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thinking about pivoting to a career in counting letters in the word strawberry, for the job security

self hosting is so much fun until the thing you haven’t thought about for two years randomly dies

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Everyone: No, GitHub Desktop is better! No, VS Code!
Me: ...I just use `git add -p`.

Walks you through each change, hunk for hunk, and lets you accept with `y`. It’s like a mini code review before you commit.

Pair that with dandavison/delta, and you get syntax highlighting too 👀

This is art:

secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...

Yikes. Turns out you can send a plaintext radio signal to cause any train in the USA to do an emergency break. The original 'security' was just a checksum, no encryption or authentication. Reporting this took them 12 years (!) because the vendor dismissed it initially www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

someone at bsky needs to fix their url regex

its always humiliating to find out that services I use depend on google cloud

We are committed to surfacing content from the Small Web in our search results as well. The small web represents a return to the internet's roots: a space of personal expression, creativity, and community-driven content 👇

kagi.com/smallweb

Moon Monday - Jatan’s Space By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans this decade.

There’s just so much happening at the Moon! I cover and contextualize all major lunar missions and their programs from across the world over on my Moon Monday blog+newsletter: jatan.space/tag/moon-mon... 🌗

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science.
Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition.
This is just the start of our fight.
Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

This is the #RIF that NASA can expect to endure - a reduction from 17,391 to 11,853 - so ... who will the unlucky 5,538 people be? Meanwhile let's gut the #NASA budget while simultaneously starting a crash program to beat China to #Mars - #EmbraceTheChallenge y'all

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
theonion.com/a-shatt...

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

pad thai has been a net benefit

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

you fuck up a meal just call it Chicago style and serve it anyway

NEW: We're asking a court to expand our clients' recent legal victory to ensure that all transgender, non-binary, and intersex people can be issued passports with the correct gender marker.

having a bidet at home will ruin every vacation for you

H.R. Giger and an egg on the Alien set circa 1978.

Happy Easter!

Nonstop ChatGPT I'm here asking for advice! My boyfriend is studying programming and computer coding. He will be looking for an internship next semester. He started out strong - reading, creating projects, working through assignments, eager to learn and excited about the information. The last 2 semesters he has completely relied on ChatGPT. He hasn't read anything out of his books in months. He has ChatGPT open at every minute. He doesn't even read questions on assignments - he copies the entire question, pastes it into ChatGPT, plays his phone game while he waits for an answer, then repeats

Anyone who has to mark student work right now, my thoughts are with you

and remember you’re better at writing alt text than an AI!

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

loving sill.social — see links shared in your feed in the past 3, 6, 12, 24 hours, sorted by how many people shared them. great way to engage with bsky without doomscrolling. I stay logged out on my phone, only use sill.social

In retrospect, Halo 4 was the alarm bell for America.

I’m scared of the future integrity of the costco food court

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

reading the balatro timeline is now making me scream "hey indie devs you should keep a personal devlog with what you accomplished and how you feel about your game because you will regret not writing it down!!!"

this

is

*INCREDIBLE*

It's what landing on the Moon looks like, 2025 edition

A Happy Day for Rust I’m not sure where we go from here, and I’m not sure what we could have done to prevent this from happening. But I feel like this is a failure, and it’s set Rust back a bit, and I’m just plain sad.

A happy day for #rustlang steveklabnik.com/writing/a-ha...