Friends showed me Rebecca Black sung by Bob Dylan. It is Friday, after all. 👨🍳💋
Did anyone else play Gorillas back in the day? Still holds up.
You ever get a random song stuck in your head, apropos of nothing? Today it’s Come Sail Away (with meeeeee lads).
I’ve been really addicted to Suika. It’s a falling fruit, physics-based puzzler, and I can’t stop playing.
Here’s my contribution to the “what apps am I using?” posts.
- 📨 Mail Client: Apple Mail
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
- 📝 Notes: Orgmode
- ✅ To-Do: Orgmode
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
- 🌅 Photo Management: Apple Photos and Dropbox
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
- 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire and Newsblur
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Firefox (sometimes Safari)
- 💬 Chat: Messages, Signal, Whatsapp and Slack
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Micro.blog and Pinboard
- 📑 Read It Later: Micro.blog
- 📜 Word Processing: Pages and Google Docs
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Numbers and Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: Keynote
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: none
- 🍴 Meal Planning: none
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Numbers
- 📰 News: RSS
- 🎵 Music: Bandcamp, Spotify
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
- 🤖 Code Editing: Neovim
- 📚 Books: Kindle
- 🌎 Blogging: Micro.blog
Industrial metal is synth pop with a lip ring.
I made a black and white version of a shot my cousin took in LA.
Corey Doctorow on tech antitrust.
It’s possible to have a good internet run by flawed people. But to get that new, good internet, we have to support technologists of good will and character by terrorizing their venal and cynical colleagues by hitting them where they live: in their paychecks.
Capitalists hate capitalism, but we knoww how to fix it, since we used to live in that world. Regulate to increase competition.
I saw No Hard Feelings last night. Fun, formulaic, funny moments, and as always Jennifer Lawrence is endlessly charming. 🍿
You know you’re rich when you use the phrase, “coin of the realm” in casual conversation.
NEDCamp is great, as always.
The view from Lincoln Park, Jersey City.
I wrote a blog post for Lullabot on Useful git configurations you may have missed.
I don’t have a permanent home right now, and sometimes people ask me where I am. So, I setup a page that (roughly) shows where I’m currently staying. Good idea? Bad idea? Maybe both, but here it is. www.chrisdeluca.me/where-am-…
Bluetooth? Its development is so arrested, it’s more like Bluthtooth. I’ll show myself out.
This is awesome.
This is a fantastically useful (and beautiful) mouse-interactive exploration of CSS blend modes and ways you can use them for artistic effects. I have to try redoing some of these using background layers on single elements. https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/css/blend-modes
Today I learned that I’m old enough to be dumb.
Leaded fuel reduced the IQ of everyone born before 1990 by ~4.25%.
The whole article is an interesting take on generations. Vibe shifts in the Upper Anthropocene (Interconnected)
You know someone’s rich when they use the phrase “coin of the realm” in casual conversation.
From Sannie Lee, writing about the value of a liberal arts education in tech.
Whether it was a history or literature class, one common thread across all my courses was thinking critically. Looking at historical events or understanding the meaning in a novel, I learned not to take things at face value.
As a “technical” tech worker, I couldn’t agree more. I credit a lot of my “how to think” skills with my liberal arts education, and think it provides perhaps a not immediately obvious, yet altogether invaluable, benefit.
Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚
No one low boils insanity like Shirley Jackson.
The view from Astoria, NYC.
Cluck Fluckman has entered the consciousness.
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My friend Jon Solari kept surprising me with bright flash photography.
The camera is an old black and white film job, so no filters here.
I tried to sneak a selfie Jon would find later, but didn’t know how to work the camera, and ended up with a double exposure. Pretty cool.
Heather Buchel’s post on why men ruined web design is spot on. The gendered split between “design” and “development” is bad for people, and bad for the eventual product. Our titles reflect the shift. I used to be a “Technical Artist”. Now, I’m a “Front End Developer”.