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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 camcorder cable cascade. 😅 It’s not pretty, but it works!

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 yours stand out. Let me know what you think!

A browser window with three tabs open: Sven's blog with an avocado emoji as the favicon, Cool Person's Blog with a sunglasses emoji, and Your Blog? with a nail polish emoji.

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 tiny programs] and effects! … A little bit of programming knowledge will help but you don’t need a lot. The challenges will introduce demoscene concepts without jargon so it is friendly for newcomers to the scene!

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:

  1. posts are collected into a digest once a day.
  2. posts from yesterday are deleted, forever, every day.
  3. posts are a draft and can be edited until the moment that yesterday is deleted and tomorrow becomes today.
  4. posts are only visible between people who “add” one another (“mutual follows”).

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 occurred in some browsers. 🚀 Thanks to @kottkrig for helping out!

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, I have found my escape, and it’s not too uncommon today. My great escape is gaming. I boot up the computer, get into position and then I leave this world. It’s not a screen, it’s a gateway to wherever your heart desires.

Technology can be so damn empowering.

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 me want to build one for myself.

But, I do wish they’d designed it with smaller, locally run models. Feels like that could have worked for a project like this.

Three people are posing for a group shot with a prototype camera. The camera is white and red, with a clearly 3D-printed shell, and a small piece of paper sticking out from the front.

Ryan, Kelin, and Evan with the new camera.

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 the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed.

Jason Kottke:

See also surfing the web vs. *waves hands around at whatever it is we’re soaking in here*.

Oh, yes! Let’s relearn how to surf the web. Start here, here, or here. Och om du förstår svenska, lyssna på Sanna och mig surra kring ämnet.

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 squeamish about skin and body fluids, check out joyceartworks. 🍑

Three exposures merged into one, showing off Lee’s artwork as both wallpaper and a skin on the back of my phone. Omnipresence features a close-up of a nun’s face, staring directly at us. She has a tiny cross piercing in her right eyebrow, and smoke is blowing out of her mouth, forming another cross.

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 filming this moment!

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!

Collage of six gadgets: a vintage Canon film camera, a Longines wristwatch, Apple earbuds, a MacBook Pro, an Instax camera, and AirPods.

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. 🤤

A spatula rests on a floral plate, beside a black pot on a stovetop.

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 ever find them.

RSS isn't dead. Following single sites still works.

But community distribution and curation are the missing pieces.

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. 🍿

Kelly-Anne is in profile with a contemplative expression, while Clementine gazes downward at Kelly-Anne’s hands. The dim lighting in the room creates a moody atmosphere.

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”.

The backside of a warning sign, filled with stickers.

Overall, we had a pleasant day hiking in Fulufjället (8.54 kilometers).

A foggy landscape with sparse pine trees and pinkish heather covering the rocky ground, creating a serene, misty atmosphere.

We also said hello to Old Tjikko, the world’s oldest known Norway Spruce (9,550 years). 

Missing its top, the looks a little bit sad and lonely against a barren landscape.

Today, we visited Njupeskär, the waterfall in Sweden with the tallest free-falling drop (70 meters).

Sanna, hands in the air, is standing right below the waterfall.

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 of pictures for our blog.

Dennis E. Taylor Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, Book 5)

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 your drink.
🧝‍♀️ As Zelda, go find that lost horse.

You’re welcome.

In a very dark room, a fire is burning. In front of the fire is a Switch with The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom running.

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. ⛱️

My extended family is walking on sandy dunes with sparse vegetation under a cloud-streaked sky.

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 is the first female director of the series. About time!

We talked about covering up pits because this indeed seemed rather dirty, but when I actually tried it, it wasn't so easy to pull off, and I ended up accidentally falling down the pit instead. (Laughs)

Three people in Nintendo work attire sit at a table in a meeting room. Sano smiles and gesticulates with her hand, probably to illustrate something to the other two.

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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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. 🤭

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 us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Just saw these two updates next to each other in my feed reader. So relatable! Thanks for the chuckle, @manton. 😊

Two of Manton's microblog posts. Two hours ago: Having one of those mornings where I sort of can't believe how well this coding is going. Sometimes everything just works. One hour ago: asdfasdf.

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.

The protagonist, Rain, played by Cailee Spaeny, looks concerned in a space suit.

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