Den McHenry

I learned a bunch of stuff about SVGs because of a question someone posted on a front-end Discord about how to make text look distressed. But it all goes way back to a frustrated programmer who worked on Disney's Tron 45 years ago.

@ethanmarcotte.com Hi Ethan. I don't know if you'll see this, but I had You Deserve a Tech Union on my Kobo Wishlist for a while and noticed it's no longer available. Is another edition coming, or should I seek it elsewhere? Thanks!

Phantom voice in the wilderness echoes: if you're an #Everton supporter in #Seattle, check out the Seattle Evertonians group. We'd love you for you to join us at our friendly local pub for matchdays.

Put @gilduran.com on your summer reading list.

"… hinting at the presence of a giant planet about ten times as massive as Jupiter." I think I'm going to trust Randy and say this is still a Dyson Sphere: "Every thousand years / This metal sphere / Ten times the size of Jupiter / Floats just a few yards past the Earth." (Built to Spill)

Declan Rice should have gotten a red and Mexico was denied at least two clear penalties. I don’t know how anyone can feel good about that.

With @darkhorse.com selling out and reprinting @evandorkin.bsky.social's Nerd Inferno (and don't forget last year's Beasts of Burden omnibus!), people should hunt down Hectic Planet. I put together a guide of sorts to help folks wade through the publication history. denmchenry.com/posts/hectic...

The problem with being a person who is good at something like content operations, is that if I do my job well, everything runs smoothly and my work is invisible. I'm not particularly career-minded, and just like things to be good, but I wish for this type of impact was more valued.

Neville Southall, affectionately known as Big Nev, played for Everton Football Club from 1981 to 1998, and is widely regarded as their greatest ever goalkeeper, and arguably the greatest goalkeeper of his era. Tools: Tombow Fudenosuke WS-BH brush pen, Copic N2 and N4 markers.

I drew Phil Elverum and he didn’t seem happy to have to stand still in my imagination for a whole 10 minutes. Sorry, Phil. denmchenry.com/drawings/phil/

Correction: Everton's landlord tried to start another club called Everton in retaliation when they moved over high rent. He wasn't permitted to use the name and settled on Liverpool. #ifYouknowYourHistory #efc #evertonFc #everton

I added a listing for @evandorkin.bsky.social's Nerd Inferno to the Open Library. Read it, love it, review it! openlibrary.org/books/OL6208...

friends, i think i'm losing it "He drove us all night to find my favorite constellation. You can only see it a few times a year and there are really only a few places you can see it." 🔭🧪 have i been wrong about how THE SKY works this whole time?!

I decided to translate I am an AI Hater by @anthonymoser.com into Latin. This is something else a machine couldn't do (as attested by many terrible tattoos). denmchenry.com/posts/i-am-a...

We dont “receive and process information” from the environment. We experience and perceive the world because the way we function is through the transformation and exchange of physical material with the environment, an ability completely out of scope for computers and MATH.

I got all dressed up for the occasion. First we got Nerd Inferno from @evandorkin.bsky.social and now here comes the Land of Nod collection from @jstephenscomics.bsky.social and I couldn’t be happier.

It's launch day for Jay Stephen's The Land of Nod collection! Reprinting the entire Land of Nod saga in gorgeous red and black duotones, with the Sinister Horde, Jumbohead, Badman and Coxwell the Badly Drawn Ghost in full colour. Available in both hardcover and paperback at go.blackeye.ca/nod

I came up with the term Inclusive Front to mean the band of people who care about the web's inclusivity. It's a play on words; we largely work on the front end, but I feel at times we're also like a political 'popular front' against a poorly built web that excludes people. I've had stickers made!

Happy Superman Day!

@haymarketbooks.org Someone put the admin link in the sale banner at the top of the site so the link to the AFSC sale post doesn't work. www.haymarketbooks.org/admin/blog_p... should be www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/543-af... There's also a mistaken second link that goes to one book only.

Because @ironspike.bsky.social quote post this with a great @evandorkin.bsky.social page, here's mine from @davidlapham.bsky.social. The last page of Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #25, where Beth, Kretch and Spanish Scott finally get away to Santa Fe for some bonding time over peyote.

This is strange. Please check your Bluesky settings on alt text and update. Mine definitely worked two days ago and was unchecked when I looked just now. Requiring alt text should be the default. Normalize accessibility.

Is this a quirky copy of ex.mag 05 by @peow.bsky.social, or does this editorial note collide with this speech balloon in all copies? “Fix this page -red layer”

"All the languages of art have been developed as an attempt to transform the instantaneous into the permanent." — John Berger, The White Bird (1985)

experience 1983, today

I made a Mac word game: bergmayer.net/plaintextpanic

"There will be no graduation. There will be no trumpets blowing in the light that passes through me. With the sinking of the sun, I've come to greet you. Clean your hands and go to sleep." — Guided by Voices, Glad Girls There's so much poetry between the choruses.

In big personal news, I'm making time to read, and I owe it to a lucky moment of doomscrolling. denmchenry.com/posts/bradbu...

If anybody wants to stop producing videos for their YouTube channel, let me know and I’ll subscribe. That always seems to do the trick.

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

News! @evandorkin.bsky.social's dairy duo, the worst fans that ever lived, and the rest of his absurdities conjoin in Nerd Inferno: The Essential Evan Dorkin, coming next April. Details: bit.ly/47QcST2 A new omnibus collecting Milk and Cheese, The Eltingville Club, and Dork for the first time

Now It Can Be Told.

I think Everton's Bluesky account is managed by the recruitment team. It's just as active.

Have you lost your bsky password, @evertonfc.com?

Someone who reaches out to see if I'm interested in leading the frontend team at their shitty AI company hasn't done their homework. Maybe a chatbot did it for them.

How many times does Senegal have to batter Dean Henderson before Thomas Tuchel realizes Pickford is far and away the better keeper?

Bluesky's UI makes it easy to inadvertently unfollow someone. If you try to click on their handle after their display name, it's one accidental click on the unfollow button and done.

A media company that sells ad tech by recycling and padding content already published elsewhere can reveal exclusively that they too have read what Paddy Boyland said hours ago about Everton's progress on signing Thierno Barry.

Anyone who's having trouble with Centurylink right now can get online again by changing your router's DNS (e.g., switch from Centurylink's DNS to a static IP like Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1) or else use a VPN.