Koos ๐ @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
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Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
The best decentralization news this month:
- Truly superb podcast from Tristan Harris of TimeWellSpent.io, talking about the addictive nature of modern webapps and what we can do to fix it. Really lays out the negative aspects of the system in a convincing way. Only issue is that their solution seems to be "convince Google/Facebook/etc to care about the problem", which seems...hopeful, to say the least.
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-doing-to-us
Finally some tech that scares me as much as I want it! #neuralink
The yukata seems like a nice bathrobe alternative
https://octodon.social/media/qqjSto8Nsj7ywWpUitM
It's basically a bathrobe with a better sash. Although I'm not sure I could put such a cute bow on my back.
I also don't know why there's a sword.
@koos I suppose a large enough poncho might be an option. But I don't know what the cultural semiotics of wearing a poncho and nothing else are, beyond communicating a bracingly determined rejection of societal norms.
Is there clothing as warm and easy to put on as a bathrobe but that doesn't open itself? It should also properly communicate that I'm not really dressed as opposed to badly dressed as is the case with onesies.
I wrote about what I recently learned about color: https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/color-color-theory-designers-1/
Considering the visible part of design is mostly shape and color, it's amazing how long I could get away in design with knowing so little about color!
Finally finished my blog post about color! It's about what color is, mainly for designers, but understandable for anyone interested (I hope).
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/color-color-theory-designers-1/
Thanks to @jsavalle and @jsrn for telling me to break my topic into multiple posts. Looking forward to finishing part 2!
Amsterdam's solution to the obesity crisis: no fruit juice and enough sleep
I just signed up for paying our admin, because I want a social media platform to exist for which I can pay directly with money instead of indirectly by buying shit I was made to believe I need through ads.
I think I've found my soulmate. :rofl: https://soundcloud.com/lucalush/technotronic-pump-up-the-jam-luca-lush-remix
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"Pump Up The Jam", originally by Techonotronic and remixed by สแดแดแด สแดsส is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
So did somebody already identify what instances are run just to collect user data? The open seems perfect for that. I'd be surprised if secret services aren't doing that yet.
I'm three years late to this party, but I find WriteMonkey a really nice text editor for focused writing. It has a lot of hidden features like auto save, backup and copy markdown as HTML. Windows only.
@jsavalle gave me some useful blogging advice including this: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-system-i-used-to-write-5-books-and-over-1-000-blog-posts-5872451d7461
Just found out that it is quite useless on Federated - every time a toot is added, the scrolling position changes.
So on iPhone 5 the Mastodon web UI is quite miserable in Safari.
BUT
when added as a homescreen bookmark it is way better (faster, stabler, intuitive) than Amoraq. Best web app experience I have had so far.
Bonus: saved logins for multiple instances!
we only stuck around with email because there weren't any hot takes about how it was dead in the water
Does anyone have some good advice/course/method for writing blog posts?
Other than 'write often'?
Problem with Google Search is that blogs of SEOd the shit out of that question.
Hi @CobaltVelvet, what are your plans/expectations regarding Octodon? I'm especially curious how you see growth in users. I mean we're 5092 now and everything seems fine, but tribes change with size etc.
