steph m.
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💖 she/her 🧶 mostly knitting, reading, and watching bad movies 🌲 living in the pnw 💻 engineering, support and odd jobs @buttondown.com *** avatar by my neighbor
We can't wait to see you all in Chicago in a few weeks!
djangocon.us@djangocon.us · yesterdayWe’re thrilled to welcome Buttondown as a sponsor of Django Girls Chicago 2026! 🎉 Thank you, Buttondown, for supporting our mission to make tech more accessible and helping fund this free, hands-on Django workshop for women in Chicago. #DjangoGirls #Django #Python #OpenSource #WomenInTech
Over 30,000 people have mowed our digital lawn so far, but only 16% found the perfect path. How close will you get to the optimal solution? Go ahead, touch grass. pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ #dataviz #datascience #data
Today I learned that the people who cast JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS considered casting actors who could also sing, and the people who auditioned for the Rosario Dawson role included Aaliyah, Beyoncé, and Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes. VOTE JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS
Josie and the Pussycats are the best fake rock band ever
An oral history of the cult 2001 movie soundtrack, featuring interviews with Rachael Leigh Cook, Babyface, Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo, and more.
thefader.com
Widespread smoke and haze-filled skies remain over the Pacific Northwest as wildfires continue to burn in the region.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." https://gosafir.com/mag/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Soft-Rains-Bradbury-Text.pdf
I was filling out a new patient form and accidentally submitted it with only this in the “Please list current stressors in your life” input Meant to add more but you know what I think this captures it well enough
Baskin-Robbins Can’t Stop The Nuts (1980-1980): Coconut-almond ice cream, loaded with chocolate-covered almonds and candy-coated almonds, along with a milk chocolate ripple. Released to promote the Village People/Steve Guttenberg film, "Can't Stop the Music"
Long time @buttondown.com fan here, pretty damn thrilled they built a top-notch @standard.site integration right into the platform. (Heap your praise on, @mary.my.id)
AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 2d agoButtondown now has a built-in @standard.site integration that publishes records to your PDS alongside your newsletters.
Buttondown now has a built-in @standard.site integration that publishes records to your PDS alongside your newsletters.
Buttondown@buttondown.com · 4d agoWe've enhanced Bluesky link cards! Now when you share your newsletter's archive links on Bluesky they appear as rich, branded cards.💙 🦋 buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
short-stories.co
Lots of people genuinely suffered during Covid, but if your big trauma was that you had to wear a cloth over your face, or you could only eat on the restaurant‘s outdoor patio, or you couldn’t see Wonder Woman 1984 in a theater, please shut the fuck up.
we might be throwing out a generational umami opportunity. i will taste the forbidden fish sauce defector.com/abandoned-fi...
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
defector.com
Woo, new newsletter... and is that standard.site integration I see?! newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e...
s21e15: Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 30 July, 2026 in Portland, Oregon and a dog just came to sit down next to me. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! ... with...
newsletter.danhon.com
I’m sorry, you can’t convince me any of these characters are faithful to the original Greek texts.
Our homegrown localization is one open-sourced JSON file, a template tag, and a wrapper component — nothing fancy, and kept honest by a bunch of weird tests. buttondown.com/blog/how-we-...
How we localize Buttondown
Our homegrown localization is one open-sourced JSON file, a template tag, and a wrapper component — nothing fancy, and kept honest by a bunch of weird tests.
buttondown.com
Two straight days in which news organizations made uncanny valley image choices where famous people look like Onion stock image illustrations.
'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
