Charles Villard

@charlesvillard.co

Web developer https://www.charlesvillard.co

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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My poor website is so neglected that some dependencies don't even install locally. Which makes this the perfect time for me to built something at AT Proto-driven as possible!

AT Proto might be my next rabbit hole. My quote won't show it, but click into @davidpierce.xyz's post below and you'll see something you might not expect if you're a recovering Twitter refugee: anchor text on a link. It blew me a way for a second. Did we get markdown in Bluesky?! No. Not quite.

Screenshot of David Pierce's post featuring readable anchor text for a link, and not just the truncated URL!
David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz · 2mo ago

Today’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood. Movies directed by YouTubers are suddenly blowing up at the box office. Backrooms and Obsession are both smash hits, and The Amazing Digital Circus had a big debut... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/948659/youtube-backrooms-hollywood-vergecast

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

The corporate "invest in AI" narrative that's driving recent layoffs falls apart so quick under scrutiny. It's never been about AI replacing engineers. It's because their revenues and profits look better, and, oh, also, to look into AI. When I was at HPE, a whole department formed for just that.

Sterling Chin@sterlingchin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The recent tech layoffs are about freeing up capital to test AI?! Over the weekend, I was at a kids birthday party, and had a 4 hour convo with another dad. He works at <redacted>, and formerly at <redacted>, and asked me about my opinions on AI, agents I've built, and my predictions for the future