Wow, @mwichary's Config presentation about the history of pixel fonts is so great, with some of the most impressive visuals I've ever seen in a conference talk. Don't miss the live demo where audience members design a thousand new pixel letters using a custom browser tool loaded from a QR code, which Marcin then manipulates and visualizes real-time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDI8ubVZi7w
I don’t know how else to describe this, but parts of downtown St. Louis smell distinctly like a used bookstore. Like a room stuffed full of musty aging books and yellowing magazines.
@annika@lmorchard Yeah, I don't understand the people who stubbornly insist on calling it Twitter. Twitter is dead. If you insist on continuing to post there, call it by its stupid new name instead of pretending it's something it's not. You're an X user now, just deal with it.
404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/
"Illustrator now honors 9-slice scaling of symbols. Do you? Look carefully in your heart before answering, my child. The world, and all your scaled symbols, may never look the same."
How Comics Were Made is a visual history of printing cartoons currently funding on Kickstarter, 76% to the goal with under 70 hours to hit it. @glennf exhaustively researched this 288-page full-color book for years, interviewing dozens of mainstream and alternative cartoonists, and I really hope it gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/
@kfury it might have been me talking about Phanpy, which is now my dedicated app on both desktop and mobile, the only PWA that’s ever replaced a native iPhone app for me https://phanpy.social/
@annika@xor Same. Twitter is dead in name and spirit. All that’s left of it, like the domain name and community holdovers, are vestigial remnants they can’t figure out how to get rid of without fully breaking it.
I wrote a long deep-dive into the history of Ello, from its launch and funding to its quiet sale and sudden death last year, noticed only by the community of artists and writers who used and loved it. https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/
Last month, @tomcoates was one of only ~20 people at a meeting at Meta's SF offices where the Threads team talked openly about their plans for integrating it with the Fediverse, including their broad roadmap, motivations, and plans for content moderation and personalization. Tom posted his extensive notes and thoughts from the meeting, and it's well worth reading for anyone interested in the subject. http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/