Perry

I’ve just realized you sent this :) Clearly I am too old for is sh!t

If you see this, post with a beach photo from your gallery.

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

The demise of .io
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Mules Navigating North Carolina's Impassable Roads To Bring Supplies To Communities Cut Off By Hurricane Helene With hundreds of roads still impassable due to storm damage and flood debris, Mount Ulla-based Mountain Mule Packer Ranch is using their “beloved” pack mules to bring supplies to areas not accessible ...

My grandfather, who maybe loved mules more than his own children, would feel extremely validated by this story

Republicans have built us a world where walking around with an AK 47 in Florida isn't illegal, but trespassing on the grounds of a golf course is

early reports indicate she’s shaking this off

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S One keyboard bug three decades in the making

I've been talking with @jglypt.net recently about what keyboard layout I use on Macs and why (US English), and I remembered this cool story from a Medium developer about a strange bug, which goes through some history starting in the 1980s in Poland and several things that together led to this bug 🙂

I have the book-buying habits of a much faster reader

This is all normal First World stuff

Sign which says “Danger of death”

Baby goat standing on a giant tortoise

Shenanigans

Taps the sign 😀

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Maybe it’s just me but every time my flight is delayed due to a maintenance issue I think: I’m in the happy ending of the time travel story in which the hero went back to prevent a horrible tragedy

Astronomers tapping the sign again

Cat sleeping on two beds

Is that _three_ beds? Asking for a friend, Oscar J "Two Beds" Cat

An orange cat curled up in a cat bed

Oscar J Cat

Thank you! I’ve often wondered about this

Same. To spell words I follow rules, some conscious (“i before e except after c”) but most unconscious. There are also a lot of words on a “custom spelling” list. No visualization at all.

Horse in a specialized aircraft cargo pod

Horse cargo pod for aircraft

Anyone know what happened to the horse? SOP if they get loose generally doesn’t end well for the animal but getting loose requires multiple failures because they are contained in specialized cargo pods which would normally be kept closed. Images are from the last time we Fedexed a horse to Alaska

A horse in an airline transportation pod

For those wondering how horses fly on commercial planes here’s Samson on his way to Alaska from Oakland a while back

Digging Into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title It involves William S. Burroughs and a small-town doctor.

Yep! Full story below:

Ok, not only is his name Vader but he *looks* like DV too! Black cats are the best (don’t let my orange cat hear me say that)

Enjoying Graysky client for bsky.social … open source and iPad savvy, what’s not to love?

And … it stopped working. I left the app to read an article in Safari and when I returned, landscape was no longer an option :/

The ‘sky app is way more usable on a tablet now that the phone app works in landscape. If I drop its font size way down I can almost fit a post on the screen. C’mon, it’s getting really close!

If you’re in the mood for some philosophy on the creative process I’d recommend watching this video from Adobe’s annual get together called MAX:
www.adobe.com/max/2023/ses...

It’s long and there’s good stuff throughout but if you only have time for one speaker I’d watch Karen X Cheng

@perryclarke.bsky.social Well … here I am, another refugee. No iPad app is a disappointment but I’m sure that will be addressed in due course. So good, so far!