Meeting people where they are with technology is so important, and I love that this lets the grandchildren message from their phones as is presumably convenient for them.

I mean, that's one way of handling a housing shortage, I guess?

Interactive fiction at a solo dev scale is often really really linear. This game structures around that well, I felt -- the repetitive nature of what you're doing is the point, what makes it meaningful even in the absence of alternative choice.

This link argues no. I would argue yes, because of a technical solution and a phenomenon I've observed.

The technical problem: > It’s not enough to interleave their posts into a “river” or “stream” paradigm, where only the most recent N items are shown in one big, combined, reverse-chronological list (much like a Twitter timeline), because many of them would get buried in the noise of higher-volume feeds and people’s tweets.

One of the really nice things about RSS is what it doesn't do. It doesn't order your content by obscure algorithms aiming to vacuum you further and further into an advertising-driven time suck, as Twitter now does.

That doesn't mean, however, that your only option is to present behavior chronologically.

The technical solution: I have my RSS reader do a round-robin ordering for each page displayed, so the higher-volume feeds pool at the bottom. This effect is more noted with a larger page size. For me, this works well enough. I don't see why marking "read all" is a bad thing, and I do it decently regularly.

The phenomenon: Navigating directly to lifehacker.com or whatever other high-volume site feels like gambling. All the colorful previews are engaging, and it all seems to grab me more than my staid feed reader's presentation. It's tempting to roll the dice and see if there's something new. It makes me less this to consume everything in my feed reader is what I guess I'm saying. That's valuable to me.

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but... I find that Miniflux is maybe a little too "minimalist" and "opinionated" for my taste? Anyway, I've got a few Tampermonkey userscripts for it now and this is the first one I've cleaned up.

The other puts sort buttons on the feed page for absolute number of unread entries descending, and unread:read ratio descending. If anyone wants that one I'll clean it up and put it up too.

The Nazis were big on stripping stucco off buildings.

Ornament seen as "dishonest", above the plain spokenness of simplicity -- the reason I hate it as an aesthetic view today is because this shit is not ascetic. It is not cheap. The global elite (at every slice, including the one that catches most Americans) shouldn't get to pretend we're being simple or plain when we participate in the consumption economy. Decorate your home with acanthus and cheap gilt, at least you're engaging in an aesthetic that implicitly values the labor in the creation of applied art. Buy a Herend Rothschild plate, trapping of supreme 1800s inequality, and an artisan in a worker-owned coop gets paid a good wage to paint the little bird on. But the cult of Design often makes its minimalist wares with Walmart-exploitative processes, as bad as any mercury gilding, and that it gets to act superior about its aesthetic is repulsive to me. When Dolce & Gabbana sends crowns down a runway, at least that's being honest about what it is, where it comes from, who it's for.

I probably need to write something up properly about this because I have a lot of poorly-articulated feelings about it.

My problem switching off of gmail is that I'd really like to start moving to an alias-based approach (so, you know, lemmy@maya.land for Lemmy emails, etc.) but this then conflates two issues so I solve neither.

I wish Google Takeout were required to maintain consistent formats so people could develop tools against it. I could make a lot of progress by pulling out the decade of history I have with them and not maintaining more than a couple months of data inside their stuff at any given time.

If this author is full of it, please do let me know, but... This was a fascinating read.

Linguists in the age of nationalism had real influence in a way that's nearly unimaginable today, because the accompanying standardization handed people useful tools they had a reason to wield. It reminds me of the Korean alphabet. See also the creation of modern Hebrew. What are the conditions today that could use new tools? This wiki points to some grassroots innovation around the digital world and Cyrillic....

Realizing that this would be a clutch heirloom to have cast of my mother and grandmother.... think they'd go for it?

Or make one of myself and specify in my will that to inherit, any heirs have to make pan de muerto in it and eat it...

I have.... let's say.... no hardware experience.

This makes me feel much better about my curmudgeonly opinion that contemporary trends forgoing even basic window trim are Bad and Should Feel Bad. Trim feels pretty minimal next to these bad boys.

Blog or otherwise. Bonus points if it isn't technology.

Did anyone get a vinyl skin they love (from here or anywhere else)? Put a picture in the comments!