Smart Citizen Kit at Canopy Studio labs: scottgruber.me/2020/08/16/sma…
Are designers still using Sketch?
Here at Canopy Studio labs I launched a @SmartCitizenKit to monitor air quality, sound, light, temperature, weather for citizen science for Palms near Culver City in California. smartcitizen.me/kits/13119

Do we build bridges/blueprints for bridges to climb into our spaces or do we look into building teleporters for completely transporting people?

Canonical is a shell company for Microsoft at this point. https://twitter.com/rhatr/status/1295160060532813824

Search your name in GIFs and pick the one that best sums up this year.
No matter how much I read up on emulsifiers I seem to be unable to grasp how they work, and it's really killing my ability to make this hot sauce work reliably
No matter how much I read up on emulsifiers I seem to be unable to grasp how they work, and it's really killing my ability to make this hot sauce work reliably
klingberg! #DALvsCGY

You know you have way too much power when you can spin up a WHOLE gTLD just for your company. This is actually the kind of world the Web3 community would encourage.

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For real though, I’ve been thinking more and more about the stuff I do on the side and the usefulness of it. I half promised a competitor to a platform BY myself in less time (grossly overestimating the effort and care it takes to build these platforms) and now I sometimes feel like I’ve wasted two years of my life on this stuff. It’s not like I don’t believe in the open social Web, I just challenge my thoughts on its viability in the next decade as well as the active moves working to divest from things like it into more proprietary stacks.

One thing that trips me up a lot is how a lot of the stuff in the open social Web is stuck on text (barely anything around multimedia). Text seems easy but photos require a whole different level of care and thought that’s consistently an afterthought. I don’t see much nudging on it in the IndieWeb - some progress on handling them is made in mainline projects like Mastodon but again, it’s marginal. It’s not that people are playing to catch up - I don’t think this is an interest for most at all (and it’s a safe way to prevent any of the harm found in silos from leaking into our space) but I do think we should be aiming to ween people off these platforms. I see more and more asks for alternatives and I can’t even comfortably recommend most that meet feature parity.

I’m sad. And I’m hoping to use this as motivation to keep hammering on things.

#open social web #itch #indieweb #thoughts

I’ve seen this a lot (that using static files uses less power) but with no evidence or stats (and tbh it just seems like another agenda item to do static only sites)

https://twitter.com/yaxu/status/1294040627441807360

I’ve seen this inconsistent number of reactions on mobile and Web so this is definitely a server side issue but if it’s intended then it’s very weird.

Hope you are resting up during eternal Caturday.

Love this from r/programmerhumor on reddit. My first program was on a Commodore PET in 1979 in basic. 10 print "booger"; 20 goto 10 What's your first machine and language?
PSA: The Tallinn Art Hall has its own, Estonian-optimized font and it's amazing. 💕 kunstihoone.ee
Introducing @jkphl to Vanilla Honey Butter 😌 (@ Põhjala Tap Room - @pohjalabeer in Tallinn, Harju w/ @_phelan_) swarmapp.com/c/9oKBpfMPzWS

It’s kinda wild how the @ubuntu account has just turned into a Microsoft dev channel about 40% of the time. My thoughts about Canonical being bought by Microsoft in 2023 doesn’t feel too loony now.