I guess Pete was kind of an asshole, but I’m old enough to have been a fan when he was active, and no other baseball player has ever been that much fun to watch. It’s not close. #baseball

I was out doing a chore in the garden in the rain and the wet flowers called out to me. #bloomscrolling#photography

Lovely idea: https://openfreemap.org - best of luck to them.

Hey, spujb.masto.host is a #fediblock candidate. Single-user instance, gross antisemitism.

@jannem Not just presbyopia, the glasses have to allow arbitrary prescriptions.

@spujb You know, if you'd put Bibi's face or the AIPAC logo or something else there, this would be defensible. The plain Star of David makes it antisemitic on the face of it and I think you should take this down. @israel @palestine @lebanon

Seems to me that the rapid progress in lightweight on-your-face AR technology, if it continues, is likely to have a bigger impact on business and society than cryptoshit and GenAI put together. Done right, we get new interfaces to business and art and games and the planet we walk around on […]

1/4 Reminder: The use of “\” as a regex escape character is causing me problems in a particular programming scenario, explained here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing As promised, here is a series of polls to let you, Dear Readers, vote on the “\” replacement […]

some go web dev notes https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/27/some-go-web-dev-notes/

Few strata of geekery are more obsessive than regular-depression geekery. So let’s have some fun! In https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing I explain why using the usual backslash “\” for escaping is hellishly inconvenient in a current project and propose replacing it […]