At yesterdayβs Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club, I appreciated hearing othersβ perspectives and approaches to managing some emotional aspects of blogging.
Over the weekend, I worked on adding a new feature to my personal website: videoconfencing. I was motivated to explore this space by Angelo ^1, who used Twilio to run a video conference on his personal website. Twilio is reliable but is not free, so we explored alternatives. β¦
Last week Josef PrΕ―Ε‘a, the eponymous proprietor of the important open source hardware company Prusa Research, shared a post about the state of open source in 3D printing.
Well, itβs come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgyβs Twitter support will die within the month. Granaryβs and twitter-atom too. The Twitter API may now be effectively unmaintained, but they still managed to find an β¦
βIn a world of widespread, suspicionless surveillance of protests by law enforcement and other government entities, and of massive corporate union-busting and suppression of worker organizing, Feedly decided they should build a tool for the corporations, cops, and unionbusters.β β¦
Overall, things have felt a bit better since my post last August. I still have plenty of times where I feel discouraged, isolated, and hopeless as our so-called leaders and institutions abandon us during an ongoing pandemic for the pursuit of profits. However, I have been trying β¦
βThe following images are originally from 1897-1973. After noticing how much more responsive audiences are to color photos, Eli decided to work on past images from queer and trans history. During a time when politicians can openly argue trans people did not exist until 2015, it β¦
I bought a printer, months and months back, because I had these ideas of beautiful janky little booklets, monochrome laser printed, lovingly finessed margins. I buy peopleβs zines and read them. I write, I illustrate things, I have a rotating stapler; trust me that there is a β¦
