A periodic reminder to my friends on Bluesky that one way you can make the web more open is by bridging you accounts to the Fediverse! https://chromamine.com/2025/02/bluesky-friends-consider-bridging-to-the-fediverse/

Bluesky friends, consider bridging to the Fediverse!

As I and others have been exploring our social media horizons beyond the legacy options of Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, etc., I’ve made no secret of my skepticism about Bluesky. But I’ve also been lurking there lately and the center of gravity for the political news and conversation I used to get from Twitter is definitely on Bluesky now.

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“I do not think laziness exists. “You know what does exist? Executive dysfunction, procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, perfectionism, trauma, amotivation, chronic pain, energy fatigue, lack of skills, lack of support, and differing priorities.“ — KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

Fewer hours, shorter weeks, better pay. It's what we all deserve. ✌🏻

Roughly a century ago, labor organizing gradually, but successfully, reduced the 6-day work week to a 5-day work week. On this labor day, I’d like to suggest that it’s time to seriously push for a 4-day work week. https://chromamine.com/2026/09/we-should-all-work-less/ #labor #politics #ai

Is no job safe from AI 😭

My way of remembering which summer holiday is Memorial Day and which one is Labor Day is to remember that Labor Day is intentionally held far away from May 1.

I’ve been finding lately that hours listings for restaurants have been weirdly inconsistent online. I just found a restaurant that has three different sets hours listed on Apple Maps, Google Maps, and their own website. I feel like this is somehow a trend, but I can’t figure out what would […]

What if light travelled super slow? turning a lamp on and off in an infinite mirror hallway

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Sad that the successor project to Vim — a project which loudly encouraged its users to donate to a charity to help AIDS victims in Uganda — has become an advocate for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Just including the DHH endorsement could have been a mistake, but this seems quite explicit […]

If you're in Berlin or willing and independently able to move & work there, we just opened an incredibly important role for prioritizing public investments in critical open source infrastructure -- and for making the case for these investments to reach the scale they truly need to. This is a […]

rip to a real one #DollyParton

I can confirm that Opus 5 is pretty good at writing OpenSCAD. For better or worse, that was one of the last things that I was writing mostly by hand. I expect I'll still write a bunch of it by hand when the details are easier for me to express in code than plain language, but it has definitely […]

I just feel like cops won’t make very good pets.

I thought Brand New Day was pretty good. I liked some of the other Holland Spider-Man movies better, but on the scale of Marvel films, I enjoyed this quite a bit. The surprise character reveal was a really fun moment that I’m especially surprised didn’t get spoiled for me in advance. #film #marvel

Can someone tell me how to get fit without paying $2,600 annually for access to my local gym?

Paper and pen people, tell me your opinions on high quality paper and pens! I’ve been working on creating a custom daily journal/planner and I want to upgrade the writing experience. Currently using: * Random paper I found on Amazon in 105mm x 170mm size […] [Original post on social.coop]

As I use LLMs to solve more of my daily problems, I find myself trying to distinguish between tasks where the getting done is important and tasks where the thinking is important. #AI

Imagine bringing this to a first date

Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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Does anyone have experience switching between phones on the same cell line regularly? I want to experiment with a minimal phone but I’m not prepared to give up my iPhone full time. How possible is this in the age of eSIMs? (Mostly looking for responses from people who have direct experience […]

Does anyone have experience switching between phones on the same cell line regularly? I want to experiment with a minimal phone but I’m not prepared to give up my iPhone full time. How possible is this in the age of eSIMs? (Mostly looking for responses from people who have direct experience […]

Everyone was right, this is one of the top ten things I’ve ever seen. (Better images from my mirrorless later, maybe.) #totality

Why is it *harder* to change the nozzle on my Prusa CORE One than it was on my Prusa MINI? Why aren’t we making hot swappable nozzles standard? What are we doing here? #3Dprinting

Just saw The Invite and quite liked it. There’s something nice about watching a movie about middle aged hotties with anxiety. #movies

@fastmail Your API docs (https://www.fastmail.com/dev/) link to a nonexistent JMAP crash course (supposedly at https://jmap.io/crash-course.html). Does this still exist anywhere?

API Documentation

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I’ve had two dance events I was set to teach canceled for weather in as many weeks: one for extreme heat, one today (outdoor event) for rain. That’s gotta be a record for me.

In response to this there's a long list of people giving good examples of very personal "just for me" software projects they've used agentic coding tools to create to help them out with various tasks and projects.

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I hear people say this all the time and it gives me FOMO but I just honest-to-god can't think of an example that's relevant to me. What plugins? What automations? What are they doing? Can you gimme an example?

Here's a short list of products I used to get for free that I now pay for instead! (Including a Mastodon and social.coop section!) https://chromamine.com/2026/07/paying-for-software/

Just remembering this passage from Mark Bittman’s original edition of How To Cook Everything which was clearly written while he was depression eating an entire bowl of cherries.