@surf has this social media thing figured out

Thread of my favorite all time posts:

A USB-C gamepad designed for portrait gameplay on smartphones

"Timeline algorithms should be useful for people, not for companies. Their quality should not be evaluated in terms of how much more time people spend on a platform, but rather in terms of how well they serve their users’ purposes. Objectives might differ, from delving deeper into a topic to connecting with like-minded communities, solving a problem or just passing time until the bus arrives. How these objectives are reached might differ too, e.g. while respecting instances’ bandwidth, one’s own as well as others’ privacy, algorithm trustworthiness and software licenses.

This blueprint introduces an approach to personal, local timeline algorithms that people can either run out-of-the-box or customize."

Oh, wow, I the reds figured out the whole baseball thing

The notifications could use some work

This was sent over #meshtastic using a T-Deck and Mastodon.py

Chill endless driving web browser game

Received a notification from google that an email I didn't recognize was going to be deleted if I didn't login. Figured out a way to get into it and found it was linked to a single twitter account called Giggle Snarf.

It turned out that was the very first twitter bot I built back in 2015. It looks like it was pulling some awful memes from somewhere and posting regular weather updates. Unfortunately, this was about 2 months before my first blog post so I have no other information, but wild nonetheless.

I have to set a reminder for when I open my work laptop every morning because outlook will straight up not fetch emails from yesterday afternoon if I don't close and re-open it. It'll fetch new emails fine, but ignore anything after I left work the day before.

"Format truncated or incomplete JSON into a readable structure."

"This project integrates the iconic voice of GLaDOS from Portal into your smart home by deploying it on a ReSpeaker Lite Kit using ESPHome and Home Assistant."

Oh cool, they brought the Phineas and Ferb episode to live action #DoctorWho

readin' the news

"A nostalgic AIM-inspired chat application built with Python and PySide6. Supports messaging over the Meshtastic decentralized network and standard MQTT brokers. "

Video of it in action: https://old.reddit.com/r/meshtastic/comments/1jrts80/mim_meshtastic_instant_messenger/

by Erik Helin, Adam Renberg

"This text is a practical guide to writing your own x86 operating system. It is designed to give enough help with the technical details while at the same time not reveal too much with samples and code excerpts. We’ve tried to collect parts of the vast (and often excellent) expanse of material and tutorials available, on the web and otherwise, and add our own insights into the problems we encountered and struggled with."

Guide to transform a kindle into a bike GPS attachment (works for Any Ebook)

Adds internet connectivity and retro achievements support to the NES

"Submit a post to toot-it-forward and it will be posted to the next person to submit a post, while the last persons submitted post will be posted to your account at the same time."

@fax2fedi@chaos.social

Telefax to Fediverse gateway, originally written for the [38C3 ISDN/PSTN network]

Or to your House Rep: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php

Or your governor: https://faxzero.com/fax_governor.php

Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

An unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed created through the process of static recompilation.

Modern, secure, and private email built on top of the matrix protocol

Scaling down the atproto AppView and hosting on a raspberry pi

All of Wikipedia on a single, scrollable page

https://github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok

Tool that allows you to filter and search google play significantly better, allows you to filter it so it only shows ad-free apps for example

"A robust, type-safe ActivityPub federation library for Python."

"This page provides a measurement of Bluesky PBC's control over various components of the AT Protocol social network infrastructure. It tracks the distribution of power across key protocol elements, helping to assess the current state of decentralization and identify areas where centralized control may need to be reduced to achieve the protocol's long-term vision of a truly distributed social network."