Is it weird that when I want a ‘reset’ from working on Web stuff that Rust makes me feel good to work on non-Web (or at least Web-only) stuff?

Weird? Hm.

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Short thread on what SF I’ve been reading: Just finished @SarahPinsker’s “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, a lovely and wonderful short story collection. So many of her stories are continuations of conversations started in shorts by New Wave SF authors… 1/
Apple: for the love of all that is holy, get your f%*^*$%ing iOS App Store act together! I love your products, but your business policies regarding this wing of the company are batshit crazy. twitter.com/techmeme/statu…
Matt Mullenweg says Apple locked WordPress updates on iOS, won't unlock them unless WordPress commits to support in-app purchases for .com plans (@photomatt) twitter.com...
This: TFW you’re a genuinely decent person who suddenly discovers that your country isn’t what you thought it had become.
b-boy bouiebaisse https://twitter.com/jbouie
you know, when biden first said that he was running because of what happened in charlottesville, i rolled my eyes. but it really does seem like those events were deeply a...
I'm going!

Looking forward to more IndieAuth discussions!

App idea: a kind of gofundme for restaurants wanting to get back in business where patrons pledge a certain number of seatings within a certain time period. "I pledge to eat at your restaurant once a week for the next year." Guaranteed with cc, charged if pledge not fulfilled
Has @ProjectLincoln started spending any money in swing states yet?
I’m currently going through the new SVG-based Bootstrap 5 icon set (github.com/twbs/icons) and handpicking icons I like, so this is a cool technique to use!
Bridgetown Tip of the Day: If you yarn add svg-sprite and save some SVG icons in frontend/icons, you can easily combine them into a single sprite file via a yarn script ...

Hear that? Another weekend is coming to visit this eternal Caturday.

Today I received my birthday present — for $35 from eBay. Everything is broken (last fw update is dated 2013) most CA certificates expired, SSL broken, 8-year old browser no AGPS, no app store…yet still such an amazing device keyboard feels magnificent & battery lasts forever 💕
Had fun starting a brand new site build for @_whitefusion today using nothing but CSS variables, custom elements for layout, and class-less styling. Not sure if this approach would scale to a large project, but for a landing page it's pretty darn awesome.
Seriously, I hope and pray with all that is within me that we can turn the page on this sad chapter in the American experiment.
The single best indicator of a person’s character is their ability to listen to others, hear their struggle, and empathize with them. Empathy is humanity’s greatest strength; a force for connection and community. Donald Trump is devoid of empathy. Joe Biden, full of compassion.
Well this aged interestingly.
Nathaniel Friedman https://twitter.com/freedarko
Bold prediction: This White House will distract us from Russia with a juicy Steve Bannon sex scandal.
I kept hoping for a reference to the Trans Am he was constantly working on.
The surprise reveal is where he looks at the camera, sighs, says, “Man, this sounds like a LOT of work. Fuck it,” and walks off
It’s mr stop n frisk He makes a money bisque We all go whoop whoop whoop But where’s the fuckin’ soup news.yahoo.com/democrats-mike…
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. Google’s built a nifty little microframework for writing Ruby serverless functions and they got a preview going on their cloud platform. github.com/GoogleCloudPla…
Do I need this bizarre tulle/suit extravaganza? No. Do I want it a little bit? Yes.