evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I'm only belatedly realizing that the apparent success of LLM generative text solutions in the market is showing the reason why success comes to people who are full of bluster and confidence without caring about important details or correctness.

This exchange made my day

@phones @gsuberland

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.

Why isn't it just a web page?

So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).

Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage

#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering

This one was inspired by @elbosso – it's a "zoomed in" clock face, and because of the zoom, you only need one handle to have a lot of precision! Between two ticks, it's 10 minutes.

https://clocks.blinry.org/scale/

There's a special place in my heart for museum docents who are super into their thing and know all about it and are excited to share it with you. ❤️❤️❤️

@catsalad

Did you know you can get a Count #Binface 28mm metal figure? Well, now you do... And yes, I've ordered one! https://www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page/count-binface-1

they see me rollin'
they tapein’

Mind the gap!

I was in conversation with a person that blogs on Facebook. When I said I write on my own website, she was endlessly baffled as to how I have readers. I Explained my RSS fee gets submitted to directories, and people share my stuff in forums and indie social media and she just could not comprehend it. Since my audience is not a built in audience with an algorithm, she doesn't understand how I can maintain an audience. She kept asking me, if there's no algorithm, how do people find out about you and keep up with what you do? I explained that I have a mailing list for the folks that don't use RSS. She asked me how I monetize my content. I said, for the things that's on my website, I don't aggressively monetize it. I ask for donations if people like it. But your work is open for everybody to read it? She asked.

I explained that the reason why I keep my work open access is so that everybody that's in non-privileged countries could access it and read my stuff.

I'm sorely convinced that the Internet has ruined itself.

For the folks that asked, 2 links are below. I use Buttondown. My referral link is below.

https://buttondown.com/refer/weirdwriter

And my tips page is below.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/tip/

#IndieWeb #Blogging

@fribbledom

Companies are *already* quietly hiring people to come in and clean up the digital asbestos that is "AI" slop, or re-hiring the same folk (who did the actual work) that managers and CEOs ditched with surpassing cruelty.

Please, if you're a consultant or getting re-hired, MAKE THEM PAY.

Investigating the Mermaid of Zennor - https://jimmoon.substack.com/p/the-mermaid-of-zennor

#FolkloreThursday #mermaids

One of life’s pleasures. Out for a stroll in the countryside with a cup of tea.

Cloudflare Drop:

"Drop a folder. Or a zip.

Summon your site - HTML, CSS, JS. See it live instantly."

Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP. https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

Don’t buy climbing walls on Temu
They are not to scale