Parker Davis

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
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This is what the web is for. If you ever ask yourself, "why did all those people in the 1990s stop watching TV and start typing things on the open web?" this is why. Utterly niche shit that could only exist in a free, collaborative space without ads. rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...

@posit.co Maybe I'm missing it, but there ought to be an RSS feed for the posit blog!

Shout out to the Quiet Posters feed. Tends to be where I find the most value on here.

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Google Mail Narrowify Bookmarklet • Parker Davis Arizona-based developer blog and portfolio

Go ahead and make Gmail easier to read.
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end of an *album* :O

2024 Year in Review • Parker Davis Arizona-based developer blog and portfolio

I know 2025 is in full swing, but I finally posted a look back at 2024 in my little corner of the world.
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Good idea! btw, is the observable framework repo on github? There are some broken links I found while browsing that I could flag.

this wren wants to remind you that Deno permission flags have shorthands!

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Pleased to have completed Day 6 part 1 of #AdventOfCode. Instead of doing part 2, I figured out how to animate the guard walk in the terminal. fun!

Day 4 of #AdventOfCode was a doozy. Diagonals...nested for loops... phew

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#typescript #javascript #deno #d3

Successfully wrote some off-the-dome regex today.

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#AdventOfCode #typescript #javascript #deno #regex

Getting @deno.land dialed in for #AdventOfCode. Learning and appreciating some of the standard library functions, especially in the collections module.

My solution:
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Post bird art

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode
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My solution using #deno
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That is really cool actually

Learned how to make web pages with HTML in Mr. Kain’s computer lab in 7th grade around 2001. Went on to make my bands’ websites with iframes and animated flash side nav bars. Paused for about 20 years, then did Codecademy.

If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it

When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place • Parker Davis Arizona-based developer blog and portfolio

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New post about birds, music, and cognition. How do birds hear melody? 🪶
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htmz - a low power tool for html • Parker Davis A cool javascript not-framework for loading HTML snippets without full page reloads

HTMZ, a low power tool for HTML

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Mallard on water

Hi Bluesky, I’m interested in coding, birds, music, and sound. To show you I’m serious, here’s a mallard 🪶

#addBirder