There's a lot in this metaphor that seems valuable! Cf. ["homebrew"](https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/feats) in tabletop role-playing games. Best practices in a commercial kitchen will differ from those in a condo kitchen. Some things are only worth the effort to make in a large quantity, which can mean not at all at home. At the same time, no restaurant would care enough to make a picky-eater loved-one of yours their masala chai specifically without cinnamon, or something. [Tools that wouldn't make sense in a space-strapped restaurant kitchen may be okay if you've got suburban-size cabinets.](https://lifehacker.com/garlic-presses-are-fine-actually-1846913514) What is the bash script of the kitchen? What is the Trader Joe's pre-chopped mirepoix of code?
djr.com
He's an independent type designer. His site shows [properly fleshed out respectable-looking typefaces](https://djr.com/forma) for respectable-typography costs, but the Font Of The Month Club is the real joy. Whether you're looking for Victorian flavor, elegant text typefaces, design-forward display options, or the latest font feature noodling around (color fonts! *color fonts*!) there's a fine assortment here to be worth looking through. The Mini license costs are really nice as a reasonable impulse buy for the font-oriented and not too shocking a figure for the non-font-oriented. I'm not at all a proper Font User -- my website's main typeface is a true [abomination](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English#about) I keep only because an SVG filter to replicate the effect sounds hard to get right -- but I love imagining print projects that would merit [Polliwog](https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club#2019-04) or [Klooster Thin](https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club#2022-01).
aaronrandall.com
I like the monoalphabetic cipher with a ciphertext used to determine symbol correspondence, seems about as complicated as I'd ever want to write out by hand. Anyone have a cipher they prefer for doing by hand?
Gosh I love resources like this! It's so neat that people are sharing resources that make tech more accessible to folks with less technical experience. I have a layout I need to finish up and offer publicly to help people use HTML and CSS to lay out half-page zines... but I gotta make something with it myself first to prove it's useful.
www.youtube.com
This is such a lovely video! I'm going to go and watch more of her stuff -- exactly the sort of "lifestyle content" I never seem to find. Friendly energy, syncretic bits of practice and fact, beautiful shots of nature, and some hands-on advice: love it.
These are so charming -- I want to throw a party where I can make people wear them. It seems like you could get a lot of mileage out of a ream of white cardstock and [the animal skull set](https://wintercroft.com/collections/skulls/products/dead-animal-set).
There are a lot of lovely tarot deck kickstarters that I have managed to restrain myself from backing. They tend to seem to be conceived of by illustrators. This one seems to me to have been designed by someone who really wanted to push the envelope on cool foil detailing, and I have thereby been suckered in. It's already like 4x funded, by the way -- I'm not telling you about it because I need you to back it, but because I want to share Ooh Pretty Shiny.
The whole site is worth checking out, but I think it'd be easy to miss stuff like this that's a page within a topic shrine. And you shouldn't! I'm someone who spends time *every year* looking for Halloween music, and there is still a good helping here of stuff that's new to me.
From the [about page](http://www.femicom.org/about/): > FEMICOM Museum is a physical and digital museum and archive dedicated to the preservation and reimagination of femme aesthetics and girlhood within twentieth-century video games, computing, and electronic toys. There is so much energy in these photos! Is it just millennial nostalgia that makes me so jazzed about them?
Is there a name for this kind of thing? "GIF painting" captures something about how the GIFs are being layered and composited differently from ye olde Geocities, but maybe it should be "collage" to capture the aspects of reuse. Anyway, it's a genre that's taking off on Multiverse and on [mmm.page](https://mmm.page) and I find it really interesting. Please feel free to comment with any you've come across and liked; the more artistic hubris evident, the better.
bitmidi.com
Did anyone else spend a lot of time listening to MIDIs back in the day? Past their proper heyday we still hadn't had internet fast enough to do much in the way of MP3s, so this is a very nostalgic sound for me. A nice pairing for this link is [MIDIjs](http://www.midijs.net/), which is now necessary to get a MIDI going on a webpage. H/t [Castle Cyberskull](https://castlecyberskull.neocities.org/main.html) on that.
Rather horrorish and yet somehow very reminiscent of those old black and white Macintosh games.
This is delightful! Having a species guide you have to scroll down to consult replicates precisely the experience of staring at a bird as hard as you can, memorizing as much as you can, and then turning to your bird book as soon as it flies away. Seeing the birds from far away also helps create a sense that, well, my area's common birds are still special and particular.
I think the [lost hollow](http://pixeloccult.com/losthollowtarot/Cards.html) is my favorite. Which is yours?
h/t kicks condor Okay I'm like one of the probably-fewer-than-ten people in the world with a [defined whostyle](https://maya.land/assets/whostyle.css), so *obviously* I'm psyched by this. Having a list of people (defined by h-cards) and an offline tool to traverse their sites, grab the whostyles, sanitize the CSS, rescope the selectors, and repackage for your own site seems like a totally valid approach to me. That way the sanitizing could improve over time without having to respec inter-site dynamic inclusion. If you wanted to be properly agnostic about it, I'm sure you could make something like a Jekyll plugin to handle specifying the origin of the blockquote and kicking off finding the h-card and doing the style pull for that within a static build.
I cannot adequately express the nostalgic feelings this brings back. Growing up, I spent a lot of time on a computer without internet access, and Boy Do You Learn A Lot About Fonts That Way. I had totally forgotten confetti text and yet also it is lodged within my soul.
This piece from 1982 is long and interesting and covers a lot of ground, but that's the bit that particularly tickles my fancy. Can you imagine?
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.
www.kuow.org
Local news is less stressful because I feel proportionally less impotent to react to it. I recommend making this swap. I also like that they don't save the miscellaneous news till the end of the podcast, so if for whatever reason the daily topic isn't working for me, I already caught the headline round-up.
www.atlasobscura.com
I mean, that's *one* way of handling a housing shortage, I guess?
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Was your blog in English, though?
If you take Internet access...
....and cross reference against English speakers...
...then I think that's enough explanation, no?
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Hey, if you're getting death threats in PMs please reach out directly to admins. That is not something we tolerate. I am not sure what options like IP bans exist or will exist. We don't want anybody to be harassed.
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So as @PP44 is saying, it's open source. The devs work to make sure that anyone can set it up straightforwardly to run with their own modifications, not just the main version -- and that means modifying the slur filter is also supposed to be straightforward, even though it's not encouraged. There isn't actual moderation on the whole platform per se, since two instances can federate even if one has no slur filter. There are lots of "points" to federated stuff, though, so the existence of a slur filter works well to help keep Lemmy from attracting the cesspool-types while still enjoying those other benefits.
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then it comes down to the principles, then--let's set aside objective superiority. if most people like the older looks, should they be made to live and work around buildings that they find unpleasant? (and it really is an active dislike--I look at your last example and on an instinctive level feel that cantilevered (?) projection is threatening me, like it can choose to crush me if I walk under it) or is it problematic that this leads to Kincadeification? then again, is that different than architects' being constrained by the current expectation of what a contemporary building should look like?