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Check your backups, go remove the batteries from stored electronics, go contact that someone you’ve been thinking of lately and go chase up that weird thing your body has been doing lately.
https://louwrentius.com/pages/contact.html
I've been bedridden for the last 9 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.
Fantastic read about the history of our favorite key on the keyboard.
https://everything.typepad.com/
Typepad is shutting down in a month.
To answer your next question: yes, they were acquired by a private equity firm a few years ago.
Today I learned about this!
It's the first accurate image of a black hole, created by astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978, using an IBM 7040 computer with punch cards and plotting it out by hand with India ink.
Audiobooks are a 100% valid way of reading, and if it's your primary way, I hear & honor ya.
Your irregular reminder that if you enjoy audiobooks Libro.fm is an incredibly good replacement for Audible.
Libro.fm provides DRM-free downloadable MP3 versions of the book (in addition to having an app you can use). They've had at least 90% of the books I've looked for.
They're also an employee-owned social corporation that allows you to support local independent bookstores with your purchases.
“Defrag please!” Great way to get folks to shuffle and fill the empty space at a tech conference 🤣 #FrOSCon
Truly a testament to the dysfunctionality of computer user interface design - we don't have dedicated keys for copy/paste. "yes you have to press two keys at the same time for the far most common actions"
Building a Mastodon app?
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK has been designed to handle the quirks of the many different servers across the fediverse. It’s been growing fast to support more APIs and edge cases, so you can focus on building your app instead. Also mirrored on https://codeberg.org/TootSDK/TootSDK 🚀
asbestos is the future, asbestos is a modern material of science. if you aren't using asbestos in everything you are going to be left behind