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A screenshot of a gloriously colourful BeOS desktop, with a blue background, vibrant yellow window title bars, and colourful isometric icons

Bring back BeOS style iconography

A sunlit red cottage door drowning in greenery

A village street at night with a lone street light, incredibly dark for this city kid

Curtains backlit by the sun

On coat pegs by the cottage entrance door: a baby’s bear suit, a toddler’s jacket, my jacket and hat, my partner’s coat

First trip as a family of four, to the New Forest national park. #theDarkroom

Southampton: rain all week

Chose a nice weekend for a trip down south

[nö sleep at all]

Oh boy baby + toddler parenting sure is fun huh in this globalised capitalist society where you most definitely do not have a village to rely on ha ha ha ha good times yes

Fastmail (@fastmail@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 video We’ve got something new for your desktop! 💻✨ Meet the Fastmail Desktop App, now available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s the same Fastmail you love ❤️, now as a standalone app with native notifications, full offline support, and all the integrations you expect from your platform. Ready to give it a go? Download, sign in, and enjoy a cleaner, more focused way to manage your email. 🔗 Read the full announcement: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop-app/ #Fastmail #EmailMadeBetter #DesktopApp

Ooh @fastmail has a desktop app now! But I got really used to just using it in the browser, so I think I'll be sticking to that. There's also a Beta app, apparently, but it's not clear what's different compared to the stable release.

https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/115375214634975649

Sakamoto-san

I started reading #Nichijou (thanks @amdt for the recommendation!) and this is definitely My Kind of Thing. Plus all the SICP memes are starting to make sense.

Rediscovering Hermanos Gutiérrez. So good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duT62emRXIk #theStudio

So now that Apple has dropped the ball, who is the Guardian of the Holy Human Interface Guidelines?

I wanna say Gnome, but surely no…?

A screenshot of Emacs running on macOS 26, with the window title aligned to the left of the title bar

What on earth? The window title got moved to the left in macOS 26?

Jujustsu is really cool but unfortunately as a French person I'm unable to read `jj` otherwise than as "jean-jacques"

A frame from a transition page in Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, showing an overgrown country road at night, with the moon peeking from behind clouds

Finished my first read of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and wow, it's really unlike anything else I've read. So many feelings and questions (that are probably going to stay unanswered). A wonderful piece of art.

A Word on Omarchy An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.

Oh boy. "A word on Omarchy" https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

(Also: awesome website!)

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.

Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice […]

For all my complaints about macos 26, the update to the Music app has finally fixed the biggest gripe I had with its UI: in a narrow window width, the right toolbar no longer covers the track list. Yes, the bar is pretty low.

I can type in the #Dvorak layout fairly comfortably now (I'm using it to write this), but I'm almost considering sticking to QWERTY, after all, for these reasons:

* I'm using a couple others QWERTY based layouts (Russian/QWERTY, Japanese Kana) that don't have a Dvorak equivalent
* I can't […]

One hundred rolls of #portra400 (3600 frames) will set you back almost 2000 euros, not counting processing costs. That's crazy bonkers. How do I get a sponsorship from Kodak?

Thinking about this old blog post a lot these days (incidentally, it’s only available in archive.org anymore because typepad shut down) https://web.archive.org/web/20250910074851/https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html #aLeicaYear #theDarkroom

Yeah we noticed today

slack slips through the cracks,
the great hive mind goes quiet
coffee tastes like peace.

More early 2000s Japanese rock: 東京 by Quruli. This song was an anthem of sorts for me back then! https://youtu.be/M3f-0kBJ7Xs #theStudio

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

About syntax highlighting https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

Randomly got reminded of Densha Otoko today, and along with it of the great Sambomaster song 世界はそれを愛と呼ぶんだぜ. The early 2000s sure were a different time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izlKehxIEcA #theStudio

A screenshot of typing stats from keybr.com, showing all letters unlocked.

I've been making slow but steady progress learning #dvorak: I've now unlocked all the keys on keybr.com (with a speed target of 25 wpm). I still need to have the layout visible on screen, and I'm still much slower than with qwerty, but now I can already start […]

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Looking forward to spending lunar new year in Taiwan for the first time this winter!

Cover illustration of William Saroyan's "Papa, You're Crazy"

I finished "Papa, You're Crazy" yesterday, and really enjoyed it. I wasn't familiar with Saroyan but now I want to read more of his stuff.

https://merveilles.town/@gosha/115362657171280501

GitHub - apossiblespace/minigraph: 🕸️ Minimalistic interactive graph library for ClojureScript 🕸️ Minimalistic interactive graph library for ClojureScript - apossiblespace/minigraph

I started working on a small graph UI toolkit in #ClojureScript, to act as a replacement for react-flow in Parts. For now it only has UIx components, but shouldn’t be too hard to support Reagent, too.

https://github.com/apossiblespace/minigraph
https://apossiblespace.github.io/minigraph/

“Pop, can’t you invent a _machine_ that writes plays?”
“Well, Balzac had half a dozen fellows doing his writing for him at one time, and there have been other writers who have paid other writers to write for them, because they had earned reputations and wanted to rest, but I never knew of […]

Today marks 7 years since we registered our company. Time flies!

Finished Robin Sloan’s Moonbound and it was a really nice read! Sloan is really good at remixing the zeitgeist, I enjoyed that in his previous novels and again in this one. Loved the shoutout to Nakameguro, and the wizard language script.

Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom", what an incredible piece of music. https://youtu.be/Uy25C_s288g?si=o58FK1iTYln8AhIy #theStudio