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sam henri gold

when you join the indie web alliance, you’re contractually bound to respond “don’t webmention it!” every time you’re thanked for something. they know if you don’t do it. you don’t wanna know what happens if you disobey.

sam henri gold

normally the mob breaks kneecaps but these guys break keycaps

sam henri gold

did you know mastodon has multiple choice polls?

Anonymous poll

Poll

yes
79
53%
no
39
26.2%
that's a bit personal
33
22.1%
how very dare you
57
38.3%
149 people voted.
Voting ended 14 Mar 2023 at 19:08.
Mike Beasley

@samhenrigold the joke being that @ivory doesn’t support them so a lot of people won’t understand that this is one

Mirella

@samhenrigold Yes, but I don’t see how to make them in the app.

sam henri gold

dude idk i’m just here for gift card discounts

The AARP app. The top-most item is a link to a video titled “Are you emotionally ready for retirement”. Underneath is my AARP point total, 4,270 points.
sam henri gold

buddy i don’t know if i’m emotionally ready for tomorrow morning

Mary Hilton

@samhenrigold I don't card about the gift cards-and I was more than emotionally ready for retirement 2 years before I did it. Work sucks hard.

sam henri gold

man, that bear sure did a lot of cocaine!

sam henri gold

im the last person to bemoan interface visual styles falling out of fashion but good lord what a fall from grace for this particular keyboard layout.

The iPad split keyboard in emoji mode. It's a neatly ordered gray slab across the middle of the screen with a scrolling picker wheel on the left for categories and the scrollable list on the right. Both scrollers have inner shadows on the top and bottom to make the list look like it's an inset wheel that bellows out. It's laid out perfectly. No notes.
The same view on iPadOS 16. The layout is exactly the same, but it looks dilapidated. There are still two scroll views, but they're all the same background color with no separation. You'd have no way of knowing these are even scrollable. The gray slab is offset from the actual keyboard content and one of the buttons is just completely invisible. Still there, but invisible.
sam henri gold

the world is just so stupid sometimes

A tweet from Tesla’s head of design Franz von Holzhausen: "Took Cybertruck Beta out for a drive"
with a photo of him beaming next to a Cybertruck prototype that’s clearly been out in the rain. The wiper does not appear to extend, leaving most of the windshield dirty.
Replies to that tweet.
Person 1: Have you considered it needing two windshield wipers? One on each side like the one you have but they would cross after each other.
Person 2: Wouldn't that be redundant?
Person 3: redundancy in wiping is good.
Person 2: Well, true.
R2

@samhenrigold Redundancy in wiping is good, but too much redundancy and you’ll get hurt. It’s a slippery slope.

sam henri gold

pregaming (reading) before the big event (a full 8 hours of sleep)

sam henri gold

(kicking at the ground) i thought i made a nice prototype. it even did parallax scrolling. whatever charli.

Femmebot by Charli XCX lyrics: "Go fuck your prototype"
sam henri gold

i’m sure the icelandic courts will be super understanding to elon in the discrimination case.

sam henri gold

thinking about if there's any hope for the <map> tag to not be shit. got a lil idea and it makes sense but it feels...haunted to use an image map in 2023.

sam henri gold

for tagging regions of an image, not as a means of navigation

sam henri gold

america has many, many flaws. but goddamn if the over-the-counter cold medicine here isn’t the best. dayquil will forcefully hallucinate the virus clean outta you. it doesn’t mess around.

Григорий Клюшников

Do you mean it's possible to treat cold instead of just waiting it out? 🤔

Philipp

@samhenrigold im a big proponent of NyQuil. I always purchase 4-6 before I head back to Europe.

sam henri gold

just thought you should know that those afterpay lockups that plague the web are all under a `afterpay-placement` html tag. which makes it really easy to add to your adblocker. anyway.

Pay in 4 interest-free payments of $41.25 with AfterPay.
sam henri gold

just a fun little thing to add to your ublock list:

*#$#afterpay-placement{display:none!important;}

sam henri gold

Quick typographic crash course:

• 👈 This is a “Bullet” character (U+2022). You can type it on a Mac with Option + 8 or Alt + Numpad 7 on Windows. Use this for lists and nothing else.
· 👈 This is an “Interpunct” or “Middot” character (U+00B7). It’s smaller than a bullet. Option + Shift + 9 on a Mac or Alt + Numpad 250 on Windows. Use an interpunct for everything else (text separation, syllable separation)

Please boost far and wide to save a soul from typographic damnation.

Quick typographic crash course:

• 👈 This is a “Bullet” character (U+2022). You can type it on a Mac with Option + 8 or Alt + Numpad 7 on Windows. Use this for lists and nothing else.
· 👈 This is an “Interpunct” or “Middot” character (U+00B7). It’s smaller than a bullet. Option + Shift + 9 on a Mac or Alt + Numpad 250 on Windows. Use an interpunct for everything else (text separation, syllable separation)

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D. Griffin Jones

@samhenrigold Similarly…
⇧⌥8 types the degree sign, ( ° ).
⌥0 types the masculine ordinal indicator ( º ) that’s common in Italian, Spanish and other languages. It might look identical in most fonts, but in others (like Calibri) it shows up with a small underline.

Jeroen Schaper

@samhenrigold thanks! I’ve had to update my profile on every social media platform I’m a member of 😂

sam henri gold

something with the youtube algorithm changed cause now i'm getting recommended the most random shit with, like, no views. here's the FOURTH video on the front page for me.

Friday March 3 evening forecast. Uploaded 8 hours ago by KETV News 7.  59 views. The thumbnail shows an anchor standing in front of a green screen with temperatures on top of a map of Nebraska.
Cheerios de Bergerac

@samhenrigold absolutely fucking up your recommendations like that is a sign you're doing the internet right. I don't want a website to know me.

ben

@samhenrigold me too, actually. i keep getting random vlogs from 9 year olds with no views

Chris Wu :toucan:

@samhenrigold I still laugh at the thought of it recommending a football CHANNEL to me when I've watched sports in maybe 0.00000000001% of my thousands of hours on YouTube.

sam henri gold

I'll tell you something that bugs me way more than it should: when websites have all-caps text hard-coded into the string when `text-transform` should've been used. You are the reason I had to rewrite whatever in lowercase.

devolute

@samhenrigold 10/10 developers write that stuff. You show some respect.

JonnyJest

@samhenrigold I've forgotten where I recently heard about it, but maybe convertcase.net could be useful for you? 🙂

sam henri gold

is he…you know…(sits sideways in a chair)

sam henri gold

okay i've seen what i've needed to see with ai. it's neat. we can turn it off now. pack it up. go home.

sam henri gold

countdown to fox news bitching about woke charging?

Clean Energy Charging toggle switch. In your region, iPhone will try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon emission electricity is available. iPhone learns from vour dailv charging routine so it can reach full charge before vou need to use it.
Jake :QueerCat_Bisexual:

@samhenrigold
Weren't they complaining about woke xbox power usage the other day?

[DATA EXPUNGED]
EJ Schenck

@samhenrigold if they DO bitch about it: they'll mention how terrible and woke Apple is, and post it to Tweeter from an iPhone.

Sam Gross

@samhenrigold this post has done psychic damage to me, expect a call from my personal injury lawyer

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