Love this podcast for managing a racing mind. Just natural sounds. No music, no talking.
On Pocket Casts: pca.st/j695t8s0
@radiolento.bsky.social: Radio Lento is a weekly podcast of sound postcards. There's no music or talking or ads. Just calming sounds from real places. Listen with headphones to get the benefit of the 3d spatial sound. Listen / subscribe: Podbean radiolento.podbean.com Apple Pod bit.ly/LentoAp GoodPods bit.ly/LentoGoodP
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ā© Replying to @jonayre.uk
šÆ Also, the idea of a hacker robot is so deeply bizarre to me.
Take the code out of the computer, put it in a physical, clumsy embodiment and have it interact back into the computer using the slowest input interaction mode possible. š
ā© Replying to @janmaarten.com
I second Ghost. Very happy I moved to a self-hosted version of it a few years ago.
It's not that these people don't care about vulnerable and underserved populations. It's that they go out of their way to subject everyone to further pain.
@lflegal.bsky.social: Well, the new administration already took down the White House #Accessibility Statement. Original page from the WayBack Machine here: web.archive.org/web/20250118185419/https://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/ Broken link: whitehouse [dot] gov [slash] accessibility #a11y #Accessibility #disability
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ā© Replying to @cydharrell.bsky.social
Ah, paywalled. I'll see if I can 'unlock' it l8r š
Life hack. I'm not great at small talk, but if I treat people like I'm interviewing them for my podcast - this CHANGES EVERYTHING.
So weird, but true. But also not that weird. š
ā© Replying to @johanberndtsson.com
If you use an iPhone Iād say download the Mona app and use that (also available for Mac and Ipad).
Find your account in your email history or create a new one ;)
apps.apple.com/se/app/mona-...
Trying out a #CSS question on Bluesky:
Whatās good/best practice for displaying an article in a narrow centered column and allowing images to break out of the container (centered but wider on large screens)?
Like the way Medium of @ghost.org displays wide images.
*Medium _or_ Ghost
ā© Replying to @barbiche.eurosky.social
Det hƤr satte igĆ„ng Smurfarnas lĆ„t Abrakada i huv'et pĆ„ mig š
Right about now is when we need more servers hosting different flavors of Bluesky.
Because redundancy is imperative when the oligarchy is coming down on ways to organise.
For the same reason, this is a good time to acquaint yourself with Mastodon in case you've hesitated before.
ā© Replying to @karensd.ca
Glad you appreciated it! Yeah, amidst all of Substack's issues the RSS feed is pretty much the best thing they've got going for them š
I'm honestly surprised they offer RSS. Almost feels like they forgot they turned it on.
ā© Replying to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
That is wildā¦ I had not seen that story before. The way it was tested is brilliant.
This part of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's latest newsletter reminds me why I subscribe š„ (remember, all Substacks also have an RSS feed).
Itās in response to a question on why tech companies are "so desperate to shove AI down our throatsā.
The newsletter: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...
ā© Replying to @1701trekkie.bsky.social
Never rented a movie from Blockbuster as thatās primarily an American phenomenon, though I understand one could essentially rent a movie from Blockbuster online today. Sweden also got rid of checks pretty early, so never done that.
The rest couldāve all happened in the same day.
Iām more and more concerned about people using language models to translate my content and attributing stuff to me that I never saidā¦
I suppose everyone should be worried about this.
There are small tech companies that are successful and sustainable, and growing, without external startup funding.
My go-to service for web forms, for years now, is tally.so
I gladly pay for it. Do read their founder story: www.founderoo.co/posts/tally
Hereās a thread with absolutely wonderful anti-designs for a volume control.
This first one is extra fun, because itās not only a recording of the volume slider, you can actually try out the interaction yourself on this page:
funny.axbom.com/vshot/
This all started eight years ago in the ProgrammerHumor Reddit channel, and this is likely the post that made everyone get competitive:
Who can make the best volume slider?
www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...
This volume control is one of my favorites, as it explores what happens when you borrow ideas of movement from unexpected places. In this case: curling.
The tilt version of the volume slider feels kinda calming to me for some reason. It also brings in the concept of āwhat if this was a physical object, how would it behave?"
Some people I guess just want to crank up the volume.
But what if the volume control is a lever and you didnāt see this at first.
I donāt know why the pump volume slider always makes me laugh. But yeah, itās too funny. Thereās a bit of Sisyphus to this one.
Pump up the jam.
Iām certainly the target group for a volume slider based on Tetris. Each completed row raises the volume one point. I have no idea how it is lowered. I guess you have to fail. š
This solo version of Pong is certainly appealing, but Iām not sure Iāve figured out the mechanics of it yet. I think if the right paddle misses volume goes up, and if the left paddle misses, the volume goes down.
Iāll take a break right now but there are more sliders to be shared. Stay tuned. šŗ
Automatic Emergency Braking (AES) fails to activate in low-light conditions, for some vehicles, when pedestrians are wearing retroreflective clothing. The Honda CR-V just plows right through the test dummy without even slowing.
High-visibility invisibility cloaks.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
High-visibility clothing may thwart pedestrian crash prevention sensors
