People feel that they need to pick a side and defend it, preferring to eat one another's face rather than make sure the leopards don't. I guess in a way that's very social media. It's also very stupid.
I would like to relieve the tedium of this posturing by making a suggestion that everyone can hate together.
At this point, the throwaway email address I posed to a HN "Who Wants to be Hired" thread >2 years ago is basically a honeypot for phishing attempts
Added tags to #excitable-dev!
Published today's newsletters:
- All four calendar.city event roundups
- This Week in Raycast
This is when we initially conceived of what we now call the “pit of success,” which is where we try to design tools (like puzzle editors) so that they do the core things that players want by default and make it difficult to build invalid or useless configurations.
from ZACH-LIKE by Zach Barth
🔗 This blog is written in en-GB
It is OK if things are unfamiliar to you.
The other day, I thought: hey, I'd love an RSS feed for the "Current Events" page on Wikipedia. Of course, my immediate thought was: I should build this! But, to my delight, one has existed for a while: https://patrick.cloke.us/posts/2017/05/26/rss-feeds-for-wikipedia-current-events-and-nhl-news/
Two new features for excitable.dev:
- Links prefixed with the magic emoji can now be found on the links tab on profiles: https://excitable.dev/user/joe/links
- All posted URLs — with or without the emoji prefix — are now automatically backed up to archive.org and archive.is
Archive test post: https://joewoods.dev
🔗 Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
They're now calling it the "Inkterface" […]
The assembly video is a nice touch!
Published this month's update article
excitable.dev needs more whimsy
Cutting the grass is no fun, but it is oddly satisfying to look out on my lawn and think: I did that
Published today's newsletters:
- All four calendar.city event roundups
- This Week in Raycast
Zak Brown always looks like he's having fun
