micah

@mwittman
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Protagonist.

Made FedThreader https://wittman.github.io/fedthreader/ for the Fediverse/Mastodonians.

Other interests.

wittman.orghttps://wittman.org
FedThreaderhttps://wittman.github.io/fedthreader/
revealword.com (word puzzle game)https://revealword.com

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Thanks for hanging on to so much valuable data for the public.

In 1989, Denis Ritchie, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan et al (basically people who invented mordern computing) once teamed with Penn & Teller (two magicians) to play a joke on their boss, Arno Penzias (Physic Nobel Prize).

The challenge was to trick one of the smartest living man into blindly obeying orders from what appeard to be a "smart understanding computer".

It worked.

Nobody is immune to be scammed by computers.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/labscam.html

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4

Labscam

A yaml is a horse configured by committee.
Your Brutalist Sandcastle Summer Challenge.
This one built by Calvin Seibert
#sculpture #art #architecture #brutalist #beach

Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read.

Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.

Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81
Home page shows the project title as "dorkq" on some Android devices · Issue #81 · gruntjs/gruntjs.com

See here: http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/2308d26f99f0b5915b53829c4ae5f9567b2d84be I haven't tried to figure out why. @practicum noticed that the letters are all 3 off and lowercase. G-3=d,...

GitHub
What makes a social media site vibrant? It's not about the technology. It's about how the networks are nurtured into being. Here's some lessons from 20 years ago that Alt-Twitter designers need to consider: https://zephoria.medium.com/dear-alt-twitter-designers-its-about-the-network-3d6f7e8714dd
wikihow illustration on my gravestone: How to Mourn Me

As one of Adobe's competitors, being the maintainer of #krita, I was asked to fill in a questionnaire by the @EU_Commission on the upcoming Adobe/Figma merger.

It was long, thorough and very, very clear. Good job 🙂

(Spoiler: I'd say, let's break Adobe up instead of allowing them to gobble up another competitor.)