Whoa, new stuff from T-4-2! Saw them once in Texas opening for Information Society, way back in 1993.
This video really makes me wish Mozilla was doubling down on decentralized social media and cozy web tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcbH0ge2WE
@cederbs :oof: :oof: :oof: :oof: :oof:
@cinebox @kusuriya @toor @arstechnica I must be an outlier... I've got a thunderbolt dock and two external monitors hooked up to my M1 Macbook Pro - and I use the laptop screen itself as a 3rd display. I kinda hate it
I have this thought at least once a year: Someone needs to revisit The Guardian Legend from NES. It was like a cross between The Legend of Zelda and a vertical scrolling shmup. Like the Inti Creates folks did a good job with Blaster Master, maybe they need to take a crack at it?
I really really really can't wait until the end of the era of corpo suits acquiring names and excavating anything of value propping up the name until it collapses. Maybe we'll never be out of this era in my lifetime?
meta outage
(Finger to earpiece) I'm hearing that many of the baskets into which folks put most or all of their eggs have burst into flames
As Spring looms, an old man's thoughts turn to building yet another personal RSS reader
I kinda want to revisit a feed reader I started in Rust - because it's fast and all in one executable and I like Rust.
But, I also want to revisit a feed reader I built with Node.js - because it's easy to hack on in the cloud with glitch.com and I don't hate JavaScript.
I kinda want a glitch.com for Rust maybe?
@paul :blobthinking: Hmm, I haven't really used replit - seems like I've heard of it before but wandered off for something else shiny. I should check it out!
@algernon Yeah, all the above actually... glitch.com has an in-browser IDE, offers like a raspberry pi worth of VM to run the code, can be git-pushed-to, and can hang onto a persistent filesystem for a SQLite DB.
But also it support "social coding" where it's easy to share a project, remix a fork of a project, etc. Kind of a nice platform to noodle on something and then pass it around.
@trixter It makes me so, so sad. And space exploration is one of the things most likely to get me weepy & verklempt
@jalefkowit Hey, I'll have you know I have a mastodon instance running in my basement and I'm afraid to use it for the fire hazard if any traffic starts to hit it
Weird / bad idea for a "serverless" feed reader: Run a periodic feed fetcher that fills up a SQLite DB. Publish the SQLite DB to a static web site. Use a WASM port of SQLite as the data access API to build the client-side web feed reader UI
This, as the refinement of a previous weird / bad idea where I made a feed reader as a static site generator. That's kind of neat. But, as implemented, generates a LOT of churning files which something like github pages really hates.
The file structure here is the result of a "clever" idea that I had: A "river of news" composed out of per-feed HTML fragments that get loaded in as you scroll. The latest news loads in for each feed - with a button to stop and pull in older and older news, if you want.
I thought it was really neat that I could build the whole thing from all static HTML fragments and a few dozen lines of client-side JS.
Here's an ancient demo of the thing, which hasn't been updated in years:
But really, what I want out of a feed reader is more like an old-school .QWK packet reader from a dial-up BBS back in the day - a data explorer for a big wad of aggregated content, assembled every so often with real-time not so important.
I don't so much care about "read / unread" tracking. I don't want to process news like email, I just want to scroll through to skim & filter. Pop things open into browser tabs to read after a swing through the river. Share, take notes, etc outside of the reader.
@jalefkowit The Aristocrats! :hearthands:
I'm full of beans!
(because i ate beans for lunch)
@endomain ohhh, did they like self-ddos with a client update?
@requiem that's beautiful
Catsby got a box #cats
Catsby loves a good box #cats
@xabean Yeah, he immediately jumped back in and tipped it back over heh
Thanks to Kellogg's fuckery, my TikTok feed has filled up with videos of homemade breakfast cereal recipes. TIL rice crispies are just parboiled rice crisped in oil