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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
Viss wrote:

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

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

@zachleat Frameworkism is a hell of a drug:

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ RANDOM ACCESS: RNDM-AXS_0717 at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu Jul 17, 9pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-17d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #randomaccess #psybercorpindustries #synthwave #darksynth #bass #industrial #breaks #gothic #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: 738ccf10c14175e4.mp4

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

Whee! Governments are happily building autonomous killer drones, a technology we don't really need.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/scary-tech/

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Did you know that Christo and Jeanne Claude wrapped a Snoopy doghouse for the Charles M. Schulz Museum? Thread!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wpppem622cnjpem3shqzyihb/post/3lu6m6bjm3c26

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

Man, it's *almost* like all the excuses for why it's fine, akshually, to lard up your site with JS because "DX" and unexamined assertions about how the compilers and RSC will save us were just hype recycling:

https://etch.co/blog/we-migrated-our-site-to-eleventy-and-increased-performance-by-24-percent/

/via @zachleat

Boosted by jwz:
rubenbolling ("Ruben Bolling 🪲") wrote:

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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THE HEROIC TECH BILLIONAIRE LEX LUTHOR VS. THE EVIL "WOKE" ALIEN SUPERMAN!
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Brought to you by the super members of the Inner Hive, including long-time member RobbÜry415 and new member Bill Schaffner.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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Read it right here👇

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

2/2

give a note on the design of

https://adele.pages.casa/md/

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

What about the design of my #smolweb site ?

https://adele.pages.casa/md/

poll on the thread

1/2

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

For industrial subjects especially, I usually end up preferring the most straightforward and boring perspective I can find that just lets the subject speak for itself. The masters of this approach were Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose "Basic Forms" work richly repays your attention if you like this kind of stuff. https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Bernd%5Fand%5FHilla%5FBecher/

(They would have undoubtedly gone for an overcast day to capture Big Allis, but I liked the clouds.)

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Known locally as "Big Allis" (after Allis-Chalmers, the manufacturer of the largest of the four generators in the plant), Ravenswood is fired by both natural gas (now the primary fuel) and oil, and also has the capability (rarely used, as far as I know) to burn coal.

Ravenswood has been linked to a spike in asthma and other respiratory disorders among local residents. There is pressure to decommission the generators and replace them with battery banks to store renewable energy from upstate.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This is a composite of two side-by-side images, each captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6), shifted left and right +/- 12mm to produce a 205MP 2:1 aspect ratio final image.

The Ravenswood plant, along the East River in Long Island City/Astoria Queens, was built by Con Ed in stages during the early- and mid- 1960's. When opened, it had capacity for about 20% of the city's electricity demand, as well as producing co-generated steam for the city's steam loop.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Ravenswood Generating Station ("Big Allis"), Queens, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the air pollution, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53732990785/

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
trif@aus.social ("Infocalypse Now") wrote:

This is what I think of every time I see Microsoft Co-Pilot mentioned:

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

found the Nazis. -Hilde & Emmet

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason Ah. I'm in the (low-priority, whenever I feel like it) process of writing a little CLI for doing stuff like that for my little "gemi" tool/site. Probably going to just be a deno script that will use npm:@inquirer/prompts to prompt me for some metadata, lay down skeleton files, and fire up my editor to start writing.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
guigui3000@mastodon.tetaneutral.net ("guigui3000 :unverified:") wrote:

OK, writers! Starting a new writing project. Any alternatives to Scrivener that are FOSS and work on Linux? I also need to be able to add end/footnotes and have them be exported.

Boosts appreciated!

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

@NfNitLoop yeah I love 11ty. Built my blog on it a couple years ago and never looked back.

Mostly I'm just curious about applying a UI onto my process for meta data, images, and the build. Something light that doesn't mess with the static site element. Would be a pet project mostly.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have been many eras in which very prominent web developers have argued “don’t worry about it” in discussions of web performance and time has *never* proven those arguments to have merit, even with continually improving network connections and hardware.

The web is diverse. Let’s keep it that way!

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
considermycat@eldritch.cafe ("Jae") wrote:

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason I only learned of 11ty this week. Looks interesting!

But isn't it all about static site generation? Are you thinking of trying to add a traditional (heavy, browser-based) CMS atop that? Or something that just helps manage the source files (like what Bob linked to)?

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

You didn't really believe you could get anything useful out of the internet, did you? Thanks, Google.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/ai-slop-is-now-in-charge/

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

I was thinking of building a CMS for #11ty. Any recommendations? Point me in a good direction?

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

Clipse is firmly centered in what has been a Black art renaissance, of which I feel lucky to be alive to witness.

#ChainsAndWhips is cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIH-4RbbOk

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

https://eldritch.cafe/@considermycat/114867574582006049

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#RIP Singer Connie Francis, best known for her 1962 hit “Pretty Little Baby” and the 1961 song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” has died at the age of 87, her manager confirmed.

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/401774?load=1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive. #Media https://werd.io/senate-votes-to-strip-1-1-billion-from-public-broadcasting-in-blow-to-pbs-and-npr/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Shameful

Via Kyle Griffin:

At 2:30 a.m., the Senate passed Trump's cancellation of $9 billion in federal funding for PBS, NPR and critical foreign aid programs.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with all Democrats against the bill.

The package now goes back to the House for final passage.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CheRosach@mastodonapp.uk wrote:

It is easier to film than to do something