Bud Parr, enthusiast

@budparr
141 Followers
336 Following
95 Posts
The highest compliment I can pay someone is to pick out a book for them. I live in NYC. I believe in the web protocols, sourdough bread and black & white photography. Sláva Ukrayíni!
Personal Websitehttps://www.budparr.com
Work Websitehttps://www.thenewdynamic.com
Glass (photos)https://glass.photo/budparr
Threadshttps://www.threads.net/@budparr
Bud Parr, enthusiastAug 29, 2023
Taylor LorenzAug 29, 2023
Post Twitter I find myself visiting the homepages of websites more and it’s something I really like now as part of my morning routine. I constantly find stories I probably would have never seen on social
Bud Parr, enthusiastJun 23, 2023
Very excited to see one of my favorite filmmakers, Christian Petzold, introduce his new film "Afire" at Lincoln Center next month. https://www.filmlinc.org/films/afire/
Afire

Christian Petzold’s latest is a breezy, often funny, yet emotionally layered melodrama of creative and romantic insecurities along the German Riviera.

Film at Lincoln Center
Bud Parr, enthusiastJun 23, 2023
Sanity.ioMar 16, 2023

Content is your most important asset for a digital experience. Should you put it into a system designed for blogging 20 years ago?

@dataknut gives you 5 reasons you should not.

https://www.sanity.io/blog/wordpress-disadvantages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=wordpress-disadvantages&utm_content=

5 Major Ways WordPress Is Holding You Back

Your content is too important to leave in a system designed to manage blogs over twenty years ago. Here are 5 major disadvantages of WordPress as a content solution in the composable era.

Sanity.io
Bud Parr, enthusiastApr 14, 2023
Jorge CastroApr 13, 2023
Someone left this review for one of my favorite restaurants. So the restaurant put it on a t-shirt and sells it to people, lol.
Bud Parr, enthusiastMar 28, 2023
Open Web AdvocacyMar 27, 2023

iOS 16.4 is a massive step forwards towards feature parity between Web Apps and Native Apps.

Big thank-you to the Safari/Webkit team for all their hard work ♥️

👇 Read all about it here

https://webkit.org/blog/13966/webkit-features-in-safari-16-4/

WebKit Features in Safari 16.4

Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the many additions to WebKit that are included in Safari 16.4.

WebKit
Bud Parr, enthusiastMar 5, 2023
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/02/ukraine-postal-service-introduces-banksys-fck-ptn-postage-stamp.html
Ukraine postal service introduces Banksy's "FCK PTN!" postage stamp | Boing Boing

Ukraine’s national postal service Ukrposhta has introduced a new “FCK PTN!” postage stamp created by mysterious artist/activist Banksy. The stamp commemorates the one year anniver…

Boing Boing
Bud Parr, enthusiastMar 3, 2023
Brian RinaldiMar 1, 2023
The current debate about React and other front-end frameworks got me thinking about the price developers can pay for loving their tools too much. As someone who built a career in Flash and Flex, I know this lesson from experience. https://remotesynthesis.com/blog/the-price-of-developer-tools/
Remote Synthesis | The Price Developers Pay for Loving Their Tools Too Much

Developers are passionate about their tools - sometimes to a fault. There is value in being open to change and new directions.

Bud Parr, enthusiastMar 2, 2023

Give Directly is my preferred way of giving. Here's a link to help survivors of the Turkey-Syria earthquake to help them recover:

https://fundraisers.givedirectly.org/campaigns/turkeysyriaearthquakes

Cash Relief for Earthquake Survivors

GiveDirectly, Inc
Bud Parr, enthusiastFeb 28, 2023
In front of Russian Diplomatic Compound, Bronx, NY. Even the fire hydrants stand tall. Slava Ukraine.
Bud Parr, enthusiastFeb 19, 2023
Show threadSheril KirshenbaumFeb 19, 2023

About 109B people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Several folks have asked about death rates after the previous post, so I'm resharing this incredible data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser from Our World in Data. /2