Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

It's Bandcamp Friday again, and another chance to remind you that http://blackbandcamp.info is a listing of black artists and labels on Bandcamp, searchable by genre (if you're looking for something specific) or location (if you're looking to buy local)

Happy 25th birthday, JavaScript!

How I hate you and everything around you, yet how I love all the things you enabled, yet how I hate so many things you enabled.

And yet. You put a @scheme (-ish) into the hands of the people, sneakily hidden behind curly brackets.

Birthday discovered /via mastodon.social/@sl007/1053217… @sl007

Through the High Energy Electro-Beats sampling Pop Music older than I was, I thought I heard a dull thumping.

Music paused, I waited a few moments. With a shrug, I set my headphones back on my ears.

More dull thumping.

I paused again, squinted around the room, until I spotted the new door.

With effort, I pulled it open.

"Pizza!" screamed an imp, throwing the box at me, before running away.

Not sure whose it was, but it's mine now!

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

Call for contributions for #Code4Lib2021, a loosely-structured conference for people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology. #GLAM
https://2021.code4lib.org
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/k59pnf/call_for_contributions_for_code4lib2021_a/?utm_source=ifttt

Here's that font browser script I made, if anyone wants it: https://gitlab.com/laemeur/fc-browse/

Carl Malamud has gone to court - even the Supreme Court - to defend your right to read and utter the law. He's risked millions in personal liability, even criminal prosecution, all because of his conviction that you should face no barriers to reading and reproducing the law.

Malamud set out the case for making the law free to read and publish in his 2013 essay, "The Twelve Tables of Code."

https://law.resource.org/pub/12tables.html

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Someone I know wants to try out Mastodon, but he doesn't know English. Is there:

A) A way to look for users speaking a particular language?

B) A Polish instance that's well moderated (no bigotry allowed on there)?

Please boost, even if you don't know 😓

#mastodon #help

I've made some #soldering reference-cards (blue background for SMD and white for THT) thanks to the idea of @adafruit@twitter.com. I'm open for #feedback :) https://github.com/marove2000/referenceCards

ZeroDays - 1st Place Design - The TTSD-3085 - https://cyberdeck.cafe/mix/ttsd

My local jazz station (KMHD, they’re the best) just played this live Nat King Cole recording from 1960 and it is *incredible*. It was a late show in Vegas (2am start time) so the crowd is mostly other entertainers who are also working during normal performance times. If you are familiar with popular music in the late 50s, this is the equivalent to a very thorough diss track. Even if you just know who Elvis is...my god.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_cm816WvFx8

European Parliament votes for right to repair 😃
https://www.ifixit.com/News/47111/european-parliament-votes-for-right-to-repair
#RightToRepair

Cool. 😃

"On November 20, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope captured Hayabusa2 on its way back to Earth after exploring the asteroid (162173) Ryugu."

https://subarutelescope.org/en/news/topics/2020/11/25/2914.html

#Space #Exploration #Japan #Hayabusa2 #Asteroids #SampleReturn

@evilscientistca

The first image received from Mars: an interplanetary color by numbers (JPL, 1965) http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars

Best book on how to deal with climate change that I've read in a long time, and it's free: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook

While it's focused on the US, the concepts are universally applicable. It cuts through all the bullshit and explains exactly what needs to be done 💯

Hear, hear, #GNU #Guix is 8 years old today! 🎉
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-11/msg00000.html

It was snowing, so I took a walk.