#Australian in #Taiwan 🇦🇺🇹🇼🏳️🌈 I post photos to my blog when I get the chance (currently from a trip to Japan from years ago! 😅)
Profile pic is from 2016 🤳 Yea boi!
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I agree. This icon doesn't say "pause a phone call" to me. It says "Kirby from Nintendo games ordering takeout from a chicken restaurant." 🍗
Or as Kirby would say: "¡Pollo!"
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
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Similarly… foiled again.
Me, earlier:
Oh cool, the @ page size descriptor is supported by Chrome, Firefox and Safari! I’ll use it for this print and PDF layout that needs to be A4 landscape.
Me, now, actually trying it:
Wait, why isn’t it working? Oh. Oh no. It does not work at all in Safari. And MDN/caniuse.com say it does, but they are wrong (and there is an open issue about it).
The WebKit bug 63575 is from… 14.5 years ago.
*dies* 💀
The year is 2026 and again, today, I still need to use a prefixed version of user-select because WebKit still requires it (-webkit-user-select)…
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208677
There’s a proposal for it in Interop 2026 and I really hope it was selected (the proposal selection process has already been completed, but the results aren’t expected to be published until next month).
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📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
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Sorry for the wait, but Ivory v2.4 is finally available on the App Store! Features support for the official quote posts (assuming your server is running Mastodon 4.5 or later) and we've made big improvements to fetching replies and post metadata in the post detail views.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
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