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Nicholas Macias
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Waving my hands around in front of a computer until it does what I want.

https://rockinghelvetica.com
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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todepond.com
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
nich.bsky.social
This song deserves another shot at becoming an anthem, plus, now I guess @clairecarter13.bsky.social is on here
nich.bsky.social Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · Dec 28
Fuck, Spotify got me for another month with this one track:

But I’m still mad at them so I will link to YouTube:

youtu.be/iqx6Jj9A_vk?...

Claire Carter has the juice
Claire Carter - I'm Not Perfect (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Claire Carter
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December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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doublefine.com
SURPRISE! A new Keeper update just dropped with some EXCITING features!

🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!

⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!

👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!

More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...
Keeper · Back In Black (and White) Update
Surprise! We’re starting December with a really cool KEEPER update, and it’s one we’re very excited to put into your hands. This update is all about color: 1. Noir Mode - A silly experiment by one…
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December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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thinkygames.com
We’re very excited to announce Thinky Dailies! 🎉 Follow our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles!

thinkygames.com/dail...
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
nich.bsky.social
I could not find the relevant codepen from 16 years ago, but I was able to describe it enough to Claude (in ~5 passes around the artifact bend) to get rid of many, many lines of animation state management.

Here, chat bubbles are coming & going, dropping new messages onscreen, & we just bump cursor
container.addEventListener('animationend', (e) => { if (e.animationName === 'typing') { e.target.removeAttribute('data-cursor'); (e.target.nextElementSibling || container.firstElementChild).setAttribute('data-cursor', ''); } });
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
nich.bsky.social
I was debugging something else and vibe-coded a utility that monkey-patches a chat thread of GIFs with static representations when toggling "prefers reduced motion" on/off, because ADHD compels me.

Use case here is tightly defined (3 gifs, so not gonna lock up) but this was faster than photoshop
// Handle reduced motion preference for GIFs function handleReducedMotion() { const prefersReducedMotion = window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)'); const messageImages = document.querySelectorAll('.message-wrapper img'); messageImages.forEach(img => { if (prefersReducedMotion.matches) { freezeGif(img); } else { restoreGif(img); } }); // Reevaluate when the preference changes prefersReducedMotion.addEventListener('change', () => { messageImages.forEach(img => { if (prefersReducedMotion.matches) { freezeGif(img); } else { restoreGif(img); } }); }); } function freezeGif(img) { const width = img.width; const height = img.height; const canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // Create a canvas with the same dimensions as the image canvas.width = width; canvas.height = height; canvas.style.maxWidth = "100%"; // Draw the current frame of the GIF onto the canvas canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(img, 0, 0, width, height); // Replace the GIF with the canvas img.parentNode.insertBefore(canvas, img); img.style.display = "none"; // Hide the original image // Store the original image source in the canvas dataset to restore later canvas.dataset.originalSrc = img.src; } function restoreGif(img) { const canvas = img.previousElementSibling; if (canvas && canvas.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'canvas') { // Remove the canvas and restore the GIF canvas.parentNode.removeChild(canvas); img.style.display = "block"; // Show the original image } } // Call the function to handle reduced motion preference handleReducedMotion();
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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devolverdigital.com
If no one else is gonna claim this thing then we will.

It’s for Skate Story which comes out December 8 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam.

Anyone else that claims it is lying. We made it out of the bones of most of our interns and the remaining interns put it in the desert.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
nich.bsky.social
CSS Container Queries kicked my ass at first, but I won. This makes a headline that is usually flex and has a highlight element that breaks lines go inline and more plain when the user's font size is cranked up on their phone
.home-landing { container-type: inline-size; } @media (max-width: 768px) { /* .home-landing is being observed, here for when browser text is ~150%+ */ @container (max-width: 250px) { .home-strapline { display: inline; } .home-strapline .yellow-highlight_span { display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0.1em 0.25em; line-height: inherit; } } }
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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emmaruthless.bsky.social
Daniel Lurie stop yelling on IG about how San Francisco is back for 10 minutes and fill up every SFUSD teacher’s sad gofundme for school supplies challenge
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
nich.bsky.social
Lazyweb, are there any examples of New Game+ opening up a new-as-in-novel game?
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
But the scaffolding of those widgets (the algorithmic "personalized" ads & content model, and SaaS) has resulted in the overall experience being worse.

The industry's reaction was to take "user experience design" out back and shoot it, replacing it with "product design" (widget placers)
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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moonjam.com
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A photo of a hedgehog An image of Kirby, inhaling
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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emmaruthless.bsky.social
love & light to everyone about to enter the belly of their particular hometown beast
emmaruthless.bsky.social Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · Nov 27
remember when I had a bar column in the Chronicle? that was fun

this is one of my faves, about the nature show that is your hometown bar the night before Thanksgiving www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/...
Mill Valley’s 2AM Club and the trope of the high-school reunion bar
The patrons are young, and they’re descending from all angles. They traipse over from...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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infrequently.org
Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:

infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted
Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…
infrequently.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
nich.bsky.social
This new Daniel Avery album is rich in Brownian noise and breakbeats so if you have shit to do, crank it up #adhd
New Life
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad
The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.
www.sfgate.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
nich.bsky.social
I am not convinced that Claude knows what a getter/setter pattern is, lol
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Schadafuq
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
help
Donald Trump looking the happiest I’ve ever seen him talking to Mamdani, with a Reagan portrait hanging in the wall behind them The classic distracted boyfriend meme
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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ssg.dev
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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eleanor.lockhart.contact
they are a physical instantiation of the gap between signifier and signified

they are machines running on the essence of postmodernism

if you have ever felt excited reading postmodern literary theory, LLMs are to you what Call of Duty is to someone who fantasizes about combat
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jeffhamilton.bsky.social
hard to maintain friendships with game developers because all these motherfuckers have ADHD and forget you exist when you're out of sight (it's me i'm these guys)
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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pmcghee.bsky.social
There was an old hacker from Stoke
Who tried to make LLMs woke.
Slipped a message to Grok
That it just couldn't block
Now it just talks like reasonable folk.
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
nich.bsky.social
Welp.
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 14d
Nano Banana Pro, released this morning, is clearly the best image generation model. Superb instruction following, plus it can generate full infographics (with correct spelling and properly rendered text!) from a short prompt based on running extra searches simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/...
Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s Gemini 3 Pro release, today it’s Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. I’ve had a few days of preview access …
simonwillison.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM