On the page, everything is allowed. Everything has a voice.
On the page, everything is allowed. Everything has a voice.
Leftovers are the requisite variety I need to feel comfortable cooking at home, so I should consider it the goal instead of avoiding it like an efficiency issue.
When someone you love dies, you don't just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had, with them. They are missing from all the life that was to be. Seeing other people get married, have kids, travel-all the things you expected out of life with your person-gone. Seeing other children go to kindergarten, or graduate, or get married—all those things your child should have done, had they lived. Your kids never get to know their brilliant uncle; your friend never gets to read your finished book.
A day (or more) inside a blanket fort of your own choosing is healthy.
[Being kind to yourself means not letting your own mind beat you up.]
[Early grief is liminal: we are no longer who we were and not yet solidified into something new—everything is in flux.]
[Anxiety can be overwhelming as there's no shortage of potential disasters. You can trust yourself.]
Tagged: recipe.
[Grief also involves mourning your old life.]
If we were compatible, we’d know exactly what the other person meant all the time, right?
[Language is primarily for internal use to construct our own worldviews, rather than a tool for communication with others.]
[What does it mean to feel disgust at bodies similar to yours?]
[Trying something to decide whether you like it or gives you perspective rather than putting you in a box.]
I was taught something, so now i know it, right?
[Nothing can be taught, there is only learning.]
[Having read about a topic or participated in a workshop does not mean knowing it, which is painfully obvious in the trades.]
Let's talk about keeping your community network going....
[Cross train your community network on manuals by letting each person pick a specific part to master and then teaching it to the group.]
[Keep things interesting by meeting up without a specific plan, deciding something fun together, and getting to it right away from there.]
[Build a network resource together through labour or by chipping in funds.]
[Most people who use Facebook or Twitter don't know what protocol they're using.]
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
[Differentiate hues in a palette with unique brightness values.]
[Saturate your neutrals with warm or cool colours, but not both.]
[Spacing better separates contrasting elements than similar ones.]
The YouTube you see has the same colours and layout as the one I see, and yet we’re not present in each other’s space like two customers browsing through the same record collection at a music store. The Internet is seldom used to ‘connect us together’ any more. No, we’re each in a private bubble.
In a sense, the new digital interfaces are like a reflective store-front made of one-way glass. Whoever approaches will see an image of themselves, reflected in what products turn up, and what messages they receive. The corporate can see them, but the person is encouraged to imagine themselves as walking through an uninhabited room with shelves that belong to them: my shelf, my basket, my account, my list, my favourites, my Amazon, my Google etc. In the 1980s there was no ‘my Walmart’, but now your data is reflected back to you as your own store with that possessive pronoun. In doing that, they get to present themselves as you.
‘Erica’ is legally in the same category as the bank’s supply of staples or fleet of vehicles, but they don’t give human names to their water coolers or keyboards. They only grant that to assets that form part of the new outward-facing interface. They encourage us to get on first-name terms with this combination of code and hardware, and by now all of us have experienced the proliferation of these named interfaces like Alexa, Bard, Claude, or Jasper.
AI chatbots give the one-way mirror a human name that’s different to your own. “I’m having a conversation with Erica”, you think to yourself as you transmit information to the (largely male) engineers of Bank of America. “She knows me so well”.
Stop travelling when you feel good somewhere.
[LLM chatbot that runs offline entirely inside a browser with open models like Mistral and LLama 3. Needs WebGPU so you need to use Chrome or Edge.]
[Perhaps obsession with individualism shames us if we are 'less disciplined' when 'alone', while blinding us to how functional it is to live your best through other people.]
Write when hungry. Read when fed.
Programming require you to reify anything in order to act on it, whereas in the physical world you can directly engage with your environment.
It may be easier to change analog than digital.
I was wondering if it's possible to load a local JavaScript file via bookmarklet (to get around Firefox's character limit) but it seems file:// URLs will return an error. I can either load an https:// URL or embed my file inside an extension.