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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.

So Lex just disputed a parking fine with ChatGPT, and it was successfully withdrawn. How cool is that?

Today we made caramel candy. 🤤 Wrapping them all kept me busy for a while.

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.

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.

Glad to see Molly White on Forbes' 30 Under 30.

I love how Ana’s now page features her current nail polish. 💅 Such a fabulous idea!

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”.

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 a new battery.

mindmelt.party is definitely… something? 🫠

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. 🔖

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 your feed reader! 👀

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 me).

Yes, some of the gifts might benefit yours truly as well. 😋

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 förstår svenska, tipsa dem om min kurs. 😉

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? 🤷

Tom shares positive trends in Web technology optimism hour.

With a breakfast like this, it’s easy to muster the motivation to get out of bed. 😊

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 game, Sanna and I finally found the secret. 🏴‍☠️

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. 😊

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. 🥱 ☕️

Sipping my morning coffee and reading Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information.

Yay! @haydon is back with a webbed brief update, asking the very relevant question What Happened To Text Inputs?{:class=“u-in-reply-to”}

Goats graze. Sanna smiles.

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. 😂

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%”. 🥲

Partial repeat from yesterday: same wreath, different setting.

Sanna, taking a break from writing her novel to tie a wreath. We are ready for December!

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: [dahlstrand.net/search-sp….

If you haven’t already, check out Search Space. 🔭

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. 🤯

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.

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. 🦾

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 fixed accents to letters in the french translation of Link’s Awakening.

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. 🎉

!!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 the above and more are available over here.

Everyone! Leave the Micro.blog timeline for a while and go experience @heyloura’s beautifully designed website.

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.

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? 😊

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 its face?! The kid’s uncle will likely adjust the script before the premiere. 😅

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 first time in what feels like forever.

Brent on what happens After Twitter.

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!

I’m with jwz on Mastodon and federation.

I have a slight suspicion that the bottle used for my gin and tonic might be possessed. 😈

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.

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 short story in collaboration with an AI.

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). 🐶

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!

Now I know for certain that my next read will be Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. 📚

You’ve started a trend, @jean. There’s a microblogvember challenge going on over at cohost as well. 🥰 Different wordlist, though.

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? 🌞🥯 🤦‍♂️