Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them? What big choice would nudge a hundred others that way?

This is a translation of the article I originally wrote in Russian a year ago.
Lately, after Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have started looking for its alternatives – and many found one in Mastodon.
Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform that works on the federation model, like email. The federation protocol is called ActivityPub and is a W3C standard, and Mastodon is far from being its only implementation, albeit it is the most popular one.

A way to be on the web!

I think sound is a dramatically underutilized way to communicate with the user in modern software tools. Using sound for a notification is just annoying, but using other properties (pitch, timbre, length, etc) or producing varying drone sounds across time presents new ways to passively inform users of things. A classic example of this is fan sounds alerting users that their computer is under heavy load, and perhaps something is going wrong. As modern fans get quieter, computer programs should offer similar interfaces to provide all kinds of information.

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol?

• Приложения для сбора хайлайтов из статей и книг не помогают запоминать прочитанное

• Для того, чтобы запоминать прочитанное не нужна хорошая память

• Лучший способ запомнить прочитанное — понять то, что ты прочитал

• Чтобы на самом деле понять прочитанное, нужно приложить усилия

• Объясняй другим идеи, чтобы лучше понимать и запоминать их

• Заведи блог

• Участвуй в сетевых дискуссиях

• Откажись от автоматизации

Вывели с клиентом универсальную «инструкцию к терапии». На случай, если кому-то это нужно. Как часто и бывает, у него была популярная мечта сначала что-то поменять в голове, а потом зажить по-новому.

Spreadsheet for uxn. Minimal but might be usable.

I guess the point I'm trying to convey is that I do the same things with my computers today that I did one or even two decades ago. The hardware has become monumentally more powerful, but my user experience hasn't really changed a bit. And most of all my level of productivity and enjoyment from my devices stays the same.

via https://t.me/dcntr/2122

A Social Feed Reader for the IndieWeb

The Mac version simply didn't run. I installed the Android version. On first run it showed a quick error which I did not understand. I wanted to see how my Betula, which emits h-feed and h-entry microformats, would look like in this app. Turns out, when it talked about IndieWeb, it talked about MicroSub, not microformats2. What a liar!

I tried to authorize to https://merveilles.town, after all it supports Mastodon too! It failed to authorize me.

Overall, I couldn't do anything at all with the app. Sharing it nevertheless.

Guppe brings social groups to the fediverse — making it easy to connect and meet new people based on shared interests without the maniuplation of your attention to maximize ad revenue nor the walled garden lock-in of capitalist social media.

I used to post to https://a.gup.pe/u/mycorrhiza.

A wonderful read

Эргогавань — какая-то российская организация про клавиатуры. Надо разобраться

An extensive, fast, and accurate command-line image dithering tool.

That's a good one.