When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.
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Computer botherer from Northern Ireland https://johngirvin.com
What a piece of junk! "Harry runs a salvage operation, in which he and his partners reclaim trash and junk and sell it as scrap (or as other things). Harry also has a home-made spaceship which he sometimes uses to reclaim junk satellites." Aka the Vulture from Salvage 1 (1979). 🚀
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
This is definitely the name of an English "It Girl" actor who suddenly turns up in everything and when you look into it her father owns Shropshire.
James Kelleher@jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · yesterdayOne step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it
Glad we went animated in the end, but this could have been hilarious! 😂
Two things made 80s movies great: 1. Original concepts- not reboots, franchises. 2. Being played over and over again on VHS and cable channels, with minimal alternatives, until they were burned so deeply into your cortex that they became inseparable from your actual memories.
I had a fess published a few years ago about how I couldn't connect with my lifelong pals cos all they wanted to do was booze and take coke. I told them how I felt, turned out they thought the same and now we climb Munro's on Sundays. Lads, talk to your pals.
Jac Schaeffer will create a new series based on the beloved sci-fi franchise
WandaVision Creator Set To Develop New Stargate Series
Jac Schaeffer will create a new series based on the beloved sci-fi franchise
polygon.com
This is a Pulitzer-prize-winning poem about the endless vacuousness of the modern age
RedFade@redfade.bsky.social · 4d agoNo that same person posted this it’s somehow even sadder than you think
Check out this cool open source tool that removes or disables unwanted AI components like Copilot, Recall, and other AI tools from Windows. 👏 Don't let Big Tech track you!💪🏼 ➡️ www.opensourceprojects.dev/post/c54eaf7...
7am start for tweets from a different touchline today. Boy has a U14 Rugby “Blitz” for two hours. He’s built better for Rugby than football. I think football is going to have to be dropped.
A world of Ballardian abandoned aerodromes and Shakespearean body counts, where everyone has a terrible time except the reader. Me on Eoin McNamee’s The Comets, which might appeal to fans of David Peace, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy;
The Comets — condensed, bitingly efficient short fiction by Eoin McNamee
In a collection of two novellas and 15 tightly pared-down tales, the Northern Irish writer plunges the reader into a world of danger, seediness and alienation
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According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 5d agoah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen. 🥳 Sigourney Weaver has also voiced a spaceship two times (the Female Planet Express Ship in Futurama, 2002, and the Axiom from Wall-E, 2008).
I’m sorry, all I can see here is the Bookie Monster nom nom nom!!
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 4d agoThe National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals has called for changes to the administration of the free schoolbooks scheme.
an internal investigation by cats into whether they have been fed, concludes that they have not.
Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
news.mit.edu
When I was a lad I used to be afraid of Moira Stewart. Used to hide behind the settee when she was on.
School photos must be one of the last great rip-offs in the digital age. Eighteen quid for four 4x6 photos that you could print out in Boots or Tesco for less than 20p each! Plus, who has an optical drive these days to pop a CD into?
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.
Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Me and my friends would have killed it with hammers, I can tell you that much
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”