hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

Roomy is generally available

the door's open

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touching some grass (water)

This is the complete, real migration of @mk.gg from the Bluesky PDS to a new Cirrus PDS Worker. The more boring bits are sped-up to get it under the 3 minute video limit. The real thing took about 12 mins. Try it yourself: github.com/ascorbic/cir...

My experimental single-user PDS has a name! Meet ☁️ Cirrus, the lightest PDS in the Atmosphere npm create pds@latest

You can run your own PDS on Cloudflare for free. I've been doing this for 4 months!

✍️ New post: Compressed Fluid Typography #blogtober #css #web #typography matthiasott.com/notes/compre...

Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

The present and potential future of progressive image rendering

Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

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Grainy Gradients This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.

Grainy Gradients

This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.

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New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

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Smart TVs were a mistake

A beautiful mixture of Mongolian vertical writing and English www.instagram.com/p/DHdZKVUymk...

🎉 Welcome to our new sister project: TinyTick! Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction. But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.

I have a soft spot for visual formalisms. Some examples: • neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott) • revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al) Any other good examples?

The source code for Ghost House is *incredible*

v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · last yr.

i wrote (maybe) the first of a series where i post about interesting looking creative tools. this is Ghost House, an artist tool for making animation interpolations blog.vbuckenham.com/cool-tool-gh...

What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time? That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously. 1/2

nice landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

in case you were wondering what seva was up to

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.

Before this year wraps, my favorite data visualization projects flowingdata.com/2024/12/30/b...

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024

Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.

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new year’s horizons

i have been thinking about + building a local first super-app that works off an encrypted personal data store. some ideas: 1 the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.

i don’t know what it means

some holidays vibes

tried writing this blog 3 times but it’s really boring, so here’s the short version: React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died. This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.

And here it is again Cross-Browser with a fraction of the setup. The first demo was primarily showing a hack for data being computed with several layers of dom then being lifted back to :root. I released an update including the mini version CSS GETing your IP Address :) codepen.io/propjockey/p...

Explanation of how @ariakit.org supports browser extensions in dialogs (good discussion in the thread):

Haz@haz.dev · 2y ago

For custom dialogs, rather than using focus trap elements, you can simply make elements outside inert, ignoring paths with the data attribute. If you want to prevent focus from escaping to the browser chrome, render the focus trap elements around the entire document.

Over December I’ll be posting 100 fun insights in this thread from working on @triplex.dev in my free time for two (!) years. It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on. Keep an eye out, will be a fun one! #threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024

I’m way too excited for the coming updates to @solidjs.com in 2025 - Fine grained async - Mutable derivations - Flush boundaries - Derived signals - Lazy memos - Global batching - Concurrent transitions? Maybe? 🧵

I've completed 🎅Santa Refuses To Use Threads - Advent of TypeScript 2024 adventofts.com/events/2024/6

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2