betaveros ❎ @betaveros@cybre.space

spent some time this week tweaking my website (again), trying to find the right combination of accessibility, standards-compliance, bandwidth-friendliness, and aesthetics: https://beta.vero.site/

feedback/critique appreciated!

i was a bit confused by the medium and (shall we say) paratext of this website, but signs point to it being carefully handcrafted HTML

this person's website is also fascinating, right down to the HTML source code as well: https://www.robinsloan.com/

wow.

interesting social media thoughts: https://platforms.fyi/

https://twitter.com/mywifecameback/status/1151515389039390720

after i've used my work laptop for a month, yesterday my mentor pointed out to me that it has two sets of mouse buttons. wtf lenovo?

did you hear about the Dora the Explorer live-action movie?

apparently there's a *novelization* https://www.amazon.com/Dora-Lost-City-Gold-Deluxe/dp/0062946897/

via https://twitter.com/jrome58/status/1150249986434752512

i realized in bed i forgot to add alt-text to the image, so: it's a screenshot of glimpse (the fork of gnu image manipulation software, not that they're visually distinguishable yet) except almost all the icons are replaced with little broken crossed-out file icons because i am not, in fact, a leet hacker

im a leet hacker

https://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/memorize-random-60.pdf

whoa I want randomly generated passphrases in iambic tetrameter

apparently somebody is selling their bath water on the internet and i found out because i saw memes about waluigi selling bath water and bernie sanders selling bath water (both of which are, i assume, not real things, albeit one more obviously so than the other)

nice, i forgot about keybase integration for a while but it works now

setting my monospace font on the code review site to hasklig made me way happier than it has any right to

all the pokémon in the world have been turned to stone! fortunately the exact set of pokémon NPCs who let us buy, sell, exchange, deposit, retrieve, and unlock things as well as learn moves escaped unscathed!

...wait hold on did i move across a congressional district?

incredible birdsite series of threads on the philadelphia refinery explosion: https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142551735191384064

i was slightly more skeptical by default just because it's a twitter thread but things seem generally corroborated: https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-refinery-fire-explosion-chemicals-20190623.html

wow, i might actually call my congresspeople over this

whoa, i've been learning regular expressions* all wrong: http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2018/06/regex-derivatives.html

* the formal language / computability theory concept, not the thing in actual programming libraries and such

oh yeah I almost forgot Spyro is opening SGDQ! hype https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

and of course now it's 2am and i'm too sleepy to do the braindumping writing session i set out to do an hour ago, but oh well, you win some, you lose some