ReduxFlakes @reduxflakes - Bluesky Profile

An old VHS tape containing an early PS1 startup sequence

01.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

A view of an isometric map of tiles, highlighting (well, let's pretend, anyways) an unclaimed tile.

now I own it!

what will i put on it?

my website?! how astonishing!

concepts for a project that was never meant to be...

was meant to be a sort of interactive indieweb directory where people could plonk down their websites on a cool map. in hindsight, probably not the best idea, but it was neat.

31.10.2025 07:10 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Marceline wants to wish you a Happy Halloween, and maybe sing you a song...And Wipe your board too.
Paid work!

31.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

RealOne Player in 2002

31.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 81 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 5

happy halloween!

31.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If child sexual abuse and an Epstein link can turn a prince into a former prince, it can turn a president into a former president. Release the Epstein files. @crustnews

#EpsteinFiles #President #Prince

31.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 205 🔁 98 💬 6 📌 3

This is the Microsoft I miss, doing the weirdest software ever. Especially in the XP to Vista era.

01.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Visual Studio 2010 window, where the code editor would regularly be is an embedded copy of Microsoft Word 2010, the text "Hi :3" is written in the editor, and the context menu for bullet styles is open

Visual Studio 2010 window, where the code editor would regularly be is an embedded copy of Microsoft Word 2010, the text "Hi :3" is written in the editor, with a button below it labelled "button1", under Solution Explorer now is the Windows Forms property editor

Visual Studio 2010 window, showing a very Windows Forms like code editor with a MessageBox.Show call in a button event handler, with the text "hi there! :3"

Microsoft Word 2010 window with an open document showing the text "Hi :3" and a button now labelled "my cool butt[on]", in the foreground is a standard Windows 7 dialog box with the text "Hi there :3" and an OK button.

you used to be able to make interactive word documents with C# in visual studio

31.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 167 🔁 43 💬 15 📌 3

Whither selfhosting?

new blog post: Whither selfhosting?, about why i don't love selfhosting and how local-first might work better

meows.zip/blog/whither...

31.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Write a privacy horror story in three words. We’ll start:

Internet without anonymity.

31.10.2025 10:17 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 11 📌 1

what the fuck do you have to do to wake up like people in stock images

29.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 57 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0

woag; if anyone has made similar, share your bsky & atproto buttons! (88x31)

29.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Keep Android Open Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Google is basically trying to ruin Android for all of us, if you're like me and don't want Android to become a worst iOS, please read this and share it around.

keepandroidopen.org

29.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 69 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 1

Values Over Cash: Python Foundation Rejects $1.5M US Grant Over Anti-DEI Clause The Python Software Foundation (PSF) declined a $1.5M federal grant for security, citing US government stipulations that banned promoting DEI programs.

Values Over Cash: Python Foundation Rejects $1.5M US Grant Over Anti-DEI Clause

28.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

figured some more stuff out (with some help from Escargot, ReLiveWP, et al) and now have online connectivity fully functional

claims to be games for WINDOWS live. runs on Linux.

releasing soon TM with source to the patcher DLL as well as an installer in GfWL Utility

28.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 157 🔁 40 💬 9 📌 0

Games for Windows Live sucks but the UI looks so good 😭(and I just played F:UC some minutes ago as well)

29.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios “Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the col...

Listen to Cory Doctorow talk about finding a better search experience with Kagi on the New Yorker Radio Hour (min 5) -

"I was just amazed by how good they were the first time I used them"

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

28.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1

The fun thing with uninstalling Chrome, is that it asks you to fill a survey for feedback, except that there is no link and the survey actually doesn't exist.

28.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 55 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

screenshot of The Cutting Room Floor's first main page edit: "It slices, it dices, it even filets the filet!"

screenshot of the original website (second link)

Time keeps flying... The Cutting Room Floor wiki turned 16 on Saturday!

TCRF is a product of everyone who has contributed to it over the years. Thanks to everyone that's edited an article, donated, or just shared it with their friends.

tcrf.net/The_Cutting_...
bmf.rustedmagick.com/cr/cuttingro...

28.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 525 🔁 201 💬 6 📌 8

Zen was a top open source project on GitHub in 2025

GitHub's annual Octoverse report just dropped, and guess what? Zen stood out as one of the top open-source projects of 2025!

28.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 126 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0

You don’t need a reason to protect your privacy.

17.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 59 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1

You cooked hard on this one! 😍

17.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0