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Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects

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A pretty neat Wikipedia page listing first images taken of Earth from space, including this solar eclipse from 1969 made by the Apollo 12 crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Earth_from_space

#wikipedia #space #photography #earth
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These are some lovely fonts, free for all non-commercial use, small businesses that give back to the community, and public-benefit corporations.

https://wehtt.am/fonts

via @piccalilli

#fonts #design #uxui #webdev
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
From Time Magazine's 2007 list of "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time", an early automobile design from 1899.

"It contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front to make Horsey Horseless resemble a horse and carriage and therefore avoid […]

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November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@kim_harding Reminds me of this interview with the lead game designer on SimCity.

https://v-e-n-u-e.com/Sim-City-An-Interview-with-Stone-Librande
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The actual first message that was sent that day was just "LO", first two letters of the word "LOGIN", when the system crashed.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

#arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
On this day, 56 years ago:

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers.

https://fedi.wrm.sr

#fediverse
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last […]

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October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The new post compose box feels a bit cramped, to be honest.

Something like this might help! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27102

(I know there is also a ticket to open the post composer in a modal, but I can never find it.)
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Getting ever closer to living the dream!

"Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary. But what we've done is we've actually rebuilt it from the ground up as a personalized AI companion."

https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

#news #technews #technology #ai #work
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election.

You won't want to miss it.

https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote.shtml […]

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October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

It might be worth browsing the "MutualAid" tag today and finding folks who could use some help.

Also, https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-be-ally-indigenous-peoples/ lists 10 ways to be an ally to Indigenous Peoples […]

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October 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!

How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!

Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.

#alttext #imagedescriptions #accessibility #worldsightday
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I brought this up to the Mastodon team (no response yet), but I wonder if the solution, at least a temporary one, to the problem where people get harassed with followers-only posts that @ mention them, thus hiding these posts from public view and […]

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October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm.

#bluesky #socialmedia
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #foia #chatgpt
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably […]

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