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🎮️ Getting back into playing Pokémon on my old DS lite.
Enjoying it much more than I thought I would.


Can I change the redirect on a single user instance?


!Friendica Support When I set my instance to be a single user instance, that seems to just redirect the root of the domain to my profile page. Is there anywhere I can change that behaviour? For instance, redirecting to a website?

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I don't know whether you can do it in friendica, but at the very least you could do it in your webserver.


🖥️ Modern PC OS interfaces are built around the desktop metaphor.
Modern desktops are built around the interface for the PC OS.


🫤 I need to pick myself up and get back into a regular rhythm.

I need a solid project to work on.





💡 Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but rewritten in the modern day, with modern day sensibilities.
New kids, new fantastic ways for them to get their comeuppance.

Plot twist: it's a sequel. There are stories and legends of what happened to kids in the factory many years ago, including that one kid who never returned and whose whole family disappeared soon after. Story morphs into horror-esque.

Double plot twist "Willy Wonka" is just old Charlie.



📹 So, I did a thing and made a video:
!Lilith + Lilin Assembly ()

It's a little naff, technical limitations and all that, but I'm hoping it's the start of something more in the future. We shall see.



🏨 I've been pretty lucky in my life - never broken a bone.
My daughter is not so lucky. Broke her wrist in two places. She was in a lot of pain.
But, a bit of nitrous and some plaster and she bounces back super quick 👍


🗺️ I'm making progress in my Safari safari. I have the full cycle of communication from web view → app → extension → app extension → app → web view. death.id.au/b4.0015


⛺ Setting up camp after the first leg of my Safari safari. I feel like I've learned a lot but gotten nowhere?
death.id.au/b4.0014



📖 Book week parade at school today. As usual, so many Harry Potters, but respect to the one Hufflepuff among the Gryffindors.
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FYI, mine dressed as Scarygirl, tentacle arm and all (thanks to mum). She was so happy with how it turned out 😊
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Also respect to the kid who clearly didn't come in costume, but made the most of their red and black uniform by hand drawing a Deadpool mask on cardboard.


⌨️ I like my blog and want to use it more, but what sort of content could I create that ends up marketable and profitable?


🤔 I'm looking into things I could possibly do for work that are outside of my normal (i.e. software/web development). The idea of proofreading is sticking with me. It's something I've done in all aspects of my work for many different people.

So, how do I find people who need proofreading work?


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✨ Get your limited edition commemorative CrowdStrike Outage T-Shirt while stocks last!
redbubble.com/shop/ap/16310495…

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🧠 My brain has just hit a procrastination lock-up. I don't know what to do, or what I should be doing


📺️ Hey, #Lucasfilm, I have an idea for a Disney+ series:
#StarWars Ascendancy. Explore the Chiss post- #Thrawn. It's basically #GameOfThrones in space!
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All the family rivalry and politics and jockeying for power is there. As is the background threat (white walkers / Grisks), those guarding against it while the families fight (Night's Watch / Expansionary Defence Fleet), the chosen one with the mystic powers of seeing into the past / future (Bran / Cheery), seven kingdoms / six star systems...

You are also free from most of the established Star Wars canon, being in the unknown regions (aka The Chaos).

It writes itself!




🇦🇺 Yeah, I spent way too long looking into emojis, fonts and subsets. But now I have a trimmed-down Twemoji font, containing only flags. Only 76KB 🤏


🥱 Why is it that after a nap I feel groggier than when I lay down in the first place?



🙈 Why do some sites support a dark theme, but still default to light regardless of user preferences?

There's even an option for "system default", but that's not your default? Wtf?



💭 Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- Will Rogers


🔄 Pull to refresh is a weird concept.
And a pain in the butt to implement properly.



📺️ It's been a minute since I've watched free-to-air TV. I can feel my eyes glazing over


📺️ It's been a minute since I've watched free-to-air TV. I can feel my eyes glazing over...


📽️ It's been a minute since I've watched free-to-air TV. I can feel my eyes glazing over



📺 It's been a minute since I've watched free-to-air TV. I can feel my eyes glazing over...

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Perfect comparison of the 60's ideal futurists vs the current parasitic techbros.

#techbros #AI #futurism

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⌨️ I think my next hyperfocus is going to be building a multiplatform status.log equivalent.

I have a desire to try and build a #MAUI #Blazor hybrid app, and working with the #omg.lol API seems pretty fun. Plus, I'm a bit jealous that the current app is apple-only

I couldn't see any docs on the #some.pics API, and I'll have to figure out the OAuth flow, but surely it shouldn't be hard?



🗣️ It's not static, but I've added JavaScript to load replies to my weblog.lol posts (the ones that are linked to a friendica post, anyway). So you can visit the the weblog and see the conversation as a comments thread, then link off to interact with the conversation on your own instance (if you "log in" first).

I really should do a full write-up of what I've done with my site so far... Maybe after I commit to putting it on my main domain.

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Update: I committed to putting it on my main domain. Now available at death.id.au/
I'm quite proud of it, but I still can't help wondering what I want to add to it next.
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I also started writing up some stuff about how I built it but... I don't know, I feel like I write too verbosely. Maybe I need to split it up into multiple posts...


🗂️ A new version of #Wavebox has afforded me the incentive to reorganise all my apps/tabs.

In doing so, I realised something: apart from numbering, it's organised like a #JohnnyDecimal system!
I've got Spaces for Areas, Groups for Categories and "Apps" and/or pinned tabs as individual ID points. All other tabs are temporary and will be trashed when I close the browser.


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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

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This is an oldie, but I still like it

"If someone needs to be told to think and work in a human centered way when they are designing something, it should be a clear indication of how separated the discipline of design has become from what it is the design is being applied to."

fasterandworse.com/the-undelib…



😲 I've done some pretty fancy stuff with CSS in the past, but nothing quite on the level of DOOM Scroll: codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/pen/o…

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Wrote a thing: humanewebmanifesto.com/

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💬 Sometimes I just can't help myself. My deathau.weblog.lol site now has a fediverse "login" — you enter fediverse handle and it will look up your avatar and subscribe link via webfinger, saving those to local storage.
Then, it replaces all the links to my friendica instance with links to that same post in your instance (as per the subscribe link).

I just need to figure out how to get the reply/reblog/like counts of my posts in there, too.

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Woohoo! Got the counts in! Thanks to @Hypolite Petovan for pointing me in the right direction WRT Friendica's API
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@Adam :prami:
I went down a rabbit hole, and for something that is literally bundled with Windows, it's hard to pin down.
I found this GitHub Repo which has a custom CSS to replace Discord emoji with the Fluent ones, and it has the Teams animated ones as an option! So I grabbed a copy of that CSS for my site.
They're being served from some guy's personal website at the moment (mirrored from this repository, I believe), so I'll probably want to host a mirror myself somewhere at some point, but they look great!