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jasonsantamaria, 2 months ago to random

📖 I’ve been reading an amazing science fantasy series called The Steerswoman by @rkirstein and I absolutely love it.

It has it all: a rich and well-drawn world, science debating magic, dense and fallible characters, and a slowburn mystery that keeps zooming in only to pull back and reveal some new wider layer.

Seriously stunned that I hadn’t heard of these books and want to get the word out to more readers. They deserve a huge audience!

(thanks for the rec @beep!)

https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/the-books/

stephaniewalter, 2 months ago to random

I lost my example of "a blog with a save for offline button that lets you read even when there is no connection". Anyone has seen (or implemented on your blog) one of those recently? You can totally plug your own content here if it has such feature!

mez, 2 months ago to random

@MonaApp I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but when a post as a long link in it, the app displays only the text that isn’t truncated - matching Mastodon’s web view. However, there is no tooltip or expansion of that link. Is there a way to show the entirety of the link URL w/out having to click and load it?
Thanks!

mez, 2 months ago to webdev

What’s your favourite way to add working examples of code in your blog posts that isn’t CodePen? Both for CSS and JS example code.

Thinking a basic web component with declarative shadow DOM might do it nicely since it will fully encapsulate the code? Maybe wrap it in @zachleat browser-window or resize-asaurus component.

#WebDev #Blogs

mez, 2 months ago to random

@idanoo Do you know my global feed on pixelfed.nz shows the same thing as the local feed? It’s not based on instances I’ve personally connected with, it should be the entire server’s connections, right?

mez, 2 months ago to fediverse

What’s the difference between the Global Feed and Local Feed on Pixelfed? I’m seeing the same images. Is this just because I’m on a small instance w/out people connected to other instances?

#Fediverse

mez, 2 months ago to Pixelfed

I (finally) deleted my Instagram. 🎉

While I haven't shifted photos to my own site yet, I at least have the backups so I can in the future.

Are you on Pixelfed or have good follow recommendations? (Weird to ask, I'm more about people I've met when it comes to photo sharing, but we'll try).

I'm not convinced about Pixelfed yet - the issues of federation and content deletion when it comes to photos bothers me a bit, but willing to continue dabbling.

#Pixelfed #photography #Meta

joncounts, 2 months ago to random

Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.

I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

#population #humans

polotek, 2 months ago to random

Last week was my first time really looking into what settings are available to admins who run their own instance. I was a bit surprised to find there isn't much there. At least through masto.host. I don't think they hide settings though. Only some of the deeper technical stuff.

mekkaokereke, 2 months ago to random

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Day 26: Bama football

Q: OK fine! There's a lot of racism! But we can't do anything about it! You can't change hearts and minds! I've flipped from denial to helplessness! Talking about racism depressed me and makes me feel bad, because we can't do anything about it! So, can you stop talking about it?

A: No, we won't stop talking about it. Yes, we can do something about it. Let's look at one specific example of a reduction in racism, driven by racists themselves! 🙂🙃

motoridersd, 2 months ago to bitwarden

Installed #Vaultwarden. Will have to tinker with this later to see if it's worth moving my vault to a self-hosted instance instead of directly with #Bitwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

essentiallife, 2 months ago to pnw

It's been a while since I offered an entry into #mosstodon, so here goes. I was enjoying a hike through Lacamas Park in southern #WashingtonState, and there was oodles of #moss everywhere. Stay tuned for more #PNW greenery! 😄

mez, 2 months ago to random

@Homebrewandhacking in this article, https://homebrewandhacking.com/2023/10/13/spellcasting-without-spell-slots-a-design-process-example-i/, is the only way to recover spell points through hit dice and not long rests?

I liked the cinematic of Jack’s proposal. Being able to “dig deep” is missing in 5e. But it also makes casters even more powerful in his exploration.

adastra, 3 months ago to Blog

New #blog post about (re)reading The Hunger Games and its prequel: https://chaosworks.org/2024/hunger-games/
#retroweb #indieweb #blogpost #hungergames #bookstodon

fraying, 3 months ago to random

Hate-watched the first episode of the Last Airbender live action show to see if it’s as bad as everyone said and it might be even worse. Terrible dialog, wooden acting, terrible story restructuring so that the first episode is entirely infodumping. Just bad choice after bad choice.

miclgael, 3 months ago to random

Lol at the endless nested folders in my Downloads directory.

Hey, its a strategy.

Downloads  
└── Clean up - Feb  
 └── Tidy Jan  
 └── Tidying up Dec  
 └── Cleanup - October 2022  
 └── Archive 2021  

panda, 3 months ago to rust

I just setup Vaultwarden and moved away from SaaS Bitwarden.

Vaultwarden is FAST. It loads within the blink of an eye.

#Rust and #Vaultwarden's devs is really killing it.