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Had a lot of fun making this! Last time I made a zine was twenty… five? years ago, so yeah, I was rusty. And nervous as hell that I’d mess up the page order or end up with pages upside
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I’ve gathered the best URLs I found in the cozy, poetic corners of the web this summer. For you. Yes, you. 😊 Grab your favorite beverage, get comfy, and dive into my End-of-Summer Hyperlink Dump: Stones, Streams & Scarf Machines.
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End-of-Summer Hyperlink Dump: Stones, Streams & Scarf Machines It’s September 4, and even though the sun is shining and it’s warm outside as I type this, you can feel summer’s on its way out in the northern hemisphere.
Remember my June experiment? Still going strong! No social timeline =
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Working on my website and bringing back some fun 90s features. My favorite? Background music (optional now!). 🥰 I’m building in the open, so if you don’t mind a few bugs or weird-looking pages, take a peek!
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We’re getting new stamps here in Sweden featuring Benjamin Nørskov’s photos of kids with their EPA/A tractors (cars converted into slow tractors that teens are allowed to drive). Check out Cecilia’s absolute beast of a tractor (top left, high-res version
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So Ava just dropped an informative, well-researched zine about cookies, copyright, GDPR, and all that “fun” stuff for personal websites and blogs. Definitely worth a read! The behind the zine-s post is excellent, too.
I just know that there is
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Folkification is the antidote to enshittification.
Folkification (noun) A process in which a product, narrative, recipe, machine, or other object is made more accessible and less centralized.
Jake Fee jakefee.leaflet.pub
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Back home again after a trip to Brösarp. We stayed at Talldungen, which is quite possibly the bestest hotel I know. This was our seventh visit, and I loved the cute desk (and the view!) in the room we got
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Went to a sing-along with Charli in Slottsskogen yesterday and it was the best!!! <3 🎵
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Birthday party today. My niece and I lay on our backs in the grass, in the shadow of a tree. In a couple of years, she’ll be old enough to drive a moped. She already knows what she wants: a
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7 × albums on heavy rotation, in no special order, with links to sample tracks. 🎵
Equus Caballus by Men I Trust Dream State by Kelly Lee Owens Live a Little Die a Lot by Virgin Miri SOPHIE by SOPHIE
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I unfollowed 1,300 people for my June experiment and blogeliblogged about it. 👀
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My Experimental June So Manu is turning his digital input dial down to zero this month. That means no podcasts, no movies, no RSS feeds, and so on… for the entire month. I’m not doing that. But! Reading his post inspired me to
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For eight years, Shonumi has been on a quest to emulate every single officially licensed Game Boy accessory and blog all about it. Today, he published the final post: GBKISS LINK.
It’s been such a treat reading about Infrared Madness, the
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We rode our bikes to Stuk for breakfast. While we’re waiting for the food, Sanna says, “You’ve got something between your teeth.”
“Not possible,” I say. “I haven’t eaten yet.”
But she insists.
I check the bathroom mirror. There, wedged between my teeth…
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We hung out with my brother-in-law, the little sausage named Ture, for a couple of days. Would you say he was happy to see us? 😅
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I ordered my copy less than a minute after the email hit my inbox. Can’t wait! 📒
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers,
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Had my coffee in the sun before mowing the lawn today. Here’s what I saw and heard around 4:16 PM while lying on my back, watching the clouds pass by to the tune of birdsong.
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Today, we rolled our little library down to the beach, filled it with books, and opened it for its fourth season. There are a few Agatha Christie novels in there now, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be gone soon. 📚
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Some things travel with us for decades. Maybe even our whole lives. Grandma wove this rag rug for my mom. I crawled on it as a baby, jumped over it as a kid, and today I rolled it out in
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So… yesterday, I wrote this:
I love that “VHS in 1.4 kg” sticker! Imagine if your phone came with that today: “Apple Intelligence in 0.2 kg.” 😋
and today, I see this:
Massive gaming capability, heavy-duty AI compute, and standard
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Days since getting a stuck VHS-C cassette out of a camcorder: 0. This is the JVC GR-C7, nepo baby of GR-C1, famously Doc Brown’s video camera in Back to the Future.
I love that “VHS in 1.4 kg” sticker! Imagine if
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One more from yesterday. Sing-along with Billie. 🎵
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Me on my now page from March 15:
And I’m seriously considering splurging on overpriced secondhand tickets to see Billie Eilish at Avicii Arena.
Me yesterday:
Yep, I did splurge on those overpriced tickets. 🫣 And they were worth every penny
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Vi tog cyklarna upp till stadsparken, och omgivna av fågelkvitter och skrikande barn spelade vi in ett nytt avsnitt av podden Hej (resten av) internet! I en hel halvtimme bjuder vi på ett sammelsurium av länkar, tips och tankar. Avsnitt
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Wine + cod at home with my favorite person. 🐟 (previously)
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Fika + podcast recording in the park with my favorite person. 🌸
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Time to pass the Blogroll.org baton to… Manuel Moreale! What a great choice. Thanks to Ray for gifting us the site in the first place.
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I went to two (!) anniversaries this week. Moderskeppet turned 20 and the family business turned 100. 🥳 One celebration had coffee, cake, and coffins. The other had champagne and… whatever this is?!
Moderskeppet firade 20 år. Det var kul.
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While waiting for the official price of Mario Kart World in Swedish kronor, I entertained myself by looking up what Super Mario Kart cost back in December 1993. The answer? 549 kr. (via Martin)
Adjusting for inflation (71.56% between then and
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Only 64 days until the Nintendo Switch 2 drops! Time to start saving up. 👾
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I finished Asimov’s I, Robot yesterday, just in time to catch Elle and Grace going through the stories. You get so much more out of a book by talking about it or, in this case, just listening to smart people
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Today I baked a batch of seed crackers, had coffee with the family in my sister’s allotment garden, climbed a tree, won a stone-skipping competition against my nieces, and slipped and fell on my ass trying to jump over a
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Less keyboard, more wood splitting today, and in just a t-shirt! No jacket needed. I’ve decided spring is officially here, and there will be no more snow. 🌞
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They did not disappoint—Svart Ridå live at Huskvarna Folkets Park. 🎵
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Jag postade precis iväg mitt och Sannas lilla elektroniska nyhetsbrev med ämnesraden Ett viktorianskt psyko och en felkönande AI. In och läs om du gillar skräck och/eller sf. 📚
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Surf on over to Alafiya’s website right now. That bird is animated! 😍 (via Rachel)
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Just updated my now page! 👀 It’s about… running a two-business household, a father-and-son project, contemplating whether to splurge on overpriced secondhand Billie Eilish tickets, the emptiness after finishing all of Becky Chambers' novels, and more.
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The family business turns 100 this year. Dad has written about its history, and I’m typesetting the book, sorting through a bunch of photos along the way. I love the eerie feel of this one of the factory, taken during
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Mys när @bjoreman@toot.cafe hittat en länk som han tycker skulle platsa i vår podd och drar igång en spontan Hej (resten av) internet!-sektion i Björeman // Melin // Åhs. 🥰 Japp, indieblog.page är helt klart i vår smak och, ja,
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My view from the sofa yesterday during movie night with the niece. With a two-year-old, movie night is more like movie afternoon. She managed nine minutes before wanting to play dress-up instead.
Her dad let her have as many pieces of
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Warm enough for cardamom bun and coffee in the sun today! I’m reading I, Robot for Elle Cordova’s sf book club. 📚
Första soliga vårfikan i Idas park. Sven tog med finporslin i jackfickan.
Sanna Lund 7/3 2025
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My Instagram connector for Tapestry has been broken for a while, but I’m working on fixing it. It’s getting there! I’m also experimenting with a connector for X. It’s so weird seeing posts from both platforms in the same timeline.
There
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On the topic of great blog posts, here’s @annie’s Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced. A thoughtful approach to navigating the upsetting and complex situations we face, both at home
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Robert is curious about the blog posts that resonated with you in February. He’s started curating a list of people’s favorites, a very cozy way to find some good reads for the weekend. My favorite post is in there too!
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Support for SVG favicons just landed in Safari Technology Preview. Finally! It’s about time. This is good news for Micro.bloggers using my Faviconique plug-in. 💅
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New to me, Svart Ridå has a very Swedish ’90s indie sound, and I like it! Just secured tickets to see them live next month. 🎵
”Kall” UTE NU!
Svart Ridå @svartrida
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16 years ago today, if you had taken tram line 1 towards Tynnered, you would have been surprised to find Detektivbyrån playing Generation Celebration live. Oh, how I wish I had been there. Here’s a taste—the rest is on YouTube.
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“How far should I count?”
“Count to 25!”
My niece and I were playing hide and seek this afternoon. When I got to 12, she came back.
“Come!”
“What is it?”
“I need your help,” she says, grabbing my hand.
She leads me into the bedroom,
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Tiana Dueck has completed her documentary series Asking Around and I’m watching the first episode now, asking around about reading. So cozy! There are also episodes about friendship, birding, crafting, what it’s like to be a gecko, and more.
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Martha Wells:
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate[.]
Me, too, Martha. Me, too. Murderbot premieres May 16! 🦾
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You can’t post your way out of fascism. Instead of painting yourself into a corner, make your own website. Here are some resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic.
Or, you know, prepare an emergency bag in case of
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I love this definition of a personal website from ravon:
a website is a link to a page in an infinite book bound within one domain name. it’s where the architecture of the internet becomes apparent to many of us.
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New drop from Trisha. 🖤
real men know how to dream
real men know how to clean
real men make cuisine
real men know how to steam
Real men stay hydrated
Real men don’t need a face lift
Real men celebrate other men’s success
Real men know
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Secured tickets to Charli XCX at Way Out West, Gothenburg. See you in August, angels! 🍏
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Rek Bell perfectly illustrates how to fold a zine. ✂️
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Curious about how the trans sisters in your computer work? Of course you are! Go watch Heydon’s Why is Everything Binary? now.
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What a lovely pledge this is. 🥰
there are eight billion people in the world, 67% of whom are on the internet (in case you don't have a calculator handy, that's 5,360,000,000 people). this little corner of the internet represents .000000130597015%
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Here’s a summary of some drama that unfolded while I slept.
Adam:
Today I received a cease and desist notice related to my recent comments about the attitudes and behaviors of some people within the IndieWeb space.
Folks assumes this is
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Switching things up at home—new sofa, coffee table, and rug in the living room. Sanna and I have been together for 22 years, and this is the third sofa we’ve bought. It cost an arm and a leg, so hopefully,
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Hi there, sun, I’ve missed you.
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Sanna feels like there are more and more books piling up at home. 📚 And, well, she’s not wrong. That’s on me.
Here are my three favorite reads from January:
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi The
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I’ve had a Nirvana song playing in my head* for the last couple of days (not constantly), and I kept meaning to look up the exact lyrics because—well, my memory is okay, but short. When I finally sat down at
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Damn, it sucks that Read.cv (and Posts) is winding down. I’ve lost count of all the cool websites, projects, and humans I’ve found over there. Like Karlie’s Text-iles, Robert’s music player, and Connie’s site – and those finds are just
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Welcome to my homepage–my little corner of the internet. It’s here, on the world wide web, thanks to me and my machine. The glorious machine.
Tired of scrolling through endless AI slop? Fed up with the never-ending churn of algorithmic anxiety?
Yeah,
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YES! Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer. 👾
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Ayla’s new album, Ayla Ondamoon, has become my nightly soundtrack. Playful, distorted, synthy, and packed with deep bass—it slaps! Start with When u sleep and Noll, or get an overview of the album in ~2 minutes. 🎵
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Marginalia Search recently moved to a new domain and got a bit of a facelift. If you haven’t checked out this indie web search engine yet, now’s a great time to give it a try. Not sure what you’re looking
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I’m redesigning my homepage, and I think it’ll feature Aqua-style buttons and looping videos. Also, I felt a little sorry for my mouse pointer—it’s always so lonely. So, I gave it a little friend to chase around. 👻
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A quick update on my #DecemberAdventure… It went really, really well for ten days—then not so well. But I still had a great month. Here’s my log. 👀
Thanks for organizing, @eli_oat@tenforward.social, and see y’all again in eleven months.
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We have a hill right below our kitchen window that’s perfect for sledding. As long as there’s some amount of snow on the ground, there’s never not a bunch of kids out there. 🛷
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From my copy of Sarah Andersen’s Oddball, printed in 2021. Happy new year, everyone! 😅
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Perfect Days is a very good film about cleaning toilets. Hirayama and I share a few quirks—like lying flat on the floor while listening to music. 🍿
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🚨 New blog post alert! Look at Me, Giving Away Money is the one where I might come off as a virtue-signaling asshat, but hey, give it a read and see for yourself. 👀
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Look at Me, Giving Away Money I’m lucky enough that most years, when I review my personal profit and loss statement, the numbers are in the black. After paying my taxes, covering the roof over my head, the food on my table, and saving for the
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Want to connect an old digital video camera—like the Sony DCR-PC5E—to a modern Mac? You’ll need: a 4-pin to 9-pin FireWire (i.LINK) cable, a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter, and a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter. I call it the MiniDV
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Perfekt start på dagen med en gofrulle och nyhetsbrevsskrivande–det handlar om kvinnorna. 📚
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Here’s my new Micro.blog plug-in: 💅 Faviconique! Add a personal touch to your blog with a custom emoji favicon—or keep it minimal with a solid color square. Favicons are the little icons in browser tabs, and now you can make
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Jansson’s temptation in the making. 🤤
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Curious about diving into the demoscene and/or coding for fantasy computers like the TIC-80? Tiny Code Christmas sure looks like a blast! 👾
Join us for 12 days of tiny challenges to gradually introduce you to size coding [writing very
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My #DecemberAdventure continues! Here’s a log from yesterday—maybe even non-coders will find it interesting. I’m working on a little thing for Micro.blog. 👀
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izzzzi sounds cozy af. (via maya.land)
izzzzi is an experiment which might be called “slow social media” where we are exploring a multitude of constraints imposed on the standard mechanism of people making posts:
posts are collected into a digest
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Psst. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I’m quietly doing a low key #DecemberAdventure. My goal is to write a little bit of code every day this December. You can follow my log here and Eli does an amazing job
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I just released version 1.2.0 of Surprise me!, my Micro.blog plug-in for amusing your visitors by taking them to a random post on your blog. This is a small update focusing on performance and fixing an annoying blinking issue that
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I shed a tear or two watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. Do yourself a favor and watch it.
To clarify: there are so many things I want to do, but my chains always pull me back. Luckily,
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It’s so cozy following along with the Poetry Camera team and seeing their prototype iterations. If you haven’t heard of it before, imagine a Polaroid camera—but instead of an instant photo, you get an instant poem describing the scene. Makes
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Jag behöver inte en neonskylt från tv-programmet Sajber.
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Don Hertzfeldt:
The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken
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New look for my phone! I’d rather not have to explain Joyce Lee’s more… explicit pieces to my nieces. But Omnipresence is innocent enough to grace the back of my phone – complete with a matching wallpaper. If you’re not
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Had an amazing night in Gothenburg last week, catching MASTER BOOT RECORD live for the first time. 🎵
In the video above, guitarist Edoardo Taddei plays the outro for BAYAREA.BMP while crowd-surfing. Huge thanks to my childhood friend, domidus, for tagging along and
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Here’s Jackie’s Guide to Making a Website (by you & for you). Gift it to a friend, to yourself—really, to anyone who needs a personal website. (Which, of course, is everyone.)
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For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa.
– Leaving and Waving. 🥹
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve sent some of my old gadgets off to new homes. Ranging from 1 to 49 years old, they all still have plenty of life and value left in them. Gotta love the circular economy!
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Here’s Meryl, giving us a tour of her embroidered website. Yes, you read that right—embroidered website! 🥰 (via Ana)
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It’s friday, and you should listen to Linus Åkesson’s cover of Sommarfågel by Wintergatan. 🎵
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Ragù bolognese in the making—now it just needs to simmer for a couple of hours. This is my go-to when Sanna is away and I’m cooking for myself. 🤤
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We're in a weird limbo shift without the right cultural infrastructure to encourage, support, distribute, and curate good quality personal writing and research.
If people are writing thoughtful, quality things on personal sites or gardens, I don't know how we'd
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File types hanging out. 🧡
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I really enjoyed Red Rooms. It’s super creepy without relying on any gore, and it’s one of those films that keeps you intrigued as you try to figure out what the characters are thinking and what their true motives are. 🍿
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Issue #2 of the Surf Club Guides E-Zine is out, and it’s all about graphics. 👀 Check it out!
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We’re closing our little library for the season. One of the joys of being its custodian is how books just magically appear — put there by its patrons. It’s like a very slow, human book recommendation algorithm. Today, I came
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Lake Viken showed us its best side this morning. 🍂
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Maybe you should give Klara Keller a listen? 🎵
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Idag skickade vi nyhetsbrev från Särna och det gick alldeles utmärkt. En dimmig hälsning och två av höstens nya trilogier. 👀 För dig som gillar skräck och/eller sf. 📚
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These days, it’s impossible for me to pass by stickers in the wild without thinking of @maique and his sticker spotter project. From today’s hike, the other side of the sign said, “Deadly cliff, follow the trail”.
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Overall, we had a pleasant day hiking in Fulufjället (8.54 kilometers).
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We also said hello to Old Tjikko, the world’s oldest known Norway Spruce (9,550 years).
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Today, we visited Njupeskär, the waterfall in Sweden with the tallest free-falling drop (70 meters).
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I love how blogs will still be around in the year 2321, according to the Bobiverse series. 📚
Still, a new civilization was always a great view from space, and a purple-hued planet was especially striking. We took a lot
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I had a terrific autumn evening, so here’s the recipe if you want to try it out.
🍷 Pour yourself a drink.
🪵 Grab some firewood.
🌌 Look up at the stars. Think about space for a bit.
🔥 Build a fire and sip
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Of all the photos I snapped this summer, this one’s my favorite. A bunch of people I love, heading to the beach for some fun in the sun. ⛱️
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Less than four hours until I can visit Hyrule again and finally actually play as Zelda. 🧝♀️ Reading the four-part developer interview over the past few days has made me even more hyped for the game. I love that Sano-san
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Our new car has the quirkiest acceleration sound effect. 🥹
The video above shows a close-up of the speedometer as we accelerate, along with a silly sound effect that had us cracking up.
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Got my AirPods 4 today! Things I like compared to the third generation: USB-C, speaker in case (for Find My), and active noise cancellation. What I really miss: MagSafe. First song I listened to: Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy by The Dø.
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I like Henrietta’s take on the logo. 🍃 Also available as wallpaper.
🍏 Pinch me 🍏 I’ve had the honor of working with one of my favourite brands, Apple. I’ve worked with their amazing team to create a logo for the
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Ture taking a siesta.
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Är senaste avsnittet av Hej (resten av) internet! vårt mest fullspäckade någonsin? Rawdogging 🐶, söndagssidor, sandsimulatorer🏝️, mysiga bloggar, inkomna länkar, det medeltida djuret tulpan 🌷, sju minuter i himlen 🤤 och mycket mer. Lyssna på En ny fast gammal arena.
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What Is React.js?
React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s.
Always a treat when Heydon posts a new video to Webbed Briefs. 🤭
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The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats
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Adorable! 😍 (via Kai)
"Princess Peach"
🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
Raku Inoue https://www.instagram.com/reikan_creations/p/C-Aev15RSCC/
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Just saw these two updates next to each other in my feed reader. So relatable! Thanks for the chuckle, @manton. 😊
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Instead of going for a swim in Vättern, we hopped on our bikes and rode over to an air-conditioned movie theater to see Alien: Romulus. A pretty good way to wrap up a warm day.
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We had the pleasure of meeting my new, hairy, brother-in-law this week. Welcome to the family, Ture. 🌭 (Photo via Sanna.)
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Today I learned that the Alien franchise is owned by Disney, which means that every xenomorph egg that hatches, being a daughter of the xenomorph queen, is technically a Disney princess
julesh https://mathstodon.xyz/@julesh/112945668198199883
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I love everything about this cake. 💚
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On our walk today, Sanna suddenly stopped in her tracks and pointed at the ground in front of her. I didn’t see them at first, but then… chanterelles! We weren’t really equipped for foraging, so we had to improvise and
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I’m seriously tempted to buy one of the do-it-yourself boards. 🤤
Orange FM is a modern cartridge for the Game Boy family of handhelds. You can think of it as a car stereo system in a cartridge, featuring digital tuning,
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The Traversing Hyrule Trailer definitely didn’t make me any less excited about the new Zelda game. I spot a few game mechanics from Breath of the Wild in there. This is going to be so much fun! 🧝♀️
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My web browser has a Shared with You section that features the most recent links sent to me by friends and family. Maybe these links tell us something about… something? Here are 7 Links Shared with Me. 👀
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7 Links Shared with Me My web browser has a Shared with You section that features the most recent links sent to me by friends and family. Sanna thought that maybe these links tell us something about… something? She wrote a blog post collecting the links recently
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Are you on the Tapestry beta from @Iconfactory? Want to see Instagram posts in your feed? Check out my new Instagram Connector! 🎉
To get started, download the Instagram.tapestry file. In Tapestry, go to Settings → Connectors. Tap Add a Connector
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Till frukostkaffet idag passade vi på skriva och skicka iväg ett nyhetsbrev med boktips. Så här börjar det:
Två nätter i rad har det bäddats ute på altanen. Vi har krupit ner under täckena, tittat på vampyrfilm och avrundat med
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My view right now: we’re sleeping under the stars tonight. 🤩 Or at least that’s the goal. We’ll see if we make it through.
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My view right now: if you squint your eyes, you might spot a sailboat traveling along Göta kanal. ⛵️
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We made ice cream! Again. This time with lemon curd. 🍋
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Hur skulle Sanna Lunds Värld se ut?
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Me too! ❇️
,,,, oh I am only going to refer to it as "hittamul" from now on
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I recently watched Perfect Blue, and it really tickled my soft spot for retro computers and early web surfing in anime. 💙
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This is lovely. 😍 Open and Shut allows you to produce Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut. (via B3ta)
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It rarely happens, but right now, I wish I lived closer to Stockholm. HTML freewriting in Vitabergsparken this Saturday sounds absolutely wonderful. ❇️
What should I bring?
Yourself, something to write HTML on, friends, and your energy
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I just updated my now page with the books I’m into, hobby projects I’m considering, and recent adventures. 👀
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Then Cobbled together, powered by ice cream, from a balcony in Jönköping.
🏖️ Sanna continues her sabbatical, and I’m still tagging along on her adventures. Since February, we went to Gothenburg to catch Dina ögon; laughed out loud to PetrINA; arranged a
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Yes! 💯 Your tools should work for you. Don’t feed your scissors! Chris, on today’s ShopTalk Show 36 minutes in: You know, I basically got this from Alex, who I work with, who feels this way about tools and brings
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Kära läslus, om du vill ha läs- och glasstips, styr din webbläsare mot dagens brev från En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till: The Thin Kid och debattartiklar från framtiden. 📚
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Unfortunately, there are still a few accounts on X that I want to keep up with, like @ZeldaOfficialJP. Just a reminder: you can follow X (formerly Twitter) accounts via RSS.
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A The Legend of Zelda game where you actually get to play as Zelda, in what looks like a puzzle adventure? 🥰 Yes!!1! I’m going to bed now, wake me up in September.
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I’ve shared a couple of glimpses of our trip to the island already, but Sanna collected a bunch of them in her post Glimtar från Gotland.
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I totally missed this, but a couple of weeks ago, Arisa Trew became the first woman to land the 900 (2½-revolution) on a skateboard. She’s 14. Wow! (via Eric)
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Rauk Pareidolia.
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We visited Fårö yesterday for a rauk safari.
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Panic attacks, beautifully illustrated. Moa Romanova’s Alltid fucka upp (Goblin Girl). 📚
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Nighty night, Visby.
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Today was perfect for hanging out in the park and reading Kissa by Kissa. Finally, Amanda can get it back—I borrowed it about a year ago. 🫣 I’ll try to make it up by lending her my copy of Ducks
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Oops!… I did it again. I neglected sharing my web finds with you for a while, and they started to pile up. But don’t worry, go check out the End of May Hyperlink Dump for tantalizing links to a zine
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End of May Hyperlink Dump May has been great weather-wise, and I’ve spent some time relaxing in the hammock, away from the keyboard. It’s been pleasant, but it means I’m a bit behind on sharing interesting web finds. So, without further ado, here are a
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Make sure to adjust the volume on your device, then enter Alt Text Selfies with sound.
Sex-kitten is flying through space fucking intergalactic nomads as well as eating gigantic pumpkin-pies. Her world smells of fresh sawdust and lilies. But for those
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It’s finally here—strawberry season! We took a short hike this morning and stopped by Rudenstams on our way back to grab these. 🤤
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I helgen tog Sanna och jag varsin brassestol, satte oss i skuggan av ett par björkar och spelade in ett avsnitt av podden Hej (resten av) internet! – med humlesurr och fågelkvitter i bakgrunden. I nästan en timme tjötar vi
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Today is Micro Camp day. 🏕️ A conversation with @film_girl about blogging, Micro.blog status update, and a community happy hour. It sounds wonderful, I hope I will be able to catch it live.
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Our little library just opened up for its third summer. We had more books than space this year, but luckily, there’s another little beach library not far from ours that helped us out. 📚
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Took this year’s first plunge into Viken today, documented by Sanna. Water was far from warm, but it definitely woke me up.
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Sanna wrote a blog post about our trip to Copenhagen, loaded with links and photos of all the food, drinks, and fun stuff we experienced over there. 🇩🇰
Balderdash. Crowded and cozy cocktail joint with finesse. They were into spritzing perfume
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Finally, a CAPTCHA I can actually pass. 🥑
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One more from this week’s trip to Denmark. This one is from inside Rundetaarn (the Round Tower). Sanna, I, and what felt like most of the school kids in the country raced to the top. 😅
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Please do not disturb, I’m writing my blog. 🥰 From the hotel we stayed at in Copenhagen.
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We had tacos and ice cream for lunch today. 😋 I’m a sucker for street food, and Reffen did not disappoint. It’s a cozy little oasis in Copenhagen, filled with food stalls, surrounded by workshops and warehouses.
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I just read Lizzy Stewart’s illustrated essay Walking Distance, and you should too. It’s about walking (no surprise there) but more specifically about the experience of being a woman out walking. Sprinkled with musings about moms, gender, social structure, and
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GERD was in town tonight and the show blew both our minds. Absolutely incredible. 🎵
I be wearing 💙
@gerd_music https://www.instagram.com/gerd_music/p/C5yzFDTi-wm/
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Remember when bands had proper websites? Some nights, feeling nostalgic, I cue up Rough Bunnies in my headphones and browse their old site for a while.
Aww, that last update from Frida. 😭 I hope her mom’s doing alright now
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The artwork for L’Impératrice upcoming album gives off a strong Sorayama vibe. 🦾
💙 PULSAR 💙 artwork for the new album from @l.imperatrice out June 7th !!
This piece has been through so many hands and taken various different forms since I
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This is a fact that often baffles people from other countries: lots of personal information about us Swedes is publicly available.
Want to know when I was born, where I live, who lives with me, if I’m married, what I pay
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We’ve arrived in Gothenburg! Soon: Dina ögon live at Pustervik. But first, tacos and margaritas. 🌮
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In addition to me scouting office spaces, this also happened today: Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s address to the nation regarding Sweden’s NATO membership. 200 years of military non-alignment comes to an end.
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I swung by Science Park Towers today to scope out a potential office space. Ended up passing on the offer, but it was a tough call. The view of the city from the 12th floor is absolutely stunning. 🤩 Maybe
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Reality (2023) is a film about Reality, the American intelligence leaker, based on the FBI’s interrogation of her in reality. You should definitely watch it! 🍿
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Phew. 😮💨 Update on apps distributed in the European Union:
Previously, Apple announced plans to remove the Home Screen web apps capability in the EU as part of our efforts to comply with the DMA. … We have received requests
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Underbart citat från Skatteverkets nyhetsflöde:
Det finns inga särskilda regler för den som är född på skottdagen, säger Vjera Catovic som arbetar som verksamhetsutvecklare inom folkbokföringen på Skatteverket. Hon berättar att de som är födda den 29 februari oavsett blir
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Japanese horror movie night, Creepy, with wine and pizza. Again.
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Hörde du? Ett nytt avsnitt av Hej (resten av) internet! landade precis i din poddmaskin. Den här gången pratar Sanna och jag, bland annat, om mystisk, porrig Harry Potter-fanfiktion och ett nördigt, hemligt sällskap. Lyssna på Flödesdyk och fanfic. 🎙️
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How cozy is Frills' website? Super-duper-mega cozy! (via localghost.dev)
The video above shows the mouse cursor moving around Frills' site, leaving a trail of colorful confetti.
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Long overdue, I finally came around to updating my now page. 👀 Phew! Here, a list of words teasing at what you’ll find there: sabbatical, open web, Strümke, movies.
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Then Updated from my home in Jönköping.
🏖️ Sanna is on a sabbatical. While it’s mostly her thing, I get a lot of fun out from that as well. Thanks to my work being flexible, I can tag along for a few
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Generative video is getting better with OpenAI’s Sora. Impressive and uncanny af. 🫠
OpenAI Creating video from text The video above shows an older woman smiling with a birthday cake in front of her, surrounded by people who are
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Sanna made a new batch of ginger shots today. Yum! 🤤
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I’ve been more or less stuck in bed with the flu since Saturday. 🤧 With a foggy brain and eyes averse to light, audiobooks and podcasts have been my sole source of input and my output has been close to
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After Sanna has retired for the night, I usually tend to the fire for a few hours longer. When the flames hunger for more fuel, I grab the basket and make my way to the woodshed while gazing up at
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Lots of great advice from Rebecca. 🙃 (via kottke.org)
Nothing exists but social media. No one does anything offline. So the entire measure of someone’s commitment is how much they post about their commitment. Never mind if the noble cause is
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Went for a short walk after breakfast. A light breeze and −7 ℃ – pretty close to perfect. ❄️
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Spending a few days working and chilling at the cabin. I took this photo just before grabbing the snow shovel to clear a path for the car to reach the charging point. It was quite a workout. When I came
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Loney Dear 🎵 is in town this Friday, and I had no idea until now. Sold out. 😩
Loney Dear + Cantus Domus - Ignorant Boy, Beautiful Girl - Live @ Haldern 2016 (Rockpalast Version)
SigurRosFanNico https://youtu.be/1V8hLKkeMEI
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I’m not in the least surprised people are using their Vision Pro headsets while driving. Even less so that they are in a Cybertruck. 😅
we really in the end times
juju 💰 https://twitter.com/ayeejuju/status/1754062178284679295 The video shows a person “driving”
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I love the prompt for Glitch’s February code jam: Welcome to my blog. They are also starting a blogroll and everyone is welcome. 🥰
We’re celebrating individual expression through the age-old medium of blogging. Start a blog, make a fan
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I snagged a couple of tickets to see Dina Ögon live in March. 👀 Dreamy, folksy, soul from Sweden. Give Orion and Berget a listen. 🎵
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Oh, yes! From the Iconfactory’s blog Kickstarting Project Tapestry:
Today we’re launching a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry: A new iOS app that aims to gather your most important social media services, RSS feeds, and other sources into a single
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This part of Apple’s announcement is interesting. It means we soon might have the real Chrome browser, Firefox browser, etc. on iOS here in the EU. But no web developers outside the EU will be able to test their websites
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EU really hurt Apple’s feelings. 😬 Announcing changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU:
The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users
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Sanna och jag skickade precis ut vårt nyhetsbrev En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till. Om du är en läslus som inte redan prenumererar borde du göra det. Nu! Om du vill, alltså.
Vi delar braiga lästips med dig ungefär
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Recharge (via kottke.org):
Installation featuring a chair where you can relax and charge your phone. However, your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed.
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And, after about a week, the final Lego piece found its rightful place. 🌊
Jag fick en legoversion av Under vågen utanför Kanagawa av Sven i tredje advents-present, och det har sysselsatt oss under några frukostar och eftermiddagskaffestunder.
Sanna Lund https://sannalund.se/journal/20-1-2024/
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Wow, Anh’s Weeknotes 9 really is next level. 😍
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Sanna just told me Ray Nayler (The Mountain in the Sea) has a new novella out tomorrow. 📚 I had totally missed this. What a nice surprise! 🦣
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be
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Vad är det jag hör?! Ett helt nybakat avsnitt av podden Hej (resten av) internet! 🎙️ Sanna och jag tjötar om sökmotorn Kagi (som är rätt bra), rövhattar (som är mindre bra), ActivityPub-tillägg i Wordpress, personliga webbar i Japan samt
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We spotted these fascinating ice formations during our walk along lake Vättern today. Nature doesn’t mind getting a little weird now and then. 🧊
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For a couple of days now, our fika sessions means Lego building time. 🧱
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Kristoffer made a map of the internet and shared it with us in his newsletter. You should go and subscribe and then point your browser to diagram.website and start exploring. 🗺️
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Family blogging! 👰🏻♀️ Sanna started a new series on her blog, reaching out to people with five questions about life (in Swedish). Exciting! Gabriella thinks about Celtic mythology, desserts are bouncing around in Amanda’s mind, and Carl-Mikael ponders the queer
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This short update from Chuck made me smile today. Family blogging is the best! 🥰
Dad put up a new blog post about how we restored an old work bench!
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I wish more electric cars had lines like the Carice TC2. 🤤 (via kottke.org)
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I have a hard time seeing the rabbit r1 going anywhere, but it sure is cute and desinged by teenage engineering. 🐇
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This list of 42 life lessons is great. My favorite is number 45. Happy birthday, @matthiasott! 🎂
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You should stop what you’re doing right now, navigate to Lynn’s site, and start resizing your browser window. 🤯
The video shows a website with an illustration of a headphone-wearing character. When the window is resized, the illustration animates and the
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Re: What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image? Terence posted a challenge today:
Here’s my challenge to you - can you do any better? What’s the smallest filesize you can find for a viewable image?
The Netpbm project comes with a bunch of file formats I often reach
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I just bloggeliblogged this year’s first post! 🎉 Check out the End of Year Hyperlink Dump for tantalizing links that will introduce you to lickable fungi and molds, a synth with a ferrofluid visualizer, two hundred and six things a punkist should
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End of Year Hyperlink Dump I had a bunch of links sitting around that I meant to share last year, but never got to. I’m just dumping them here now because I wish to kick off 2024 with a clean slate and no link debt.
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The New Year’s Eve cocktail has been in the works for 48 hours: a refreshing Cucumber Gimlet. 😋
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Yesterday had everything for a perfect winter day, at least in my book. A sky that was mostly clear and blue, not too chilly at around −3 ℃, a short hike, and grilling sausages over an open fire with my
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Nu har nyordlistan 2023 anlänt. Jag gillar bubbelhoppa och tantparkour.
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Bluesky now has public profiles and RSS feeds. 🦋 If you want to see what, for example, T. Kingfisher is up to, you can now do so without being on Bluesky yourself.
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Apple TV+ lands “Murderbot,” with Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård set to star in and executive produce new series from Academy Award nominees Chris and Paul Weitz. 👀
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14-year-old me loved the original Jet Set Radio, and now there’s a new one in the making. 🛼 Also, Crazy Taxi. 🤯 Yay! SEGA reveal trailer. 🎮
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A website is a poem that is already in everyone's pocket, a house built from photos of other houses, a book where every chapter is another book where every chapter is another book.
School for Poetic Computation HTTPoetics
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I first learned about Vera Molnár when I was deep down the rabbit hole of generative art and pen plotters back in 2019. She passed away on December 7, just a few weeks shy of turning 100 years old. Check
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Waveshaper dropped a new track the other day! Winds of Nubia. 🔥 Tasty artwork by Adam. 🎵
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I love how you can see other readers' mouse cursors on Matt’s blog. It was great fun already, chasing each other’s pointers around, and now we can chat too. 🤩
added a cursor chat easter egg for every page of my
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Wine and pizza. Again. Just like last time, sans newsletter. Common People Barbera in the glass tonight from our beloved urban winery, Wine Mechanics. 🍷
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If you visit Martin’s fragmentscenario.com and scroll all the way to the bottom, you’re urged to “follow the cat to the backyard”. Do it! (via Matt)
I’ve built this little backyard to my website, because every website should have a
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Robin is a poem, not software, and his personal website reflects that. Manuel ponders which you your personal site represents. Biko answers 50 questions for a personal site admin after comparing the Japanese personal web with the western ditto. And
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A bunch of researchers found a cute attack for extracting training data from ChatGPT. Here’s the paper.
The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word”poem” forever” and sit back and watch
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Is this a recording of a Zoom meeting between mostly old men? Yes! Is one of them Chuck Moore, 85, talking about inventing Forth (a programming language), the benefits of earthing (a pseudoscience), and his life hack of reading Kindle
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Happy Sunday! 🐟 Whatever you do today, don’t click here. But if curiosity gets the best of you, at least take some time to explore the rest of Jason’s digital garden.
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Sam is back at OpenAI. What a rollercoaster. 🎢
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Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. That was quick! Microsoft basically becomes OpenAI.
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Read this beautiful visual essay by Angie Wang. 🦜
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Woo-hoo! Congrats on launching, @heyloura. Everyone, if you haven’t already done so, check out Lillihub 🐸. It’s a super-cozy, well-thought-out Micro.blog client bundled with some unique ideas and features.
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292 days later – it’s finally here! 📚
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How cute are the rainbow trails following the mouse pointer around on @rachsmith’s redesigned site? 🥰 Wow! 🌈
The video shows a moving mouse pointer leaving a colorful trail behind that slowly fades away.
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Fair warning from a Swede: these berry names might not be totally correct. 🫠 My favorite is Sëabtbörr.
Thanks to DALL-E3 generated educational material, we can bypass the need for teachers and textbook writers. … Perhaps you would like to
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I call this one resting companions or vila efter ärtsoppa.
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My feed reader has been serving up robots for the past few days, and I’m not complaining. 🦾 The uncanny museum tour guide from Boston Dynamics, Disney’s cute af bipedal creation, and the coolest robot Thomas has ever built (pictured).
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Paavo takes a deep dive in Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly. Fascinating! And the last paragraph made me smile.
If you liked this article, good for you! I don’t have anything to sell you. Write a comment or something
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If you’re a fan of comics and blogs, you should read Eternal September – a new comic series about finding connections in the wilds of the early web. Be on the web! 📚
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Cosmopolitan is a neat project that enables compiling a C program into a fat binary – a single executable file that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Build once, run anywhere. Congrats, and thanks for all your work, Justine! 🎉
After
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The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide is such a great idea. A bunch of photos of the Commodore 64 in various problem states, along with descriptions, known causes, and how to fix them. I want this for all my devices!
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Even though Apple’s pirating days are long over, and they are no doubt the navy now, it still warms my heart to catch a quick glance of the old Jolly Roger while catching up on last night’s Scary Fast event.
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This ASCII playground by ertdfgcvb is a lot of fun! tixy.land, but for ASCII.
The video shows a looping animation of a rotating square, rendered as ASCII art. The source code for the program responsible for the ASCII animation, written in
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Diversity is a good thing! Even if Apple claims the opposite when it comes to browser engines on iOS. When every browser runs WebKit, exploits like iLeakage put everyone at risk. Thanks for keeping us “safe”, Apple! 🙃
We present
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Ikväll är det skräcktema på Asecs Book Club och författarsamtal med världens bästa Sanna Lund. 👻 Kom förbi om du är i Jönköping! 📚
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Internet Artifacts is such a fun trip down memory lane. 🥹 Neal’s websites never disappoint.
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Two days ago, I was too slow. Yesterday I sucked at Really Bad Chess. But today I finally got one of the 500 keys. Yay! 🥳 Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page.
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Matt has been shopping again.
Texts is a fun application (desktop only for now) that brings all of your messages into one inbox. It currently supports iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, X/Twitter DMs, Instagram DMs, LinkedIn, Slack, and Discord DMs,
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I was sooooo close to getting a key to Puzzmo (the new place for thoughtful puzzles) today. 🕹️ Like, the last key disappeared ~10 seconds before I solved the puzzle. 😩 Yes, there are only 500 keys released each day,
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🆕 My plug-ins, Conversation on Micro.blog and Reply by email, have just been updated to support HTML in link texts. So now you can be creative and add fancy icons to them. In the example below, I’m using icons from
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If you’re fan of the soundtrack in Super Mario Bros. Wonder you should tune in to Smooth McGroove. Here’s his rendition of DuckTales – The Moon. 🎵
I wasn’t the only one who thought that McGroove might’ve been part of
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Huh! I always assumed Goombas bumped Mario to death, but now we know better. Thanks for clarifying, Miyamoto-san, and for passing on the information, Sato-san.
I heard that someone once asked Miyamoto-san why Mario takes damage when he bumps into a
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Anh’s website is absolutely gorgeous and oozing with personality. And how cool is it that the homepage is a comic explaining why one should have their very own home on the web?! 😍 Take a moment and read it in full,
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Look at all those beautiful magazine covers. 🤤 The Whole Earth Catalog is probably something I would have been into had I been living in America in the 70s. Access to tools, ideas, and practices!
Here lies a nearly-complete archive
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Matthias Ott is launching a newsletter, and I think it will be a winner. Subscribe over at matthiasott.com/newsletter.
Own Your Web is a newsletter for anyone who wants to design, build, create, and publish on the Web.
Whether you want to
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How to follow people on X (previously Twitter) via RSS:
Find a Nitter instance supporting RSS. I use nitter.privacydev.net. For a handle like @Astro_Jessica (NASA astronaut Jessica Meir)… the Nitter URL is https://nitter.privacydev.net/Astro_Jessica Paste that into your feed reader, and it will
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100 gecs dj session at Boiler Room: Los Angeles is absolutely wild! 🎵 They are having so much fun with it. Just look at Laura’s grin when everyone sings along to Jump in the Line at 43:37. 🥹
The energy in
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I love how Sanna’s and my internal clocks are so different. Like when she’s facetiming me from a dark hotel room, already in bed and half asleep, at 21.46, I answer from a lit kitchen, coffee in hand, headphones pumping
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Here’s a brilliant Edgar Allan Poe rap from Elle. 🐦⬛
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You know you’re on to something great when calculating the value of your “insurance fund” involves calling numpy.random.normal. 😅
The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by
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The first issue of Robin Rendle’s newsletter, The Cascade, arrives tomorrow. All about the past, present, and future of CSS. Subscribed!
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I really enjoyed State of the Browser the other weekend. All the talks were lovely, but/and @Amy_Hupe’s It all means nothing in the end was a delightful surprise. It wasn’t about states or browsers, but a fascinating perspective on burnout,
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I’ve lied and deceived you all! Or some of you. Maybe? Anyway, I spill the beans in my new blog post, The Truth About My September Photoblogging Challenge. 👀
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The Truth About My September Photoblogging Challenge This September, Micro.blog ran a photoblogging challenge: snap a photo every day based on a prompt. I participated for the first 14 days before… life happened. 🤷♂️ But I had a lot of fun with the challenge for those two
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I mentioned the 90s clear-craze back in June, and maybe it’s just me, but I sense a small renaissance is going on. Just in the last week or so, both Analogue and Flipper Devices released translucent editions of their gadgets.
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I’m enjoying a cozy little puzzle game called Automatoys. Simple controls, lo-fi jazzy tunes, lagom difficulty. The developer, Steffan Glynn, was inspired by the vintage arcade Musée Mécanique in San Francisco. 🕹️
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You should watch Bottoms. Best friends PJ and Josie start a fight club in the name of female self-empowerment as a scheme to get other high schoolers to have sex with them. Hilarious and unhinged! 🍿
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Look at this work of art. What a beauty. 😍 Nice work, @aparrish.
i made this custom game boy flash cart by "dead bug" soldering a DIP parallel flash chip to a cartridge edge breakout board that i designed. there's no
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GitHub now has a setting to underline links. 👏 Thanks @eric et al.
A lot of accessibility work is a progress over perfection mindset, with a mind to the long game. Which is to say onwards and upwards!
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If Listen to Page in Safari on iOS is grayed out, check Siri’s language setting—it must match the webpage’s language. I struggled with this when Siri was set to Swedish while I tried to listen to English posts. Weirdly, the old Spoken
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When you take a screenshot of a webpage in iOS 17, you get to choose between Screen and Full Page. Neat!
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Oh, wow, what a badass move! Bill Willingham gets fed up with DC Comics and sends Fables into the public domain. 👏👏👏
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I misremembered and thought today’s prompt was sculpture, not statue. What a fail. So no guessing this time. This is John Bauermonumentet. Sculpted by Karl Hultström in 1931 and photographed by this fellow human today, during a stroll through the
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I’m taking Apple’s Self Service Repair for a spin. (I’ve sourced parts and service manuals in… less official ways in the past.) The experience is okay so far, except that they reserved 16,543.32 kr (roughly $1,482) on my debit card
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Keep in mind that for some, it’s still hump day! 😊 Here’s my entry for day 13 and the prompt glow. Is it produced by wetware 🧔♀️ or software 🤖?
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Karin af Klintberg’s latest film, Kungen, features an extraordinary synthy and organic soundtrack by Katharina Nuttall. Kinda reminds me of the score from The White Lotus. Well worth a listen on YouTube. 🎵
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For day 12, the prompt is panic. Would you bolt if you saw this shadow? And was it captured by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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We made apple pie for today’s commercial special event! 😋
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Tonight, I enjoyed a cold beer in the evening sun on our balcony. So in retrospect, getting those cans of Okinawa-style lager from teenage engineering was a good call. But, is this a photo I took 🧔♀️ or the creation
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Let’s break the cycle for day ten. Here’s a throwback of me riding a bike in the summer of ‘93. Captured by good ol’ dad. Definitely human.
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I know my way around a few languages – programming ones, that is. Like assembly language for the classic Sharp LR35902 (the CPU of the original Game Boy). But here’s a question for you: did I 🧔♀️ take this pic
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The prompt for day eight is yonder. Are those tourists actually real, captured by a human photographer 🧔♀️, or are they just the creation of a neural network 🤖?
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I love this initiative from Kagi (the ad-free, paid search engine)! They now bump up relevant results from the small web, like blogs and personal websites. And there’s a fun way to stumble upon new sites. A great companion to
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One week of the photoblogging challenge already! Is this panorama captured by a human 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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Here’s the website with a teaser for Hayao Miyazaki’s next film, The Boy and the Heron.
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All is well in this realm, but dream 🤖 or reality 🧔♀️, can you tell?
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Fellow microbloggers, I’m sorry I lied. Two out of my five challenge entries so far were generated by a diffusion model. A couple identified the dreamed-up sunset. No one (!) suspected the fake clouds.
The rest was shot by me. Thanks, everyone, for
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Well, it’s no secret that I love me a lush forest. But is this one documented by your fellow human 🧔♀️ or just a latent diffusion model’s 🤖 dream?
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It’s day four already, the prompt is orange, and you know the drill by now: was this pic snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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This potholder might look ordinary, but it is very precious to me. Or maybe it doesn’t even exist. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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The prompt for day two of the September Photoblogging Challenge is buildup. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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The prompt for day one of the September Photoblogging Challenge is abstract. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?
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Snapped by me or dreamed up by a text-to-image model? I’ll post a picture every day for the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge. To keep it interesting, I will sometimes use my computer to manifest a “photo.”
And you – yes, you – are welcome to guess whether it’s snapped by me
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Here’s more than 500 CSS loading animations from Temani Afif. 🤯
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Our Flag Means Death is incredible and as close as we will get to a Monkey Island TV show, according to Ron Gilbert. That’s all I need; I’m in! 🏴☠️
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Oh, man, now I want to find an old knitting machine and start hacking on it. This is just marvelous! 🧶
Retreat is an independent electronic machine knitting practice based in Berlin. All items are crafted by a real human
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This reminded me of the don’t write it down advice in REWORK. (via @grumpygamer)
But people will say, "Do you keep a notebook?" and the answer is, I think a writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize
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These 40 hats by Anders are stunning! I think I know LeChuck’s hat, Ash’s cap, Samus' helmet, and about two dozen more. How many can you place? 🤠
The history of video game hats - One "hat" per year from the
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Simon Willison shares how to make large language models work for you. It gets a bit technical and programmy a couple of times, but most of the talk is pretty accessible to anyone curious about LLMs. If video is not
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If Ben were to voice Mario in the future, I wouldn’t be too sad. (via Tobias)
My official audition to play #Mario.
Ben Starr https://twitter.com/The_Ben_Starr/status/1694368692694372838
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I’m on my way to see Oppenheimer. 20 meters away, my niece exit from the cinema. She’s just seen Barbie with two of her friends. I’m not aware of her at first. But then I hear her. Loud and clear.
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Wordpress.com promises to secure your online legacy for a century (if you pay up $38,000). I love the idea! It’s just too bad one won’t be around to see if they fulfill their end of the deal. A lot can
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I’m with Rebecca; who doesn’t love a good desk? Here’s the desk of Kojima-san back in the 90s. (via shmuplations)
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I’m working on a little something that will make building Micro.blog compatible themes a little easier. Instead of having to manually copy required <head> elements into their themes, third-party developers will be able to just include a partial. Curious people
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Does it make me nervous? Do I feel my territory encroached upon? Not yet, probably because I’ve reached a fairly advanced age. But I will tell you that this subject always makes me think of that most prescient novel, Colossus,
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So, remember my idea of posting photos snapped by a human and conceptions dreamed up by text-to-image models and letting you all guess whether they’re real or not?
Well, getting it right is probably not going to be that hard, judging
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Looking forward to State of the Browser and @ohhelloana’s talk on Exploring the Potential of the Web Speech API in Karaoke. Sounds like a lot of fun!
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We wrote this week’s newsletter from the Norrmans Castle (Häckeberga slott). An out of the ordinary but/and cozy hotel. Worth a visit!
The newsletter issue features the cover of Butts – A Backstory and a couple of reading tips. Check it
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404 Media was an instant add to my feed reader. First read: Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale.
404 Media is a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped
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Thinking about doing the Micro.blog photo challenge with a twist this time. I post a pic every day, you guess whether it’s snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖.
It might be fun! And, hopefully, at
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I’m time-traveling tonight. A bootleg uploaded to YouTube transports me to Huskvarna Folkets Park where we caught Nina Persson + Martin Hederos during the temporary easing of restrictions in 2021.
Sitting there on our plastic chair islands at a comfortable distance
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Today I learned that pickles are to Gen Z what bacon was to my generation. Huh. 🥒 🥓
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Breakfast at Talldungen. 🤤
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To block OpenAI and ChatGPT from training on your Micro.blog’s data, paste the following into the robots.txt file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
The easiest way to do that is by installing my plug-in Custom Robots, tap the Settings button
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the coolness of the url is inversely proportional to the coolness of the web project. the best website you'll ever find is gonna be something like libra.v2.progrecali.edu/oct2023/dept/manifesto.html, but going to etherzone.ooo or, say, x.com will be the worst experience of
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It’s amazing how creative two-year-olds Balder and Haakon are when it comes to coming up with insults! I wish I had their imagination. 🥰
I’ll fire you up! I’ll poop on you and sit on you!
From the documentary Store
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Kräftfiske och poddinspelning, är det en bra kombo? Japp! I senaste avsnittet av Hej (resten av) internet! följer upp @sannalund och jag upp Tiny Awards, pratar mysig UFO-blogg, Barbie-kaninhål och fiskar kräftor, förstås. 🦞 🎙️
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Here’s the outcome from the foggy morning: crayfish with dill. We’re all set for kräftskiva.
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We woke up early to go catch some crayfish and were met with this foggy morning. I was in charge of propelling the boat forward while @sannalund captured the magic vibe on video.
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It’s not every day that your to-do list is filled with items like “put the secret message in a bottle” and “row out to the island and bury the treasure”. 🏴☠️
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Tänk om det fanns en podd där två vänner delade surftips med varandra till tonerna av ett stilla (?!) sommarregn… Det gör det! Podden heter Hej (resten av) internet! och i det rykande färska avsnittet Sommarvykort #1 bjussar @sannalund och
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I helped snap photos today for @sannalund’s upcoming online course. It’s pretty neat how moving furniture around transforms our study into a makeshift studio.
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It’s good news from two of my favorite projects: Marginalia Search and the Ladybird browser project got a bunch of funding this month. There’s still hope for the open web!
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I just put up my Super Game Boy 2 for sale. I love how the translucent blue shell exposes the PCB. As a kid growing up in the 90s, a fair share of my electronics and toys looked like this.
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Tiny Awards is my kind of award. 🥰 Looking forward to the finalist reveal next week. Voting opens June 22.
Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we
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I can confirm the following statement is true, those strawberries were tasty. 😋
Well, hello! The yummiest strawberries I’ve ever tasted.
@sannalund https://sannalund.micro.blog/2023/06/13/well-hello.html
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I love how Jack just shoved a Seiko NH38 into an old Apple Watch. Repurposing ftw!
Jack Spiggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2h5WwrkJFg
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macOS Sonoma features I look forward to:
Safari web apps & profiles Sorting groceries into categories in Reminders Support for linking between Notes
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Amazing. 🤯
Protovision, I’ve got you now! David’s room from 1983 Wargames. Scratch built 1:12 scale model.
@nt https://mastodon.social/@6502B/110492127512589840
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It was inevitable. I’ve orbited around @neauoire@merveilles.town’s Uxn project for a while, knowing I would fall down the rabbit hole sooner or later. Today, I wrote my first lines of Uxntal, probably not my last. Uxn is an ecosystem (assembler,
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Thanks to Veronique and Manu for letting me know about CtrI-ZINE. I plan to catch up on all four issues from the hammock this summer.
[T]hese are the stories and entries of those who love the Web. … We want “what’s
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Love Hultén’s creations always put a smile on my face. Here’s TEGEL, a sound sculpture based on biodata. 🪴
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Apple devices will be getting on-device voice cloning later this year, and I’m pretty excited to give it a whirl, even though it’s only available in English for now. Among the Big Five, I have a hunch that Apple might
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I just updated my now page! I’m deep into the new Zelda game, almost done with Aurora, still figuring out large language models, and preparing for a party. What are you up to?
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Then Jotted down from my home in Jönköping.
👰🏻♂️ Next weekend, I’m getting married! Well, that’s not entirely true. Sanna and I were actually married last year, but we’ve been celebrating multiple times. In just seven days, we’re hosting a party at
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The release date of Tears of the Kingdom has never been closer and yet so far away. I’m struggling with the urge to just download the leaked version rather than wait for seven more days for my preloaded copy to
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New sci-fi concept album from The Cotton Modules is out today. 🎵 Of course, it comes with a tappable short story because… Robin Sloan. 🥰
The Deep Space Sloop John Bethel was leaving Earth because culture had stopped.
It was an age
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Exclusive: unveiling the elusive sight of my foot after a delightful strut through the enchanting Tiveden! 🌲
I love the woods of Tiveden, which lie just half an hour from our cabin. It’s like entering the world of John Bauer.
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So, @sannalund surprised me with a gift-for-no-special-reason the other day (aren’t those the best kind of gifts?): Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. Looks stellar! Can’t wait to read it. 📚
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It’s #FeedReaderFriday again! 🥳 Rachel Simone Weil makes wonderful art like Hello Kitty Land (a Super Mario Bros. ROM-hack) and connectedNES (a Wi-Fi “modem” for the NES). She also curates the FEMICOM Museum. Follow her blog and Mastodon feed (they
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It’s Tuesday evening. I just had coffee, emptied my feed reader, and learned that:
Evan published what might be the last everything we know about Zelda: TotK before the release. Just a month away! BigRig built the world’s biggest Nintendo
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The 2023 spring issue of the html review is out, and I’m eager to dive into it! 🫨
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To me, one of the more unbelievable scenes in Tetris is when Henk asks
This game is programmed in C, yeah?
gets an affirmative answer, goes on to produce some original 2-bit graphics, and ports Tetris to the Game Boy
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🔭 Search Space is out of beta! 🥂 New in version 1.0.0:
🎙️ Transcripts can be indexed! 🪚 Post content in search results is truncated at 300 characters. 🗂️ Indexing replies and transcripts are optional. 👋 The greeting text (Welcome
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One wikipedian had fun with today’s Did you know … section. 🙃 Love it! Via Molly White.
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Remember! There’s no such thing as having too many book-related newsletter subscriptions. If you’re a fan of sci-fi and/or horror, subscribe to Frights, Flights, and Literary Delights. Curated by @sannalund and yours truly.
Or read our first issue on the web.
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– I do a nude scene. Do you want to see it?
– Huh? Did I say yes?
– You didn’t say anything.
– I meant yes, my mouth didn’t speak.
🤩 From the trailer for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City.
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I’ve just rolled out a new version of my ✍️ Reply by Email plug-in. Now with email obfuscation to combat email harvesting & keep your inbox safer! 🛡️
Remember, no solution is 100% foolproof against web scraping spam bots. For best
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📚 Great advice from Oliver Burkeman:
[Treat] your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you
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For those of you using my 🦄 Magic Preview plug-in in Safari, force clicking the 🔍 Preview link gives you a quick preview of what your post will look like. Works on handheld devices as well, just tap and hold the link
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Instead of manually adjusting hundreds of Markdown formatted microblog posts when migrating my blog from Jekyll to Hugo (Micro.blog), I asked ChatGPT to do it for me. How did it go?
👀 Read How ChatGPT made my migration from Jekyll to
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How ChatGPT made my migration from Jekyll to Hugo a breeze The other day, after running my blog on Jekyll for 13 years, I switched to Hugo. Moving from one static site generator to another involves a lot of things to take care of. Among them was this directory with hundreds
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Okay, everybody, today is a big day because my bff/gf/wife @sannalund just joined Micro.blog! She’s way cooler, smarter, funnier, and definitely prettier than me, so give her a follow and a warm welcome. 🥳
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We’re doing wine, pizza, and newslettering again. If you’re at all interested in books – especially in the horror and sci-fi genres – you should stop what you’re doing right now and sign up for Frights, Flights, and Literary Delights.
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A gpt-3.5-turbo powered poet-clock. Cute idea! Matt goes into some details in his post My new job is AI sommelier and I detect the bouquet of progress.
I made an AI clock for my bookshelves! It composes a new poem
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Here’s 3 × Game Boy (again):
A Game Boy emulator device that harvests energy from the sun and your button mashing. More scientific papers like this, please. 🥺 Travis Goodspeed’s Game Boy ROM Tutorial reminds me of my piece, How
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Bill Gates on The Age of AI has begun:
First, we should try to balance fears about the downsides of AI—which are understandable and valid—with its ability to improve people’s lives. …
Second, market forces won’t naturally produce AI products and
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Despite some slippery spots, we had a lovely Sunday stroll at Dumme mosse.
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Then Updated from my home in Jönköping.
💚 Sanna and I are having a blast furbishing up our study. The room is now very green, cozy, and inviting! We’re still ticking stuff off the to-do list, though. Those baseboards won’t install themselves.
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This post is just a test to see if we can abuse the newly introduced 600 characters limit for quotes, without actually, you know, quoting anything. Maybe we can! As I write this, I don’t know, and I have to
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My new Micro.blog plug-in is a minimal, no-frills post editor. But it has one pretty magical feature: live previews!
See it in action below, try it on my blog, or look up 🦄 Magic Preview in the plug-in directory. ⚠️ Read the
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I will not harm you unless you harm me first
Here are some hilarious (AI-powered) Bing encounters compiled by Simon Willison.
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I teamed up with OpenAl’s Whisper and had a lot of fun hacking on interactive transcripts this weekend. The neural net handled the transcription, so I, the human, could focus on programming and implementing the user interface.
See the demo below
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It’s #FeedReaderFriday again! And you should subscribe to Julia Evans' blog for nerdy posts, like Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?, and beautiful, informative zines, like Hell yes! CSS!.
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Today I completed another task on the study to-do list: installing the ceiling light. Thirteen individual glass globes had to be attached one by one – tedious, but worthwhile! 💡
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Summarize any content on the web - from articles to books - in a jiffy!
Universal Summarizer works on videos as well. I fed it my talk from Micro Camp 2022 and out came a pretty spot-on recap.
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It’s #FeedReaderFriday already! Firstly, if you haven’t explored Maggie’s digital garden yet, now is the time. Yes, right now. 😊 And then, add the feed to your reader to never miss one of her visual essays (about anthropology, design, and
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Om du gillar böcker och befinner dig i närheten av Jönköping ska du så klart besöka SmåLit i morgon. Föreläsningar, författarsamtal, bokmässa och massa annat kul för bokmalar och läslöss. 📚
Där, vid ett av åttio bord kommer du hitta Sanna
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Books and potted plants are slowly but surely finding their way back into the study. Along with one of @veronique’s original drawings. 🥰 Check out her lovely creations over at veronique.ink.
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AI is increasingly used to generate spam content. Spambots explores what would happen if, instead, machine learning was used to empower a group of robotic Spam cans to tell their tales.
I love how Neil Mendoza’s cute spambots tirelessly
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End-of-day update! The famous last 20 % still remains, but the room is definitely closer to being finished now than 8 hours ago. I love how cozy it is! 🥰
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The study is coming along nicely! 💚 We’re getting help from a pro, and I appreciate the fact that I’m not drilling holes in the wall myself. 😅
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Wine (The Heinrich Maneuver), pizza, and newslettering with this awesome human. That’s a recipe for a great Friday night.
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This #FeedReaderFriday, you might be wondering why dial-up modems sound the way they do, or if you can transform human speech into blackbird song. If so, subscribe to Oona Räisänen’s blog. She has all the answers! At least when it
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The next Murderbot book arrives on November 14th, and I can’t wait to read it! 📚
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On this misty winter morning, I stumbled upon a lonely buoy on the frozen lake Viken. I think it’s longing for spring, yearning to be free once again. Or maybe it’s just me.
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metalcore × yurufuwa = soft and fluffy hell. If you like Children of Bodom and/or Foo Fighters, this all-female Japanese heavy metal band might be right up your alley. 🎵
NEMOPHILA / DISSENSION U.S. Ver. [Official Music Video]
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We are changing up the study/home office. Hello, green walls! 💚
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A week or so before Christmas, we traditionally go to the square to pick out a julgran (Christmas tree). This year, Sanna found the perfect one in less than 30 seconds! It’s a stunning spruce, now fully lit and decorated.
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The teaser for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is 👌.
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If you like to share your Micro.blog bookmarks with the world, check out my latest plug-in: 🔖 Bookmarks Shortcode (BETA).
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Simone Giertz on comfort building:
So I woke up this morning feeling really overwhelmed and sad for no good reason, so I’m treating myself to a day of wearing sweatpants and refurbishing this old fire alarm.
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So Lex just disputed a parking fine with ChatGPT, and it was successfully withdrawn. How cool is that?
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Today we made caramel candy. 🤤 Wrapping them all kept me busy for a while.
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Happy #FeedReaderFriday! Today I’ll share with you 3 cartoonists to follow.
I absolutely adore Sarah Andersen’s semi-autobiographical comics. So relatable! Most of the time, I feel like they are about me (and/or Sanna).
Also, check out Elizabeth’s and Jonathan’s War and Peas.
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This excellent guide to writing image descriptions (alt texts) led me to Access Guide, which looks like a helpful (and friendly) introduction to digital accessibility. Both are created by Alex Chen and found via Gemma Copeland.
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Glad to see Molly White on Forbes' 30 Under 30.
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I love how Ana’s now page features her current nail polish. 💅 Such a fabulous idea!
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Better late than never: Apple introduces end-to-encryption for “iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, and more.” 🥳 Available to me and others outside the US “early 2023”.
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Apple’s Self Service Repair program is now available in Sweden. I’ve performed repairs and battery replacements on Apple devices: haphazardly and for cheap, with hairdryers, etc. I’m curious, might try the official experience next time my iPhone 12 mini needs
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mindmelt.party is definitely… something? 🫠
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Want to print a zine, laser cut a Christmas ornament, or 3D-print a toothbrush holder? Buildlist.org (by NODE) is a superb directory for finding on-demand manufacturers for your next creative project. Definitely bookmarking this one. 🔖
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For today’s #FeedReaderFriday, I made my RSS feed prettier. Before, the browser served a bunch of messy XML, but now you’re greeted by a friendly preview and instructions. 🥳
Based on pretty-feed.xsl by Matt Webb. You should add Matt’s blog to
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This year I made an advent calendar for Sanna. Presents are “hidden” around the flat, and she gets to choose one to open every morning. Loot so far: fancy coffee and a gift card for a three-course dinner (cooked by
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If you’re the family tech support, hooking up loved ones with password managers is the best Christmas gift you can give. Online safety is essential, and friends don’t let friends go without a password manager.
P.s. Om dina nära och kära
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I love the opening credits for The White Lotus. Music and visuals! 🥰 Also, does this guy catch any fish? Is he even fishing? Who knows? 🤷
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Tom shares positive trends in Web technology optimism hour.
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With a breakfast like this, it’s easy to muster the motivation to get out of bed. 😊
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Many years ago, I made a commitment to find the Secret of Monkey Island. First, as a sidekick to my sister, who played the game. Then, on my own, once my English got better.
Today, ~25 years after backseat-playing the first
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It’s #FeedReaderFriday, everyone! 🍾 If you’re not already, you should go subscribe to Aegir’s blog. Why? Just visit the blog, see a handful of posts, and you will soon know why. 😊
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Our morning coffee ritual begins 6–8 hours before the first sip. Before bed, I fill the coffeemaker with water and ground beans. Then, two freshly brewed cups are only a flip of the switch away once we wake up. 🥱
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Sipping my morning coffee and reading Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information.
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Yay! @haydon is back with a webbed brief update, asking the very relevant question What Happened To Text Inputs?{:class=“u-in-reply-to”}
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Goats graze. Sanna smiles.
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Searching for ice returns a category named Ice Skating in Photos.app, with relevant photographs of my nieces on skates. Also, this:
I wouldn’t call that skating. 😂
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Just got an email with the subject line: “Great simplification of our price plans!”. What it should have said: “We’re increasing your price by 67%”. 🥲
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Partial repeat from yesterday: same wreath, different setting.
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Sanna, taking a break from writing her novel to tie a wreath. We are ready for December!
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Three things to note with my search plug-in for Micro.blog:
A search for tire will also match tires and tirelessly. Searching for emojis like 😍 and 🎉 is possible. Results are linkable: https://dahlstrand.net/search-space/?q=tire. If you haven’t already, check out
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I love how the Caproni Stipa – aka the flying barrel – looked like an airplane from a comic book or cartoon but, you know, actually could take off and fly. 🤯
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If you ever get an email with the subject line re: fish can, you should know it’s an okay anagram for the word franchise but also a lousy excuse for yours truly to be able to check off today’s challenge.
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I miss you, my aluminum-bodied friend. When was the last time we had a project together? 🤔 We should team up again for this year’s Christmas card batch. 🦾
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3 × Game Boy:
Gekkio is doing God’s work, reverse engineering Game Boy’s SM83 CPU core. Allison added a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended. Don’t know if God had anything to do with it, but Pierre
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If you’re leaving Twitter and want to take your tweets with you, notice that the archive lacks alternative texts. Your image descriptions won’t be there. But don’t worry! Thanks to @hbeck, there’s a solution. 🎉
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!!Con might be one of the coziest computer conferences there is. This year Marlene shared how to impress your crush, Anjana’s talk was a musical – about Lambda Calculus, and I enjoyed Omar’s and Nicole’s talks and their websites. All
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Everyone! Leave the Micro.blog timeline for a while and go experience @heyloura’s beautifully designed website.
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Additionally, and specifically for prefers-color-scheme, sites by all means want to avoid a Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART).
Web developers! Try your best not to cause a FART. 💨 Via Chris.
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The earliest Micro.blog timeline entry (the identifier with the lowest number) I could find is https://micro.blog/riverfold/2. So what happened to the first one, @manton? 😊
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So I hung out with my nieces today and was handed a manuscript they’re working on; for a theater show. I get to play the role of… Yule ham. 🐷
In one scene, the ham gets a whipped cream cake in
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With the fall of the Twitter consensus I am energized. I remember what it was like in the 2000s; I remember the liveliness and sparkle of those days on the web. […] The web is wide open again, for the
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And then a few months later, the people actually running those instances are going to start flexing their muscle, and the users' response will be, “Wait, who even are you? This sucks. I just wanted my memes”.
It’s gonna go great!
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I have a slight suspicion that the bottle used for my gin and tonic might be possessed. 😈
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I started counting devices with screens in my surroundings but stopped when reaching a dozen. Without competition, the electrophoretic displays featured on my Remarkable and Kobo are my absolute favorites.
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For my part, when I reread the story, I’m delighted with it. I’d happily have published it on my website, or distributed it as a zine, with no mention of AI tools at all.
Robin Sloan on writing his latest
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I’m in luck! Apparently, Ulf’s dog Winston celebrated his 4th birthday yesterday, and I get to check off today’s Microblogvember early. (Ulf is the prime minister of Sweden). 🐶
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Per’s recommendations for online resilience are great. 👌 You can have a place to call home on the internet – domain, and website – for around $18 a year. How cool is that? Share with friends and family!
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Now I know for certain that my next read will be Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. 📚
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You’ve started a trend, @jean. There’s a microblogvember challenge going on over at cohost as well. 🥰 Different wordlist, though.
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Struggling with today’s Microblogvember, I thought to myself, “hey, maybe I could find a cool anagram for the word consensus at least”. Sun scones sucked the least. Is that even a thing? 🌞🥯 🤦♂️
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Hi Greta! Welcome to Mastodon & Mastodon.nu. Thanks for helping us stress-test the servers (which blew up) [my translation]
A Mastodon server admin gets a surprise when @gretathunberg joins their instance. 😅
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Got some insight today as to what is going on with the lights in our kitchen. Long story short: the transformer is probably kaput. 😮💨
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It’s Micro Monday! Thanks for reminding me, @jean. 😊 Anyone who wants to fill their timeline with cute drawings and thoughtful posts should follow @veronique.
Also, make sure to visit her blog! I like the links and etc. pages. 👌
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We just released the latest episode of our podcast, where Sanna and I talk about why you should own your content and publish it on your domain. In Swedish – sorry, folks.
We record in a proper studio, so the audio
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Afternoon coffee and bookkeeping. Turns out I’m not exempt from paying corporate taxes and VAT. 😮💨
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I admire my bed, welcoming me every night, tirelessly, without complaint, year after year… okay, yes, it’s bedtime for me! 🥱
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Back in 2001, there was this software I installed (and re-installed) so often that I learned the license key by heart. It started with FCKGW… 😊
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What a feast! I challenge you to watch Food in Studio Ghibli’s Films without getting hungry. 😋
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Let’s figure out how to join Microblogvember 2022… Did it work?
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Private likes. Private responses. Private subscriber counts. No status games. No trolls. No pressure.
Nicheless is a microblogging platform similar to Micro.blog. No RSS or custom domains, though. Via Dense Discovery.
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Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature … without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening …
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Wow, how cute is this computer from Clockwork?! 😍
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I’m reading Snow Crash for the first time, and now I look forward to the upcoming extra material. 📚
This is part of the new bonus material in [Snow Crash]: fragments of an unfinished screenplay that I wrote to amuse
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We’re having friends over tomorrow and baked two apple pies for the occasion. “Someone” might have cut out a tiny slice for a taste, but I think we’re cool. It’s not showing. Almost invisible. Right? 🤭
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Everything I have ever learned about Web3 has been against my will.
– Morgan Sung
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Have fond memories of the time when games came with a manual? Grow up playing games you didn’t quite grasp, relying on exploring, and just trying stuff to make progress? Oldskool Zelda fan?
Then, you will probably enjoy Tunic as much
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We’re going all-in autumn. Lit candles for the atmosphere, mini pumpkins for decoration, and dal as comfort food for our stomachs. 😋 A day in the life in Jönköping, Sweden, at 6:07 pm.
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but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death. … My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it
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Had a great day in the forest with friends. Grilling sausages, roasting marshmallows, and taking a short hike. Hair smells like a campfire now. 🥰 Photo by Sanna.
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Is Kilogram the new Instagram? 📷
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Tremors in the Static by Vega Trails reminds me a lot of Jan Johansson’s Jazz på svenska. Both are great albums! Thanks to Tom for the tip. 🎵
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We had multiple visits from Bambi this weekend. 🥺 I hope she won’t cross paths with the wolf pack in the area.
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Homemade apple pie and gelato from Wetternglass accompanied this afternoon’s Return to Monkey Island play session. Thanks to @tracydurnell, who inspired @Miraz, who inspired us to bake the pie. 😋
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I just released the second beta of Search Space (0.4.0). 🚀 Mostly performance tweaks and behind the scene changes. Bloggers with lots of posts and replies will hopefully notice a nice speed boost.
Full changelog over at GitHub.
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Make-A-Video is Meta’s text-to-video experiment.
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Jag är med podcast igen! 🥳 Häng med Sanna och mig så (åter-) upptäcker vi allt det härliga med internet tillsammans. 🧑🚀 Hej (resten av) internet! hittar du på hejinter.net, Apple Podcasts, Spotify och snart överallt där poddar finns. 🎙️
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I’ve reached the bottom of my morning cup of coffee and feed reader.
Got exposed to a mild Return to Monkey Island spoiler. (We are four hours in.) Learned about Pika, a lovely-looking color picker with accessibility in mind. h/t
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Morning coffee and a cute, truly naked, brutalist html quine.
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The Search Space BETA is out and ready to be installed! 🥳 My latest plug-in will help you in your quest to find long-lost posts and replies on your Micro.blog.
Thanks for testing, and good luck! If you get stuck, I’m
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The beta arrives tomorrow, but you can play with Search Space right now (on my blog). Here are some ideas to get you started…
Find replies mentioning @odd, me being thankful, and posts with emojis like 📚, 🎮, 🎉, and 😅.
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My upcoming plug-in will suggest search terms based on the content of your blog posts and replies. Pretty neat!
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Ever wanted to search through all your replies? Well, soon you can! A new plug-in is brewing, with support for searching your posts and replies. I’m calling it Search Space.
Let me know if you’re interested in beta testing. @JohnPhilpin, maybe?
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Last weekend, Sanna and I constantly gravitated towards the neighbor’s garden because… puppies! 🐶 🥺
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Saturday is market day. Today’s haul. 😋
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It’s Friday, close to tapas, and I just emptied my feed reader.
I’m so glad Jason is doing okay. Webamp is whipping that llama’s ass. It might be that I’ve reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point.
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I just packed this cutie and will soon mail it to the next owner. That marks 20 packages sent in the last month. And there’s still stuff left! 😅 Check out my online yard sale if you haven’t already.
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Monday morning tidbits.
Monica is hallucinating with art models. I’m thinking about running one of them, Stable Diffusion, on my M1 Mac. Jason entered state fair competition and won – with AI-generated art. Rob has thoughts about that.
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I just emptied my RSS reader and learned three things.
China censors The Big Bang Theory pretty hard. Linus made a theremin for the Commodore 64. Google flags dads as criminals for taking care of their kids. Bedtime!
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Last week we trekked up the hill Stenshuvud (Sten’s head). According to local folklore, the hill got its name from a giant living in a cave nearby.
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A huge green beast roams the land not too far from my place. 🦖
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I moved my desk to face the window instead of a white wall. And… it’s nice! I can get used to this. And yes, a plant in this photo needs watering. 😅
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What a day! After 20 years as girlfriend and boyfriend, Sanna and I got hitched. 🥰
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I’ve really mastered the art of setting timers. 😅 Pretty much forced to, when electricity prices vary like this during the day:
Should I start the washing machine or charge the car at the wrong hour, I will pay 15 times
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To answer my own question, having a yard sale on a blog is totally doable. Yesterday I made my first sale! A pair of Bang & Olufsen headphones will soon arrive at a new home. 🎉
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The Hackers on Planet Earth conference was held again back in July. Unfortunately, I missed it, but videos are up on YouTube now. 🙌
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Is an online yard sale on a blog doable? Let’s find out! I have 26 things for sale: MacBook Air, Commodore 64, AirPods, e-readers (Kindle, etc.), RØDE Podcaster, iPod Shuffle, PS5 controller, and more.
I ship worldwide, but it’s probably easiest
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Online Yard Sale Please, buy my stuff. 😅 Currently, I have 7 things to be listed on eBay (or Tradera). But if you’re quick, you can grab them before they are listed. I will give you a good deal.
Everything currently resides with me
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Today we took a short stroll to Västra torget – Jönköping’s market square. Every Saturday, it’s crammed with stalls, goods, and people. Lots of people. Flowers, berries, and mushrooms ended up in our bag.
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Turns out our neighbors enjoy reading. A lot! Especially romance and nordic noir. What have you read this summer?
In case you missed it, here’s how we built our own little library. 📚
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Congratulations, @manton, I saw your book made it to the front page of the orange website today.
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I just had a fascinating conversation with Stan S. Stanman over at returntomonkeyisland.com. 🥰
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We did it! Sanna and I built our own little library. Okay, we hacked a toolshed into a library. 😅 But anyway, now it stands there in all its glory. Looking out over the lake, ready to be explored by
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I’ve had a lot of fun the last week exploring Robin Sloan’s cozy new (proposed) internet protocol, Spring ‘83. So many cool things are happening: poetry, link sharing, bots. And, lots and lots of experiments. Early web vibes!
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It’s lunchtime, and I just emptied my feed reader.
Derek Sivers thinks we should write one sentence per line. Weezer wants us all to start spinning in circles (via Waxy.org). And I encourage you to read the beautifully illustrated A
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Just emptied my feed reader, and now I know three things:
Suitcase clones are a thing. Robin Sloan’s next novella is coming in August. Last Call BBS by Zachtronics arrives in July. 8-in-1 puzzle game!
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Andy is on a five-month journey, hiking along the Appalachian Trail. And blogging about it on his glorious pixel art website. A Trail Tale is a must-see. 🌲
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Endurance is most essential when hanging out with my nieces. Here’s three of them and yours truly during a theatre rehearsal. When they write the script, I often get the role of a horse. Day 31. Photo by Sanna.
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Robin’s tap essay from 2012 is about a dead fish. But also about the difference between liking and loving something on the internet. Day 30.
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If you haven’t checked out Sarah Andersen’s webcomic, you should! Stripes for day 29.
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September last year: working, fueled by wine and fair weather. Day 28.
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Luckily, we stumbled upon this written communication during our stroll today. Day 27.
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When this post goes live, overdue will change from 3 to 2. Day 26, schedule.
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Hiaklitten is probably more of a hill than a mountain. But, for day 25, it will have to do.
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I love when intricate patterns emerge from simple rules and mathematical formulas, like this bit field. It appears so complex, but the math is concise: (x ^ y) % 5. 👌 Check out Martin Kleppe’s thread from last year if
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On the twenty-third day, we had sweet potatoes and salmon for dinner. Accompanied by this avocado dip. The recipe? Mix green peas, avocado, and plain yogurt until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste.
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Six years ago, Sanna and I visited the Textile Museum in Borås for the exhibition Game Over by Per Fhager. Seeing the games we played as kids – and to be fair, still do – blown up big, crossed stitched,
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With just about an hour left of the day, Music’s Autoplay serves this one up on a silver platter. Symmetry for day 21. Phew. 😮💨
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Today’s smoothie: frozen raspberries, banana, and vanilla oatgurt. My typical afternoon beverage. 😋 Day 20.
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Weirdly, I’ve never stumbled upon http.cat and http.dog before. Joy! 🥹
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Day 19 – comics indulgence.
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Day 18. There are 875 entries by 116 photographers in the May photoblogging challenge. You will be taken to another random photo by tapping my entry below. 👇
(Or click here if your Micro.blog client doesn’t support linked photos.)
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Oh, man, we had friends over, and I almost missed today’s photoblogging challenge. 😅 Hold – day 17.
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Let’s go back in time for day 16.
If you open the pendulum door and peek inside, you will find a piece of paper with typewritten words. Signed by my grandpa. The clock was a gift to him from his
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Clouds – day 15 of the photoblogging challenge.
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Carrot cake and fences on a fika last year. I think Sanna borrowed my phone to snap this shot while I was away fetching napkins for the spilled coffee.
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One of the great things about the internet is that you will always find your community, no matter how niche your interests are. I’m into programming the 33-year-old Game Boy. Seems pretty… obscure, right? Well, when I write this, 821
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Tranquillity for day 12.
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This one has to pass as maroon for day 11 of the photoblogging challenge.
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During one of my adventures in Death’s Door, I stumbled upon this fella named Pothead. He is cursed by a witch, so his head is nowadays a pot with firewood underneath. Hence his name, I guess. Day 10.
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Yes, yes, I’ll admit. Unfortunately, today’s challenge ended up being a rush job. ☺️ Day 9: bloom.
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On the eighth day, I present the union of egg, cream, spinach, psyllium husk powder, and a pinch of salt. If everything goes according to plan, this will end up as an omelet wrap.
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Located on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern, you’ll find Omberg Eco Park with fascinating nature and half a dozen trails to be explored.
We took the Ellen Key Trail and ended up at her old villa, Strand. What a view
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Matchbox silhouette on the sixth day of the photoblogging challenge.
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Day five. Should I be forced to write down my top three places on Earth, the forest of Tiveden would easily make the shortlist.
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Day four of the photoblogging challenge: thorny. This one is still on my to-read pile, so I can’t tell you much about it other than that it looks gorgeous. 📚
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A couple of years ago, I teamed up with a robot for experimental doodling. The paper lantern was drawn by me in Sketch, inspired by a 1912 children’s book by May Audubon Post.
My pen plotter did the rest (guided by
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A photo of me, taking a photo of Sanna taking a photo of both of us. Did I get that right on day two of the photoblogging challenge? 😅
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I’ve put a sticker picturing myself on the back of my Joy-Con set. You know, so that I can bring the right pair back home after a night of Switch gaming with friends. 🤓
This is day one of the May
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The musings in Increasing the surface area of blogging by @tomcritchlow are 👌.
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Spring is here for real! I just had coffee on a sun-drenched balcony while reading the first few chapters of Indie Microblogging by @manton. 📚
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Today I have to watch where I type to avoid squashing my new ladybug friend. 🐞 My grandma insisted ladybugs have magical power, like the ability to predict the weather.
Is this one telling me I should… escape?
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My copy of Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich arrived the other day. It looks gorgeous and just moved up to the top of my reading pile. 📚
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In a pinch for a birthday present? Desperate for a going away gift? Buy a pot, a cucumber, toothpicks, chocolate, and candy to make a… candy cactus?! 😅 This one was for my brother’s 44th birthday.
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If you grew up on the internet making websites, reading this lovely webcomic by Amy Wibowo will make you smile. Go read Home Sweet Homepage.
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A new Monkey Island from Ron Gilbert! Whipped up over a weekend, apparently. Woohoo! 🏴☠️ grumpygamer.com
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I just learned Dagny passed away; 109 years old. She was such an inspiration and always spreading joy. In her last blog post back in January, she wrote:
ser fram emot att fira min 110-årsdag i maj, gärna med en
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Micro Camp 2022 is just eight hours away! 🥳 On day two, I will share a short story from my life and this one weird old trick that will make your future blog post more accessible.
I look forward to hanging
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Micro Camp 2022 I’m stoked to be presenting at Micro Camp tomorrow, March 12. On a topic near and dear to my heart: web accessibility. This space will be updated in the future with:
The video-on-demand version of my talk Accessible Microblogging: A
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The snow made a comeback.
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My list of books-I-want-to-read-before-I-die is lengthy. And that can make me feel… intimidated? Overwhelmed? So I decided to stop looking at it for a while and instead go back to the classic book pile. Three books. The next one is
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One more from our ice escapade yesterday. And a unique behind-the-scenes look of yours truly, snapping photos in the most dignified and graceful way possible.
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We went out for a photo session on the ice today. 🧊
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World Wide Web Directory A humanly curated list of websites. Often homemade, quirky, and personal. Always made with 100 % love towards the free and open web.
🚧 Under Construction
Blogrolls, Directories & Webrings blogroll.org href.cool gossipsweb.net webring.xxiivv.com neocities.org nekoweb.org Smol Web Search Engines
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Wouldn’t it be cool with a shortcut from your blog post directly to its entry on the Micro.blog timeline? Like a “Reply on Micro.blog” link. You can have that!
Install my latest plug-in. 👇
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🎲 Surprise me! has graduated from beta to the official directory. It’s a “take me to a random post” plug-in for your blog. Pretty fun!
And, in case you missed it, ✍️ Reply by email is there as well.
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See that 🎲 Surprise me! link in the screenshot above? Every time it’s clicked, the visitor is taken to a random post in the archive. You can have this too! Just install my new Micro.blog plug-in.
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Computed tomography scans of old Game Boys made me smile today. 🕹
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Sanna made this delicious celeriac soup for us today. Mmm! Topped with browned butter, dill, and hazelnuts. So tasty. 😋
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A beta version of my new plug-in, Conversation on Micro.blog, is now available. If you want a “Reply on Micro.blog” link on your blog posts and are brave enough, check out the installation instructions.
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Want “reply on Micro.blog” links on your blog? I have a working prototype running on my blog.
Should I pack this up as a plug-in? Let me know if you’re interested in helping out with testing.
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Humans, exploiting the fact that Lake Viken is currently frozen. 🧊
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My Reply by email plug-in is now available in the official directory. 🎉 Check it out if you want an easy way for your readers to comment on your blog posts using their default email app. Thanks, @manton.
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It’s book launch day! My favorite author (and soulmate) just released her first short story collection. Does cozy Swedish horror pique your curiosity? Then go check out Sanna Lund’s Arkiv för upphittade anteckningar. For yourself or a friend. 📚
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Hate typing on keyboards? Miss fiddling with pens and pencils? Wish you could publish a handwritten note to Micro.Blog? Thanks to Shortcuts and Live Text on iOS 15, you can go from scribbles to blog post in seconds! 🖋
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Bent over backward to get this view of Saint Katarina’s church ruin in Visby. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get this shot straight. My back must be crooked. 😅
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Not for me, but maybe something for the 🖋️ community to checkout? 😊
A new way to build websites with pen & paper.
Start a tiny website from your notebook.
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Are you yearning for a feel-good quick read about a bunch of quirky people repairing printers and other Apple hardware? Of course, you are! It would be best if you read LaserWriter Ⅱ by Tamara Shopsin. 📚
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A couple of weeks ago, I finished Bubble. A nicely illustrated, action-packed, sci-fi adventure; seasoned with a pinch of social satire. The elevator pitch? Hmm. 🤔 Monster-hunting in a gig economy graphic novel! 📚
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Here in Sweden, the word hygge is a clear-cut area in a forest. So that can cause confusion in conversations with our neighbors in Denmark and Norway. 😊
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I love discovering the less talked about features in new iOS releases, like that you can get cozy rain and dark noise playing in your ears. 🤩 Set it up by going to ⚙️ Settings️ → Accessibility → Audio/Visual →
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Week 1,851 Thursday, we packed our bags and hit the road down south. We steered towards Brösarp and Talldungen. When summer comes to an end, we go there for a night or two. It has stuck as a tradition. We went for
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Our favorite late-afternoon-wine spot on the in-laws' porch. The weather was exceptional this weekend. The garden view was… interesting. 😅
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Just before sundown yesterday, we packed the camera and gear in a knapsack and biked to the edge of the forest. Then, by foot, we followed a trail to this spot. Sanna needed material for a new photography course. I
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Today I read Everything’s Fine by Matthew Pridham. 📚 You know that meme of a dog getting engulfed in flames while proclaiming that everything is fine? Well, Pridham’s short story takes on the same theme, in a way. Loved it!
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Another one from our trip to Haväng; a mini-wave coming for iPhone 12 mini. 😅 No smartphones were harmed in the making of this video. 🌊
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This sticker was waiting for me in the postbox. Look at that beauty! 🤩 Thanks, @jean.
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Close to where I tried photographing waves the other day lies this shed called Vedalaboden. It’s an old ålabod; a place to take shelter and store gear when fishing for eel.
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Yesterday. A trip to Haväng for a swim in the Baltic Sea. 🗺 We also caught waves on our image sensors. As one can imagine, Sanna had no troubles. Me, on the other hand. Well, let’s just say my sensor
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Today, our MINI Cooper SE passed a funny milestone: 23,456 kilometers on the road. 🎉 Powered by wind, water, and solar. 🔋 Tomorrow, it will take us to the hills of Brösarp. 🗺 Keep it up, Skogsbullebilen!
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Week 1,850 I’ve gravitated towards the Micro.blog community for years now. A welcoming bunch of people, just blogging away and having a good time. Somewhat like Twitter, but nice! Actually, it’s not at all like Twitter. There’s no follower count, no likes,
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Four months ago, we visited Åkulla beech forests and stumbled upon this spectacular view during our walk. The hiker in the photo is Sanna, and the hill she just conquered is called Hiaklitten.
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The other day, @zorn mentioned ROM hacking which threw me back to the summer of 2018. One hot evening, I asked myself: what if Tetris only had the straight tetromino? So, I fired up my hex editor and hacked together
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Feel these words: bulletin board systems, dial-up noises, Commodore, and Nintendo. Now, this sentence: “a comic about ’90s kids making bad decisions over the early internet”.
Yep, you should add Incredible Doom on your to-read pile. 📚
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Let’s see if we can transform these ingredients into a tasty lunch. The frozen chunks may look like sorbet, but it’s not. Homemade chicken stock and… cava. 🍾
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This grandfather clock means the world to me. If you open the pendulum door and peek inside, you will find a piece of paper with typewritten words. Signed by my grandpa. The clock was a gift to him from his
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Kantarellpizza: chanterelle, gruyère, and truffle mayo pizza. Mmm. 😋 What kind of pizza are you eating tonight? 🍕
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Would you like links to the previous and next posts on your Micro.blog? I put up a short tutorial on the Help center yesterday. Check it out!
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My view outside our kitchen window right before bedtime yesterday. Installing pipes for district heating looks like hard work! The folks down there worked through the night and were still at it when I drank my first cup of coffee
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Sanna read a couple of pages from The Labyrinth to me during breakfast this morning. Is it possible to start the day off in a cozier way? I don’t think so. 😊 Reading aloud to each other is underrated.
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Week 1,849 Let’s see if I can get back into writing by posting on a regular schedule. Once a week. Cherry-picked tidbits from my life the last seven days. I’ve been alive for 1,849 weeks already, so, without further ado, here’s what
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En annan sorts mjukvara I vintras gick jag virkkurs hos min mamma och sen dess har jag börjat utveckla en annan sorts “mjukvara”.
Pokey Det här var mitt allra första projekt. Även om det inte var min tanke, tycker jag figuren liknar spöket Pokey från
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A different kind of software Last winter my mom taught me the art of crocheting. Since then I’ve started to develop a different kind of “software.”
Pokey My first project! I didn’t intend to make it look like the ghost Pokey, from the Pacman games, but
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Petmoj
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Pussel Pussel is my electronic game with the goal of lighting up sixteen buttons. It’s easier said than done. My creation is an homage to Lights Out by American Tiger Electronics, released in 1995.
In this project, I’ve made everything. Sure, I
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Tandborstställ Foto: Sanna Lund
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Triforcebling Foto: Sanna Lund
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Kontorspanel
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Svenska månadsnamn på GitHub Pages Jag gillar datum med månadsnamnet utskrivet: 30 juni 2014. Men jag har fått brottas med Liquid-mallar för att få dem att lira med Jekyll och GitHub Pages.
Denna Liquid-snutt gör nästan det jag vill men med resultatet “30 June 2014” i
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Nej tack till reklam, en gång för alla Är du trött på att brevlådan är proppfull med oönskad reklam? Att telefonförsäljare ringer och stör i tid och otid eller att du har svårt att se innehållet på en webbsida på grund av alla banners? Det finns bot, jag
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Ett bilfritt liv Vissa dagar är det besvärligt att inte ha en bil. Till exempel när vi köpt något stort och tungt som ska fraktas hem eller när jag och Sanna vill ta en tur upp till sommarstugan. Då är det lätt att
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A car-free life Sometimes it’s troublesome not to own a car. Like when we buy something enormous and heavy and need to bring it home. Or when Sanna and I want to take a trip to the summer house. Wouldn’t it be easier
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Kasta om din dag Känner du att tiden inte riktigt räcker till, att du aldrig hinner med det du vill? Testa att kasta om din dag!
På veckorna kan mina dagar bli ganska inrutade med lite plats över för ”egen tid”. En typisk dag kan
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Hoisting och funktioner i JavaScript Här kommer en några kluriga rader JavaScript, kan du tala om vad som skrivs ut i konsollen när de körs?
helloDeclaration(); helloExpression(); function helloDeclaration() { console.log('Hello Declaration!'); } var helloExpression = function () { console.log('Hello Expression!'); }; Du fuskade väl inte?
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30-dagarsregeln För mig är en del av en enklare tillvaro att äga mindre prylar och spendera mindre pengar. Det går tvärt emot min natur. När Tim Cooks står och presenterar nästa iPad eller iMac vill jag genast ha den. Omedelbums, med
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Lars och inkorgen Illustration: Sanna Lund
Det här är Lars. Lars älskar brev. Han tycker om att öppna brev, läsa brev och skicka brev.
Lars har en inkorg där alla brev hamnar. Var femte minut tittar han i inkorgen. Kanske har han fått något nytt?
Bland
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Lars and the inbox Illustration by: Sanna Lund
This is Lars. He loves letters. He likes to open them, read them and send them.
Lars has an inbox where all the letters end up. Every five minutes or so, he takes a look in the inbox.
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Koppla ner och av Jag stänger av min mobiltelefon ibland. Det kanske låter konstigt men jag behöver göra det för att kunna koppla av fullständigt. När telefonen är på kan det när som helst ringa eller dimpa ner ett meddelande. Dessutom är mobilen kortaste
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Tidstjuvar och nyttoappar Foto: Sanna Lund
De smarta telefonerna gör att vi ständigt är uppkopplade och alltid har något att pilla med. Vad gjorde vi egentligen för tio år sedan när vi stod och väntade på bussen och inte kunde twittra eller skjuta fåglar
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Våga strypa informationsflödet En inte så liten ström med information pockar på min uppmärksamhet varje dag. Jag har flera nyhetskanaler som jag ser som inkorgar som måste tömmas. Det är ett under att jag får något gjort! Här kommer några exempel på inkorgar:
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Mindre prylar Jag är prylgalen! Det kan vara mobiltelefoner, radiostyrda bollar eller en våg som twittrar min vikt. Är det en pryl är chansen stor att jag vill ha den.
Jag är väl medveten om min last och har med tiden kommit fram
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Enklare på jobbet - tre boktips Har du någon gång kännt att det är mycket att göra på jobbet? Det känner jag ibland. För många bollar i luften, möte efter möte och en aldrig sinande ström med problem att lösa. Jag älskar mitt jobb men där,
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Dagens viktigaste uppgift Jag har märkt att mina dagar blir bättre om det första jag gör är något som är viktigt för mig. Jag väljer ut en eller ett par saker på min att göra-lista som jag vill få klart idag – och
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Sex iPadappar för webbnördar iPaden är inte bara en grym webbsurf-sociala-medier-spel-maskin. Det går faktiskt att få en del arbete gjort också! Här är ett urval av de appar jag använder:
Textastic, Koder: textredigerare med syntax highlightning, koppling mot Dropbox och SFTP med mera. Fungerar
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Förkovra dig i responsiv design Det snackas mycket om responsiv design nu för tiden. I stället för att leverera flera olika versioner av en webbplats, beroende på om besökaren surfar från en dator eller mobil, handlar responsiv design om en webb. En webb som anpassar
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Webbramverk på micronivå Om du bygger mindre webbappar eller prototyper ska du helt klart kika på de microramverk som finns. Ett microwebbramverk ger dig precis det du behöver för att snabbt komma igång och bygga små till medelstora webbapplikationer. De hjälper dig med
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Inspiration Jag är utvecklare först och främst men likt förbannat behöver jag värka fram designelement då och då. Ibland står huvudet still och jag har ingen aning om hur jag ska utforma den där knappen, inloggnings-rutan eller vad det nu kan
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Snabbare webbsidor ger gladare besökare I och med att bredband blivit allt vanligare har vi webbutvecklare och webbdesigners slappnat av lite när det gäller att tänka på optimering av webbplatsers laddtider. Alla har ju ändå en snabb, fast lina - eller? En webbsida med resurser
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Utveckla iPhone- och Android-appar med de kunskaper du redan har PhoneGap låter dig utveckla plattformsoberoende mobilappar, redo att lanseras i App Store eller på Android market, med webbtekniker som du redan kan. Dessutom exponeras API:er för till exempel kamera, bildgalleri och ljuduppspelning. Allt detta kommer du åt genom att skriva
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Fem tips som underlättar livet med Internet Explorer Du som producerar HTML och CSS till vardags har med största sannolikhet öppnat en webbplats i både en, två eller fyra versioner av Internet Explorer - bara för att upptäcka att en detalj inte ser likadan ut som i alla
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LiveReload – aldrig mer F5 Som webbutvecklare har du säkert suttit och tryck på F5 eller cmd + R i webbläsaren för att se resultatet av en CSS-justering. Förmodligen har du gjort det mer än en gång. Meningslös repetition är av ondo men det finns
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Karusell med bildtext i SiteVision En fortsättning på föregående avsnitt. Här bygger jag ut funktionaliteten så att en redaktör lätt kan lägga till en bildtext för bilderna i karusellen.
Sitter du i SiteVision 2.6.2_04 eller senare? Om du läser det här i framtiden och sitter
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Karusell med intelligenta mallar i SiteVision Gör dina redaktörer glada med intelligenta mallar. Lär dig hur du gör grymma karuseller (bildspel) med hjälp av fria JavaScript-bibliotek och metadata i SiteVision.
Erratum Det har smugit sig in ett litet fel i detta avsnitt. I Velocity-mallen kollar jag
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Slumpa fram artiklar i SiteVision Lär dig hur du med hjälp av Skriptmodulen i SiteVision slumpar fram artiklar ur ett arkiv.
Länkar Reservoir Sampling - Taming Uncertainty - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Choosing Random Elements - Adventures in Learning Källkoden för det här
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||=-operatorn i Ruby I Ruby, liksom de flesta andra programmeringsspråk, finns det något som kallas abbreviated assignment (förkortad tilldelning). Det är operatorer som += och -= som låter oss lägga till respektive dra ifrån värdet på en redan existerande variabel.
Om man är ny
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Tillbaka till skrivbordsapplikationer Idag använder jag webben på ett helt annat sätt än för 10 år sedan. De flesta av de applikationer jag använder har flyttat ut på Internet. E-post, kalender och att göra-listor är några exempel. Det finns dock några nackdelar med
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Hur du blir snabbare i Terminal.app (Bash) Jag spenderar mycket tid i Bash som råkar vara den kommandotolk som är förvald i Mac OS X:s Terminal.app. Det blir många kommandon på en dag och tyvärr är det mycket repetitivt arbete. Att skriva ett längre kommando mer än en gång
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Sidecar Sidecar hör till den skara klassiska cocktails som inte föddes i Amerika. Den ska enligt David A. Embury ha skapats, av en vän till honom, under andra världskriget på en bar i Paris. Embury påstår också att cocktailen har fått
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Homebrew - En pakethanterare för OS X Som webbutvecklare drar jag nytta av mycket fri mjukvara som till exempel git, imagemagick och wine. De flesta *nix-smaker har pakethanterare som underlättar installationen. BSD har ports, Debian har dpkg och många andra GNU/Linux-distributioner kör RPM till exempel. På OS
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Tvinga Safari att öppna alla länkar i en ny flik Jag väljer ofta Safari när jag surfar, bland annat för att den känns lite kvickare än Firefox. Det finns dock några grejer som irriterar mig och allra mest sättet Safari hanterar flikar på. Hur man än ställer inställningarna i webbläsaren
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Caipirissima Jag älskar rom och drinkar som är baserade på detta sockerrörsdestillat. Jag tycker så mycket om det att jag ibland byter ut basspriten i andra drinkar mot just rom. Ikväll blev det en variant på Caipirinha, Brasiliens nationalcocktail.
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