I love @aptshadow.bsky.socialβs whole Tyrant Philosophers series, but the first entry, City of Last Chances, had been my favourite to now.
Having just finished Pretenders to the Throne of God (and possibly shed a tear at the last scene), I think he may have outdone himself.
Back on the writing horse again, thanks to @edinburghjs.org's Personal Website Jam last month!
dfreeman.io/blog/hello-a...
With apologies to:
β’ @mcordes.bsky.social, who Iβm sure will say βthatβs not really math; itβs just arithmeticβ when he gets home this evening
β’ all the people in this neck of the woods going βum, excuse you, you mean maths?β
Imagining a Cold War spy thriller set in Stornoway where the agent and their handler meet at either end of a bench and exchange the code phrased "The gurnet is plentiful today", "It is not so plentiful as the dogfish" before sliding across the brown envelope full of photos of the rocket range
A 9-by-14 grid of blue spirograph patterns, each consisting of two lines forming star- or flower-shaped loops with varying numbers of "petals". Many are visually very different from one another, while some have only subtle distinctions from other near-identical patterns in the grid, but each is technically unique.
Working on this website redesign has been a lot of "how much variety can I squeeze out of a little bit of math?" fun.
The cover of the hardback edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Pretenders to the Throne of God. It is a mixture of silver, blue and black with the central image showing soldiers using a cannon to target a city with a lighthouse. The 4 corners have images of a lizardman in a great coat, an almost skeletal soldier with a great axe over one shoulder, a soldier with an eye patch and a slathering lizard.
The covers for @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Tyrant Philosophers series are maybe the best in the business right now.
Joe Wilson is incredible at having these detailed, eye catching and very distinctive designs that whet your appetite for what is inside.
Literally my first thought was βsounds like something that eieioβoh.β
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to Β£1.99 for one day only, get in there π
Had the thought "oh I should totally get back into Frightened Rabbit now that I live in Scotland" the other day, which is how I learned Scott Hutchison passed π
youβre right! it feels mostly awful to Go Onlineβ’, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.
hereβs how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
Feels like we just got finished with 2024 and now I wake up this morning and thereβs ANOTHER year? Ngl I could have used a breather
Jackieeee
All of @aptshadow.bsky.socialβs work is fantastic of course, but this series is easily my favourite! I feel like itβs really slept on for some reason
Absolutely floored when it finally clicked for me what this puzzle was doing. Really good. blookerstein.itch.io/showy-homes
Map of Scotland showing location of road gritter. Most names are puns.Bear Chills, sled Zeppelin, credence clear road survival, thistle gritter through
It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters βοΈ
#Scotland #Christmas
Hard to believe!
βin the late 1900sβ πβ°οΈπ
π Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, weβre excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so letβs be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdaniβs pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvinβs dad is going to read him a bedtime story. First panel: Calvinβs dad, scanning a bookshelf: βWhat story would you like tonight? We can read anything exceptββ Calvin, from bed, excited: βThe Voynich Manuscript!β Second panel: Calvinβs dad, deeply exasperated: βNO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! Weβve tried to decipher that book a million times!β Calvin, yelling: βI want the Voynich Manuscript!β Third panel: Calvinβs dad, trying to reason with him: βLook, you *know* how the story goes! Youβve memorized the whole thing! Itβs completely unreadable!β Calvin: βI want mysterious glyphs and sigils!β Fourth panel: Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: βWow, the story was different *that* time!β Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).
Back on my βI bet I can figure out how to build a UI with thatβ nonsense again. This has been fun to work on!
they sure seem intent on trying though
View transitions are in every browser now β¨
Oh thatβs on my list! How is it so far?
oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened
Yeah I feel like this is going to be storm Γowyn all over again where Iβm just waking up all night
The wind right now π΅βπ«
Today I thought of sodaconstructor for the first time in probably almost two decades. It was a little 2D mass-and-spring sim that let you build Strandbeest-style walkers and other little automata.
Looks like it's gone the way of the dodo now, but wow I really have the itch to play with that again.
A screenshot of an active call on my phone, with the timer at 01:43:47. Itβs currently 6:31pm.
Me: *waits on hold for an hour and 45 minutes*
Royal Mail customer service: hang on jerk, itβs 6:30; weβre closed *click*
