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This is Iker. He was found by a Portuguese rescue earlier this year and during his intake photos he appeared very nonchalant about finding a forever home. This strategy worked and he was adopted almost immediately. 14/10 (IG: patudosvagos)

Great thread

Hillel is on Social Media Break@hillelwayne.com · 3mo ago

Day two of #CraftConf! Gonna try skeeting from Edge in hopes it doesn't kill my battery as much as Firefox. I just got in a couple minutes late for @kentbeck.com 's "Forest & Desert & Genie". About how AI unlocks so much creativity but also has so many challenges

Today is Girls in ICT Day 👩‍💻 & I took a look back at how I've got here. Originally, at 12y, I wanted to "make music videos for MTV and design things on paper." I ended up in design, front-end, & a11y. I found this old photo (March 1995), and apparently there were signs I was interested in tech 😉

Nice! My talk at @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com is already out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCl...

Early returns from outer space (in Kotlin) by Alejandro Serrano Mena

YouTube video by Devoxx

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New article: this one's about the application of Clausewitz's concept of friction to software engineering.

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

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DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

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Still not totally clear to me how the software industry is so chill with the approach the LLM companies have taken wrt IP. All while sending their own IP to those companies through eg Claude code. What holds them back in training on that code too and likewise leaking it to competitors.

This is Balto. He told you he knew a spot with a great view. Didn’t tell you what he uses that spot for. 12/10 (TT: loresa_ukaj)

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

A fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives at Chernobyl: “Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...

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I’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work. Time to fix that. If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too. [1/2]

🔥 New blog post! Covering, among other things: - Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough - How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio - Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback - How to prioritize user needs lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...

In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam • Lea Verou

User effort is a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoffs of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.

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I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison

These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.

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The thing is, in my xp, in software context, with the doublechecking included, it does not save me a lot of time and always leaves me with the feeling that I missed a subtle bug somewhere. Like code from a junior engineer who you've stopped trusting.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · last yr.

Of course definitions of whether the technology works or not depends on which context you expect it to work. Treating it as a font of all wisdom that it is not rather than the highly effective editorial assistant that you still need to doublecheck that it is has become a lot of the problem.