What kind of decentralized services exist could make it possible for someone to stop using Cloudlfare as a CDN?
Lately when election season rolls around I muse about what I would run on as a single-issue candidate. Kinda stuck on building public housing on golf courses.
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I asked my friend Jérémy Landes to collaborate on the design of a libre font forked from DejaVu Sans, able to spread like mycelium thanks to the variable technology. It is named “Fungal Sans” and it is available for download at https://fungal.page (still wip).
Dan Phiffer
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@dphiffer move slow and fix things ❤
Today's activities:
1. Fixed a thing I broke
2. Fixed a different thing that had been broken for a long time
3. Fixed a dependabot-identified vulnerability
4. Baked a loaf of bread
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hey can anyone out there help me find critical/theoretical writing on hardware modding? (especially on video game hardware, but any kind of consumer modification of industrially-manufactured products would work)
I know that (e.g.) Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux have studied video game modding from a software perspective, but I don't know anyone studying hardware mods in particular.
(doesn't need to be "academic," just looking for stuff beyond tutorials and enthusiast press)
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welp we're gettin' ddos'd today
Dan Phiffer
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we need more books like why's guide that disconnect the creative work of programming from capitalist mobility
And now that I've written that I’m realizing the double-ampersand approach would never alert on an error state.
This is the better way:
$ [long running command]; DONE
Something I forgot I have in my macOS dotfiles:
alias DONE="osascript -e 'display notification \"DONE\"'"
As in:
$ [long running command] && DONE
I’ve left the RCA plugs swapped and now I am wondering if anyone would ever notice that L is now R and R is now L. Do you know any records well enough to catch when the channels are swapped?
Today, listening to records, I noticed we were only hearing a single channel of audio. I swapped the RCA plugs and the other side stopped working. Solution: unplugged the needle head and plugged it back in. This was a satisfying and surprising solution I did not expect to work.
🐔 “This software supports a small cohort of neighbors who share responsibility caring for a flock of chickens.”
https://github.com/dphiffer/chickenbot
We’re hiring a Data Engineer at The Markup on a part-time basis through December. Come work with me!
https://boards.greenhouse.io/themarkup/jobs/5222108002
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
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The most striking thing is how relevant the story is today. Usually scifi feels very much "of its time," in response to themes that are easy to place in a particular moment in history. Pretty depressing how little progress we've made on militarism and environmental destruction since 1982.
It's based on a manga written & illustrated by Miyazaki in 1982 and it pre-dates the founding of Studio Ghibli in 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film)
Internet enthusiast. He/him.
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