For years I have been affectionately teased for my love of notebooks and stationary. Which is FINE, families gonna fam, I dish out all that I take, rest assured.

But an hour ago Jupiter was like, “You know, I really want to start cooking, and have a notebook where I put recipes,” and I was on it like white on rice. Here, want to check out my blank notebook collection and pick one? They did. Want to use my corner cutter to round all the corners? They did. Want to use my rainbow of index cards and specialized hole punch to make colored notes for your sections? Want this cute food-themed washi tape? Want me to write up tonight’s soup recipe? YES!

They were just standing at the kitchen table, putting their notebook together using all my stuff, and they’re like, “Mom! This is so cool! You’re so magical!” And I’m standing there with the gazillion-watt glow of my decades-long niche nerdy obsession saving the day, and being loudly recognized and appreciated about it. 😂

#notebooks #analog

just noticed it's How DNS Works' 4th birthday soon! https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/

it's still one of my favourite zines, and it comes with a free ★★ playground ★★ at https://messwithdns.net where you can create DNS records and see what happens!

The internet is broken. But was it ever whole?

Error 417 Expectation Failed invites artists, curators, and collectives to reject the longing for a mythic "old internet" and confront #netNostalgia head-on.

We don't need to resurrect a past that never existed. We need to ask: what protocols, networks, archives, and shared conditions can build the internet we actually want?

Open call. Global.
🔗 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable

Any recommendations for alternatives to GitHub for corporate use?

The current GitHub AI training thing means that GitHub cannot be used for anything confidential. There's no way of saying at an org level that data cannot be used to train AI, which means that anything in a GitHub private org used by more than one person is at risk.

I've mostly looked at alternatives for personal and F/OSS things. The requirements for corporate use also include decent ACLs, MFA, and so on.

#AICostsYouPayingCustomersYouMuppets

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Was so fun to go on Close All Tabs to talk about how farmers have fought for right to repair! Thought this episode turned out really great and the show in general is amazing:

https://www.kqed.org/news/12077465/to-hack-a-tractor-how-farmers-won-the-right-to-repair

“Gas prices? What gas prices?”

Even without insane and illegal wars, the thing about any dependency, including car dependency, is that once you’re dependent, they can do whatever they want with the prices.

Real freedom is choices. Better cities create choices. Graphic via the Urban Truth Collective. Check out our website here:
https://www.urbantruthcollective.com/#UrbanTruth

I feel like the technical fedi and the open source world in general suffers from a severe lack of science communicators. Even technical writers expect a level of technical prowess from their audience.

There's no reason why this knowledge must seem so arcane to non-developers like me.