Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Was about the type the year in a filename and thought “don’t forget one of the digits changed” and my fingers came up with 2014.

Freeform asynchronous text. I’m not saying it’s better than anything else in particular, but it’s very good.

I still like e-mail as a medium for friendships. I may be the only one, but I do.

As a programmer I try not to be a Big Opinions Guy but I’ll tell you this much: for personal projects, I would rather gnaw my own kneecaps off than write SQL keywords in capital letters like it’s 1805.

There’s an RDA of irony in these poisoning techniques that can’t credibly do what they’re advertised as doing because they’re surface-level technological fixes to more fundamental problems. [Edit: fixed typo.] https://mastodon.social/@urschrei/111794083320504980

I think this phrase is, situationally, sometimes more true than false. But if you hear someone say it, odds are really good they want to measure instead of managing. https://indieweb.social/@dandean/111784409154249713

Rot in hell, you smug monster, and may the people you killed in Chile, Cambodia, Palestine, Bangladesh, East Timor, Argentina … I’m sorry, I’m reading the wrong eulogy. I’m so sorry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/

@berd https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/ may be of interest to you: notice the old-style punctuation spacing mode.

This piece is good. The refusal to rebut SA’s filing on the merits seems like an unforced error. A lot of us have had to learn to spot what it looks like when a powerful person is asked a question they know would hurt too much to answer, and this is the instance whose stipple portrait will be kept in the history books. South Africa is playing by the rules and doing the work in very thoughtful way here. https://foreverwars.ghost.io/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-is-serious/

I’m a simple man and I like maps that look tasty. https://famichiki.jp/@natronics/111700468901400706

– Added a nav element
– with an RSS link.
– More than doubled the minimalism.
– Slightly better about page.
– Still needs a posting tool and a rewrite of the generator.

You think I’m off on my weird hobbyhorse again but I assure you this is already doing big numbers on early modern Netherlandish Mastodon. All the most respected scholars of critical tulip studies are starring it.

“The tulip mania is an irrational speculative bubble that will collapse because tulips are not actually beautiful; beauty happens in the soul, you misguided fools, therefore tulips are actually very ugly, QED” I write in Antwerp in 1635.

My kingdom for a web font that I like and that has italic small caps.

Think through your arguments before you hit send, you cowards.

I wish I wish I wish we could see a few more commentators able to say that (1) we are getting exploited, railroaded, and played by the usual forces of capital in a whole new way here – without coupling it to the, to me, extremely extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmeeeeeeeellllyyyyy bad/evil take that (2) the only real thing in the world is a kind of truth that physically resides in the heads of Homo sapiens.