Jona 🐳

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apophatic agnostic (mostly)
GITHUBhttps://github.com/jklundell
BLOGhttps://pragmatos.net
Show threadJona 🐳2d ago
@elithebearded What worked for my septuagenarian sister was to move her from a Mac to an iPad (specifically an iPad Pro w/Magic Keyboard). It leveraged her familiarity with her iPhone UI, and got away from the multiple-windows problem. (There’s also Assistive Access on iPad & iPhone, but that has not been necessary.) I’m not saying it’s the right solution for your MIL, but for some people it’s a lifesaver.
Show threadJona 🐳Mar 16

@bweller @MsMerope @Cdespinosa

Surely the billionaires can afford it.

Jona 🐳Mar 15
Daniel SwainMar 15
I'll be live on KQED Forum from 9-10am PT on Mon, Mar 16 (yes, for the full hour!) to discuss what is likely to become a historic March heatwave across Western U.S. We'll be taking listener questions live; you can listen online as well as over the air. https://www.kqed.org/radio/schedule?date=2026-03-16
Jona 🐳Mar 13
sam henri goldMar 12
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Show threadJona 🐳Mar 11
@apLundell
Just because you can…
Show threadJona 🐳Mar 11
@kims
Not-so-subliminal message: wearing a “hearing device” doesn’t mean you’re an Old.
Jona 🐳Mar 10
Kim ScheinbergMar 10

@kjhealy
Okay, I let myself fall into the rabbit hole and this made me genuinely lol several times.Not sure how I missed this last year

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/02/06/kerning-and-kerning-in-a-widening-gyre/

Kerning and Kerning in a Widening Gyre

This post summarizes an extended period of deep annoyance. I have tried to solve the problem it describes more than once before and not quite done it. This has, in fact, happened again. I have still not satisfactorily solved the problem. But this time I know why I can’t solve it in a civilized manner. My goal is simple, and reasonable. I want to produce more or less identical plots in both PNG and PDF formats. PNG is a raster format. PDF is a vector format and also the Devil Incarnate. Sometimes you want one format, sometimes the other. Raster formats color in pixels on a grid of some fixed resolution. They are efficient when you need to plot a lot of elements, but you can’t zoom in on them without loss. When you make one, any as it were “structural” information about plot elements is lost. A line or a shape no longer exists as an editable line or shape. It’s just pixels. Vector formats can be easily resized up or down without loss of fidelity and keep more of the structural information used to make the plot to begin with. Lines and shapes remain lines and shapes. But vector formats get big real fast when you have a lot of objects to show, because each one is drawn separately. Also they are the Devil Incarnate. Especially when it comes to one special subset of lines and shapes: fonts.

Jona 🐳Mar 9
Existential ComicsMar 9
Either/Or Bandit -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/645
Either / Or Bandit

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Jona 🐳Mar 9
Jay KuoMar 9
Abolish ICE. Top to bottom.
Show threadJona 🐳Mar 7
@tomjennings
Disk controllers were very close to the metal in those days. TTL SSI & a bit of MSI, discrete PLLs.