Matt ✅ @quirst@toot.cafe
UI & UX Designer / Developer / HighlySatisfiedBadger
RT @cassiecodes@twitter.com
I made a ridiculous @codepen. But I love it. Blobby background using SVG masks, filters and CSS animation. No JS 🤘https://codepen.io/cassie-codes/pen/zWJxXj
Morning all. Nearly the weekend (=
Hello again, been a while but I figured maybe I should see what's up here...
Finished!! Measures about 10 inches diam on 12 inch square 200gsm paper, gold ink and 3D Liquid Pearl drops. Took about 8 hours.
Right then - who wants to take this off my hands for $100 USD including worlwide postage? ^.^
"I’ve long held that the web experience can be just as performant and polished as native. It’s only for a lack of time and ambition that it isn’t." -
https://popmotion.io/blog/20170710-mobile-web-is-awful-and-were-all-to-blame/
Interesting article on how / what is needed to tackle climate change:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/23/15028480/roadmap-paris-climate-goals
Social cooling is a really frightening concept: https://www.socialcooling.com/
Hi, 📢
what's about the idea to introduce a new tag
if someone is publishing his/her own work on mastodon?
The big main intention for this is to encourage the communication about art and to help each other with some tricks and a second view.
This should be constructive and helpful critique and no discussion about personal taste.
What is your oppinion? Critique is requested for this suggestion
#CritiqueRequested :)
@soapdog morning #coffee yesterday may have been in a paper cup but it was the best coffee I've had in years. https://toot.cafe/media/YL8aDWjUFNzFh7pzSGw
Our internet is dead this morning, boooo. But it means I'm picking up with this and adding detail, yaaay! #mastoart
Scary stuff from the UK's PM:
tl:dr - they want to dramatically increases government control of the internet.
@james given your involvement in #infosec you might find this article interesting:
https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/
Panic software employee's machine got hacked by the malware-infected Handbrake that appeared a few months ago.
I found it an interesting take both on the company and personal reactions to the hack. All credit to them for being so transparent I think.
Just bought https://learnnode.com/ I've found his courses to be pretty good in the past and there is a discount on it at the moment.
💾 Applescript is used in #phishing campaigns to present legitimate looking system dialog boxes. Great #infosec read. 🤓
https://duo.com/blog/the-macos-phishing-easy-button-applescript-dangers
If none of you read this when it was published:
"The information war is real, and we're losing it"
It's a really interesting article, worth having a look at.
WordPress 4.7.4 #vulnerability #0day disclosed. CVE-2017-8295 allows manipulation of the password reset feature.
https://exploitbox.io/vuln/WordPress-Exploit-4-7-Unauth-Password-Reset-0day-CVE-2017-8295.html
https://mastodon.jamesmwright.com/media/U_0dJOYhJ8R3FC3YCiQ
"What is interesting [about Mastodon] is that the sense of early 90s cyberoptimism has started to reappear. It is possible to do things again, to change things, to build things that will make a difference."
Great piece by @sargoth: https://medium.com/@sargoth/mastodon-pineapples-social-media-and-other-unanswered-questions-c5127c7c9aa0
Pretty sure I saw this link on here but it's so good it deserves another bump:
http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm
- in which the author (Maciej Cegłowski) holds forth on social media, advertising, politics etc
confused by internet? HERE IS YOUR GUIDE TO INTERNET SLANG!
lol - look out! lions!
brb - bees are beautiful
afk - afraid for kangaroos
kek - german for 'biscuit' (ie: "top kek" = I just had a nice biscuit.)
now you can internet without being afraid!
Checkout the latest episode of Des Vs. Dev with Paul Lewis asking the question "Are Designers Born or Made?" https://youtu.be/xxfb-S9nDsQ