ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

I've started to think about the, y'know, all of this on a spectrum ranging from "too big to handle," to "too small to matter." I'm also thinking about the size of an issue against one's ability to make a difference.

There's a sweet spot where the work is worthwhile.

Small problems outside your control matter little. The big ones outside your ability to impact can be paralyzing—most of us can't stop DOGE from entering buildings, for example, no matter how outraged we are. The small ones you can impact tend to be easy, but they can deceive you into an outsized impression of your impact. And then there are the big ones you can impact. That's the worthwhile zone to live in. The trick is, this zone is uncomfortable, and almost always requires you to work with others—even others you don't entirely agree with.

The adversary is hoping you never make it to that zone. If enough of us do, the tide turns.

GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!

Welcome to GIMP 3.0!

Rain detected by radar + latest wind model for Tropical Cyclone #Alfred:

NASA's New Horizons mission flew past Pluto and later the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth. It still has enough propellant in the tanks to make more flybys, but it has no viable targets. Fortunately, the mighty Vera Rubin Observatory is online and can soon search the sky for targets. Researchers have proposed to use the observatory with 30 hours of telescope time to carefully examine New Horizons' location in the Kuiper Belt to find more flyby opportunities.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02765

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:

https://18f.org/

It is now *seven* years since #Microsoft started shipping #curl as part of the Windows operating system.

https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html

It’s dangerous out there, take Harry the Highland cow. He’s cute and cuddly. 🥰 #TimelineCleanser

I think about this map a lot.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

@Aut eek, here's 1x speed ADS-B data from Flightradar24

babywelle... #glsl #genart #allcode

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ

Elon Musk says federal workers must explain what they did last week or resign

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/22/musk-doge-federal-workers-email

Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

what in the world? lol. That is a Faraday cage, isn't it?

I’m team

alias please=sudo

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/