Marty McGuire

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2023
Tue Sep 5
★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/building-a-wide-news-commons
post from Building a wide news commons
Doc Searls writes about what he calls wide news:Local and regional papers covered politics, government, crises, disasters, sports, fashion, travel, business, religion, births, deaths, schools, and happenings of all kinds. They had reporters assigned across all their sections. No …
★ Liked https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/farewell-babylon-health/
Sun Sep 3
★ Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/01/thats-no-moonshot/
post That’s no moonshot.
Friday funnies abounded this morning, as a tech lobbying organisation published a blog post that is probably going to get somebody fired:
Thu Aug 31
★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/how-to-add-syntax-highlighting-to-code-as-a-user-types-in-realtime-with-vanilla-javascript/
★ Liked https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1819759.html
Mon Aug 28
★ Liked https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm
★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/how-to-create-your-own-codepen-clone-with-vanilla-javascript/
★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/08/28/3d-printing-open-source-certifying-hardware-oshwa-api-china-and-more-a-weigh-in-ahead/
post from 3D printing, open-source, certifying hardware, OSHWA API, China, and more … a weigh in ahead
It looks like the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) “fully intend(s) to weigh in” on the issues raised from the interview with Josef Prusa in the article “When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies”It’s been a month since the article was …
Fri Aug 25
★ Liked http://crosstheboundary.com/?fbclid=IwAR2pTBzts0ThX6hYZrrBvV1NchVhox7ccf0_movCPiZOVLjkUdhXVHV4ur4
Thu Aug 24
★ Liked https://ericwbailey.design/published/sandcastles/
★ Liked https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/legacy-code/
Sun Aug 20
★ Liked https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/10/14/steam-deck-is-awesome/
post from Steam Deck is Awesome
My Steam Deck arrived two months ago, and I’ve been having a blast ever since. I’m not much of a gamer; RimWorld and Skyrim are the only two games I’ve spent more than 100 hours in. I find it hard to play a game without wanting to do game dev instead. But with the Deck, I’ve been …
★ Liked https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/12/02/minetest-steam-deck/
post from Minetest on Steam Deck: usage and review
A few months ago, my Steam Deck arrived. So, obviously, one of the first things I did was play Minetest. Whilst Minetest isn’t available on Steam yet, it is available on Flatpak and so can be installed from desktop mode.
Sat Aug 19
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/
Fri Aug 18
★ Liked https://thenib.com/the-people-united/
post
Rise and Shine.
Thu Aug 17
★ Liked https://caseorganic.medium.com/sit-siri-designing-our-tech-to-have-good-etiquette-c64bc7c6a94a?source=rss-790cc8e56fd7------2
★ Liked https://jcs.org/2023/07/12/api
Wed Aug 16
★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/08/16/back-to-the-future-of-tokyo-drift-marty-a-robotic-drifting-delorean/
post from Back to the Future of Tokyo Drift: MARTY, a Robotic Drifting DeLorean
If the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future was going 88 miles per hour, but drifting, just where in time would it end up. Can you even drift that fast? We want to know. Here’s more, via SlashGearDrifting is a sport that lots of people are into. It requires a high degree …
★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/08/16/playstation-controller-authentication-as-a-service-gaming-playstation-python/
post from PlayStation controller authentication as a service #Gaming #Playstation #Python
Jacek Fedoryński posts about providing “PlayStation controller authentication as a service”:
★ Liked https://the-ard.com/2023/08/16/the-forgotten-u-s-territories-and-the-american-empire/
Mon Aug 14
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/dc31
★ Liked http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/real-talk-games-about-trauma-art-caught-between-everything-is-horrible-everything-is-survivable-and-this-is-too-hard-to-talk-about
★ Liked https://www.spicyweb.dev/web-components-ssr-node/
★ Liked https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/14/hidden-worlds/
Sun Aug 13
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/
Sat Aug 12
★ Liked https://maya.land/updates/2023/08/12/update-open-vs-hidden.html
★ Liked https://maya.land/monologues/2023/08/12/social-media-chalk-milk-guess.html
post from social media isn't chalk milk: a guess
epistemic disclaimer: I’m not an expert on this, and I’m not sure who would be. Largely speculative.
Fri Aug 11
★ Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/08/11/finding-a-moment-in-a-podcast/
Thu Aug 10
★ Liked https://preservationofnormalcy.tumblr.com/post/723924391486013440/i-feel-confident-enough-to-post-these-now-a