Helped my brother in law make some furniture and used the leftover wood to make a table that can go behind my couch.

Had to get it home somehow so here's some #CarryShitOlympics

RE: https://masto.nyc/@gbargoud/116518727035996423

Repair cafe this Friday again. Also if you haven't been there but live nearby I highly recommend checking out Principles coffee house, it's a great shop.

#nyc #brooklyn #repaircafe

I was frustrated by the number of businesses that only have an Instagram presence. However, that is where most people are and therefore the place where it is worth putting effort into.

My plan is to make an easy to host site that is optimized for organizations and will natively surface posts through ActivityPub, RSS, ATProto and a simple website and also have easy integration with the walled gardens. Namely Instagram but I might also integrate with X or Facebook.

Over the last few months I've been working on a project and while it's still not really ready, it's close enough for a nice canonical thread to pin to my profile so here it is (pin will start with the next post since the preamble is not worth it).

All I have now is some of the backend so a lot of what I'm going to describe does not exist (yet). If you want to see what does exist, you can find it on my codeberg account:

https://codeberg.org/gbargoud/hotch

Bad picture because I was hauling some furniture uphill and so I couldn't go backwards but there's a cool bird near grand army plaza or at least was 10 minutes ago when I passed by.

#birds #brooklyn #nyc

@aparrish

About 10 years ago or so, my friends and I participated in a terrible ideas hackathon at ITP, is this something you organized or was it someone else there?

One of them was giving me suggestions for what we should make the next time it happens and I was wondering is it still a thing or have AI companies sucked all the fun out of that?

Our project last time for reference: https://youtu.be/IJgofD8K43g

Looks like someone delegated their spam to an LLM and LLMs are no better at taking context into account than they ever were.

@RegGuy @baronvonj @benroyce @stacey_campbell @luciedigitalni @Photo55 @the5thColumnist @mcnado

The vast majority of people had no trouble understanding RCV in the NYC primary. One survey had 95% describing it as simple.

https://fairvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Research_Report-NYC_2025_Final.pdf

#throwbackthursday to August 9th, 2020 when @josephfrazier and I along with 2 other friends grabbed a bunch of hand saws and got rid of this massive branch that had fallen across the Christie Street #bikeNYC lane a week before

311 complaints were closed shortly after that with the comment "we investigated and DOT or another agency has resolved the problem"

@futurebird