aldeka @aldeka@wandering.shop

The Popup Trombone lets you play trombone by resizing your window. This is the silly web I love!!!!

https://matthewrayfield.com/goodies/popup-trombone/

when you think about it, the idea that software should scale is actually really weird. "sure this garden is nice, but how nice can it be if it doesn't grow to cover the entire surface of the earth?"

@debugninja
I created the elephants for the Tusky App!

Flags of the eight planets + Pluto-Charon and Planet Nine

Somebody once told me
There's a statue in the Gobi
That's mostly gone from over the knees
Visage lying in the sand
With a sneer of cold command
Cuz the sculptor knew how to please

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Empires falling and statues crumbling
Check out the words he left behind
On the statue in the desert that nobody can find:

"They say the era of an open web made by humans instead of giant corporations is over." Man, this really hit me in the feels. Good luck to Glitch and everything they're doing. https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1148603066092052482

I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.

This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.

I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.

https://runyourown.social/

@Are0h this just popped up in the fed TL with perfect timing

It's Sarah's first day at her new programming job. She meets the team, sits at a computer and starts being shown her way around the codebase by one of the veteran employees. After a few minutes, someone yells from another cubicle: "Seven!" The person training her laughs, and then goes back to helping her out.

A few more minutes pass and she hears another voice: "Thirteen!" There's some laughter from around the office and a couple groans.

It's quiet for a while, but just as the trainer is about to go on break, there's a third shout: "Five!" There are a few chuckles from various folks.

"Hold on," says Sarah. "What are they shouting?"

"Well, we're programmers. We want to save memory. Instead of telling the same joke all the time, we just have a lookup table. Someone says the joke ID, and we all remember the joke and react to it. There are thirty or so, you'll pick it up pretty quick."

Sarah considers this for a moment, and then shouts: "Fifty-five!"

There's a deafening silence as the other employees consider what they've heard. Slowly, like a wave, hysterical laughter starts moving through the office. People are crying, like this is the happiest they've been in months. It lasts for a solid minute before dying down enough for Sarah to hear her own voice. She asks her trainer, "What was that about?"

Wiping a tear from their eye, they respond: "We've never heard that one before."

So helpful for those of us questioning

RT @BleacherReport@twitter.com

15-year-old prodigy Coco Gauff beat one of her idols, Venus Williams, in straight sets at Wimbledon today

After the match, she was overcome with emotion and thanked Venus for inspiring her ✊

(via @Wimbledon@twitter.com)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1145777112806244353