Cassidy James Blaede

Razia's Shadow Released on October 28th, 2008. Written by Thomas & Paul Dutton. Produced & Mixed by Casey Bates.

At times it reminds me of the concept album “Razia’s Shadow” by Forgive Durden, which is also a lot of fun (and VERY theater kid/extra) if you have never listened.

Call me crazy, but something about the vocals occasionally STRONGLY reminds me of… The Rocket Summer?? I think that’s what’s driving me crazy: the instrumentation doesn’t sound like them at all. Like if Bryce Avary started a harder band with the instrumentation of MCR, The Used, and Red Jumpsuit.

Another Kill For The Highlight Reel (Deluxe Edition), by Save Face 15 track album

I just discovered the band Save Face on an “Influenced by MCR” playlist. The vocals remind me SO MUCH of a (not My Chem) 2000s—2010s pop-punk artist but I cannot place it. Anyone else hear it?

#music #rock #altRock #popPunk

March Pixel Drop: New personalization and AI tools March Pixel Drop is here with new ways to use Circle to Search, safety features on Watch, dining suggestions from Magic Cue and more!

Google: app developers, pls follow our icon guidelines 🥺

Also Google: lol we’re replacing your designers' work with AI slop 🖕

Palworld Crossing

The people saying "AI can write all this code, so we don't need these people" forget that writing code is not the main part of the job description for a software engineer. It's the coordination and making sure you're writing the correct code that's the hard part. The meetings, design sessions, etc.

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels.

If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

IT HAS COMMENTARIES

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

You know how people write cover songs? And occasionally they'll make style makeovers for old stories? Or, more rarely, do non-standard remakes for movies?

They should do that for videogames. Not like, remasters, but just toss the IP to a whole other team. See what they do with it.

Has anyone else noticed that gmail now has auto-activated it's new "I think you write badly, I will underline all of your terrible writing so I can give you suggestions that will make your emails completely soulless" feature and it appears impossible to turn off?

Random: do I know any Linux tech folks in Florida (Miami area, ideally) who would be open to a quick freelance gig? It would involve running some Linux/laptop hardware compatibility tests for a nonprofit.

I don’t know all the details, but can connect you with the nonprofit. :)

#Linux #Florida

(10/10 naming, if it wasn’t clear)

Just said “Continuwuity” out loud in a work meeting. It did *not* happen with a straight face. :P

continuwuity.org

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I've been dedicating a huge amount of time to open-source work as of late, but working for free without any return isn't sustainable.

I'm providing the services I do at a fiscal loss, so please do consider supporting me. I'd really very much appreciate it.

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Would it be completely stupid to look at an M2 MacBook Pro these days to run Linux on? I know some folks have used Linux on M-series Macs for a while; was it fine/great/horrible?

Then there’s Framework; I’m personally still a bit disappointed by their non-response to stuff a few months ago, but also idk how much better/worse that is than any big tech company…

Star Labs would be DOPE but the StarFighter I would want is out of stock.

I think there were new Lenovo models out recently that I saw Linux/GNOME folks getting? Anything amazing?

I value pretty basic “good laptop” stuff. HiDPI display if possible, OLED would be amazing but isn’t required, relatively portable (doesn’t have to be tiny), good battery life, decent trackpad.

I really liked the look of the new Dell XPS 14 but it doesn’t look like they have their Linux versions out yet; of course I could order with Windows and just blow it away, but it’d be nice to not pay for the license (and to be counted as one of the DOZENS! of Linux users).

I am looking for a new Linux laptop for work, and don’t know what to shop around for!

I’ll be doing some development but I don’t expect a ton. I do think I want 32 GB RAM and a halfway decent GPU for a laptop for those times I am hacking on things, though.

While Osprey’s actively used in multiple production environments, Coop is still considered v0; it’s out there but we’re actively working towards a stable release.

If you want to explore using or contributing to either tool, reach out to me via DM or cassidyjames@roost.tools and I’d love to chat!

Meet Coop V.0 Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

If Osprey is overkill (it can be for small/early platforms!), we also just open sourced Coop, a more straightforward trust and safety review dashboard with its own automation built in—including optional integrations with hash matching, Google’s Content Safety API, and the OpenAI moderation API.

How Bluesky Transformed their Safety Operations with Osprey Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

And of course, @safety.bsky.app is also already using Osprey to handle tens of millions of daily events, tackling real-time social media issues like scams, spam, and more.

It’s an exciting time for open source trust and safety!

#OpenSource #TrustAndSafety #Bluesky

@matrix.org is doing just that by integrating Osprey w/policy servers for automated rules and investigations. Users of the open source, decentralized alternative platform will be safer, too, thanks in part to @roost.tools. 😉

#OpenSource #TrustAndSafety #Matrix

Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.

@discord.com open sourced their internal T&S rules engine with @roost.tools!

Osprey handles ~400 million actions per day in production at Discord. If you run a Discord-sized (or smaller!) platform, you can just… use their rules engine because it’s open source.

#OpenSource #TrustAndSafety #Discord

I'm beyond ready to just vote for AOC for the big job but I think she'll need to become speaker first before the party or nation will be ready for that.

Doesn't mean I always agree with her (though I usually do) but it's about integrity, intelligence, and communication.

Here’s the release workflow: github.com/cassidyjames...

I’m sure it could be cleaned up more, but I’m tired and it works.

The nice thing about figuring this out for one of my apps is that it should be super simple to roll out to my other apps for their next releases. But it was super annoying to figure out. 😬

Release Quality of life improvements · cassidyjames/butler 1.6 Add Zoom item to menu by @cassidyjames in #72 Enable downloads by @cassidyjames in #73 WebView: Don't force hardware acceleration by @cassidyjames in #74 Clean up current-url handling by @cass...

That said, after making 6(!) pre-releases to test it, I have multi-arch Flatpak builds working in CI. Every PR is tested against devel builds (so you can grab the artifact & install alongside stable), and now each release builds & attaches a release for each arch.

Tada!

#Flatpak #Linux #OpenSource