Davide Aversa

bluesky website with "reply sent" overlayed in the Dark Souls style

new toasts look great

Budgies are peak design

A screenshot of "VariQuant", my color quantization (palette creation) tool. From left to right: the quantized result, a palette visualization sorted by hue on the vertical axis, and finally the quantization parameters that can be adjusted live.

I've been improving my experimental color quantization tool. It now supports separate palette design and pixel mapping color spaces with their own lightness weights. I added that palette visualization today and it's fun to play around the parameters and see it evolve.

No thoughts head empty

Vi #2XKO

#pixelart #artpost

Because you needed a video of a group of cute guinea pigs eating watermelon... You're welcome #bluesky 😊

old but gold 🐷

Good morning, has everyone had their first coffee yet? I haven't... there's a long queue and I'm starting to have withdrawls

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#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #ゲーム制作 #ドット絵 #ゲーム開発 #픽셀아트

The award-winning Caves of Qud is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025!

Look, I am generally AI-positive, but I really don’t understand why the hell they push this absolute idiotic use cases.

Skeuomorphism in the Dark ...

Dammmn thats nice codepen.io/kiranpate1/f...

One of my fondest memories involves a “friendly old guy” I met in a pub in Dundee. So I 100% agree.

Seriously though. We’ve eroded access to shared public spaces and that’s eroded our access to positive intergenerational relationships outside our own families.

No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissi...

The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.

What if the game is the waiting itself?

The Changelog – July 2025 It has been a month of contrasts; of light and shadows. In the midst of all that, I read three books, listened to the new Messa’s album and, of course, I watched KPop Demon Hunters like everybody else...

July has been a month full of events. Some good. Some sad. But in both cases, I hope I did my best.

...And we have three books and a bunch of movies to talk about. Plus, the new Messa album. :)

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1. Star Trek (2009) 2. Star Trek Into Darkness 3. Star Trek Beyond 4. Tampopo.

Damn. You caught me after a mini-marathon.

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
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GitHub - pekkavaa/gdbfile-n64: Emulated N64 file system access via GDB Emulated N64 file system access via GDB. Contribute to pekkavaa/gdbfile-n64 development by creating an account on GitHub.

I open sourced a little C library for GDB file access. It's meant for N64 homebrew running in an emulator: github.com/pekkavaa/gdb...

The main contribution here is perhaps the hooking Python script that works in old and partially-installed versions of GDB without its bundled Python helper modules.

For me, it is almost 20. 👴

YouTube video by Lega Volley Femminile ⭐️🇮🇹😍 VNL 2025, ITALY WINS! 🏆🌎 #vnl2025 #volleyball #volley #pallavolo #Thegoldenage #italy

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An alternative to the Kindle :) with the great advantage of not being owned by Amazon.

@histphilosophy.bsky.social Hello! Do you know why the Africana Philosophy ebook is 130€+ on the Kobo store while it is the normal 22€ on Amazon? It looks like a mistake. :D

Do they use Internet Explorer?

YouTube video by blink182VEVO blink-182 - What's My Age Again? (Official Music Video)

They should allow people to verify by posting this video.
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Dai. Conoscendo i prezzi della LEGO, pensavo molto peggio. 😆

Why do people fight about Emacs vs. Vim when you can, like me, just use both?

Screen share Today, I’m featuring Molly White, who you may know as the author of the incomparable Web3 is Going Just Great, which chronicles how crypto, blockchain, and Web3 technologies are not going great. White also writes the Citation Needed newsletter and is a Wikipedia admin. And I highly recommend her talk at the 2024 XOXO Festival about good things on the web, which I got to see live. Here’s her homescreen and her explanation of what’s on it.

The phone: Pixel 7. I’m of the “drive it until the wheels fall off” type when it comes to electronics, so this three-year-old phone is actually somewhat on the new end for me. The wallpaper: A photo of my cat, Ruthie. The apps: The apps are all labeled, save for the quickbar ones: Signal, Bluesky, Proton Mail, Google Calendar, and Chrome. The two cut-off names are Pocket Casts and CloudLibrary. Signal is my primary messaging app both for my work and for personal use, and I highly recommend it. Out of end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, it’s an excellent choice — and I think everyone should strongly consider using E2EE to protect their privacy, regardless of whether they think they need it or not. You’ll also see Tor on the screen; that’s a privacy-focused web browser that I use frequently. I’m a big reader, so it’s probably not surprising that three of the apps on the home screen are book-related. CloudLibrary and Libby are the apps my libraries use for their digital lending, which is primarily how I get the audiobooks I enjoy listening to while I walk my dog (when I’m not listening to podcasts on Pocket Casts, that is). StoryGraph is how I keep track of all the books I read, and it’s a strong improvement over Goodreads. I just finished listening to the audiobook for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which was very good.

I’m a very heavy RSS user, and Inoreader is my RSS reader. It’s perhaps a bit ironic as someone who writes an email newsletter that I don’t like reading newsletters in my email inbox, but I much prefer to sit down and read my newsletters at my preferred reading time than have them interrupt me throughout my day. I’ve got hundreds of feeds that I follow, and Inoreader also has a great feature where it can convert email newsletters that don’t offer built-in RSS feeds (for shame!) into a feed. Probably half of the feeds I follow are food blogs for recipe ideas, and good recipes go into Paprika, a fantastic recipe app that I also use for grocery lists. I’ve been using that app for years, and as a frequent cook I’ve collected about 800 recipes in there by now. I also asked Molly to share a few things she’s into right now: I’ve recently discovered the litRPG genre, having caught the Dungeon Crawler Carl bug a few months ago. Dungeon Crawler Carl was my introduction to litRPG, and it lives up to the hype: it’s a wonderfully entertaining series that will likely appeal to any readers who also like to play video games or TTRPGs. Since finishing it I’ve continued to explore similar genres, and I found Beware of Chicken, which is a slice-of-life progression fantasy about a powerful warrior who decides to become a farmer... and his chicken. I promise I read more ~*~ literary ~*~ books too, but these are just so great when I want to unwind with something fun. I swear this dinky little remote control has changed my life. Combined with any gooseneck tablet stand, I can clip in my e-reader and read from underneath a blanket without having to take my hands out to turn the page. I also like to read while doing cardio at the gym, and it’s been a real game-changer there, too. The HTML Review recently published its fourth issue. Unlike a lot of literature magazines, where their contents could just as easily be transmitted in print, the HTML Review features pieces where web functionality …

my phone homescreen is featured in the "Screen share" section of yesterday's issue of The Verge's Installer newsletter. let me lure you in with a picture of my cat and then convince you to use e2ee messaging

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