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Sam Clemente
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Routines | Just. Weather. | The Digital Renaissance
Founder | Social Web Builder & Creator
#ActuallyAutistic | He/They

I’m just some rando on the internet […]

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I'm sorry, is someone injecting ads into my browser's CONSOLE now??
A screenshot of the Chromium browser console with numerous jQuery errors and some warning about something with the Meta Pixel that I couldn't care less about But there are two ads also sitting in the console...I didn't even know that was possible
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Happy Cyber Monday
A screenshot from the down detector website showing a spike in outage reports for Shopify
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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@notionhq: Put. The Dog. Back.

#notion #technology #apps #productivity
A screenshot of the "no emails" view in Notion Mail sans cute, pet-able dog. All that remains is corporate dryness with an inbox glyph and the text "No emails in Inbox"
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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New update to Routines! Routines is now multi-platform with the latest build bringing watchOS support with iCloud Syncing!

The UI is very barebones right now, but expect updates to functionality, design, and #a11y in the coming weeks!

Check out the beta at […]

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A screenshot of the Routines interface…it’s nothing much right now but it’s got the list of routines and the time, a checkmark shows when you’re done the routine and there’s an add button…it’s getting there
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ABBA: Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Y'all
A screenshot from downdetector showing that there's a spike in issues at Cloudflare
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It doesn’t work or anything, but I’ve built and installed a watchOS version of Routines

#iosdev #swiftui #watchos #technology #apps #apple #BuildInPublic
A watchOS simulator showing a basic build of Routines showing a single routine and an add button
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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They'll have to pry this browser out of my cold, dead fingers

(Well, until Dia gets more features like Arc)
A .png card that shows the day I joined Arc (31 Oct. 2022) three stamps: one for each year I've been on the browser
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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This one’s for Win 3.11
A floppy disk for Windows 3.11 (Disk 4 of 6)
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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@hp I have a check disk for OS/2 Warp 3.0 that’s almost 10 years older than I am
It’s as I said: a floppy disk for OS/2 Warp 3.0
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I know for a fact that DHH will never bring about the year of Linux on the desktop

But Gaben just might
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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@renewedresistance
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Apple be like:
Drake meme: Avoid: external gpu support Instead: external pocket support
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Annual reminder that car brain killed the long coat and that they are superior to shorter coats
#fuckcars #urbanism #publictransportation
Me wearing a black wool coat that goes down past my knees
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The very fact that these web apps are still in my dock and not in #diabrowser is pretty damning for their goal to have everything live in the browser

#technology #apps #webbrowser #artificialintelligence #ai
A screenshot of my dock showing from left to right: Dia, Notion, Notion Calendar, Notion Mail, and Linear
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just pushed a little design refresh to https://stygiantech.dev

Was able to refactor some code to stop calling useEffect() to swap between light and dark mode for device mockups to keep more of the site rendered server-side

Check it out!

#webdev #technology #react #nextjs #indieweb #SmallWeb
A screenshot of the Stygian Tech website with a new monospace font instead of the old serif font
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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And just like that, @thedigitalrenaissance has had over 250 unique visitors this month!

I don't put tracking params in the links I post so for the most part I don't have a whole lot of insight outside of how many people are on the site and what posts get […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
A screenshot of my ghost analytics page showing a line graph of unique visitors with 259 unique visitors this month and 395 total visitors this month below are some bar charts showing where they were going on the site (destinations) and where they came from (referrers)
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Wow I need retina displays this is...not great
A screenshot of a Live Activity on my Mac's menu bar that's barely readable since it's so pixellated
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I cannot be stopped
Apple Music "Classical Christmas" playlist
November 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I've officially had over 200 unique visitors to @thedigitalrenaissance in the last 30 days!

Thanks to everyone whose at least clicked on a link!

#blog #SmallWeb #ghostcms #indieweb #socialweb
A screenshot of my Ghost dashboard showing three line graphs: Unique Visitors (211 in the last 30 days), Subscribers (0), and MRR ($0)
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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FB20849240: iCloud Profile Picture Creation is Borked
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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How to mislead with stats: the metric is “OpenAI’s protections against providing information about suicide have been triggered over a million times a week”

This is NOT the same thing

Literally hit this trigger today out of sheer curiosity with no suicidal […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
An article headline from Disclose dot tv reading: OpenAl says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Life is hard

Here's a happy Mac mini

#technology #apple #mac #macmini #timelinecleanse
Apple's Mac mini hero from their website, but I added a little smile as if the two USB-C ports were eyes
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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The new 120Hz Studio Display and M5 Max Mac Studio need to look like this

#apple #technology #mac
A Mac Studio and Studio Display edited to be in Space Black
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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These are basically the same thing
ChatGPT Atlas and Dia icons on my macOS dock
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM