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Google Docs does not support footnotes in its new pageless format. 🤦‍♂️

Notes just disappear instead of being put at the bottom of the content.

The crowd will go wild if Tufte sidenotes are introduced at .

edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-cs

🎉 Welcome to newcomers! 🎉

A few personal tips:

👌 the Fediverse is NOT twitt*r! enjoy a more relaxed, courteous, benevolent way of interacting! you are part of it!

🤚 introduce yourself! also fill bio and post a couple "toots" before following people to have more chance they'll follow back..

👍 favourite and follow generously! This is how to create link around. No algorithm-god is spying on you, telling you who to follow, what to read! \o/

⚠️ many people care about CW... learn about that

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To be clear, I think we can do much better than Mastodon. It’s just the first mover.

Web developers, the ActivityPub spec is right there waiting for you to build a better implementation. Go change the world!

activitypub.rocks/

My 2022-04-18 ‘now’ page update is 2 months late and covers 5 months because the pandemic made me sad and WW3 started, but there is some really happy stuff in there too.

jeremiahlee.com/now/

Support people trying to build a better future even at an early, messy stage.

elon can have twitter but he can never have my website

I just submitted my application to become a citizen of Sverige! 🇸🇪

To be clear: I am *not* looking for recommendations. I do not like this genre. The US criminal justice system is mostly injustice and Hollywood needs to stop promoting idealistic mythology.

Create a show about and I might watch.

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My husband enjoys watching bad crime shows. I dislike them all, but sometimes watch them in the background.

“NCIS” in particular is so unrealistic.

Like, who stays in the same job for 19 seasons? So unrealistic.

Children under 5 (or 12 in science-denying Sverige) who cannot be vaccinated against COVID-19 scare the shit out of me in public spaces.

TIL: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). It is a proposed W3C recommendation for a type of enhanced URN that provides a cryptographically secure, location-independent identifier for a digital resource, while also providing metadata that enables retrieval.

w3.org/TR/did-core/

If your tech debt were a celebrity, who would it be?

(Bonus points for GIF examples.)

“The Adam Project” is a 2022 American movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Ryan Reynolds in a science fiction adventure plot.

I loved it.

I always feel like a love-struck teenage girl in a coming-of-age tv show when British people say the put something in my “diary”.

Gratitude for Google using proper American and naming it Google Calendar instead of Google Diary ✨

an app that identifies a microwave make and model by photo and provides the secret code to disable insistent beeping when it’s done

Neat. My name is going on a flash drive aboard NASA’s Artemis I, the preparation flight for landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon.

nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-a

@robey@mastodon.technology It was on the home page, but it sold out in a few hours apparently.

At some point a decade ago, I got put erroneously into some database as having worked at Pinterest and have since gotten a myriad of outreach emails from recruiters referencing my “impressive experience” at a company I never worked for.

P.S. You do not have to embrace polyamory to reject toxic monogamy culture.

Learn more: wellandgood.com/toxic-monogamy

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