JamesGecko @jamesgecko@toot.cafe
Writes software with Ruby and Angular | Dogs are very good | Proverbs 30:28 | https://jamesgecko.com
Free copy of For Honor until June 18th.
Note that this is a “Starter” edition, which means the requirements for unlocking additional characters are like twenty times more grindy than they are in the normal game. But... free!
https://free.ubisoft.com/promotions/for_honor/26/
#freegames
Fortified, a 3rd person co-op tower defense shooter, is free on Steam through June 8 at 11am PDT.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/334210/Fortified/
#freegames
This gem's description is just right https://github.com/jhawthorn/discard 💯
It has been a bad week for encrypted messaging and it’s only Wednesday
PGP and S/MIME email and Signal and Telegram desktop messages all have risks.
We have reached Peak Mobile Web Design.
Everyone wants more nuanced takes but who is willing to do all the nuancing
it's not rocket science
just get out there and nuance a take
nuance it without a second thought
nuance that take with lethal force
there's no need for vague, complicated thinking on this
You're either with the nuancers or you're against them
Serious vulnerability incoming. If you use PGP and email please read this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
TIL Alan Turing didn’t just make foundational contributions to computer science; he also did some pretty big stuff in chemistry.
quad getting retweets on my behalf 
New Firefox Color theme. Based on the old GTK Clearlooks colors. Show more
"All these updated privacy policies that providers are sending out make for an excellent opportunity to delete a bunch of accounts I don't use anymore." - @seanl
Beware the treacherous media structure pretending to be your friend. But when you see rotting meat, don't blame the maggots.
See Alphabet Inc and YouTube - possibly the worst of all.
Warning: Government bodies and political parties are beginning to latch onto the term #opensource
The door to Mastodon
We need to abstractify the notion of a sandwich. In a hyperwich, we have the equivalent of the bread part of the sandwich and the equivalent of the filling of a sandwich. What should we call them?
My contribution to #drawabirdday #dabday :D a #yellowhammer! This is als a former #weeklybird, yay ^^ (from t.me/weeklybird :D )
#art #mastoart #digitalart
in 2021 the speed of meme-meta overtakes the rate of meme creation itself; image macros arrive in the browser already self-referential, appearing as cryptic jpeg artifacts zooming in on themselves like a mandelbrot set visualization, embedded captions describing the very pixels that they are formed from
RT @garybernhardt@twitter:
Destroy All Software turned seven recently. Let's celebrate! All screencasts are free for the next week! No account required. Also, we now have annual and team subscriptions! Also, annual subscriptions are heavily discounted this week! (link: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/sale)
Why is there not a reality TV-style show about assassins dating their targets called, “Tall, Mark, and Handsome?”
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An acquaintance approached me with a laptop and said, “Hey, you’re a programmer. Maybe you can help me with this...”
I inwardly groaned. But then it was AN ACTUAL PROGRAMMING QUESTION! That never happens!
I will take inquiries about DOM manipulation over “how do I get my photos on my phone?” any day.
a perspective on technological advancments in music