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stegrainer

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I make things with pixels, code, and words • He/him • Mostly at stegrainer.com

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jgarber, to random
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Two years on the job as of today.

I think that’s a professional record I haven’t broken since… 2019? 😬

stegrainer,
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@jgarber Where are you at nowadays?

stegrainer, to random
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Echo (Season 1) by Sydney Freeland & Catriona McKenzie: ★★★★☆ — Really enjoyed Maya in the Hawkeye series, so I was happy to see more development of her in this series.

davatron5000, to random
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Big news: I’m happy to share that yesterday I started a new job at Microsoft where I'll be working on web components for Fluent UI.

I've had a long relationship with Microsoft – from Paravel helping to build the first responsive version of their homepage in 2012 to the whole 5 year "" stunt that Rey Bango coordinated for ShopTalk – and this feels like a nice new chapter in that story arc.

stegrainer,
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@davatron5000 congrats! They’re lucky to have you. :)

Brilliantcrank, to random
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When someone calls you "bud,” what’s your initial reaction?

stegrainer,
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@Brilliantcrank I try flowering. Never works, but it feels good to stretch the arms and try nonetheless.

gedeonm, to random
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What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

  • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster processor (duh)
  • To not have Sherlocked 🙏
stegrainer,
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@gedeonm @jonhicks I was curious about that too. Listening to Jason Snell and Myke Hurley talk about it in the latest episode of Upgrade, it sounded like the nano texture was probably best if you’re specifically using the device in bright light, but not as great if you care about picture quality in general.

video/mp4

stegrainer,
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@jonhicks @gedeonm Haha yeah that was the question I asked that they answer later in the episode, but essentially it's a different treatment to the glass than the monitors. (As I understand it, the monitors have microscopic holes in them or something to make the matte effect, where the iPad screens are a glass treatment instead.)

stegrainer,
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@jonhicks @gedeonm I don't think the nanotexture glass on the iPad will add any feeling of paper-like texture, but I haven't tried them to say that for certain.

Have you tried the Paper-like screen covers?

molly0xfff, to web
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

stegrainer,
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@molly0xfff @matthiasott Unexpected communities of people connected without large companies involved. Goofy esoteric experiments. Creating ephemeral things without worrying about how they might be used by some nefarious third party.

The feeling that just by putting something up on the web, it was now a part of a larger conscious collective instead of just another junk mail flyer drifting down an already overstuffed gutter.

beep, to random
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experiencing a weird little bug on my laptop, where something — an image? a slack post? some random browser tab? who knows — occasionally generates a tooltip that pops up to say:

> fuck, dude

i have no idea why or how it’s happening, but i do know i’ve never empathized more with my computer

stegrainer,
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@beep @jgarber and I would immediately look into how to add an occasional “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck”

bradellis, to random
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I've always wanted to make a big list of movies thru time with the age spread of the actors who are romantically involved.

Sound of Music? 6 years. Edge of Tomorrow? 21 years. Titanic? 1 year.

stegrainer,
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@bradellis @siracusa I believe @lynnandtonic created the Hollywood Age Gap site to answer exactly that!

https://hollywoodagegap.com

robb, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone remember an old DOS (I think) game that was black background with white stars and you had to get from the left to the right by pressing spacebar to go up and down and avoid the stars? Each level added more stars. You were a spaceship I think and it would draw your path as you went.

It was basically flappy bird but space.

Anyone know the name of it?

Solved: https://social.lol/@robb/112355282388465215

stegrainer,
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@robb Was it on a flappy disk?

gedeonm, to random
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The double-brood emergence of cicadas are here and they’re so loud some people are calling the authorities. Their sound is sort of surreal, kinda like something out of a sci-fi movie. Alien invaders just over the horizon. Spooky.

WaPo Gift link - https://wapo.st/3Jz61jq

The sound of cicadas in Newberry county, South Carolina.

stegrainer,
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@gedeonm Are you hearing them already? I haven't heard any here in Virginia yet.

Meyerweb, to random
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Awright, that’s it. The Markov thread is coming to Mastodon.

stegrainer,
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@Meyerweb http://gifs.stegrainer.com/b99-capt-holt-yass-queen.gif

gedeonm, (edited ) to random
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If you could wave a magic wand and make one of these things disappear forever, which would it be? ATM I’m leaning towards No. 2 sadly 🤢

stegrainer,
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@gedeonm That’s why I really like MyTrends++ by David Smith. If you miss a day, you don’t lose the streak. (I think it used to be called Fitness++, but he probably changed it when Fitness+ came out.)

jimniels, to random
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📝

A designer possess citizenship in a discipline. So too does a front-end engineer.

A design engineer possess dual citizenship.

But a website maker? They are an exile. They "respect no borders and enjoy no citizenship”

It is in the latter I increasingly find myself.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/interdisciplinary-website-maker/

stegrainer,
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@jimniels I was lucky enough to hold the title Webmaster once and it’s still my favorite despite its archaic nature nowadays.

I am a jack of many trades and webmaster is one. ;)

gedeonm, to random
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Mastodon : If you haven’t yet, log into your account on the web & set up a few featured hashtags.

Featured hashtags let visitors to your profile quickly know what interests you & are different than just putting tags in your main bio decription. When tapped they search specifically on your timeline to reveal the topics you are interested in and post often about.

They display in clients like @ivory & are a way to quickly access posts for easy threading too. 👍

https://youtu.be/TQA0o_qntQk

stegrainer,
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@gedeonm so I would have to use these hashtags in my posts in order for that to work right? I’ve never really been a hashtag person … >.<

jimniels, to random
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lol these corporate security tools are so ridiculous

apparently my computer is not “safe” because i don't have a password manager installed

i don't have a third-party one installed because i use the one built in to macOS

but they don't count that one as being "installed" because it comes with the OS and they can't track whether it's used

so to comply, i have to install a third-party password manager

in other words: the macOS one is too safe because they can't track it so it doesn't count

stegrainer,
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@jimniels Meanwhile I couldn’t download updates for my password manager at my last gig because the Mac App Store wasn’t secure, and I wasn’t allowed to install or update software from there.

stegrainer, to random
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I am officially “changed the default resolution of my MacBook Air so that it was more readable" years old. Next up, investing in a good pair of reading glasses some day ...

caseyliss, to random
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The hurdles I'm jumping through to get Declan to be able to play on a Minecraft server that I'm hosting, using his Switch, are truly asinine.

This is user-hostile from top to bottom, inside and out.

And all this started because he put HOURS into building something locally on his switch that just ✨disappeared ✨.

stegrainer,
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@caseyliss Yeeeeeah, the Switch version of Minecraft is a clustercuss. It was even worse when they had two different versions simultaneously for awhile.

Might be time to move to the computer version … at least there you can back up locally made files or more easily join servers (should you choose that route instead).

stegrainer,
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@siracusa @caseyliss We’ve been telling the kid that our computers can’t handle mods for almost a decade. At this point he’s mostly given up … >.>

matthiasott, to blogging
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Bloggers and writers! Which tool(s) are you using to draft and write your posts or articles? And how do you keep track of the status of a piece (idea/draft/edited/published etc.)?

stegrainer,
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@matthiasott I’ve been using Ulysses for ages but thinking about switching to Bear. Ulysses has gotten oddly buggy lately.

stegrainer, to random
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I hope that Apple had someone (or even several someones) filming yesterday's solar eclipse in one (or more) places along the path of totality.

Being able to experience and then relive that moment in an immersive experience would be amazing. Having it as one of their default immersive environments even more so.

stegrainer, to random
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I started writing what I thought would be a brief post for my personal blog about what it's like to look for and apply to jobs in 2024 ...

And I think it's going to end up becoming a longer post on UXcellence instead talking about how to make the whole recruiting / candidate experience better for both sides.

stegrainer, to random
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On this the fourth day of the fourth month of the year (04/04), I want to share how you too can make a better 404 page:

https://uxcellence.com/2017/a-better-404

One built not to crack a lame joke, but to help your visitors get back on track. Because that’s what a good 404 page should do.

Inspired by this post from @eric :

https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/112213487439240553

beep, to random
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the further into this video game i get, the more i’m noticing some parts that perhaps were. just a tad rushed

A floating videogame health bar showing the name of a character called “Tonsure Bellagio.”
A floating videogame health bar showing the name of a character called “Hoots Hooligan.”
A floating videogame health bar showing the name of a character called “Sauceman Chorizo.”

stegrainer,
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@beep I hope not if only because these make me smile every time I see one.

One of these days, I’ll get around to actually playing the game to see some of these gems myself.

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