I coordinate my look to match my iPhone and MacBook.

I call this applecore.

This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling

You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion

You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly

EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below

EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SAG_Conference/117404500703724300

Wow, that is a pretty epic-looking line-up!

dayum, fd is fast, on both Mac and Linux

@tastapod Yeah it’s a typo all right, but for one of these:

iPhone Dao: only stores and retrieves data, has no business logic

iPhone Deo: the latest model from Apple is God

iPhone Dio: the music app plays only heavy metal

iPhone Doo: Ruh-Roh!

perhaps it's a typo and the new device is an iPhone Dud?

A Nintendo Switch but without a sense of humour:

No pun Nintendo.

A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

v2.0 is now out.

It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but it's still there.

Three new security modules, all optional, stack as many as you want: PIN, authenticator 2FA, and passkeys.

The PIN has a duress option. Enter that one instead and your contacts get alerted immediately, while your screen says everything went fine. (really proud of this one. tweaked to the point of obsession so that response time for a duress PIN matches a normal one. nothing on your screen or in the timing gives it away.)

Also added vacation pause and custom alert messages, both of which people asked for.

v2.0 got a full security review before release. The check-in path is much harder to spoof now. Details in the release PR.

Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.

https://wellness-p.ing

oh and btw, the person who went missing, for whom I made this originally, turned out to be okay. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort to find them, but I did actually find them. I thought you might want to know that.

#globalheating #hydration #bigoilandgas #fossilfuels

You can use strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. This is recommended way when creating apps for your fun or for profit projects.

Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/
STRICT Tables syntax https://sqlite.org/stricttables.html

That’ll be the last time the Scotland #rugby coach washes the team shirts with the Arsenal football kit.

FENwright, a FEN-to-Chessboard font, is a very clever font that turns a Forsyth-Edwards Notation of chessboard pieces into a real chessboard! (Well, a digital one on your screen)

I like that the font is just an 8 kilobyte WOFF2!

Try it out here: https://philatype.github.io/fenwright/

Or reaad about how it was made: https://medium.com/@kosalsen/how-i-built-a-chess-rendering-engine-inside-an-opentype-font-27e4a4d520e7

#typography #chess

Having been following the saga of the malware dishwasher sending terabytes of data, what are my options for outbound whitelisting / firewalling if I'm running a Deco mesh?

Should I get a small physical device between that and the World, or can I monkey with the Deco settings? I can't see any obvious firewall-y settings.

Furiously rubbing away at a scratch on my laptop. It's over 5 years old and never had even a mark on it. Sad panda.

Yes, gentle reader, it was indeed a backtick in a text field.

In my experience, the technical teams that move forward rapidly right now aren't asking "do we have the right people?" but rather "have we built conditions where people can show us what they can do? Where people can be their best selves?"

In The Psychology of Software Teams, I unpack empirical evidence behind why and how all of this works; you can get your copy now! 🚀

https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

SoCraTes UK 2026 was a fantastic event as always. Sadly this year we sold fewer tickets and had fewer sponsors than we hoped, and the upshot is that we finished this year’s event with a shortfall of £2,300. :(

We've therefore started a crowdfunder to raise money to clear the remaining debt: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/socrates-uk-2026-crowdfunder

We will be delighted to receive whatever you are able to share. No amount is too small! And if you can't donate money, then sharing this campaign also helps :)

#SoCraTesUK

c'mon #python314, you can make it to 3.14.159, I believe in you! #pi-thon

Sometimes I think that the designers at #Apple don't actually use Macs in their daily work.

Someone would have noticed by now, surely?

Bonus typo: 'strategy and inventment decisions'