I saw The Toaster Museum linked to over at Hacker News and immediately thought of John Siracusa (@siracusa).

Here’s some great context for why I immediately thought of him, by his friend and Accidental Tech Podcast (@atp.fm) co-host Casey Liss (@caseyliss).

http://toastermuseum.com/index.htm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36992802 https://hypercritical.co/ https://mastodon.social/@siracusa https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters http://atp.fm/ https://mastodon.social/@atpfm https://www.caseyliss.com/ https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss

Author and actor Miranda Keeling posted this on Mastodon, where she frequently posts interesting fragments of conversation she overhears in everyday life:

"Woman in a supermarket: Fake it til you can’t be bothered anymore, and then just be yourself."

This has been one of my core experiences of aging. A lot of faking/masking/figuring stuff out for the first 30 years, then the last ten years steadily moving toward where I am now: how could I possibly be bothered to be anything but myself?

I originally posted this to my Mastodon account.

https://www.mirandakeeling.com/ https://mastodon.social/@Mirandakeeling/110807760527453143 https://mastodon.social/@joeross/110807983371811693

Associated Humane Societies.

There are plenty of data out there about vaccines, and you can read it, too, just like I have.

I have some more Bluesky invite codes.

But I’m 40 and married, so I don’t just hand a code to the first internet user that smiles at me.

Bluesky servers can use the invite tree in moderation decisions, so I do at least some vetting of folks before I send them a code. No hate/harassment/anti-vax etc.

Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://joeross.me/2023/07/25/top-gun-maverick.html

Threatening to take away your customers’ fake merit badges if they don’t pay more isn’t a business.

It’s barely a grift.

It’s how a lonely bully enforces the closest thing to social relationships he can possibly attain.

But at least we can call the post-mortem when this all explodes “the X-Files.”

https://archive.ph/sGYgS

Obviously this is incredible, full stop. But if you’re trained in the craft and the composers, this must be one of the most delightful things you’ve seen in a long, long time. And those animations!

youtu.be/WRfsibwR5…

The kicker? The performer, Joseph Castanyer Alonso, is the cellist of the Royal Stockho... blog.joeross.me https://blog.joeross.me/2023/07/21/obviously-this-is.html

Prey, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://blog.joeross.me/2023/07/21/prey-contains-spoilers.html

One bit of Casey Newton’s latest Platformer piece, on how Threads can survive the calm after the storm, must have many social media pros searching their feelings.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of social media managers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still

I need Mrs. Meyers to answer for the fact that her “Compassion Flower” handsoap scent has me routinely smelling like I think Axe body spray is a legitimate thing for a 40-year-old person to smell like.

I was going to treat reddit like Facebook, visiting every 1 or 2 months to see what was going on. But reddit leadership are so hostile to the most engaged users that I think it’s time to delete my account, which sucks.

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts | Mashable

https://mashable.com/article/reddit-removes-live-chat-archives-messages

💬 💬 Okay, I'm trying again to see if I can set it up so my updates on status.lol are imported to my Micro.blog and syndicated out from there.

Elon Musk is the answer to the question:

What if we gave MRAs, incels and wannabe MAGA Big Deals™ billions of dollars and Peter Thiel’s cell phone number?

List of Indie Dev Sales Events

Matt Corey put together a list of developers holding sales in an indie software version of Amazon’s Prime Day:

"Below, you’ll find a list of over 100 (🤯) Indie apps that are offering discounts for Indie App Sales, July 11-12! Each of these apps is developed by an Indie App Developer - that can mean a lot of different things, but generally speaking, these are built by very small teams, or individuals either full time or part time. Indie App Developers are the epitome of small businesses, and sure do appreciate your support!"

Via Jarrod Blundy at HeyDingus

https://github.com/mattcorey/indie-dev-sales https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/7/its-a-prime-day-to-try-an-indie-app

Mark Frauenfelder, writing at Boing Boing:

"A recent study of sleep loss and depression found that one night of total sleep deprivation generally worsens mood and emotional regulation in healthy individuals, but induces a temporary lift in spirits for some individuals with depression.

. . .

The findings were remarkable: lack of sleep escalated negative mood among the healthy subjects, but eased depressive symptoms in 43% of the patients with depression."

Presented without comment. 😐

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/10/new-study-finds-sleep-loss-surprisingly-lifts-mood-in-some-depressed-individuals.html

Firefox address bar modifiers - the tilde.institute wiki!:

"The address bar has become our entry point to the internet these days. Firefox in its default configuration does some sort of smart guess on what you type there. If it resembles a URL then the browser makes that request. If not, it sends the string you typed to your default search engine. It also includes some fuzzy search matches from your history and all that, which is fine 90% of the time, but sometimes you need a bit more control over what results it shows you."

I had no idea. These are super-useful.

(via Hacker News)

https://wiki.tilde.institute/w/firefox-address-bar-tips https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666116

Editor’s note: She’s only 3 years old!

SkyBridge is a server that connects Mastodon to Bluesky, enabling the use of some Mastodon-only apps with your Bluesky account. Today I noticed that, at least in Ivory for iOS, you can access Bluesky feeds via the Mastodon lists screen.

(I still have some Bluesky invites if anyone’s interested…)

https://skybridge.fly.dev/ https://joinmastodon.org https://bsky.app/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Now I have three Bluesky invites. Let me know if you’re interested!