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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 10/10/2026

Also AutoCAD github.com/storytold/ca... but that's only as funny as the first 7, imo. ⸺ though I find fascinating the choice of repo descriptions being "an … AutoCAD-style app" vs "…reimplementation of Adobe …" & "…reimplementation of Microsoft…" [for Word & PP; "spreadsheet (MS Excel-style)"]

github.com

GitHub - storytold/cadcraft: CADCraft: computer-aided design and drafting — an open-source, clean-room AutoCAD-style app in pure Rust

CADCraft: computer-aided design and drafting — an open-source, clean-room AutoCAD-style app in pure Rust - storytold/cadcraft

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 10/10/2026

It is doubly funny & bold that they have now also done core trio of Microsoft Office: ‣ Word: github.com/storytold/wo... ‣ Excel: github.com/storytold/gr... ‣ PowerPoint: github.com/storytold/de... & are hosting/distributing all of this on/from GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft C&D? DMCA? TBD

github.com

GitHub - storytold/wordcraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust - storytold/wordcraft

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 08/10/2026

Another repeat experience, is that it’s allergic to identifying a group related to (its weights are ignorant of?) the atmosphere/AT proto

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 08/10/2026

I mean the feature/model has _a lot_ of weird, dubious stochastic decision points [re: re-naming groups to what, splitting into (even same name) subgroups, ungrouping all, …] & is overall a pretty bad UX, But I’ve noticed this contradictory-feeling over/under AI focus multiple independent times

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 08/10/2026

It's an interesting quirk of the #Safari27 "Organize Tabs > Automatically Create Topics" that: • if I try to curate a group of eclectic non-"AI"-centric tech projects, that's spuriously "AI tools", but • when I try to make a group w/ all the blog posts that _are_ about LLMs&labs that's "AI & Tech"

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 01/10/2026

Oui, ça semble correct d'après la vue web de bsky Ja, es scheint gut in der Webansicht von bsky Ja, het lijkt goed in bsky's webweergave … Да, это хорошо выглядит в веб-виде bsky (J'ai l'impression qu'avoir l'anglais affaiblit la blague, si c'est aussi la vraisemblance)

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 30/09/2026

@adamhjk.me and here y’all thought you got out of the SI game

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 26/09/2026

I’d made below diagram before I realized it wasn’t actually as squat an aspect as I’d written down as SDAM+aphant I’m not quite sure it was ever smoler than pix vs just noted mismeasured I may’ve spent…unto dog walk time hyperfocused on pixelsnap.com & trying to “sneakily” re-resize once as 13:6

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 26/09/2026

I'm _pretty_ sure I saw #macos27(.2)'s iPhone Mirroring let me resize Safari to a remarkably stubby 13:6 ↔ 650×297½ px but trying to screenshot ↕️-resize snaps (↳ to 16:9 ▭ or ↰) to 5:3 portrait (e.g. 512×305) which /still/ isn't a  aspect, but outer-Duo-y [1.45:1, ~IMAX] (e.g. simulator: 407×280]

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 24/09/2026

Was flying airships into the arctic the AI of the 1920s?

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 23/09/2026

Or indeed like learning about WW2 but seemingly never hearing/reading a word about the Spanish Civil War until some podcasts in your late 20s

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 16/09/2026

Sincere question: do you not consider “traditional” LLMs to be a black box? (And if no, did you? Until? high level, how did you change that?)

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 07/09/2026

Some of it pivoted to swamp.club

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 04/09/2026

43,136th! ( … “created_at": "2008-12-29T13:28:14Z", … )

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 02/09/2026

[off-topicly, mostly; I've also been using mac-exclusive @aeronautapp.com more often lately ]

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 02/09/2026

yeah I end up using a weird mix of iPhonized-official, anilineapps.com/indigo.html, and web on my iPad (Also/arguably-mostly usetapestry.com, but the above for >Following) someday tapbots.com/phoenix/ will exist (I also used to use graysky.app, I don't really remember why exactly I stopped)

anilineapps.com

Indigo — Aniline Applications

Indigo is a beautiful third-party client for Bluesky and Mastodon that brings the two social networks together into a single timeline. For iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Paul Hudson @twostraws.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pro tip for folks working with Apple documentation: add ".md" to the end of a URL to get it as Markdown – much lighter to load, and also friendlier for agents. Example: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 28/08/2026

Might be time to learn helix (… if one in fact needs a modal cli editor these days)

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 27/08/2026

So like, decreeing Gulf of Mexico→America was stupid jingoism, but it's 1:1 on country [suffix:U.S. of…/Estados Unidos…] Lake "Ontario→America" (also) bothers me b/c of mismatch in scope of reference (cf Lake York, Lake Empire?) + how, yk, Wyandot:"ontarí'io" ↔ EN:"[beautiful] lake" centuries pre🇨🇦

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 26/08/2026

Now on YouTube, running Imagination Library fundraiser www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...

youtube.com

Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 25/08/2026

It might also become free to watch sooner rather than later

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 25/08/2026

Her various obits will cover this ground well enough, but if, like me, your 🧠's cooked such that you mesh better with 55m of internet video than longform prose (& already have nebula, or willing to pay $6 for 1mo) This is a solid look at Dolly's uncommon goodness nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis...

nebula.tv

Lindsay Ellis — Yes, Dolly Was Actually That Great

Was her saint status earned, or just good PR?

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 19/08/2026

So, @dansinker.com, my hard-won advice—if not irrelevant w/ camper or Janice’s family?—is (“commit to the bit” or, presuming IL calls) ~cut your losses (new car or fly home) sooner rather than later For me, expenses stacked nough w/ short-term housing for “2-4 wks” 𝄇 waits that…my situation changed

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 19/08/2026

notably I had lived in Boulder pre-COVID [5/18-7/20], but in 10/22 was on a ~3 week roadtrip, & didn't intend to be in Denver >2-3 dys (& a Red Rocks show) & did [after subletting Q1 23 through car], sign real lease in 8/23 fly out to MA & return w/ more of my stuff [e.g. furniture] in Penske truck

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 19/08/2026

oh man, that happened to me (hit a deer on I-80 mid-IA Oct '22; car's contents → self-storage in Denver; when car late fixed [late Jan '23], went back to get stuff: got a flat/bent rim, then shortly after fixed #2, car totaled while parked&empty, St Patricks Day '23) left CO Sept '25, miss it :(

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 18/08/2026

🧐Is @stepmaniax.com antifa?🤔 www.monstercat.com/release/7427...

StepManiaX cabinet displaying the pre-song screen for “Bella Ciao (SMX Mix)”, credited to BEAUZ & XYSM ;

lights from other arcade machines reflect in the mostly black screen to (viewer’s) right;

I inserted screenshot of the SMX iOS app info page for the song at left to cover my unflattering sweaty reflection on screen, though you can still see most of my head neck, chest, Second Sky t-shirt and part of my picture-taking phone in a reflection on the shiny plastic covering speaker grill

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 16/08/2026

a DJ was a sort of priestly class that transmuted Taste and Autism into Money and Status through a ritual known as a Rave

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 14/08/2026

… … … who the fuck is even that, Nigel?!

BBC screenshot:

19:42 BREAKING

Farage says he has won by-election
'convincingly'

Nigel Farage tells GB News that he has won the Clacton by-election "fairly convincingly".
Speaking at a party put on for Refo UK volunteers in Clacton, Farage says: "I have managed to beat the establishment candidate.

• As a reminder, votes are still being counted and a final result is expected in the coming hours.

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 07/08/2026

if I can engage in some death of the author fanfic, 🧐in the HPU: • does the UK magi slur derive from MJ term? (was beast films 20s USA “no-maj” prior to coining? Idk if m-word appears, haven’t seen ‘em) ←> • did a hip Brit wiz smoke up in NOLA & exclaim oops-aloud “these muggles are pretty keen!”?

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 07/08/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=A9pJ... song.link/i/1475524560 “Um, Actually”s: (video &) WP say song was recorded in 1928, citing p. 59 of “All of Me : The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong”, 2006, ISBN 978-0810857308 It was an A side a couple pressings, 1st & mostly B www.discogs.com/search?q=mug...

youtube.com

Muggles

YouTube video by Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars - Topic

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 07/08/2026

TIL “muggle(s)“ was jazz age word for joints/weed, popularized as the title of a 1929 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra B-side (re-pressed in UK 1946+8) & I am trying to process idea JKR [boo] either was ∧ wasn‘t aware of this sense in 90s 🤨 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muggle www.oed.com/dictionary/m...

Screenshot crop of body of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muggle#Etymology_1

showing the weed meaning, continuing on to sub sense 1.1 of Etmology 2 referencing the Harry Potter version.

I’d transcribe but I suspect a screen reader can do better with the actual page

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 06/08/2026

For want of adequately ⌄ such a thing I put together the first bit of a Three.js version of this in December 2023: codepen.io/dbgmode/deta...

codepen.io

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL NOW

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 06/08/2026

For want of adequately ⌃ such a thing I put together the first bit of a Three.js version of this in December 2023: codepen.io/dbgmode/deta...

codepen.io

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL NOW

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

for coding, 'production' is running code in the right place; for mathematics it's the increased knowledge understood, propagated and taught in the community. AI curation isn't here yet; humans accepting and consuming useful AI outputs needs well-resourced humans!

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 01/08/2026

(Or indeed IF they could be significantly incentivized to do pursue reform now to continue legally selling such services that is hard to imagine w/ 1. It would require more meaningful acknowledgment of past corporate crimes 2. Chinese (open weight) panic [+e.g. claiming distillation as IP theft 🙄 ]

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 01/08/2026

i.e. consider what would have been lost or gained if, hypothetically, the significant lobbying & legal resources of OpenAI, Meta, Google, et. had been turned to the reform of IP laws _before_ the development, or at least the public release and heavy marketing of their mass market GPT products 🤔

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 01/08/2026

2. However flawed & in need of reform IP law may be, its probably still meaningfully “bad” (ethically, socially, jurisprudentially, etc.) for the foundations of a (potentially) soon-to-be-transformative+ubiquitous technology to be rooted in [an act of] gross contempt for Rule of (that or ~any) Law.

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 01/08/2026

Cara and Katie ~covered the power-dynamic retort here, but I will offer 2 adjacent points: 1. Unlike piracy, the use of works in training/inference potentially robs those works of attribution/authorship (“conceptual ownership”), as well as traffic/compensation/publishing control (“ownership”)

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 28/07/2026

What if everything was Quibi?

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 23/07/2026

I’m having like ≥3 related crises (of finding motivation). There’s the ~craft thing, there’s this: bsky.app/profile/dbgm... & then there’s just a weird sense of a priori ennui, like …doing/making things has been cheapened as an act. Some’s vanity (“no one will be impressed”) but it’s not just that

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 21/07/2026

you could run Zen Twilight (the rolling release channel) , zen-browser.app/download/?tw... , it‘s default icon is blue and it says Twilight instead of Zen

zen-browser.app

Download - Zen

Download Zen for your platform and experience a more mindful internet browsing experience.

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 17/07/2026

I got my second perfect, five-alarm [all spicy] #SMUSH in a row (this one was <5 min, 8 words; but yesterday’s higher scoring, 12 words 876) So, surprisingly, that streak was at least briefly sustainable.

Results image from hankgreen.com/smush for July 17, 2026 reflecting 830 points and PERFECT 💯 • 5-day streak

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 14/07/2026

… What happened (or will have happened rrl quickly) to the sixth republic is left as an exercise to the reader

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 14/07/2026

I wonder how Andorrans are feeling

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 14/07/2026

Stotm the Hôtel Matignon, form the 7th republic in the names of Mbappé & International Non-Binary People's Day

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 10/07/2026

But conversely I was wrong and I did #SMUSH better hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 10 368 pts · ★★ pangram first · no hints · 2-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🟩🟩🟨 (missed all-spicy by 1 cause didn’t take gyno and I didn’t have enough o’s left for gynecology )

Results modal from July 10 2026 SMUSH showing a score of 368
8 bonuses:

🆒 Words: 6 smushed = +291
🧠 Unassisted — no hints = +25
🤖 Beat the Robot = +5
😋 Beat Today's Average Score! = +5
📈 Top 30% today = +10
🏋️ Heavy Lifter — finished in only 6 words = +25
🏃 Under 4 Minutes = +5
🔥2-day streak

, 2 cheivos:
🌶️ Heat Seeker — spice five words running
🥇Top Score — a new personal best

And time of 4 minute and 20 seconds

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Dawn ⌥-Guy @dbgmo.de · 10/07/2026

It was in fact unsustainable (& so close, so far; was under 90s) 4x3.fun July 10, 2026 152 points • No mistakes 🌟🟨🟨 🌟🟪🟪 🌟🟦🟦 🌟🟩🟩 (And I /saw/ the purple first, thought “if this was Wyna it’d be purple, but for Hank it feels blue…” )

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