Ryan 🔇📯 @foureyedsoul@octodon.social
Librarian, tinkerer, listener, etc. He/him/his.
#Boise's skyline looked pretty good tonight!
(I'm still learning how to use this low-light photo app; the foreground/light contrast looked much starker to my eyes than in this pic.)
Stoked to realize I might actually be pulling off this part-time Ph.D. thing. If my past credits transfer correctly & the class schedule aligns next semester, it should be the last I'll have to commute across the state once a week for classes.
Looking forward to focusing on actually researching & writing, if I do get that far. Even after a year, it still feels so shaky I rarely mention it beyond coworkers.
I'm working on a new option to disable Mastodon's fancier UI animations for those with vestibular disorders. If you experience motion sickness from the Mastodon UI, I'd appreciate your feedback! 😊 #a11y https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/5393
Strange how relaxing, almost therapeutic, it is to do freeCodeCamp tutorials.
Almost certainly the best thing about today was that when the big bottle of Cholula ran out, i already had another big bottle of Cholula.
But really… how does one circadian rhythm?
retoot if youre GAY, LOVE DOGS OR WANT TO SEE CAPITALISM BURN
Sitting here in the Subaru dealership with Bowie on their stereo, thinking about their old "just made that way" slogan.
That's not honey, Pooh!
https://mastodon.social/media/qRDcR0dAtA4wYy7QB54
Here's something I wrote yesterday! On working retail, the Ithaka S+R US Library Survey, and the problem with gutting tech services. https://aszingarellisweet.github.io/services-run-on-processes/
The existence of this project gives me inexplicable (& kinda needed) joy. It's a LaTeX package for typesetting contra and square dances!
https://bitbucket.org/SamWhited/contracard
Very hot take: fewer bass drops, more recapitulations of the theme with funky handclaps.
So the fun thing I've learned tonight is that WordPress's wysiwyg-ish visual editor view strips any <thead></thead> content you might have previously saved in the code editor view.
@ruth Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the write-up you made of Mastodon. Very much clarified the various post types for me!
People still fretting about "owning" their username on every instance.
<morpheus>What if I told you that you never owned your username on the birdsite in the first place?</morpheus>
Gah, having to reformat something mostly by hand from markdown to Word (because of line breaks and Reasons). I missed the day the class decided to go with Word .docx format instead of .txt files. For online "archives." 🙃
it's so bizarre that everyone's judgment of mastodon's success uses the same rubric as twitter's success.
for me, marginalized ppl feeling loved, cared for, and supported in a radical, restorative space is a success and I don't think forbes will ever understand that
Many paywalled academic papers are available for free elsewhere (legally!). The Unpaywall browser extension helps to find them: http://unpaywall.org
FAQ: http://unpaywall.org/faq (explains e. g. the difference between Unpaywall and Sci-Hub)
I really like it so far! #openaccess
So I thought it'd be a cool privacy feature for Mastodon to automatically strip EXIF metadata from photos (e.g. GPS latlong, date, etc.). Turns out Eugen already thought of that! 😁 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/85
I even checked some uploaded photos with ImageMagick; they're all empty! BTW here's the EXIF data from a typical photo I took on my Nexus 5X. I really did have to make the text that small to fit.
