Halcek @halcek@merveilles.town

I learned a new word and I like it:
Whumperflies

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whumperflies

Holy cats, was this really in May? It feels like a year ago ...

I talk about writing advice, the ways it can help, the ways it can hurt, and waiting to be 'good enough' to share it.

📝 📚 The desire to share what we've learned: https://victoriacorva.xyz/2020/10/19/the-desire-to-share-what-weve-learned/

"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

You tell a philosopher to get a job and suddenly he wants to be king.

So YouTube is removing community contributions, which means community-contributed captions and subtitles are not going to be available anymore.

If you have any viewership in another country, and you wish to make your content more accessible to them but you do not speak their language, or to make your content accessible for viewers who are hard of hearing or deaf, YouTube says “tough luck.”

You’ll have to find either dedicated volunteers, or hire a translator, to translate your transcript into other languages.

Which disincentivizes accessibility measures for many creators. Which is bad.

#Protip: "Drafts" on Mastodon

Mastodon doesn't natively support a "draft mode", where in-process toots can be saved and re-edited.

... but ... you can emulate this by setting default posting to "DM", and not filling in any recipients. A DM toot not shared with any third parties is visible only to yourself. You can then post, and delete/redraft this toot until it's complete to your satisfaction.

On devices/platforms where Web content is prone to disappear without notice (o hai Chrome Android mufferphuckerz) this may prove useful, especially where researching links / content for a substantial toot.

#MastoTips #ProTips #DraftMode

I made a super simple tool for rendering Markdown documents.

https://gitlab.com/jrc03c/playtex

Allyship as an identity or badge of pride becomes ridiculous when you consider what the alternative is. Being an ally simply means you are not hostile to humans for their existence, and will not condone or further hostility against them. Refusing to be an enemy to humanity is just the bare minimum, like okay you're not evil cool story.

It's telling that 100% of TinyLetter's help pages are for people sending bulk email, and 0% are to help people who are receiving it.

"transform a smashed smartphone into a homemade laptop"

#diy #repair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mciEZKSvva8

this guy is a wizard

Wow, there is a whole public conversation going on inside the Creative Commons copy of 'Twitter & Teargas' via hypothes.is

Now that's what I call hypertext

https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.twitterandteargas.org/downloads/twitter-and-tear-gas-by-zeynep-tufekci.pdf

I set up two sr.ht mailing lists for the #alv livecoding language:

one for announcements (like a newsletter) and one for questions, discussion, patches etc.

Please feel free to subscribe and share :)

https://lists.sr.ht/~s-ol/alv-announce/%3C6f2664395472532bc9edae1fa092b511%40s-ol.nu%3E