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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

"Listen. We don't really talk about immigration. Or when we do it's one of two things: hate (no good) or platitudes about oh how they came to the rocky shore. Whatever. I'm not going to do either I want to talk about two things: good jobs and good neighborhoods.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

Great chat with Caitlin of Ms. Caitlin's School of Blacksmithing, mostly about learning and teaching, then learning by teaching! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/making-problems/episodes/Ms--Caitlins-School-of-Blacksmithing-e35l9dh

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grigs@front-end.social ("Jason Grigsby") wrote:

Follow up question about iOS App Clips. Do you have any installed on your phone right now? They are listed at the bottom of your App Library and have dotted lines around the icon.

https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-find-and-remove-app-clips-from-your-iphone-on-ios-15/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I keep thinking about my conclusions in the above post: If you want a nice #smallweb experience, the client (browser) is what can help guarantee that.

Are there open-source GUI browsers that are minimalist these days? Think, `lynx` but with nicer rendering.

Preferably, by default: rejects cookies, javascript, and automatic loading of inline resources.

Something opinionated enough to be OK with "breaking" web sites that rely on JS/tracking/bloat to function.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Cliftographer@mindly.social ("Teach Honest History") wrote:

Here's that same green #heron that I posted earlier, but here it's untucked and putting the brakes on for a landing. You can see more of the body shape and range of colors in this pose. Reston, Virginia, USA 17-July-2025. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography

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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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

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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:

Boosted by jwz:
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