Harris Lapiroff
@harris.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Data, design, security, software engineering, press freedom, and epistemic trespassing. Engineering Manager for the Web and Dangerzone projects at Freedom of the Press […]
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A Lover
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
I could see to write you a letter.
— Amy Lowell
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
I could see to write you a letter.
— Amy Lowell
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A Lover
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
I could see to write you a letter.
— Amy Lowell
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
I could see to write you a letter.
— Amy Lowell
Started Stranger Things S5 and was like “who tf is Holly Wheeler?” and now I’m going back and rewatching S1 and it’s like she’s in the background of every scene suddenly.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Started Stranger Things S5 and was like “who tf is Holly Wheeler?” and now I’m going back and rewatching S1 and it’s like she’s in the background of every scene suddenly.
Mamdani hypnotized Trump somehow. I know people have all sorts of explanations for how their meeting went, but none of them seem more plausible to me than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpyRNXtXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpyRNXtXo
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Mamdani hypnotized Trump somehow. I know people have all sorts of explanations for how their meeting went, but none of them seem more plausible to me than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpyRNXtXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpyRNXtXo
Reposted by Harris Lapiroff
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Reposted by Harris Lapiroff
Just found out that MacWhisper, my favorite macOS app for transcribing audio to text (using Whisper or now also NVIDIA Parakeet) now has an Automatic Speaker Recognition feature too https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/macwhisper-speaker-recognition/
MacWhisper has Automatic Speaker Recognition now
Inspired by this conversation on Hacker News I decided to upgrade MacWhisper to try out NVIDIA Parakeet and the new Automatic Speaker Recognition feature. It appears to work really well! …
simonwillison.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Just found out that MacWhisper, my favorite macOS app for transcribing audio to text (using Whisper or now also NVIDIA Parakeet) now has an Automatic Speaker Recognition feature too https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/macwhisper-speaker-recognition/
👁️ ORBS ARE NOW ON MOBILE 👁️
(Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)
(Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
👁️ ORBS ARE NOW ON MOBILE 👁️
(Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)
(Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)
My new hobby is watching Death by Lightning on Netflix and every time they say "Garfield" I pretend they're talking about the cat and not the president.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My new hobby is watching Death by Lightning on Netflix and every time they say "Garfield" I pretend they're talking about the cat and not the president.
Reposted by Harris Lapiroff
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
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the elaborate shader-based neuomorphic effects in Liquid Glass will be *incredibly* annoying to fake. counterfeits which do not have the bottom 90% of the iceberg that users will hopefully come to expect, will look wrong and janky and will be immediately *visually* identifiable as low quality […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
the elaborate shader-based neuomorphic effects in Liquid Glass will be *incredibly* annoying to fake. counterfeits which do not have the bottom 90% of the iceberg that users will hopefully come to expect, will look wrong and janky and will be immediately *visually* identifiable as low quality […]
I swear I can typeset things in faces other than Minion, but I’m starting to wonder why I would.
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I swear I can typeset things in faces other than Minion, but I’m starting to wonder why I would.
Facebook has recently decided to serve me tons of clickfarm reposts of content from r/AmIOverreacting and r/AmITheAsshole and the whole experience is very “Are the straight monogs OK?”
Every post is like, “My partner is texting her high school friend using heart emojis. Should I be worried?” […]
Every post is like, “My partner is texting her high school friend using heart emojis. Should I be worried?” […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Facebook has recently decided to serve me tons of clickfarm reposts of content from r/AmIOverreacting and r/AmITheAsshole and the whole experience is very “Are the straight monogs OK?”
Every post is like, “My partner is texting her high school friend using heart emojis. Should I be worried?” […]
Every post is like, “My partner is texting her high school friend using heart emojis. Should I be worried?” […]
I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
It’s honestly a marvel that I developed any modicum of fashion sense at all in my life. My father and I are going out to a nice dinner tonight and he asked me, “What should I wear?”
I said, “Do you have a dress shirt?”
He replied, “What do you mean by that?”
I said, “Do you have a dress shirt?”
He replied, “What do you mean by that?”
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It’s honestly a marvel that I developed any modicum of fashion sense at all in my life. My father and I are going out to a nice dinner tonight and he asked me, “What should I wear?”
I said, “Do you have a dress shirt?”
He replied, “What do you mean by that?”
I said, “Do you have a dress shirt?”
He replied, “What do you mean by that?”
I'm looking at migrating from my #11ty setup from #cloudflare Pages to Workers and as far as I can tell it's strictly a downgrade for static site use cases?
Lots of added complicated configuration code, no automatic branch deployments—or automatic any deployments for that matter; I have to add […]
Lots of added complicated configuration code, no automatic branch deployments—or automatic any deployments for that matter; I have to add […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm looking at migrating from my #11ty setup from #cloudflare Pages to Workers and as far as I can tell it's strictly a downgrade for static site use cases?
Lots of added complicated configuration code, no automatic branch deployments—or automatic any deployments for that matter; I have to add […]
Lots of added complicated configuration code, no automatic branch deployments—or automatic any deployments for that matter; I have to add […]
Earlier this year, while designing the songbook for Emma’s Magnolia Sun album, I encountered the challenge of creating “chord over lyrics” style chord charts.
https://chromamine.com/2025/10/chord-charts-in-indesign/
#music #design #code
https://chromamine.com/2025/10/chord-charts-in-indesign/
#music #design #code
Chord charts in InDesign
chromamine.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Earlier this year, while designing the songbook for Emma’s Magnolia Sun album, I encountered the challenge of creating “chord over lyrics” style chord charts.
https://chromamine.com/2025/10/chord-charts-in-indesign/
#music #design #code
https://chromamine.com/2025/10/chord-charts-in-indesign/
#music #design #code
Reposted by Harris Lapiroff
I am convinced that Zohran's breakout popularity is not because he's so uniquely progressive or radical, or that he's a generational charismatic political talent, but simply that he has positions based on specific beliefs and when you ask him what they are he will tell you. Later, if you ask him […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I am convinced that Zohran's breakout popularity is not because he's so uniquely progressive or radical, or that he's a generational charismatic political talent, but simply that he has positions based on specific beliefs and when you ask him what they are he will tell you. Later, if you ask him […]
What’s the best mid-range 3D printer out there these days for someone who values being able to self-repair and extend their machine but also doesn’t want to spend all their time maintaining and fine-tuning it? Is the Prusa CORE One the best middle ground here? #3dprinting
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What’s the best mid-range 3D printer out there these days for someone who values being able to self-repair and extend their machine but also doesn’t want to spend all their time maintaining and fine-tuning it? Is the Prusa CORE One the best middle ground here? #3dprinting
Possibly a little too horny for main, but I am tickled by this product, which is labeled either as massage oil or lube, depending on where you purchase it from.
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Possibly a little too horny for main, but I am tickled by this product, which is labeled either as massage oil or lube, depending on where you purchase it from.
Reposted by Harris Lapiroff
Three weird things about social websites:
1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.
2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!
3) If you've signed […]
1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.
2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!
3) If you've signed […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
October 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Three weird things about social websites:
1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.
2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!
3) If you've signed […]
1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.
2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!
3) If you've signed […]
Apple cider caramel season
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Apple cider caramel season
Sweetened condensed milk is so good
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sweetened condensed milk is so good
Man, what if I had $120 to blow on a beautiful tape dispenser?
https://wmscoshop.com/products/brass-tape-dispenser-single
https://wmscoshop.com/products/brass-tape-dispenser-single
Korean Brass Tape Dispenser: Single
Few things are more annoying than unattractive tools that don’t get the job done. It’s why we specialize in that coveted convergence of design and utility that makes life worth living. Too lofty for a tape dispenser? We beg to differ. Precision crafted in burnished matte solid brass, this sleek tape dispenser fits stan
wmscoshop.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Man, what if I had $120 to blow on a beautiful tape dispenser?
https://wmscoshop.com/products/brass-tape-dispenser-single
https://wmscoshop.com/products/brass-tape-dispenser-single
Has this been done?
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Has this been done?
dennis prager, bottoming for a hot twink day after day for a year, bellowing, “oh fuck yeah get me pregnant, impregnate me fuck yeah”
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
dennis prager, bottoming for a hot twink day after day for a year, bellowing, “oh fuck yeah get me pregnant, impregnate me fuck yeah”