Yoz Grahame

A lesson from literature I realize most people don't get: Every book is a tree. As you read more and more, you learn to recognize the things that different trees have in common. Their lineages. The families they belong to. The odd little evolutionary quirks they've inherited.

as we and the web age together, the gap between site updates grows more naturally, as does the tolerance for entire years of downtime It’s time for me to finally learn the maintenance habit.

interminable journey home enlivened by listening for the millionth time to "smile - a reconstruction by purple chick", the definitive (imho) fan edit of the beach boys' fragmented sessions for smile , brian wilson's doomed masterpiece. get it here: thepiratebay.org/description....

tfw you go to explainxkcd.com to look up when the randomNumber=4 comic was published in order to joke about today's infosec shitshow, only to find the site is offline due to tomorrow's infosec shitshow

PHP is terrible and also briefly made the good web possible and I think you should treat a potential extinction event for the PHP-driven internet the way you would treat an extinction event for your favourite wild animal.

If you’re up to help with a documentary about Antarctica, here’s one from a filmmaker and science communicator with a superb track record. And she’ll send you - or someone you nominate - a postcard from McMurdo Station. (Or a cute 3D-printed tardigrade.)

I’m trying to build the habit of not eating after 6PM. Currently working on convincing myself that feeling like I haven’t eaten in a while is *not* the same as actual hunger. (… which, apparently, is the work that will do most of the weight loss, rather than the time restriction itself)

Iddin-sin whined his clothes are scanty, in prose we find over-dramanty. Said mum uses wool up like bread. now she chooses to loaf instead

"Tactical police RPG-" Uh oh... "-By Strange Scaffold" Sign me the fuck up.

This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.

BAY AREA: this nice, modern, fully working gas stove is yours FREE if you can pick it up from Fruitvale (Oakland) in the next four hours There is also a window air conditioner, a queen-size bookshelf headboard, and an adorable sewing table. All free, but ask in the next HOUR

Standplaats is a quality meme vendor, and you can tell from the effort put into the ALT text of every image. If everyone who reads this contributes $2, that’ll make at least $10

USWDS was created and maintained by people who genuinely care about making government websites work as well as possible for as many people as possible. It was an amazing thing to watch on its own. But then to see the adoption and contribution by teams all over the world - that was incredible.

resting scritch face

if marooned on a desert island, I’d like to have The Queen's Island Victoria Male Voice Choir, which consisted mostly of shipbuilders alternatively, if the island is nice and comfy and affords pleasant relief from existential dread: Underworld

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

NextDoor content really varies depending on where you are.

Filing this under Ideas For My Final Post

This administration takes pride in demanding change from institutions while staunchly refusing to understand what made those institutions valuable in the first place. They’re Chesterton’s Bulldozer.

Out of the blue, suddenly regretting all those years I watched Eastenders yet never touched Coronation Street

Casino Royale (2006), the twenty-first James Bond film, acts as a kind of reboot of the franchise and breaks a bunch of series traditions. Right after the opening credits, it shows something that's never been seen in a Bond film before: rain.

today's exciting culinary experiment was successful. Cocoa Pebbles* work nicely as a way to chocolate your oatmeal * or Kellogg's Coco Pops, Cocoa Krispies, Chocolate Krispies, whatever they're called in your locale

Monsters are in charge, and absolutely everyone has lost their goddamn minds. So, follow your dreams, friends. No one should have imposter syndrome or an inner saboteur at this point. Friendship is magic.

In 2007, Oakland’s most vital freeways collapsed in a fire. The California Transport Authority put the job out to tender, with a deadline of 50 days. The winning team said they’d finish in 25 days. They did it in 17.

Latest update on our wheelchair hacking and building at www.patreon.com/cw/GOATspace ! We hosted the first Bay Area Repair Coalition summit, and an open source wheelchair build day at our maker space in downtown Oakland!

did this three years ago and tempted to make more youtube.com/shorts/SsWQ-...

I just realized I hadn’t shared this one yet, but I wrote about how the team I’m on restructured its workflows to lean into the code review bottleneck rather than trying to eliminate it when code generation took over, and what that ended up doing: www.honeycomb.io/blog/embraci...

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live your life so that the phrase “they went full <YOUR NAME> mode” is considered a massive compliment

leaving aside the political economy of open-source software, "send a patch" for weird UI behaviour implies i should go off and do user research and personas and scenarios and storyboards and paper prototypes or whatever else and model out what YOUR PRODUCT should do in this or that situation