Zach Inglis / Pie

Zach Inglis / Pie

@zch.co

Designer & Dev (#AstroJS, #Svelte) & Programmer (#TypeScript, #CSharp, #RustLang) ❤️ #WebDev #GameDev ❤️ Prev: HybridConf Disabled • 🏳️‍⚧️ enby • 🏳️‍🌈 Pan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 South Wales. Prev: 🇸🇪 🇲🇾 🇺🇸

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This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

I think the thing about AI and small business owners is that previously the design would have to be run past either a second person who know some amount of design, or they'd learn photoshop and some amount of design with it now they can ask the AI to do their bad design and the AI never says no

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this is fantastic! not only did they add profile links, but they made the sponsor ones green to highlight them as a CTA to help independent folks get funded. great move, bluesky 💙

Bluesky@bsky.app

v1.136 is live! Introducing: Profile links We want independent writers, artists, developers, and creators to be able to build and fund sustainable projects on Bluesky. Help your followers know how to support you by adding buttons for Patreon, Ko-fi, your newsletter or website, and more.

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Replying to @kerrblimey.bsky.social

I also want Vertical Slice to evolve beyond the confines of a traditional paper. That's why I'm launching The Repository, a growing (free) collection of pitch decks and design docs donated by generous contributors including @kitfoxgames.com, @outersloth.com, and @outerloopgames.bsky.social.

verticalslice.newsWelcome to The Repository: A burgeoning (totally free) treasure trove of dev documentsSharing is caring.

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Idk why you are all sleeping on hiring such an incredible professional and artist 😅

Zach Soares@voxels.ca

I'm available for work! - Characters - Rigging and Animations - Environments Art I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers, Moonglow Bay and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

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the bechdel test for an open source community is: two women in positions of formal authority discuss something other than moderating a man's behavior

Being a Linux user feels like constantly "Oh, maybe I'll hack together a little app to do that" and ending up rewriting tooling a million times. (Also, one day I'd like to not be a user who constantly considers changing their shell every 2 months. It's been 4 different ones this year alone.)

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Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

geoffgraham.meWhy CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff GrahamBecause I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that

I never know what to say on social media anymore. So I'll try and do a Happy List, like I used to. (No emoji's because I got to get a nice picker for Linux still.) * Started watching ST: Strange New Worlds and it's such my happy place to be watching it again * It's Stanley's 6th got-day anniversary

* Building multiple projects, and enjoying the challenges of Rust again. So fun to be building a TUI - not my usual thing. * Finishing my HomeAssistant project finally. Had it in my drawer for a few years. * Missed people and enjoying being back in social media.

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that is SIX AND A HALF TIMES the Arts & Humanities Research Council budget… spent on a technology specifically designed to replace workers in creative industries. The absolute contempt this labour party has for people who actually work for a living…

I think one of my overall dislikes for the AI craze happening is it's just another version of "Ship fast and break things." I don't want to be faster. I want to be more thoughtful. More impactful with the same footprint. I want my work to produce more meaning. AI is great for speed but not quality

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📢 Casting call 📢 Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game! No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup. Paid gig, of course. Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice: hi@calligramstudio.com 🙏❤️

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Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

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I am probably going to be posting a lot today because you are all the main characters right now and I need you to do whatever you can personally to knock us off this current course. Find your joy where you need to get your spark, then go do something: call a senator, run for office, do something

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

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‘If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t’ scales surprisingly well

Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️@tomjuniper.bsky.social

Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat. Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula. Don't be a snitch, now.

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I'm also exhausted with the vibecode spam. People posting new projects they'll never update, that they don't know the fundamentals of why the AI made the choices it made. It makes sifting for new projects incredibly hard.

I think AI has it's uses, but I think the over the top AI psychosis of shiny new tech (and FOMO) is causing people to drop their guard, and push too hard (and too soon) for adoption.

Do not get me wrong. There's some magic when using AI sometimes, but people seem to forget the several hours banging your head against the wall trying to make it do simple things other times It's shiny, and it's new, and people are overselling it and it's going to continue to cause irreparable harm

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#Section28 caused real harm. It erased lives, denied support, and left lasting shame and silence that many are still living with today. Please sign and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on #LGBTQ people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

petition.parliament.ukPetition: Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ peopleWe call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) which specified that Local Authorities could not intentionally promote, through ma...