“It speaks seventeen languages, badly; and is subject to gout!”

keyboard thief

a yellow flag, bearing a stylized black line-drawing of the teen from the previous text. the flag bears the lowercase word “okay” below the teen.

@bovine3dom he may not be the hero we deserve, but he is nonetheless the hero we need

a cryptic image of a mildly-overweight teen in a brown hoodie; the teen is blurry, as he’s in the middle of pulling his arm back to throw a punch at the camera

Spent the day figuring out how to create macOS "web apps" from the command line (like old-school Fluid site-specific browsers, SSBs - accessed via the "Add to Dock" button in Safari.)

Here, have my shat-out half-AI-written script for this, since I couldn't find anybody else having done this […]

Also, here, have some Dog.

Okay, it's a few years old now; but this is *such* a fantastic deep-dive into reng on macOS - I'm shocked how deep @alinpanaitiu went, but more importantly, shocked how thoroughly he documented the process.

What a classy fuckin' dude. Excellent read […]

dog

So, this summer, I moved back down into the city proper.

Anybody in #Chicago know any good #LoganSquare accounts to follow? (also if you're around the area, poke me and let's get coffee! I need new local friends!)

@bram hey there; just sent you an e-mail about Notion.cafe, when you've got a sec. Unsure if it fell through the cracks or something!

screenshot of a large number of tabs open to websites created by this one person

@brie holy crap I thought *I* had a lot of random domains and fractured web-presence. my condolences! O_O

found you via https://brie.dev/ok-reader/ originally looking to ask:

A. are you still using KOreader, and in particular, did Hardcover sufficiently […]

[Original post on functional.cafe]

@ivory also, just reiterating my two *biggest* issues, for whatever it's worth - I think I've reached out about both before, but just incase I haven't:

1. multi/quick-compose, *whatever* the workflow may be. (Right now, posting replies to my own toots requires … waiting, repeatedly refreshing […]

@ivory one for the feature-requests: I'd love to see a 'jump to' hotkey with fuzzy-search, ala ⌘P in VScode / Notion, ⌘K in Discord / Beeper / Spotify / Slack,

Pictured: (annoyingly) ⌘F in my beloved @things; one of the slicker/simpler implementations of the quick-picker/command-search that […]

Also, feel free to poke me w/ any games I should add, here on Masto. I'm happy to add anybody who games on a custom layout to the group, if you want to be able to help me add notes for games that are types I don't personally play. <3

Unsure if I've even mentioned this anywhere before,

but I've maintain a "Steam Curator" page for the last few years, keeping a log of how well games handle custom keyboard layouts - feel free to follow it if you want to see a note on Steam Store pages telling you whether a game's keybind […]

monad dot mp4

one of my stupider pet-peeves:

"what's the meta"

not all strategy is *meta-game* strategy. "the meta" is only *possible* in a multiplayer game, where the balance of the characters is being continuously tweaked by upstream developers.

Choosing a tool just because it's known to be strong […]

@SwooshyCueb "lumbar puncture" always sounded so low-key horny to me, somehow

update: i have been scammed. this is not in fact a dog, it is a fox. rude.

it is okay, it is a very good fox tho #dogsofmastodon

just saw this while scrolling thru my own feed looking for something and now i'm cackling AGAIN.

уу папочка 👉👈

@williampietri my deepest soul cries out _painfully_ at the inclusion of 'fission' in that list

nuclear power is good! nuclear power *is* world-changing! nuclear power has enabled so, so many things in our world and society and wellbeing. )=

in fact, maybe one of the *only good things* about […]

stylized oriental greeting-card with the haiku: it's not DNS there's no way it's DNS it was DNS.

regarding AWS' outages yesterady

@andrewnez me too! adopted these tiny heartdrives a couple of weeks ago and ugh i’m over the moon they’re so gooooood

hallo everyone.

how is everyone this fine sunday.

click reply. tell me a small thing about your life. it will make me happy.

i will reward u with Dog Photo.

Meanwhile, the Dell UltraSharp U2723QE (choosing a generic 27" 4K monitor somewhat at random) works out to ~47° of visual arc & ~81 px/deg - a significant (~30%) reduction in resolvability.

(Distance-from-eye measured according to my own personal usage, so there's a bit of a spoiler there; these values could just be correlated by me subconsciously reacting to my own tastes. However, there's only so much adjustment in the "laptop on lap" form-factor; and similarly, my displays are […]

Fascinating.

I just ran the math; and Apple's displays/devices have almost *precisely* the same "pixels-per-degree-of-visual-arc" (a much more important measurement than raw PPI.)

- Pro Display XDR (at 70cm) is ~53° of visual arc; that gives it ~112 px/deg
- M1 Macbook Pro at 61cm is ~31° of […]

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