absolutely going to check in some code that describes access persimmons and realizing i’ll end up adding fuyu and hachiya acl levels, you know, “just because”

@bvaughn had the same experience with powerline btw, some work being done on my house now and finally have a reason/way to run ethernet to random spots in the house

@bvaughn do you have to fish that ethernet or does it already exist?

@vaurora @lindsey @jpf oblong was so cool! i loved the one demo app they had with all the rotoscoped segments from Playtime, i wish id had more time to work with it when i was at risd

@omar that's awesome! it was very capable, and it was very well thought out, it was incredibly possible to wire stuff together and achieve the sort of neutral netvibes aesthetic with very little effort

just had a flashback to developing code for netvibes

spotify sucks but also, i want to just call out that maybe the most minor and surprising personal growth development in my lifetime has been my complete 180 on "New Age"/Elevator Music from when i was a kid to now. like, i absolutely scorned anything pure-moods adjacent back then and now i absolutely seek it out because it feels like it's doing something genuinely novel in much the same way idm/jungle felt when i first heard them in the mid 90s

honestly kinda ridiculous the number of things i have pirated just so i can screenshot them

Sunshine (2007) director, danny boyle. screenwriter, alex garland.

there’s something about the production of All I Want For Christmas Is You, the crispy drums, the kind of oppressive 4/4 beat paired with a kind of bittersweet cheer that, and this is the part i haven’t investigated too closely, _always_ reminds me of the theme music for Red Dwarf

been listening to it for over a decade and just realized this week that it's not saying "takin' over" or, like, it is, it is saying that, but the song is called technova and it's also saying that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq66jYoFx_c

this new boiler room overmono set is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJBhezlMoE

@bshaykin oh man, a real Opportunity to get some silver lamé hot pants on snoop and a small go-go platform for the clock

not sure if it’s just i’m using an old version, but swc turning [...iter] into [].concat(iter) just absolutely is the wrong transform if iter is a js iterator, not sure why it didn’t choose Array.from(iter)

@aphyr it’s pretty grim out there but i was just in a roadrunner sports and they had a pair of 3/4 neon green tights (in addition to their usual selection of black) so maybe nature is starting to heal?

i think this is a roundabout way of realizing that geocities’ naive neighborhoods/numbers were not perfect but actually pretty useful (again, even if imperfect)

something i think about a lot is this ui thing where people have basically decided that anything greater than, i dunno, ten items is impossible to display or arrange in any meaningful way so instead we’ll use search or ai + search or some mcguffin instead of trying to solve that problem.

there’s an implicit assumption that any search will winnow the collection to some manageable size where now you can paw at it like a monkey. but if your collection is large enough, you still have to look through a lot of things in some order without any useful facets to filter or group on or what have you.

“everything apps” (and operating systems like macos and ios) have this problem and just kick the can down the road seemingly forever and the real drag is that the design conventions seems to follow suit instead of innovating here.

nearly every single Ask Vanessa segment in the nyt has somebody tacitly asking permission to flaunt some sartorial norm, but my favorite detail is that the 'advice' is nearly always "oh yeah, that sure is a thing that happens!" which is followed by some minor meditations on the norm's history ending with some version of "lol there are no rules, you do you!"

@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/