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g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · 2d ago

"I want my attention back. The thought wouldn’t let go." to think @craigmod.com wrote this 9 years ago! and I wonder given that algos are now more aggressive than they were back then, did the approach hold for him. me, i'll just time-box more apps. still deleting IG.. craigmod.com/essays/how_i...

How I Got My Attention Back

There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountab...

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g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · last wk.

I don't have an issue with people being wrong on HN. But the software they release after, man. Brief list. - Don't use vibrato for wow&flutter - Fe tapes do not max out at 13kHz or 15 - Dolby is a sliding band compressor - Tape hiss is nothing like quantisation - Pre/De-emphasis is always on

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 2w ago

What are you doing this afternoon? NO STOP DON'T DO THAT! Instead,play this adorable 8-bit demake of Lemmings - all the levels you remember! just as incredibly cute and frustrating! - in your browser. This is SO GOOD (and they do the 'oh no!' sfx when you blow them up): buzzard1337.itch.io/lemmings

A screenshot of one of the game's levels - specifically the early one in which you just use blockers to stop the lemmings ambling off ledges to their doom
g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · 3w ago

it will feel weird to watch Wimbledon on TV next year without hearing Andrew Castle’s voice. another loss for the Beeb, much more so for the audience.

g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · 4w ago

How to Follow a Drummer but all the LLM patterns virtually prevent me from reading the text. Smiled at “I would genuinely love to compare notes”. I can assume the human wrote it.

g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · 4w ago

I reset my instagram identifier and now it feels like new: much more generic recommendations, none of the things it thought i'm interested in (which I really wasn't interested in). I think I'll start doing this on a more regular basis.

g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · last mo.

the web is dead. maybe if we, who see it as a craft, stopped responding to HTTP/x.x and forced out one slice – ours – then we can be happy in our DIY pen and let the algos do what they do best with the rest – the majority of existing stuff few care enough to visit not through a feed or search.

Eric Bailey@ericwbailey.website · last mo.

For whatever godforsaken reason I still _care_. The web started as a craft, and still can be. And when it is built as such, it shines. That said, it is increasingly more difficult to live in hope. I don’t blame or fault the people who exit. Unfortunately, this is the only game I know.