Evan @darth_mall@vis.social

I want to improve my writing.

Who of you can recommend freelance editors who could go through English articles I've written, together with me? I'm interested in feedback on structure, understandability, wording, these things. Preferably in Berlin, but Skype works, too. Thanks!

JetBrain's have released a new open source monospace font that makes reading/working with code kinder on your eyes. Try it out! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/jetbrains-mono-font-for-developers

https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/defining-toast-messages.html

I used Inkscape to create the kawaii toast, CSS shape-outside to handle the text wrap around the toast, and Firefox Dev Tools to create the text wrap path.

I may have written this entire post just because I wanted to try all that stuff.

🎶🎶🎶
I'm a Stitch, I'm a Lilo
I'm a Rey, I'm a Kylo
I'm a Bucky I'm a Steve
I'm Disney-owned IP
🎶🎶🎶

In “Listen To Me And Not Google”, @heydonworks@twitter.com recounts how Google’s unfounded UI design decisions hurt UX, / #a11y practitioners & consultants, as well as users: https://heydonworks.com/article/listen-to-me-not-google/

Any good Mastodon iOS clients out there that support multiple accounts and easy switching between them?

Anyone have a good system for buying, storing, and listening to music? In particular, I'm interested in hearing from people who who buy a lot of CDs from artists who aren't in things like Amazon, iTunes, or Spotify. Do you have a method for accessing your library while you're traveling?

RT @WorkshopSummit@twitter.com

Already a #designer or interested in knowing more about #UX mobile?

@WalterStephanie@twitter.com will be talking about #bestpractices for UX Mobile in March during #WorkshopSummit!

If you want to learn in a hands-on way and get lots of tips & tricks, join her!

👌🏻 http://workshop-summit.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WorkshopSummit/status/1215184698458148864

let's say I want to publish two packages to PyPI, one called X and the other called X-purepython. the only difference between the two is a line in setup.py (in the latter, a dependency will be left out of install_requires). is it possible to do this with just one codebase and one setup.py?

(the closest I can figure is to make the package not require the dependency by default, but then use extras_require to have `pip install X[notpurepython]` install the dependency)

New Year's #Resolution2020

We're alarmingly near #ClimateEmergency tipping points
– but we still have a chance if we act fast.

Things you and I can do:

1 Fly less. (https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566)

2 Eat less meat. (https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714, https://economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/15/how-much-would-giving-up-meat-help-the-environment)

3 Spread awareness.

#UniteBehindTheScience

Any good instances on the fediverse for older trans people? ~50 years old, asking for a friend of a friend x

Life is too short, we don't have time to wait until your fancy homepage animation finished. We don't have time to wait for your fake lazy loading animation to display the content while we scroll. The only people this pleases is you, the website owner. Give us the damn content!!!

Trying a new map style for rock climbing solutions! This is a World Championship route climbed by Janja Garnbret. To make the map I stabilized the @IFSClimbing video and traced each pose" — Eleanor Lutz

https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/189941518140

Powerful argument for why gender detection algorithms are bad and nobody should be making them
https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/43211/1/trans-algorithm-machine-learning-bias-discrimination-chelsea-manning-edit

We like to say that the most sustainable phone available is the one you already own. 🙌
With the majority of a phone’s CO2 footprint happens during the production phase, the longer you keep your phone, the more you’re reducing its environmental impact ➡️ https://bit.ly/2Z50fhw

I had a minor revelation researching computer networking in the early 1970s:

the reason that the unique identifier for any internet service is called an ACCOUNT... is because it originally correlated directly to a BILLING ACCOUNT, like in an accounting system. Now that I see it, it seems blatantly obvious, but for an entire lifetime of internet usage I never thought about what "account" actually means (or meant).

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-350

me: i wonder what would happen if i trained the neural net gpt-2 on christmas carols?

me: ...

me: oh NO
https://aiweirdness.com/post/189845472982/the-ais-carol