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Sam Clemente

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Routines | Just. Weather. | The Digital Renaissance Founder & Social Web Builder/Creator He/They #ActuallyAutistic I’m just some rando on the internet with […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@countablenewt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Data minimization is out, data maximization is in

To create an account on my website I want to know your top 10 fears, the last 3 people you dated and why you broke up, and the color of your socks

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Variable width is out, monospace is back

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Spilled my Guinness on myself

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Alpha male this, beta male that

Fuck that I'm gonna be a gamma male

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

If not friend, then why friend-shaped

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Obligatory "I am my target audience for my humor and, if you find it funny too, even better"

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

It can be hard to dis-kern for the layperson, but typography is something that the leading designers are tracking

#typography #design #humor

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

My brain works mostly on word association, so it makes sense that a lot of my humor is in apropos media quotes/references

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

There are places in healthcare where APIs make sense, especially with integrations to things like Apple Health/Google Fit (or whatever they're calling it these days)

But for most things internal to the healthcare system, it's just a waste of bandwidth

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@countablenewt/115288308376419553

The thing about this is: so many other devs we work with are scared of the raw TCP/IP connections which means that sometimes we have to accommodate them by adding application overhead on top of everything and slowing us down

But […]

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

As a Philly fan living in Wisconsin I’m glad the Cubs broke the sweep because I would have never heard the end of it

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Why read from my TBR when I can buy more books?
#books #reading #bookstodon

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

So in order to grow the team, I’m thrilled to announce AltStore has received an investment of $6 million USD from @cpaik! Chris was an early investor in Patreon & Twitch, and we’ve been close ever since he sideloaded the manga reader Paperback with AltStore years ago

Additionally, Flipboard CEO […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

While this solves our problems, we are far from the only Fediverse project that could use some funding and we want to support the growth of the entire ecosystem.

So to give back to the open social web, we’re also donating $500,000 total to these incredible Fediverse-related projects 🎉 […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳

Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore.

We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check […]

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The existence of the bassoon and the contrabassoon suggests the existence of an instrument pitched one octave above the bassoon

Called the oon

If I went to school for musical instrument engineering like my dad wanted me to that would have been my legacy

#music #instruments

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

First time encountering Meta Ray Bans in the wild
#technology

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Isn’t it crazy how Bluesky keeps trying to be a decentralized platform but the platform won’t let it?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qy5pluw2bsuq2x6albsgkvx3/post/3m2ijz2w7vc2h

Sam Clemente (@samclemente.me)

Coming back here to remind everyone that this platform has composable moderation for exactly this reason

bsky.app

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

As someone who just checked into an Air Canada flight this morning: it’s there too, and it’s kinda nice

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/05/ios-26-wallet-app-new-boarding-pass-features-united-airlines-support

#apple #technology #iOS #iphone #news

Apple Wallet's new boarding passes in iOS 26 now supported by a major airline - 9to5Mac

At WWDC earlier this year, Apple unveiled three key upgrades for flight boarding passes in Apple Wallet. Now, shortly after...

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

[Minor gender identity crash out]

Isn’t concealable stigma great

When people assume they know everything about the person behind this account based solely on a cartoon profile picture and a single post

I will not change how I do gender just because of the assumptions of others

I don’t have […]

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@thekitmalone the same people who, not 18 months ago, were fighting against “same side–ism” partaking in the same thing that got us in this mess

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Almost three years in it still doesn’t REALLY feel like Bluesky is decentralized

#apps #socialmedia #socialweb #technology

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@jcrabapple hell hath no fury like a Republican being shown statistics

Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

This is good

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge

#socialweb #technology #socialmedia #foss