Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2025
Mon Jun 9
★ Liked https://maya.land/responses/2025/06/09/promptuary.html
Maya
post from I hereby apply conditions to the appropriation of the name promptuary
The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier’s bones.
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★ Liked https://www.404media.co/waymo-pauses-service-in-downtown-la-neighborhood-where-theyre-getting-lit-on-fire/
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★ Liked https://blog.lauramichet.com/la-is-great/
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★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/no-shame/
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★ Liked https://heydonworks.com/article/pride-shame-and-accessibility/
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Sun Jun 8
★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/rules-not-rulers/
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Fri Jun 6
★ Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/05/10/bluesky_de/
michaelweinberg.org
post from Bluesky Bot to Translate Local News
I made a bot that automatically translates bluesky tweets* from a list of accounts into english. It is written in python.
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★ Liked https://arun.is/blog/tech-t-shirts/
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★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/hard-times/
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Thu Jun 5
★ Liked https://mastodon.social/@makerblock/114632187646876845
MakerBlock
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@rasterweb I'm making slow but steady progress with the eink display stuff. Right now I'm pivoting to our #makerfaire project display while I learn the ropes. @adafruit guides, as always, incredibly helpful
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★ Liked https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
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★ Liked https://alexwlchan.net/2025/mildly-dynamic-websites/
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Wed Jun 4
★ Liked https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/06/ai-web-scrapers
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★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/gradient-borders-with-css/
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★ Liked https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/why-the-worst-people-are-so-keen-to-wreck-art-and/
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★ Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/02/generative-ai-and-the-business-borg-aesthetic/
Tracy Durnell
post from Generative AI and the Business Borg aesthetic
This feels like a sister piece to Ed Zitron’s essay Era of the Business Idiots and Mandy Brown’s essay Toolmen. Fair warning, this is a 5000 word post; I’ve been working on this for weeks, pulling together what I’ve learned about generative AI and culture over the past two years, …
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★ Liked https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/the-blackberry-keyboard-how-an-open-source-ecosystem-sprouts/
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★ Liked https://manganiello.social/notice/AukwkbWFAQDB0uXM80
Fabio Manganiello
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Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot in the past years.
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★ Liked https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/looking-elsewhere/#raising-the-standard
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Tue Jun 3
★ Liked https://todon.eu/@jalcine/114620506830373027
Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖
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Decided to delete my account. Wasn't using it anyway.
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★ Liked https://soatok.blog/2025/06/02/what-does-it-even-mean-to-be-great-anyway/
soatok.blog
post What Does It Even Mean To Be “Great” Anyway?
I normally don’t like writing “Current Events” pieces (and greatly prefer focusing on what SEO grifters like to call “evergreen content”), but I feel this warrants it.
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★ Liked https://kattni.com/post-conference-depression-is-real-and-you-are-not-alone
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★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2025/06/02/bona-lavs/
heatherburns.tech
post Bona lavs
As someone whose highest spiritual relationships are with books, and for whom libraries are cathedrals, today brought blessings.
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Mon Jun 2
★ Liked https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/autochattering/
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★ Liked https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/
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★ Liked https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/web-almanac/
© Morgan Murrah - morganwebdev.org 2025
post from Some Highlights of the Web Almanac 2024
Appreciating the good work, people doing the effort
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★ Liked https://mastodon.mauve.moe/@mauve/114614830014986633
Mauve 👁💜
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Neat recording from the goode solar observatory. There's a big swirling mass which almost looks like it's wrapping around something invisible.
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★ Liked https://alexwlchan.net/2025/my-favourite-websites/?utm_source=rss
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★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/why-we-hate-ai/
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★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/intelligence-testing-regimes/
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