Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/08/2026Today I had the absolutely delightful experience of seeing the look on my kid’s face when they learned that “Indie Games” is not the name of a game studio 021
Reposted by Allie the IconAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...wired.comHackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for KidsSecurity researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets. 11732480
Reposted by Allie the IconMat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."pcgamer.comI've been playing games for 40 years, writing about them for 20, and I'm here to say parts of Roblox need to be legislated out of existenceThis platform is a disgrace, and regulators need to act. 7876284
Reposted by Allie the IconLena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein 413247695
Reposted by Allie the IconJohan Nohr @nohr.se · 26/02/2026Also, more games should have release parties. 2373
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 14/02/2026ios-countdown.winios-countdown.winFix the iOS KeyboardA countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer. 001
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026The time has finally come for me to spend a couple hours learning how to make my iTerm2 windows and tabs and panels look awesome and easier to find at a glance. Gonna generate some custom terminal backgrounds for each project folder 000
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026Just saw that Claude Code added the ability to explain a command it's asking to run with a risk assessment, which is a really great idea 020
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 21/12/2025I just suddenly figured out the Blue Prince / Blueprints pun 010
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/12/2025lol @steampowered.com's Wrapped-like thing misspelled Chronos, I wonder how many people have noticed 100
Reposted by Allie the IconBob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.orghacklore.orgStop Hacklore! 610159
Reposted by Allie the IconIan Scott @polpo.org · 19/11/2025It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...crowdsupply.comPicoIDEAn open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers 22541164
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 06/11/2025If you ever forget the order of the days of the week, simply use this handy mnemonic: So Maybe Tails Wants To Fuck Sonic 000
Reposted by Allie the IconFrenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 28/10/2025Immutable releases announced at GitHub Universe! Once tagged, releases can’t be changed. No more worrying about malicious actors swapping out assets or moving tags. Single-use version tags with signed attestations. This is the supply chain protection open source really needs 🔒 #GitHubUniverse 03118
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 26/10/2025My 10 year old just landed their first craft on Duna and I couldn't be more proud The lander had a rocket descent system inspired by Curiosity They didn't even use a transfer window calculator, they did it by eye based on looking at diagrams. That's more hardcore than I ever did it 010
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/10/2025I need someone to tell me if Season 2 of Fionna and Cake is anywhere near as mindblowingly fantastic as the first. Season 1 lives as a top 3 show ever in my mind, and I was actually bummed they announced a season 2 because it's just so *complete* I gotta know S2 is world class before I risk it 100
Reposted by Allie the IconPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff 1545181243
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/10/2025Back in 2002 I implemented an A* pathfinding algorithm in a custom Neverwinter Nights map to allow NPCs to walk between their homes and shops and anything else, along the roads. I was recreating the town of Hommlet from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil 010
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/10/2025Still thinking about the guy playing Warhammer at our local gameshop who, when my 4-year-old asked why they were fighting, turned his head to look at them with the enthusiasm of someone who had waited their entire life for someone to ask and said stoically “in the grimdark future there is only war“ 010
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 01/10/2025Tonight, for the first time, I played Kerbal Space Program multiplayer with my kid. I docked with the station they put in orbit! What a dream come true a decade in the making. 010
Reposted by Allie the IconGory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Why is it evil and a risk to credit card payment processors when it’s one adult woman making CNC kink videos but it’s a pop culture phenomenon when Khal Drogo rapes Daenerys after being sold to him by her brother? 36911
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 05/09/2025The latest @home-assistant.io update brought an amazing improvement to automation editing. By putting the node config in a separate frame, it's so much easier to edit parameters while still keeping view of the overall automation flow. Such a seemingly small change with massive usability impact! 000
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 27/08/2025This is your regularly-scheduled reminder to exercise your right to download archives from the services you use and archive them in your backups. Don't let a service shutting down (or legislation backsliding) cause you to lose years of data that belongs to you. 011
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 19/08/2025Every day I move closer to self-hosting every bit of digital architecture in my life. Today's project: Standing up Syncthing to replace Dropbox/iCloud/Google/One Drive. 000
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 18/08/2025Oh hell yes, I've been waiting for thisssssss Going to test it by creating a Base to track the 3D printing filament I own and have tried, with notes on performance etc 000
Reposted by Allie the IconHome Assistant @home-assistant.io · 11/08/2025‼️ ONLY 48 HOURS left before we show you why Z-Wave isn't dead 🌊 Join us on YouTube, August 13th @ 12:00PM Pacific / 3:00PM Eastern / 20:00 CEST, as we reveal the next device in the Connect series making waves. Click that ~Notify Me~ 🔔 so you don't miss it!youtube.comPRODUCT LAUNCH 🌊 Z-Wave is not deadHome Assistant 0192
Reposted by Allie the Icondavemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 11/08/2025[spends less than the price of a movie ticket on a video game] this better entertain me for the rest of my life or i will be so mad 191573350
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/08/2025Taking a break for tokens to refresh is the new taking a break for code to compile 100
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 04/08/2025I have come to really love MacOS, but I hate Finder with a fiery passion Tell me how to fix this, is there some third party option that makes it not the worst file management experience on the planet? 100
Reposted by Allie the IconFuture Infinitive ☸️ @lizthedeveloper.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Got dirt on the nerd 🫡? Use a throwaway email on protonmail for this, don’t use your work computer, band together, help each other. #tech #bigtech #whistleblowing #faang #maang #devs #ai #resources #soupformyfamily #computerscience #bootcamp #hack #infosec #engineering 041
Reposted by Allie the Iconryan @dotswap.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🔹🏳️⚧️ PERSEVERE 🏳️⚧️🔹 i adore and am inspired by my trans friends, peers and mutuals, forever and ever. i will defend you and your rights till the day i die. this piece is in honor of you. 182119774
Reposted by Allie the IconSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/06/2025did you consider all the labor practices that went into your hitler-killing gun. was the power source environmentally sustainable. did you say you were killing hitler for the holocaust without taking a correct position on the current state of israel 565232
Reposted by Allie the IconSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/06/2025if you were going back in time to murder hitler on here people would find a way to be mad that you didn't genuflect to them enough 965723
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 09/06/2025An interesting impact of the AI era for me has been a significant increase in how much I prioritize infrastructure-as-code solutions for all sorts of things. Today I wanted to make a specific route to an internal service accessible outside my network. Because my reverse proxy is Traefik [1/2] 100
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/06/2025So I've recently taken notice that both ChatGPT and Claude have a tendency to tell me variations of "you just [did an amazing thing] that most people never even dream of". This got me thinking about it and the answer is so obvious: clickbait titles [1/2] 100
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 03/06/2025I am desperate and seeking help from anyone out there. I am trying to launch ads for my small business, and the Google Ads system has repeatedly flagged 100% of my ads and assets for "circumventing systems" and "malicious website" which are obvious false positives. Today my account was suspended. 100
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 28/05/2025There has never been a piece of media or art that I have been as unable to describe as The Rehearsal I truly think it will be studied for centuries 100
Reposted by Allie the Iconactualham @robinderosa.net · 22/05/2025But I do appreciate being reminded that this is a double edged sword. Being soothed at all by my own refusal to use paper towels at home plays right into so many of the actual corporate and oligarchical systems that are killing the planet while I recycle my milk jugs. 111
Reposted by Allie the Iconactualham @robinderosa.net · 22/05/2025I saw a video by @lizthedeveloper.bsky.social questioning the ubiquitous take that AI is a climate nightmare. It moved me to research. I found this by @andymasley.bsky.social and appreciated the tone, clarity, detail: Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...open.substack.comUsing ChatGPT is not bad for the environmentAnd a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted 2124
Reposted by Allie the IconPaulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 23/05/2025Just released ESPHome 2025.5 includes the latest iteration of our voice assistant that can work fully local. All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing! 36112
Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 09/05/2025Let's play a fun game of "which color indicates the selected state?" Clicking anywhere on the control toggles it, so you can't just click on one side to be sure 100
Reposted by Allie the Iconbubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025this is exactly what i mean when i say “linkedin is a shitposting site where only a handful of the shitposters know that they’re shitposting.” 3739