TIL: August 1st is Emancipation Day in Canada. “It marks the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire.”
Stephen Bell
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Senior Design Technologist (front end dev) at a big nonprofit. Dad to two sets of twins. Canadian living in Oklahoma City. Love your neighbor.
RIP Glen Hansard. I listened to the Once soundtrack yesterday, and it’s still moving, raw and powerful. And this busted up guitar that was in the movie rules. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FB3...
Glen Hansard talks about his well-worn guitar at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU
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That book inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing, which killed 167 people, including a bunch of kids in the building's day care center. In case you wondered how dangerous this rhetoric is.
Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 2w agoWould assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
Ugggghhhh... Web hosting installing AI plugins for my clients without permission is 🤢 wpmayor.com/siteground-a...
1 Million Forced Installs and a 1-Star Rating: Inside SiteGround's AI Plugin Rollout
SiteGround auto-installed its AI plugin on over a million WordPress sites. It now holds a 1-star rating. Here's what one decision does to a hard-earned reputation.
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Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y agowelcome to the Age of Diarrhea
ChatGPT is getting needy and begging to read my emails. No thanks. 🤢
If one user gets it wrong, it *might* be them. If multiple users get it wrong, it's *definitely* you. — Ancient UX proverb
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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SVG pathLength 🤩 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... I was getting frustrated with having to use JavaScript to fetch the length of _each_ svg path, to then define within CSS so I can animate it via stroke-dasharray; ... turns out we can just slap pathLength into the svg itself and use that! 🥳
I don't understand why icon libraries have to be so complicated. The two varieties that exist: 1. Oh, you want a right arrow? Here's a font/svg that downloads the paths for 1000 icons. 2. Oh, you want a right arrow? Install this React package and import RightArrow. #webdev
TIL that the newer accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2) require website login forms to be usable by password managers. Neat. #webdev
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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If you need an ad-free mental distraction from <gestures at everything>, I have found the Fruit Merge game on the CBC Kids website very addictive and fun: www.cbc.ca/kids/games/p...
Play Fruit Merge | Games | CBC Kids
Use your mouse to drop and combine fruit, making even bigger pieces of fruit!
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Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
Is… Is Leapfrog selling the malevolent spoof of their own product from the new Toy Story movie?
All these people working on the web who I hold in such high regard are hurting. Slop really isn't good for morale.
🤯 TIL you can "crop" SVGs using fragment URLs. <img src="diagram.svg#svgView(viewBox(680,130,260,160))" />
incredibly delighted by this unfortunately
Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 3mo agoGenre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...
enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences
Found a neat trick in Wikimedia's world map file: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bl.... The XY coordinates in SVG file are real lat/lng. There's a matrix transform that converts it to local XY: <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,-1,180,90)"> You can add things to the map just using real location. 🤯 #maps
