I like the web and I like people learning new things.
So we're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp online, starting April 24th.
📍Free and not selling/pushing anything
📍Livestreamed lessons with Q&A
📍Expert guest speakers
📍Chill vibes
📍Kind learner community
I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!
To be fair, it’s better than the usual showy car that gets driven in central. I’d rather the commitment to the bit, than a ‘comfier’ performance car like an XM or an Urus.
it's quite simple. phone is fake computer
When I was at Twitter we helped them out with API access etc, so we were briefly in touch.
The bot hasn’t been active since 2023 so I assume it no longer works after the API switched to a paid model.
I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface. Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces. Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done! But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.
The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.
screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s
Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version. Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made
I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
@trangirlismo.bsky.social can you talk about the Ecoboost Mustang and the C63 AMG Black every episode please.
im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me
The Index is 11 away from 4k subscribers. I'm not much of a metrics enjoyer, but it would be nice to hit that milestone for sure.
piccalil.li/the-index/
Big tech upskilling
After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->
a Ship of Feceus, if you will
I’m at the Pokémon Centre.
I’m at the Drag Show.
I’m at the combination Pokémon Centre and Drag Show.
Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.
Lunchtime re-share
hopeful.technology 💕
As Rebecca Solnit says in Hope in the Dark, “Hope is an ax you break down the door with in an emergency”. Findings from our 2025 survey of 522 UK tech workers show 98% don’t feel represented by leading industry voices, but only 15% are comfortable raising concerns. Many tech workers need support and confidence to craft a more socially and environmentally positive future for technology – but it can be very easy to get stuck listing what’s wrong. The Society for Hopeful Technologists exists to lift up and shape trustworthy and socially beneficial approaches to technology, and to amplify the hope and ambition of everyone who knows a better way is possible.
Anyway, everything is obviously terrible but - to quote the mighty Rebecca Solnit - "hope is the ax you break the door down with in an emergency". We have some potentially VERY exciting news to share soon, but in the meantime, hopeful.technology
I just accidentally sent out the Society for Hopeful Technologists email newsletter 12 hours earlier than planned, but the upside of that is that I can share our excellent new website and plan of action buttondown.com/society-of-h...
It has come to my attention that you guys didn’t buy Sektori, and that’s fucked up. It’s the only game I’m playing right now. store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
this is how every outlet should refer to X
The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
Homer crawling through the Supplicant door
SO, COME CRAWLING BACK, EH?
A bunch of nerds waving happily
People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Quadrich from Avatar 3 but he’s wearing the face paint that makes him look like he’s doing Dracula Flow.
I’m geeked up on that pure Na’vi yayo while an eight foot tall goth cat gf cuts me. I’m high off that Pandora Payakan talking directly to the ancestors. We sipping pure Tulkun brain goo. That Mangkwan coochie got me waging war on Eywa. I’ve died. I will die again. This shit ain’t nothing to me man.
a bunch of very specifically named hardcoded boolean fields in a single script representing the entire save state of the game
"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously appealing should immediately give pause. Why should a computer be anything like a human being? Are airplanes like birds, typewriters like pens, alphabets like mouths, cars like horses? Are human interactions so free of trouble, misunderstanding, and ambiguity that they represent a desirable computer interface goal? Further, it takes a lot of time and attention to build and maintain a smoothly running team of people, even a pair of people. A computer that I must talk to, give commands to, or have a relationship with (much less be intimate with), is a computer that is too much the center of attention.
The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
Past work in content moderation or in tackling misinformation and disinformation could be grounds for rejection.
Sektori is all I’ve been playing since it came out.
It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
