Flip Van de Voort

Flip Van de Voort

@flip.vanvoort.com

Full time idiot, part time designer (he/him)

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Flip Van de Voort
@flip.vanvoort.com

The lore behind choosing my career path: I wanted to go into filmmaking Global pandemic happened, no filmmaking Figured I’d learn to code in the meantime Friend asked me to make them a website Became a web designer instead of a filmmaker

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Flip Van de Voort
@flip.vanvoort.com

I’m sorry, but am I the only one who thinks the Standard.site card on Bluesky looks like ass? Like it’s way too tall, and also I feel like it should link to the author’s Bluesky account instead of linking to the publication. Who cares about the website? The article is already on the website.

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Rudy Fraser
@rude1.blacksky.team

WIP Demo of @blackskyweb.xyz Cash. - @interledger.org open payments integration - e-cash stored directly on PDS via permissioned spaces, encrypted, with device enrollment - peer-to-peer (DID2DID) payments made by handle and sent to recipient’s inbox All done on protocol. Spec to be published soon

Flip Van de Voort
@flip.vanvoort.com

I long for a web that I never knew…

maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

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Aaron Ross Powell
@aaronrosspowell.com

I've been thinking about why I've never felt the specific kind of offense that powers plenty of moral panics—the sense that a distant creative act has desecrated something sacred. And why the people who do feel it are making a category error with real ethical stakes.

aaronrosspowell.comThe Ethics of Not Being OffendedDiscomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

ecoportal.netSolar panels were known to attract birds, but they are now drawing in species never seen in these areas beforeNew research from the University of Cambridge has found that some birds species are making a triumphant return to the area around solar panels in England.

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Andy Budd
@andybudd.bsky.social

Replying to @andybudd.bsky.social

Selling from California to New York is not the same as selling from France to Germany, or from the UK into the EU after Brexit. Different languages. Different tax systems. Different employment laws. Different commercial norms.

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷
@daniloc.xyz

yeah The reactionary, anti-knowledge posture to AI is an invitation to progressives to adopt the same paranoia as 5G tower truthers and vaccine microchip nutbars it metastasizes to a distrust of technology broadly and we’re going to need technology to get where we are going

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

propublica.orgUnfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar BacklashAcross the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.

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Alan Baxter
@alanbaxter.bsky.social

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

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Techdirt
@techdirt.com

France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to explain, in painstaking…

techdirt.comFrance Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not WorkingBack in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to explain, in painstaking detail, why blocking at the DNS layer was a terrible idea. It would break the fundamental architecture of how the internet works. It would have massive collateral damage.

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Piccalilli
@piccalil.li

Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web. piccalil.li/blog/the-end...

piccalil.liThe end of responsive imagesMat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on...
Flip Van de Voort
@flip.vanvoort.com

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Heron@heron.social

Pssst! The first public beta for Heron is now available for the iOS on Test Flight! There are a few things to polish up like notifications, but if you want standard site integration, different viewing modes for media, or cool Heron inspired themes, give it a go! testflight.apple.com/join/8GxSwx1w

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Jack
@jackvalinsky.com

I think there's a dire need of good designers, UX people, copy editors, etc. beyond just devs to get this message across. People figured out how to use e-mail. There's a human element to technology that can't be ignored, don't let a lack of coding skills prevent you from contributing ideas.

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dame
@dame.is

way too many of y’all suffer from terminal hindsight bias, nostalgia chasing, and rosy retrospection… your desires to “make the internet great again” are not only misguided but dangerous too — conservatism is creeping in to peoples’ psyches at an alarming rate

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Matthias Ott
@matthiasott.com

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. matthiasott.com/articles/des...

matthiasott.comDesign and Engineering, As One · Matthias OttWe inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...
Flip Van de Voort
@flip.vanvoort.com

America has officially lost the plot

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Harry Enten: Maybe Trump is jealous of Pope Leo XIV, because it is a blowout on the net popularity rating. Pope Leo XIV is at +34. Donald Trump is at -12. It's not even close. It's a nearly 50 point blowout.