuing fallacy in the software world that 'source code' is the most valuable asset, by far.

The most valuable asset is the knowledge, design decisions, rationale and intent encoded therein. Just because we don't have good languages to encode that does not change the value proposition.

That misplaced value equation is also at the root of the LLM-for-SE hype.

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

This post by @nolan gnaws at me every time I think about our lack of session-depth-weighting in most aspects of web development. The caveats around first-runs and JITs are only the tip of the iceberg: I see many apps with shocking amounts of JC at bad times, and almost no web benchmark runs enough code to this this.

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/13/the-greatness-and-limitations-of-the-js-framework-benchmark/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sjwallin@rankett.net ("Sarah Wallin Huff") wrote:

"Sweet Camila" by Sarah Wallin Huff - Live Debut

https://rankett.net/w/7iyuaKKmetqUHk6chAEnm3

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robn@social.lol ("Rob 💚") wrote:

My recent post about an #OpenZFS bug generated some really interesting conversation. I've tried to summarise and respond to some of it. Phew!

https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-07-13-an-openzfs-bug-and-the-humans-that-made-it-comments/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I released my tool for serving #gemini text over http.

https://jsr.io/@nfnitloop/gemi

It’s very simple. But that’s partly the point.

#smallweb #projectgemini #geminiproject #geminiprotocol #gemtext

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Season 2 gifs!?

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
phillmv@hachyderm.io wrote:

@too_little_caffeine @slightlyoff rss didn’t die it was killed

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

Convinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and added on-click "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.

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

memories

https://music.apple.com/us/album/old-man-live/218213938?i=218213946

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

Helpless (Live at Massey Hall 1971) by Neil Young

https://pandora.app.link/Ds5NqzSXYUb

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

ahhh

Clay Pigeons by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/lK6FlWCXYUb

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.

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

The Lucky One by Alison Krauss & Union Station

https://pandora.app.link/eAGYjnHWYUb

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

That's The Way The World Goes Round by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/w3k9A1oWYUb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Just Tom...") wrote:

Leakey's second hand bookshop in Inverness. The largest second hand bookshop in Scotland.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hiscursedness@mastodon.art ("Nick!") wrote:

Reminder that pressing CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+WIN+L is real and it CAN hurt you.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

Not to be flippant but evolution did see to it that we're really good at getting food off of trees & bushes. We have a rather meaningful several-million-year head start over the robots here.