Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2026
Sat Feb 7
★ Liked https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/02/the-beacon
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★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-news-weakly/
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Fri Feb 6
★ Liked https://blog.lauramichet.com/interesting-link-website-where-you-can-buy-reproductions-of-practically-any-skull/
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★ Liked https://social.coop/@cwebber/116018256785750413
Christine Lemmer-Webber
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Ok I got the challenge to check out BLUE, a build system written entirely in Guile. So far it looks like the first ever build system I have ever encountered which I thought "this actually looks good and like something I'd like to use" https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue
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★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/
Cory Doctorow
post from Pluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026)
Today's links
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★ Liked https://goodinternetmagazine.com/unlocking-a-better-future-with-old-computers/
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Thu Feb 5
★ Liked https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/gametank-public-demo-2-11-26
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★ Liked https://blog.lauramichet.com/a-thought-about-monstrous-rich-men-online/
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★ Liked https://mellified.men/@srol/116019099022246201
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★ Liked https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/?ref=articles-rss-feed
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Wed Feb 4
★ Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02/04/3d-printer-gun-screen/
michaelweinberg.org
post from 3D Printers Cannot Effectively Screen for Gun Parts
This post is a handy reference for the technical reasons why requiring 3D printers to screen for gun parts is not an effective way to reduce guns or gun violence. I am publishing it on the occasion of both New York and Washington State introducing bills to require this type of …
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★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/04/what-a-load-of-filament-the-case-against-3d-printer-gun-detection/
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★ Liked https://www.ign.com/articles/stardew-valley-turns-10-the-big-concernedape-interview
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Tue Feb 3
★ Liked https://ftrain.com/mentioned-in-satans-dispatches
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★ Liked https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2026-01-31-dec-jan-update.html
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Mon Feb 2
★ Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/weekly-retro-52/
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★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/the-other-turing-test/
heatherburns.tech
post the other Turing test
A few months ago I wrote a blog post which, as they do, went to the top of Hacker News. When this happens, I tend to ignore the commentary for my own sanity, but with that recent post, there was one observation a few people made which made me quite happy.
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★ Liked https://www.eteogames.com/winter-and-death-in-harvest-moon/
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Sun Feb 1
★ Liked https://virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/indie-game-roundup-feb-1-2026/
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★ Liked https://100r.ca/site/log.html#jan2026
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Sat Jan 31
★ Liked https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-good-the-pretty-and-fear-itself
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★ Liked https://reimaginednews.beehiiv.com/p/remembering-as-an-act-of-resistance
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Fri Jan 30
★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/30/at-last-a-wonderful-day-in-parliament/
heatherburns.tech
post At last, a wonderful day in Parliament.
What an absolute honour and privilege it was to spend Wednesday morning in the House of Commons, alongside dissidents from Russia, Afghanistan, and China, speaking to Parliamentarians about the importance of end-to-end encryption.
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★ Liked https://brennan.day/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now/
Brennan Kenneth Brown
post from omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now
There's something genuinely delightful I discovered that I need to tell you about right now. Something that made me, a person who has spent countless hours wrestling with corporate platforms and their endless enshittification, actually excited about the web again.
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★ Liked https://www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda-newsletter-vol-7-issue-3-ways-to-help-mn/
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Thu Jan 29
★ Liked https://www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-joining-the-general-strike
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★ Liked https://theinteriorofmybrain.com/2026/01/29/birthday-cats-and-yarn-chicken/
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★ Liked https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks
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Wed Jan 28
★ Liked https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
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★ Liked https://mastodon.mauve.moe/@mauve/115974543593496089
Mauve 👁💜
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It's exhausting watching people constantly shoot themselves in the foot by putting all their energy into platforms that are doomed to screw them over with the exact same patterns of being cheap and easy at first and inevitably shit once you're stuck there.
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