With a breakfast like this, it’s easy to muster the motivation to get out of bed. ๐
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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 game, Sanna and I finally found the secret. ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
It’s #FeedReaderFriday, everyone! ๐พ 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. ๐
Our morning coffee ritual begins 6โ8 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. ๐ฅฑ โ๏ธ
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. ๐
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%”. ๐ฅฒ
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 ๐ and ๐ is possible.
- Results are linkable: https://dahlstrand.net/search-space/?q=tire.
If you haven’t already, check out Search Space. ๐ญ
I love how the Caproni Stipa โ aka the flying barrel โ looked like an airplane from a comic book or cartoon but, you know, actually could take off and fly. ๐คฏ
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? ๐ค We should team up again for this year’s Christmas card batch. ๐ฆพ
3 ร 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. ๐
!!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 โ 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.
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? ๐
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 ofโฆ Yule ham. ๐ท
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. ๐
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. [โฆ] 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. ๐
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, Iโm delighted with it. Iโd 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). ๐ถ
Per’s recommendations for online resilience are great. ๐ You can have a place to call home on the internet โ domain, and website โ 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. ๐
You’ve started a trend, @jean. There’s a microblogvember challenge going on over at cohost as well. ๐ฅฐ 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? ๐๐ฅฏ ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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. ๐
Got some insight today as to what is going on with the lights in our kitchen. Long story short: the transformer is probably kaput. ๐ฎโ๐จ
It’s Micro Monday! Thanks for reminding me, @jean. ๐ 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. ๐
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 โ sorry, folks.
We record in a proper studio, so the audio should be free from any echo.
Afternoon coffee and bookkeeping. Turns out I’m not exempt from paying corporate taxes and VAT. ๐ฎโ๐จ
I admire my bed, welcoming me every night, tirelessly, without complaint, year after yearโฆ okay, yes, it’s bedtime for me! ๐ฅฑ
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 FCKGWโฆ ๐
What a feast! I challenge you to watch Food in Studio Ghibli’s Films without getting hungry. ๐
Let’s figure out how to join Microblogvember 2022โฆ Did it work?
- 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.
Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature โฆ without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening โฆ
โ Guilherme Rambo via lobste.rs
Wow, how cute is this computer from Clockwork?! ๐
I’m reading Snow Crash for the first time, and now I look forward to the upcoming extra material. ๐
This is part of the new bonus material in [Snow Crash]: fragments of an unfinished screenplay that I wrote to amuse myself
โ Neal Stephenson
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? ๐คญ
Everything I have ever learned about Web3 has been against my will.
โ Morgan Sung
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 as I have. Lovely adventure! ๐น๏ธ
