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A seemingly-obvious feature that I haven’t seen in any instant messenger yet. I want to be able to share a timestamp in a way that can be computer-understood and presented to the user with a …

By: Kathryn ConnellAlways #RadicallyOpen Our mission is to be #RadicallyOpen, we like to share - so our newsletter is a short update and an invitation for you to take a look at our latest data …

I will be part of a panel discussion titled “Folk Around & Find Out IV: Folklore of the Future,” on Sunday (3/24), the final event of this year’s Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival. A panel …

On regulatory capture…1/ There are two reactions a company can have when faced with calls for regulation. One is to appear to capitulate & work w/regulators to find a least disruptive path. Other is to …

Imagine you’ve set up a shiny new crowdsourcing project. How do you let people who might potentially want to volunteer online know about it? Here’s how we did it for one of our final crowdsourcing …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

Why, when I have a perfectly good one available right here? Because change is healthy. It’s nothing dramatic, just a change of scenery and a simpler outlook. You can read more about why on the …

🏳️‍⚧️ Today marks 5 years since I came out as trans on the internet. Time for a little ✨ gender update ✨. 💖 Check the release notes for all the details!

If you were familiar with Dingoonity, you might have noticed by now that I’ve made the decision to shut down the website.

If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve at least heard of A Book Apart (ABA), who published Design for Real Life, which I co-wrote with Sara Wachter-Boettcher back in 2016. What you may not have …

Jhanas – a series of altered mental states that are accessed via concentration – are often described as an “advanced meditation practice,” a phrase that suggests that one must be a skilled meditator to access …

Interference patterns from LED street lighting creates pixelated shadows.

I had a discussion on Randy Kirk’s youtube channel about the stunning implications of Tesla Real World AI, integration with XAI Grok superintelligence and Tesla energy. The world will be massively changing over the next …

The Japanese character ROM and keyboard come to the PET 2001 emulator. Another update to the PET 2001 emulator, spefically, a tribute to Japan and its importance to home computing history in general, and its …

Back in May, I was taking a walk around the neighborhood when I came across an oak tree with dozens of galls hanging from the stem. At first I thought these were seed pods and …

The weekend markets live-ish and direct in my hand A few years ago, I ended up spending 9 months living in South Gippsland, about two hours from Melbourne. We were doing a renovation on our …

After an extended winter hiatus, I resumed development of Teamlight in April and rushed to get it out of the door. I had loose ends to tie up, blank slates to add, billing capability to …

Last updated 1 day, 21 hours ago yes it's wednesday again, maybe i should just purposely aim to always release these mid-week. cut out the paper pattern for my side-tie dungarees finally. now i'm worrying …

Taking a Look at Feeds, a Minimalist RSS Reader 23 July, 2024 While email is my social media, I get a lot of my information via RSS. That includes news, opinion, blog posts, and more. …