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cassey, 2 months ago to random

We need a movement for conscientious objection to ReCaptchas. I don’t want to be forced to participate in training machine learning models to identify sidewalks, crosswalks, buses and cars in order to go about my daily life digitally.

I don’t want driverless cars on my city streets. I don’t believe the fiction that this technology will ever be safe.

I do not consent to using my own cognitive labor to train the models that will mow down people on foot or bikes later with no accountability.

cassey, 8 months ago to random

Y'ALL IT'S LIKE STUMBLEUPON!!!

https://theuselessweb.com/

shout out to @sophie for linking this from her personal site

cassey, 4 months ago to 11ty

Have I missed any breakthroughs in workflows people are using for adding a new post on a static site from mobile?

I need markdown only, images nice to have but not super important, ideally avoiding a full hosted CMS solution. #11ty site on GitHub + Netlify fwiw.

I've done new files on GitHub mobile and drafted a PR that way, but it's not the most pleasant experience esp for composing front matter; better for editing an existing page.

cassey, 4 months ago to cycling

Just learned Bikes at Work makes trailers that attach to bikes, one of which is big enough it could carry an Urban Arrow if say, ours broke down on a ride somewhere and we needed to haul it home. That would be a lot easier than needing to immediately go rent a truck...
Anyone have one? Or know of other options I should consider?
#BikeTooter #CargoBikes #UrbanArrow

cassey, 11 months ago to queer

You know how you can buy annotated editions of like the Bible or the collected works of Martin Luther or Shakespeare or whatever?

Who's making that but for key works of feminist and queer theory??
#queer #QueerTheory #feminism

cassey, 5 months ago to Steamdeck

Anyone moved a save file (specifically for Baldur's Gate 3) from a PC to a steam deck? I have the basic process down but ultimately failed to get my save file from my wife's PC to my new Deck, and had to start a new character last night. But I like my old character!

Documented the process I followed here - really I think the paths are probably just wrong? The mechanics of transferring via ssh seemed to work fine.

https://www.cassey.dev/posts/2023-12-30-transferring-baldurs-gate-3-to-steam-deck/
#baldursgate3 #SteamDeck

cassey, 5 months ago to blogging

So... Are there RSS reader apps out there right now that are really good at being RSS readers? With nice modern UX?

If not, why not? Is it a hard technical challenge or more one that's considered not worth pursuing due to lack of potential users who'd want it?
#IndieWeb #blogging #SubstackExodus #RSS

cassey, 1 month ago to random

Anyone use Protonmail as your primary email? It seems like it'd be nice to more fully divest from Google. Gmail/Google Calendar are my last remaining strong ties.

cassey, 11 months ago to Parenting

Torn between the desire to get my 18 month old more board books and the knowledge we're going to keep reading the same 3 Sandra Boynton books (my favorites, at this point) anyways.
#parenting #KidsBooks

cassey, 10 months ago to random

Where do I go for writing & how-tos on living with more intentionality that's like.. middle of the road? Not tech-bro-optimize-everything, not astrology. I'm not religious. I have a kid and a full time job.

I wanna do art and build community and learn stuff and write, but it's hard to make any of that happen around parenting & work demands.

cassey, 3 months ago to Blog

We went to Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City this week. (All weeks should be a 3 day work week with an extra weekend in the middle, imo)

I blogged about our stay!

https://www.cassey.dev/great-wolf-lodge/

#YearOfTheBlog #blog #parenting

cassey, 1 year ago to random

Last night a woman in an SUV honked three times as she came up behind me and the baby on the Urban Arrow, then pulled up alongside us and slowed down. We stopped to chat.

She is in her second trimester with her third kid, the other two being tweens. She wanted to know what kind of bike I was riding and where she could get one - nearly in tears, she told me how hard it's been for her to be less active while pregnant, and looking towards having a young baby again.
#BikeTooter #CargoBikes

cassey, 4 months ago to cycling

Can everyone on #BikeTooter agree whether we're using the plural form or the singular form for hashtags? Or can Mastodon core give us a feature that enables smooshing hashtags together if one is the plural form of the other?

(#CargoBike vs #CargoBikes, #Ebike vs #Ebikes, etc)

cassey, 4 months ago to 11ty

Had a Brain Blast tonight about how I could let VS Code do the heavy lifting for me by generating frontmatter for new blog posts on my #11ty site, using Snippets. Should have done this ages ago!!

https://www.cassey.dev/ssg-frontmatter-template/

cassey, 11 months ago to random

Feeling wistful about my Christian theology-loving days today. That feeling of there's so much to read and learn, there's so much to think through-- what others have said before, what people are saying now. Figuring out how to translate what I'd been reading and thinking about to a wider audience through sermons. Sometimes I think it'd be nice if I still believed in God, because I loved so much about my Christianity.

I don't know what secular thing to channel that energy into, or how.

cassey, 3 months ago to random

Blogged my favorite mugs https://www.cassey.dev/favorite-mugs/

#YearOfTheBlog #BringBackBlogs

cassey, 11 months ago to random

On a happier note, the incarcerated woman I hung out with this morning was a Fall Out Boy fan and I got to introduce her to a couple of their new songs. It was a good time.

cassey, 4 months ago to cycling

hi #BikeTooter - what electric bike (if any) would you recommend to an adult who learned to ride fairly recently? Lives in an urban setting, looking to do leisure/fitness riding mostly for now. Fairly cautious rider.
#EBikes

cassey, 3 months ago to FiberArts

New blog post for part two of our recent Kansas City trip - shopping adventures! Primarily of interest: craft and sewing-related stores, with cameos by other types of stores.

https://www.cassey.dev/crafty-thrift-stores-kc/

#sewing #KansasCity #YearOfTheBlog #blog @sewing

cassey, 3 months ago to random

I haven't been on mastodon lately but I see people talking about bridgy and consent issues, and I'm not sure the context.

Some folks (like me) copy the replies made on their own blog posts posted to mastodon to their own blogs as webmentions. Is that bad, should I not be doing that?
#IndieWeb

cassey, 2 months ago to 11ty

My friend who works in academic publishing and has fancy English degrees mentioned she wanted to have a website some day where she can list the Great Farts of Literature and I am so excited to build this for her. #11ty #FunWeb

cassey, 5 months ago to random

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/how-to-quit-capitalism
Lots of stuff here that I've been thinking about for a while now, nicely packaged together by @Daojoan
(who also has a post currently on top of the blog on curation that is great and will explain that I, a human, am actually doing you a great service by posting this rec)

cassey, 5 months ago to Parenting

My almost two year old just said "mommy, I want milk" - a full sentence! Can't argue with that; I dutifully went to fill her cup back up.

And realized at the fridge I'd left my phone unattended, which she was grinning over when I came back.

Did I just get hoodwinked??
#parenting

cassey, 1 month ago to random

Has their been any investigative, state-of-capitalism deep-dive kind of journalism explaining why every single company in the world wants to know what I thought of interacting with their website or staff, every single time?

No one's really making decisions based on these survey results that no one I know fills out but gets emails and texts for constantly... right? Right???

cassey, 28 days ago to Parenting

Unbelievable curbside find today on my way home from a lovely solo breakfast. I’m sure 2yo will like it fine, but this is the Barbie Dreamhouse of my dreams.

The neighbor who helped me load it up said it’d been sitting there for a few days, but I couldn’t bear to leave it for 10 minutes to go home to get a different vehicle in case it got snatched up by someone else. Turns out I didn’t have to!!

#CarryShitOlympics #parenting

The doll house is affixed to the front basket platform of a Tern HSD electric cargo bike. It is standing upright, the roof of the dollhouse a couple feet above the handlebars. A pannier on the back holds extra dollhouse pieces.
Front view of the dollhouse mounted on a Tern HSD front rack.