@bryanjclark disneyland (and like, much of their library) is a bunch of stuff that started as asset and as now liability but that some exec has some vision for rehabilitation (uh the idea of peter pan that morphs into neverland pirates or some nonsense) that conflicts with presumably some other exec’s historical obsession with the park they remember as a child (uh, peter pan ride but i guess as a concession that light over the chief is permanently burned out)

@litherland there’s an old errol morris piece on the nyt about a vermeer forgery that i always think about neutrality or timeless design which calls out how much anonymity is influenced by the norms and invisible themes of a time. because morris is so concerned with Truth as a concept its an interesting series to read because it’s so much about how we project ourselves onto these concepts than any objective qualities.

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/bamboozling-ourselves-part-3/

rereading this and having a real RETVRN moment for music blogs of the 2010s http://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-paths-to-graceland/

i get that there's a sort of unfortunate necessity to product-ify most hobby stuff into 'portfolio work', but i still recoil at seeing a one-person project having too-polished of a landing page because having been on all sides of something like that, i know how that sort of vibe can quickly turn a fun from a fun design marketing exercise to an obligation to a burden, even before you've shipped the thing, to say nothing of having a single user opening bug reports against your hobby.

somewhere, somebody is regularly compromising ios with a series of high value zero-days in order to change the !! notification reaction sound to goofy saying gawrsh.

i think about these unhinged “cooking for my followers” videos all the time, just surreal commitment to the bit, but sadly they’re not recommended to me anymore despite seeking them out. oh well

@bshaykin no but i do have a circulator and a very good oven

@bshaykin can you share your presumably pun-filled recipe/technique though

@bshaykin ben

i had to do it, reported as FB13210176

Found this

i want to meet whatever engineer worked on music.app's Recently Added view or the pm that assigned them the tasks for this release. just an utterly baffling regression.

@mathowie added bonus that the same photos show up in shirley_'s and _meet's profile, not sure why they don't catch it

@neauoire i would not have expected that pico8 and The Far Side would be the two most common references among disparate talks.

second antoine de saint-exupery reference of #strangeloop by @neauoire https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/an-approach-to-computing-and-sustainability-inspired-from-permaculture.html

@bryanjclark yes!! top notch branding!

second #pico8 reference of #strangeloop in https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/playable-quotes-for-game-boy-games.html

@bryanjclark followup

“Fix OOB write in BuildHuffmanTable”… “ The patch suggests that it was possible to overflow the Huffman table when decoding an untrusted image…”

https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/

@jaredly me, zgotsch, and dmnd are floating around, say hi if you see us!

i’ll see you at stacycon ‘94 (strange loop 2023) at the san diego (st louis) airport hilton (union station hotel) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHRSM2wa24