I've been using my TWSBI 580 as my daily driver lately instead of my Pilot Metro, which had been my unthinking default for, like, multiple years. Generally, I love the TWSBI, but I think there might be something wrong with the section, because I'm always ending up with ink stains on my fingers.
I'll try hitting it with a little silicone grease to see if that helps.
@penfount It’s a TWSBI so check for hairline cracks. Empty it, clean it, put each piece under a bright light. Known issue. I’ve had 2 crack. They are great with replacement parts. #FountainPen
No, @RLR is right, my TWSBI is leaking. That's an editing goof on my part; I went back to add the info about the Metro, and forgot to check the surrounding sentence afterward.
also check that the nib and feed haven't slipped partially out of the section. This happens to me a lot, just one casual drop from the desk to a padded floor will sometimes knock them loose.
As I've been working on rebuilding my blog, I've been surfing through the #IndieWeb more and more, and gosh... y'all, what a delightful community of people the IndieWeb is.
I can't quite express the bubbly joy it gives my soul to see page after page of unique, handcrafted websites, each belonging to a passionate, thoughtful person who believes in something enough to work at it.
I really like Outlandish Games' politics and I'm excited by both their published board games, but as someone who got the first edition of Defenders of the Wild, it really burns that just a few years later, they've crowdfunded a second edition that is not backwards-compatible.
The first edition came out in 2024, and the second edition is coming out in 2026. That is whiplash turnaround from a first edition to a second.
Not the first time, either. Their first game, Bloc by Bloc, was released first in 2016, then got a second edition in 2018, and was reimplemented in its third edition, Bloc by Bloc: Uprising in 2022. I didn't notice the checkered history as clearly then, because the third edition is when I was first able to buy in.
Once is chance, but three times (across two different games) starts to look like a pattern. I am suddenly much cool
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I really like Outlandish Games' politics and I'm excited by both their published board games, but as someone who got the first edition of Defenders of the Wild, it really burns that just a few years later, they've crowdfunded a second edition that is not backwards-compatible.
The first edition came out in 2024, and the second edition is coming out in 2026. That is whiplash turnaround from a first edition to a second.
Not the first time, either. Their first game, Bloc by Bloc, was released first in 2016, then got a second edition in 2018, and was reimplemented in its third edition, Bloc by Bloc: Uprising in 2022. I didn't notice the checkered history as clearly then, because the third edition is when I was first able to buy in.
Once is chance, but three times (across two different games) starts to look like a pattern. I am suddenly much cooler on any future project they might release, because why would I bother buying the first edition if they've shown, repeatedly, that they treat their early retail editions as ongoing playtest opportunities?
I would love to play the more streamlined Defenders—the hefty weight and fiddliness that I've heard about in reviews have discouraged me from bringing it to the table—but I don't have the cash to shell out for a reissue of a game I already bought.
As intended, I've been hacking away at an #11ty personal website all weekend. I don't know if I'll quite have the skeleton done by the time I return home, but I am building a robust understanding of how Eleventy works and manipulates data.
I've got a long weekend of free time starting tomorrow evening, and I think I'm going to challenge myself to build a basic #11ty blog skeleton (HTML, minimal-if-any CSS) for my website before it's over. 🤔
I hadn't at first, but writing some progress notes along the way wouldn't be hard! The hardest part will definitely be remembering to take screenshots. 😆
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
#BoardGames Dilemma: I want to play Arcs (the base game), but I am currently two games into a Blighted Reach campaign and don't know when we'll ever be able to finish Game 3
lord grant me the confidence of this person who is so dedicated to their dream of creating custom card sleeves from scratch for their playgroup that they're brushing off the costs of heavy industrial machinery
Molly Conger's podcast on the alt-right, Weird Little Guys, has been excellent from its very first episode in 2024, but her work this year has been truly next-level. She spent the first three months of the year diving into unexplored corners of Nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin's killing spree to prove that "there are no lone wolves", doing some truly exceptional reporting to reconstruct the killer's social context.
The linked episode is not about Watson, but is instead a deeply poignant audio essay written the week of Renee Good's murder.
In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the...
This NYT recipe for a crispy tofu sandwich is a winner in my book. Plant-based meals that are sloppy and indulgent are rarer than they oughta be, and this scratches that itch.
Ranging from silken and creamy to firm and chewy, tofu comes in many forms and is prized around the world for its versatility. In this recipe, which is adapted from the “Superiority Burger Cookbook” (W.
Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption.
Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special treatment in April, citing environmental and ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs. She also said she consulted an employment lawyer and her local chapter's minister to help make her case.
Love seeing Unitarian Universalists pushing back against anti-human, environmentally destructive forces!
I wish our justice system would recognize that deeply held convictions need not be religious in nature; and also, if anyone is going to meet that challenge by stretching the definition of "religious", it's the UUs.
On the one hand, I appreciate the neighbors-looking-out-for-neighbors aspect of a woman who, upon seeing me pick up a Buy Nothing gift from a neighbor's porch, opened her window to ask, "Is that yours?"
On the other, it is rather annoying that something as simple and neighborly as picking up a gift from a couple doors down is regarded with suspicion.
Just exited Pentacle Theatre's "The Lost Virginity Tour" in #SalemOR.
This was the worst show I've seen at Pentacle, and just barely avoids being the worst show I've seen in Salem. (That honor belongs to APE by Dano Madden, a convoluted Guy-In-Your-MFA ego trip of a play in which the obvious playwright-insert character, who is a playwright, receives a heartfelt apology from his wife after she has a miscarriage.)
I'd be hard-pressed to decide what my least favorite artistic choice in this production was. The obviously AI-generated backdrops that featured photos of different actors playing the cast is a definite contender, but then, this is a supposedly comedic script where the author apparently believes the audience won't notice a joke unless it is immediately followed by a character pointing it out. It's a crowded field.
The nicest thing I can say about the script is that it had potential, the same way a lump of coal has the potential to become a diamond, and involving approximately as much additional time and energy.
So, the premise of the script is that four friends living in a retirement community—brash and saucy Viola, Southern belle Kitty, mild-mannered Elaine, and Rita, who the author forgot to even give an archetype—decide to put the bake sales and golf carts behind them and go on a friends' road trip, visiting the sites where each of them respectively lost their virginities. They learn more about each other, and, you'll never believe it, about themselves as well.
I don't hate this premise. It's a relatively contemporary script—I think it was first performed in 2018 or 2019—and the setting is contemporary as well. Following a group of four women in the latter halves of their lives as they reflect upon their earliest sexual experiences could actually be an interesting vehicle to explore how we change not only as individuals, but how a culture can change over the decades as well. And of course, sex is a subject that's always rife with meaning, from matters of love, intimacy, and vulnerability, to bodily autonomy and the right to pleasure, to the political power of women in a sexist society, and far more beyond.
Like the Star Wars prequel trilogy, I can see glimpses of a powerful, compelling piece of art with thought-provoking themes... but what was actually produced bears scant resemblance to that fantasy.
Instead, as written, "The Lost Virginity Tour" is as clumsy as a first time, and not nearly as endearing. I mentioned the jokes were accompanied by all but the characters pausing and asking, "GET IT?"; but the script was equally uncomfortable with entrusting its audience to suss out themes on their own.
In the fifth scene (the play starts with a baking club meeting at the retirement community, then jumps into a series of four road trip stops, one for each woman), the playwright twice repeats what I guess is the "moral" of the story, that all the women wish they'd waited until marriage like Rita did. Twice! And with all the subtlety of a Saturday-morning PSA about recycling inserted between cartoons.
The script strives for heavy drama at times but does none of the work to earn it. It wants us to care about this friend group, but the characters are so busy quipping at each other that there's no room for true personalities to emerge. We're shown the women's histories through their virginity tours, where they each recollect their first time, but the script is hardly writte
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Instead, as written, "The Lost Virginity Tour" is as clumsy as a first time, and not nearly as endearing. I mentioned the jokes were accompanied by all but the characters pausing and asking, "GET IT?"; but the script was equally uncomfortable with entrusting its audience to suss out themes on their own.
In the fifth scene (the play starts with a baking club meeting at the retirement community, then jumps into a series of four road trip stops, one for each woman), the playwright twice repeats what I guess is the "moral" of the story, that all the women wish they'd waited until marriage like Rita did. Twice! And with all the subtlety of a Saturday-morning PSA about recycling inserted between cartoons.
The script strives for heavy drama at times but does none of the work to earn it. It wants us to care about this friend group, but the characters are so busy quipping at each other that there's no room for true personalities to emerge. We're shown the women's histories through their virginity tours, where they each recollect their first time, but the script is hardly written in a way that allows us to see them in a new light, illuminated by the past. The characterization is so thin, and the monologues so unrooted, that they have all the emotional relevance of a Wikipedia plot summary. And once they have the heartfelt moment to cap off the experience, the women exit for the next stop on the tour, and by the time that scene begins, they've completely forgotten about whatever realization they just had, at least as far as their behavior and motivations are concerned.
fictional racism, fictional abusive parent dynamics, fictional sexual assault
In the first act, after learning that Kitty's high-class, white parents blackmailed her into breaking up with her first love because he was Mexican, the four women rescue Kitty from her guilt by surrounding her and forcing her to chant, "I forgive Kitty!" with them.
In the second act, Viola's lifelong trauma over having been raped is also made better with a group hug.
The script at least has the good sense to not make these feel-good "come to Jesus" moments perfect in their outcomes—Viola continues to express heartbreak and self-blame—but they are the emotional climaxes of their respective scenes. They are presented dramatically as the resolutions to the women's anguish, guilt, and torment.
The script wants us to believe that the power of friendship can truly heal any wound, but it happens so quickly, relies on relationships that are told to us rather than embodied, and the characters revert so quickly to exactly who they were at the top of the script (usually as soon as the next scene begins) that nothing feels real. It all feels like h
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In the first act, after learning that Kitty's high-class, white parents blackmailed her into breaking up with her first love because he was Mexican, the four women rescue Kitty from her guilt by surrounding her and forcing her to chant, "I forgive Kitty!" with them.
In the second act, Viola's lifelong trauma over having been raped is also made better with a group hug.
The script at least has the good sense to not make these feel-good "come to Jesus" moments perfect in their outcomes—Viola continues to express heartbreak and self-blame—but they are the emotional climaxes of their respective scenes. They are presented dramatically as the resolutions to the women's anguish, guilt, and torment.
The script wants us to believe that the power of friendship can truly heal any wound, but it happens so quickly, relies on relationships that are told to us rather than embodied, and the characters revert so quickly to exactly who they were at the top of the script (usually as soon as the next scene begins) that nothing feels real. It all feels like hollow, artificial drama.
And not only do the characters not change, except to say, "I love you girls" and decide they're absolute BFFs, the script won't even properly name their conflicts after their big dramatic moments.
In Act 2, Kitty's monologue, she confesses that she broke up with her first love, a Mexican boy named Mario, under coercive pressure from her wealthy white parents. In Act 5, while the script has her trying to deliver some sort of moral, Nina describes this as "class warfare".
And in Act 4, Viola dramatically admits she was raped (downstage center, with a spotlight on her), but Nina's summary in Act 5 won't use that word, instead saying she was "sexually assaulted". Yes, that's accurate, but taken with the rest of the script, it doesn't merely feel like a different word choice, it feels like another example of this script's unwillingness to hold our gaze. Viola used the word "rape" for the bombshell dramatic moment in Act 4, but by Act 5, they've already hugged about it and moved on to Elaine's story—using the word again would highlight how nothing had actually been res
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And not only do the characters not change, except to say, "I love you girls" and decide they're absolute BFFs, the script won't even properly name their conflicts after their big dramatic moments.
In Act 2, Kitty's monologue, she confesses that she broke up with her first love, a Mexican boy named Mario, under coercive pressure from her wealthy white parents. In Act 5, while the script has her trying to deliver some sort of moral, Nina describes this as "class warfare".
And in Act 4, Viola dramatically admits she was raped (downstage center, with a spotlight on her), but Nina's summary in Act 5 won't use that word, instead saying she was "sexually assaulted". Yes, that's accurate, but taken with the rest of the script, it doesn't merely feel like a different word choice, it feels like another example of this script's unwillingness to hold our gaze. Viola used the word "rape" for the bombshell dramatic moment in Act 4, but by Act 5, they've already hugged about it and moved on to Elaine's story—using the word again would highlight how nothing had actually been resolved!
It is certainly A Choice to, in the Year of Our Lord 2018, write a monologue delivered by a white woman in a cast of four white women about how her parents' racism hurt her, and not only give her a touching group healing beat but also refuse to ever feature or further explore Mario's story.
The road trip framing device is apt. These women are tourists to their own lives. They drop into an unfamiliar (to three of them) location, hear a story, and drink wine. Whatever the history, it only matters insomuch as it matters to them, and it will stop mattering by the time they get back to the interstate. Will Kitty try to make amends with Mario? Will Viola seek out her daughter Lori, who she gave up for adoption? Will Elaine look for her true love, Carl—especially when she learns he's still waiting for her?
The answer to all of these questions is "no", because "Lost Virginity Tour" is devoid of life outside of the four cast members. This is particularly apparent in Pentacle's production, where the only other humanoid figures are the AI-generated imag
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It is certainly A Choice to, in the Year of Our Lord 2018, write a monologue delivered by a white woman in a cast of four white women about how her parents' racism hurt her, and not only give her a touching group healing beat but also refuse to ever feature or further explore Mario's story.
The road trip framing device is apt. These women are tourists to their own lives. They drop into an unfamiliar (to three of them) location, hear a story, and drink wine. Whatever the history, it only matters insomuch as it matters to them, and it will stop mattering by the time they get back to the interstate. Will Kitty try to make amends with Mario? Will Viola seek out her daughter Lori, who she gave up for adoption? Will Elaine look for her true love, Carl—especially when she learns he's still waiting for her?
The answer to all of these questions is "no", because "Lost Virginity Tour" is devoid of life outside of the four cast members. This is particularly apparent in Pentacle's production, where the only other humanoid figures are the AI-generated image of a friendly mechanic that flashes onto the backdrop for 15 seconds during a scene change, and the students in the AI-generated college campus backdrop, two of which were inexplicably Facebook Bitmojis. "Lost Virginity Tour" is written with a lonely solipsism masquerading as white female empowerment: no one exists except the Bake Club women, who, without fail, meet every opportunity to reach out to other humans with excuses and withdrawal.
Again, I'm struck with the thought that this could make for excellent storytelling! All it would take would be an author who is willing to be slightly critical of the suburban wine mom fantasy. Because there is something to be said about how the women's sorority gives them a feeling of empowerment and belonging even while they are actively making choices to retreat from the uncomfortable business of living in community.
But that's not what "Lost Virginity Tour" does. It has nary a whiff of critical awareness. There are no consequences. And as a result, it reads as an earnest celebration of these characters' selfishness. As far as the script is concerned, every choice they make is the right one.
Moving beyond that, the script cannot contain its contradictions.
In essence, it is four monologues. Naturally, each monologue wants to feel a little different, so the show has a tonal range and doesn't feel repetitive. But it is being presented as a whole play, and that brings some expectations, like a plot, or character development. This would require more connective tissue, though, and the script doesn't give us that. We never see the women at a diner between stops, or crammed in the car together bickering over what to put on the radio. Hell, the script doesn't even allude to things happening between scenes! The most we get is the opening scene at the retirement community, but since nothing more is given as the play progresses, instead of characters, we get walking backstories.
Without the connective tissue of plot or character, the disparate monologues pull in their own directions and fragment the script. We go from Rita's raunchy, raucous recounting of a first time featuring a fire alarm to intermission, and when we come back, it's Viola's admission
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Moving beyond that, the script cannot contain its contradictions.
In essence, it is four monologues. Naturally, each monologue wants to feel a little different, so the show has a tonal range and doesn't feel repetitive. But it is being presented as a whole play, and that brings some expectations, like a plot, or character development. This would require more connective tissue, though, and the script doesn't give us that. We never see the women at a diner between stops, or crammed in the car together bickering over what to put on the radio. Hell, the script doesn't even allude to things happening between scenes! The most we get is the opening scene at the retirement community, but since nothing more is given as the play progresses, instead of characters, we get walking backstories.
Without the connective tissue of plot or character, the disparate monologues pull in their own directions and fragment the script. We go from Rita's raunchy, raucous recounting of a first time featuring a fire alarm to intermission, and when we come back, it's Viola's admission to being raped. It's a tonal mess.
I was trying to remember just what y'all did over there anyway, and couldn't decide if it would be gauche at this stage to ask. 😅
I've got a small crew of folks who care about doing computer and want to figure out how to join forces and do computer together for the betterment of all, so, yeah, I think I owe you and Hack Salem a visit.
next meeting should be the 17th. Would you maybe be interested in doing a little presentation on what you’re trying to manifest? Happy to meet up in advance and discuss and help you refine …
Ah shoot, I have a work thing that directly conflicts, and I've gotta prioritize the day job. But yes, I'd love to swing by soon, and in the interim, maybe you and I could grab a beer or two and chat?
Where regular human beings would say annoying things like “that’s not possible within that timeline” or “we don’t have the resources to do it,” AI will say “of course, right away!” and burn as many tokens as possible. When it makes mistakes, it’ll apologize — as it should because it failed you — but then promise to do better next time, all while costing so much less, at least in theory, than a regular, stinky human being.
It’ll create a PRD (product requirements document) of a theoretical software project with the confidence and vigor that you need to take it immediately to a software engineer and say “build this immediately,” and when the software engineer tells you a bunch of bullshit about it not being possible, it’ll spit out several convincing-sounding responses. Fuck, why even bother talking to that engineer at all? Claude Code can mock up a prototype that you can then shove in their fucking face before you fire them for not using AI to do it themselves.
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Where regular human beings would say annoying things like “that’s not possible within that timeline” or “we don’t have the resources to do it,” AI will say “of course, right away!” and burn as many tokens as possible. When it makes mistakes, it’ll apologize — as it should because it failed you — but then promise to do better next time, all while costing so much less, at least in theory, than a regular, stinky human being.
It’ll create a PRD (product requirements document) of a theoretical software project with the confidence and vigor that you need to take it immediately to a software engineer and say “build this immediately,” and when the software engineer tells you a bunch of bullshit about it not being possible, it’ll spit out several convincing-sounding responses. Fuck, why even bother talking to that engineer at all? Claude Code can mock up a prototype that you can then shove in their fucking face before you fire them for not using AI to do it themselves.
Ed Zitron's vitriol (Zitriol? - ed.), while warranted, is distracting when he's reporting on the intricate finances of the AI bubble, but when he's tearing into matters of human relationships like this, it feels much more honed and relevant.
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Someone could write a killer fantasy allegory about how a cabal of mages convinced the populace that magic could only be used in prescribed ways—the mages' ways.
Exciting developments in the #SelfHosting front: I've set up a Pangolin instance on a cheap VPS and am starting to configure it to point to my services! My vision for this server is starting to actually come to fruition.
Of course, with steps forward come new challenges: for some of the services that I access via apps on my phone (Navidrome, Wallabag, etc.), I need to figure out how to properly configure things so that the apps don't bounce off the Pangolin authentication layer. 🤔
Ah, phooey, my attempt at #fermenting pine needle soda doesn't seem to have panned out. After 5 days of primary fermentation, there's no pine flavor, just slightly sweet, slightly fizzy water with a yeasty funk.
Oh gosh darn it, it probably has to do with trying to ferment in a kitchen that gets a lot of daylight. Even if the bottles haven't been in direct sun.
Anyone have good reliable resources for making your own fountain pen ink? Ideally, I'd love to make my own black ink that is acid-free, from widely available plant or organic materials.
@nebulos Making botanical ink is pretty easy, but making it safe for fountain pens is not. Fountain pen ink makers are usually working with refined chemicals and dyes. If you switch to dip pens, there are a lot more possibilities for making ink from stuff in your yard
The Toronto Ink Company was founded in 2014 by designer and artist Jason Logan as a citizen-science experiment to make eco-friendly, urban ink from street-harvested pigments.
@leahbobet @beandreams @nebulos I bought this as a coffee table book and haven't dabbled enough but AFAIK the author basically says they are dip pen inks, no?
@antonio106 @leahbobet @nebulos Yes absolutely. I love Jason Logan's whole approach to ink making as an artistic practice of its own, but he is not making ink for fountain pens
@beandreams @antonio106 @nebulos Like I said, folks, "yes/and". Yes it is difficult to make ink safe for fountain pens and it is more possible to make ink for dip pens, *and* if you want a good guide to the basic practice/principles in general or to play with that second thing I liked this one.
Curious, for those who have successfully started a #hackerspace, #repaircafe, #techcoop, or some other collaborative community space dedicated to technology:
What sorts of local partnerships did you look for when organizing?
I'm interested in building this kind of space, and I'm trying to brainstorm what local groups I might be able to join forces with. A local ham radio club, a mutual aid network, and a punk space are on my list. If you have other inventive ideas, I'm all ears!
We started with one guy making a Facebook / Twitter post back in 2012 asking if anyone was interested in starting a Hackspace. First meeting was 4 or 5 folks in a pub, soon we started weekly Monday evening Hackspace get-togethers in a room rented from another community group. They allowed us to store some equipment in a side room including our first big purchase, a laser cutter. Slowly we got more members and a core group of organisers and "doers". We got help from the local council and councillors. Through the council we were able to get a list of unoccupied / unused (semi derelict) buildings in their property portfolio. One was a disused public toilet. It took us nearly 3 years of negotiation and admin (we had to set up a company to lease the building from the council) to finally get the keys to the building. We gutted the building, refitted it ourselves and formally opened in 2019. 5 years after we first approached the council. The key was the core group of people who DID stuff.
We considered working with some of those but none was really physically close enough or big enough when we started a Repair Café ~3Y ago, but our RC is part of an umbrella organisation that I currently run. We have been asked to start another branch and I suspect we would start another project the same way.
I was part of a team that started a MakerSpace at a community college. Fully grant funded for the first two years, but piecemeal after that, it was closed after 7 years.
We never were able to manage any corporate sponsorships but the groups we worked most closely with were welders, especially those starting their businesses (they used our equipment to complete their jobs), robot builders especially the 250-lb BattleBots versions, rocketry/aerospace people, cosplay people, game designers, people who sew, theater tech people and bicycle people who tuned and repaired their bikes. The other big population we served until we were no longer allowed to let the general community participate, was retired people who have knowledge and skills but no longer have a workshop. Bonus for that, they were great mentors!
Background, full wood and metal shop including plasma cutter and CNC router, plus the “21st century tools” 3D printers, laser cutter/engraver, vinyl cutter, button makers, sewing, embroidery and serger. Lots of 8’x6’ high tables for any use, plus
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I was part of a team that started a MakerSpace at a community college. Fully grant funded for the first two years, but piecemeal after that, it was closed after 7 years.
We never were able to manage any corporate sponsorships but the groups we worked most closely with were welders, especially those starting their businesses (they used our equipment to complete their jobs), robot builders especially the 250-lb BattleBots versions, rocketry/aerospace people, cosplay people, game designers, people who sew, theater tech people and bicycle people who tuned and repaired their bikes. The other big population we served until we were no longer allowed to let the general community participate, was retired people who have knowledge and skills but no longer have a workshop. Bonus for that, they were great mentors!
Background, full wood and metal shop including plasma cutter and CNC router, plus the “21st century tools” 3D printers, laser cutter/engraver, vinyl cutter, button makers, sewing, embroidery and serger. Lots of 8’x6’ high tables for any use, plus outdoor spaces. Lots of free materials of all sorts.
Happy to answer questions. Look us up (even though inactive) on IG @mountiemakerspace or on FB same. Yes, yes, bad platforms but that’s where we were in 2017 so stayed.
Hi there, Martin! I'd love your notes; I'm currently very early in the ideating stages—this is barely more than a pipe dream—so I don't quite feel committed enough to trouble you for a chat.
Does anyone have a #selfhosted service they find useful for, like, coordinating neighborhood groups?
My wife and I host a neighborly potluck every few weeks, and I'd love to have a way to keep in touch with our neighbors, coordinate events, and chat in a space that's not a bunch of different group texts. I'm watching @Bonfire's work on federated groups closely, and suspect their "Community" flavor may be precisely what I'm looking for when it's ready, but I'm also curious if there are other offerings in this space.
Software that aids community-based organizations in redistributing resources. Rootable manages schedules, deliveries, donations, volunteers, and data for volunteer shifts.
I'm looking for the same kind of services. Thanks for pointing to @Bonfire as I was not aware of that.
In my case, I'm actually less interested in self-hosting (although I certainly could). I'm really looking for a hosted service that could provide the kind of services you mention.
And I'd be fine to even pay some basic amount. (I would pay for a server to self-host anyway.) My issue is that services where I could do this before have started charging a LOT or drowning things in ads.
Has anyone in western #Oregon (the Willamette Valley, #SalemOR, #EugeneOregon, or similar) successfully built and used a solar food dehydrator? I'm considering it, but all the guides I read caution that for effective dehydration, you want pretty hot ambient air temperatures. Our summers are definitely not as mild as they were when I was a kid, but I'm curious to hear if our climate is amenable to solar dehydration or if it's a doomed endeavor.
lunch today: sloppy chorizo-potato tacos. cheddar griddled onto corn tortillas, a spread of chipotle mayo, the soyrizo-potato blend, red onions, more cheddar, cilantro.
There was a website that held a library of common elements of modern UI/web app design, assessed for their attentional harm or addictive qualities. I don't remember if it had these exact items, but you would find things like "infinite scroll" and "notification badges" on there, along with research and recommended best practices.
The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
Thanks, Dan! It wasn't this, I don't think—I recall it targeting one step below dark patterns, if that makes any sense. Design patterns that aren't necessarily deceptive, but nevertheless can have attentional harms.
But this is a good resource for similar reasons, so thanks for sharing it.
It has long been common practice in software design to use libraries of recurring solutions to solve common problems in software design. Such solutions are also called design patterns.
I learned last night that you can make I Can't Believe It's Not Umeboshi from apricots, and this is going on my projects list for this year next to starting a nukadoko bed.
1. Walking around Queen Anne and listening to the birds singing. I stopped a couple times just to watch a nearby songbird, including one tiny friend who had made a nest out of moss in a tree. I would have walked right past.
2. Listening, on the radio, to the #Mariners taking Houston to town as we drove back down the I-5 corridor.
3. Friends who graciously took our request for help and made us dinner so that when we arrived back home, we didn't have to strain to fit cooking in the evening's schedule.
Spencer
in reply to Spencer • •Someone posted The Odin Project in the 32-Bit Café forums not too long ago, and they do have a JavaScript track. Maybe that's my task.
(Ugh, says my brain, but I don't want to get stuck in learning again, I want to make make make!)
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