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Thomas Cannon

@thomascannon.me

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Web developer, musician, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd. Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer https://thomascannon.me https://little-crm.com https://practical.computer

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 3d

*Puts on the elderly grandpa hat*

Make sure you’re doing automatic backups and storing them offsite, such as on S3! Eat your veggies! Stay in School!

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 3d

And this is coming from someone who LOATHES PHP 😝

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 3d

An excellent choice IMO!

The modern ones, while cool from a technical perspective, require too much fuckery & tooling.

Phpbb is old & reliable, which is what you want as an independent operator where this isn’t your dayjob

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 3d

Happy to be bugged if you need a sounding board for tech stuff!

What’s the forum software you’re using?

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 3d

Yea

They "hey little man how's it going?" meme, but the baby is Crimson King's "21st Century Schizoid Man" on infinite repeat

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 4d

We are truly pushing the boundaries of human knowledge over here

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 4d

I Fucking Love Science

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 4d

I stand by my words

A text message where I said: “Dolly shouldn't need to know about Al”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Reposted by Thomas Cannon

Practical Computer @practical.computer · 5d

Put together some very quick thoughts from my 3-week deep dive into Lighthouse, Cumulative Layout Shift, and bundling.

blog.practical.computer/2025/10/08/q...

Practical Computer - Quick notes: Lies, Damn Lies, and Chrome's Lighthouse tab

blog.practical.computer

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Tuple @tuple.app · 5d

We did a limited alpha release of our new Linux client last month and are actively pushing towards a wider beta release. We learned a lot from our first stab which had a host of issues, but don't worry, we're back at it with purpose 🙂

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 5d

Yay!!!

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 5d

Are there any @tuple.app-grade alternatives that offer Linux support (or even *plan* to) aside from Hopp?

Tuple used to have a beta for Linux, but it silently got dropped and it doesn't appear to be on the roadmap anymore. 😭

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 6d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 6d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 7d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 6d

It’s not really commented on, but there is essentially no original culture in 2049. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. It’s not just a dying world, it’s a culturally dead world.

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 6d

One of the biggest reasons I find Blade Runner 2049 to be significantly better than the original is the way it hits the nail on the head here. It’s a portrait of our worst impulses in modern culture, taken to their natural conclusion.

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 6d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 6d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 9d

“I will have more to say when it’s not 1AM after a whole-day conference, but if there’s an XO Ruby event anywhere near you, or a reasonable drive away, you owe it to yourself to go." - Thomas Cannon on #XORubyAtlanta

So much love for XO Ruby! We'll have more for y'all to come to real soon ✨

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 7d

We should value textile artists more. As a society. Through expressions of monetary value. As far as products of human design and skill and labor go, textiles provide the most comfort per dollar per square centimeter.

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 7d

How much stock do you put into Cumulative Layout Shift? I’ve got a site that AFAICS is pretty damn stable, but Lighthouse has its CLS marked at ~0.3. Not to mention the oscillations it has on repeat runs

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 7d

Using base-16-practical-kasper in light mode

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 7d

curtis sliwa

jack nicholson as the joker in a fucked up beret (?) and flesh-colored makeup. it's disgusting. i might have said this exact joke before but i don't care. buy my album

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 7d

The Manchurian Candidate, but for hyperfocusing on my workbench

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 7d

The first pass at Practical Adaptive, a hybrid of Soda + Adaptive for Sublime

Soda Light/Dark

Adaptive Light/Dark

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 8d

There’s a reason that the reaction to @lollibeepop.bsky.social’s work here is: “yea”

Me, as Pepe Silvia, as drawn by Wren

Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 8d

The end game of attending @chaelcodes.bsky.social’s play with your code was always going to be writing my own hybrid of Sublime’s Adaptive + Soda themes, wasn’t it?