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Death.au's Blog

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#ActivityPub, #Microformats, #Micropub... These all describe the same set of activities. So where's the service that lets me publish to my own static site via something like Micropub, with built-in interactions (likes, comments, etc) via ActivityPub?

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I really should pack my own bathers when taking my child to their swimming lesson. I could wait inthe pool, I stead of sweating it out beside the pool...

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I'm playing around with omg.lol, which allows you to purchase your own omg.lol domain, with a nice little markdown webpage builder thing, now page, blog, pastebin, persistent link manager, email and a bunch more. It's an intriguing little corner of the internet to call your own...

I kinda want to write blog posts, but I don't really know what I want to write about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the #AppleVisionPro is the next "iPhone moment"...
Then I'll wait for the 3rd gen.
Or the cheaper, more open Android equivalent.

I could wait for Microsoft's answer, but it would probably be too late and fail to garner support from developers, even if it is better than the alternatives.

Most mood trackers I've seen just rank from negative to positive, and I feel like there's a lot of nuance there that is lost.

If I have a negative day, it doesn't necessarily mean I was ☹️. I might've been angry or irritable or just sick.

Has anyone seen any good alternatives?

It seems like a problem that is likely solved somewhere already.

#tracking

So, as my own personal portal to the #fediverse, I'm selfhosting a single-user #friendica (friendi.ca/) instance. I'm still learning, but I can easily connect to #mastodon peeps as well as following #RSS feeds (and I'm starting to reach out and explore "forums", like #lemmy instances.

Oh no! My 20-year-old minidisc-capable stereo (https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/bookshelf/cmt-cp500md) looks like it might have given up. There was an electrical storm yesterday, and one bolt of lightning did hit quite close to home, but no breakers or anything seemed to be tripped, and nothing else has malfunctioned. But when I try to turn the stereo on, the backlight does not turn on, it flashes "STANDBY" and then turns off again. Hopefully there's something I can do to save it...

It's that time of year where one reflects on the year that has passed and looks forward to the new one. A lot of people like to set a "theme" for the new year, which is something I've not done before.

But next year, I think I'd like to set a theme of #focus

Focus is something I constantly struggle with, and I really need to step up my game.

So how does one practice focus? What does that even mean? That is what I'm setting out to discover.

This is pretty cool. Might be something to do with my kids on their holidays. Thanks for sharing, @[email protected] https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNaQyFE4/

Cube Tube

A screenshot from CubeTube, depicting a blocky image of a voxel train with a sideways tetris game (a long piece is about to be slotted in for four lines).

Nostalgia inducing, 8-bit style, side scrolling tetrominos, ON A TRAIN!

LDToypad.NET

An image of a Lego portal from Lego Dimensions with one of the toypad segments lit up red.

A .NET library for communicating with the LEGO Dimensions toypad.

Sliding Panes (Andy Matuschak Mode)

An animation showing how the Sliding Panes plugin for Obsidian works, opening a few panes, scrolling sideways through them and then closing them again.

A unique way to view open panes in Obsidian.

Procrastinations issues

a "motivational" style image with a black border. The image is simply a blank white square. The main title is "Procrastination". The subtitle is "I'll find a picture for it later".

I barely managed to get this written at all...

Sculpting myself

A statue holding a hammer and a chisel, appearing to be about to carve the rock that makes up his unfinished legs

Oh, that's right, I never introduced myself...

An outlet for my writing

A clipart image of a couple of envelopes sealed with a love heart

It's the first issue. Do you really expect a witty subtitle?

5 Types of Wireframes & Prototypes

Various app wireframes, printed and stuck to a wall. There are a lot of pins with black string connecting the various wireframes

So, what even is wireframing and how do you do it? What tools do you use? How does it tie in with the eventual "complete" design? Why is it even necessary? Wireframes are a crucial tool in the early stages of any project – the clarity they provide to your conceptualisation, refinement and features is unparalleled. They can come in all shapes and sizes (depending on your type of app) as well as a varying level of detail included in them.

How Slack Can Help Drive Customer Engagement

Stock image of four diverse proffessional people holding differently coloured and differently shaped speech bubble cards

You may already know Slack as the team communication platform it was designed to be. But did you know you can also use it as a customer engagement tool?

Just Give Us the Throttles We Can Use

Navy personnel looking at a screen with data and guages. Below the sceen are some hardware controls

Modern touchscreen applications leave old mechanical controls behind. And it's not always for the better. In this case, lives were lost...

Shopfront Solutions

An image of a young woman in a shop uniform placing paper price tickets on shelves of vitamin bottles

A platform for digital marketing in the retail sector.