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Chuck @chuckdries.com · May 27

For my inaugural post to @grain.social: some failed photos today, because I think sharing failures is as important as sharing successes
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Rose macros on Ektachrome

I went back to the International Rose Test Garden today and took these, then developed them at home. Well, turns out my E-6 chemistry is already expired, which is why the colors are so muted. I’m plea...

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · 6h

I find myself with an unexpected 24 hour layover in Seattle. Anyone got ideas for something to do?

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God bless git bisect

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Charlie Szymanski @mrmetlhed.charlieszymanski.com · 20d

This is why a single app store on a given device is bad.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20d

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

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dan @danabra.mov · 26d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · 27d

Sunset, sunrise

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Telemelt @telemelt.com · Sep 22

In Telemelt, every player runs the emulator locally while peer-to-peer networking keeps state synced between players. The controller can be passed seamlessly, and the controller player is never subject to any network latency.

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Crispy Hanako @crispyhanako.bsky.social · Sep 21

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · Sep 7

In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, he will momentarily wake up just to kick it before instantly going back to sleep.

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 4

This is perhaps my favorite edit of all time

A silhouette of a shipwreck against a deep red sky

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 4

I’ve been daydreaming about prototyping this for ages now but I’ve just been so busy…

Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 4

Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but do you know if anyone is evaluating straight up using HTML? Wordpress Gutenberg has shown that you can build a modern, predictable block editor experience that deserializes from the exact same HTML that you serve to visitors

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 3

How much fidelity are you thinking for the icons? First thing I thought of is a halftone radial gradient with a radius line. I made a google images screenshot mockup of the idea but idk whether it would scale down well

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 2

I should mention! It works with Bash, ZSH, and Fish. Windows builds will work with Powershell. It should theoretically work fine on Linux right now but I haven't tested it yet

Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 2

Definitely Powershell! If nothing else, for my own sanity - trying to integrate with CMD is hellish. There's not even a good way to get a pty going with it tbh

Chuck @chuckdries.com · Sep 2

My latest side project is live! It's an app that holds your hand as you learn your computer's command line. Currently Mac only, Windows soon chuckdries.itch.io/command-line...

Screenshot of the main screen of the app

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Chuck @chuckdries.com · Aug 19

CLI cookbook update: the first recipe is feature complete! It now handles optional arguments and spaces in paths. Next major steps are writing documentation, setting up installers and distribution, then more recipes!

Chuck @chuckdries.com · Aug 15

(It won’t require you to use fish ofc, but it’ll certainly support it!)

Chuck @chuckdries.com · Aug 15

I’ve been cooking on a new side project recently, and I’m really excited about it! It’s called Command Line Cookbook. It’s meant to be sort of like training wheels for the terminal, for people who are relatively computer literate but may not be comfortable in a text environment yet

Screenshot of a window titled “Command Line Cookbook”. On the right side is a terminal with the users shell in it. On the left side is a page titled “Convert image to icon”, subtitled “use imagemagick to convert and image to a windows .ico file”. It has a recipe, which is a template “magick {{input-file}} {{icon-resize}} {{output-file}}”. Each of the curly brace tokens in the template is color coded to an entry in a section called arguments. The input file entry has a “select a file” button and a text box with a file path in it. The output file entry has a “select save location” button and a text box. The icon resize entry has a description but no inputs (it’s currently not implemented). The “use relative paths” option is switched on. There’s a final command section which is the template but with the values from the inputs substituted in for the tokens, and a button to insert the command into the terminal

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Mia (online) @miriam.codes · Aug 13

🎉 Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – in every browser since Feb, 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are!

Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Aug 11

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them.

Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000.

New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Aug 11

Media critic Jay Rosen says journalists' regular fact checks are overmatched by today’s political lies. What’s needed now, he says, are “reality rejection checks” as Trump and his supporters deny established facts.
My Q&A with ‪@jayrosen.bsky.social‬ in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.

Q&A with Jay Rosen: How Trump nullifies reality

Media critic says lies should be called lies, but the word has “no magic powers.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 9

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 5

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

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willow @fireatwillow.bsky.social · Aug 5

(hitman places little taxidermied squirrel with a bomb in it on the forest floor) EXCELLENT work, 47. tomorrow morning the owls of ga’hoole will have a new legend to tell

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