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Rory Gianni

@digitalwestie.bsky.social
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Freelancer. Building digital products for fun and profit 👨‍💻. Likes creative and civic tech. | rgianni.com

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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
crazy wikipedia page of the day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuya...
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Mitsuyasu Maeno - Wikipedia
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 24/09/2026
"It's the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine)" Some thoughts on the DHH keynote. Must be a weird vibe in that conference hall... #railsworld #rails olly.world/its-the-end-...
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It’s the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine) - Olly
Programming frameworks come and go. They usually get slowly mothballed as developers move on to something new, shiny, simpler, faster, or more interesting....
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On the one hand, we must roll with the times on the other hand... my god what a way to utterly shit spray on every speaker and attendee at #railsworld. Incredible stuff.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scouring bsky for #RailsWorld go-er reactions to the 37signals bomb but not really finding any? What gives? I want some drama.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SPACESHIPS ▸ 617 pts · wave 21 · 94 wrecked ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ NAVIGATOR III can you beat it? spaceships.treybastian.com
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SPACESHIPS
Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
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Trey Bastian @treybastian.com · 16/09/2026
SPACESHIPS ▸ 443 pts · wave 19 · 76 wrecked · #1 today ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ NAVIGATOR III can you beat it? spaceships.treybastian.com
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SPACESHIPS
Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There's a moose loose aboot the caboose
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First blog post in, well, years? rgianni.com/posts/a-doom...
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A Doom Ride-Along: Understanding 2.5D Rendering
Learning Doom-style 2.5D rendering by converting map coordinatess to screen pixels using Ruby, Spinel, and SDL.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
rendering (buggily) like its 1993
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just got some linkedin spam offering to grow brand awareness by editing wikipedia
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Andrew Klavan's Disgusted Reaction
ALT: Andrew Klavan's Disgusted Reaction
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Starting to see github repos could have been a single .sh file
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lol, turning the tables on automating workers: "Work happens around the clock; leadership doesn't scale with it. Decisions queue, seats sit unfilled, and your best people spend their days chasing status. Open Executive is the open, proactive AI executive team" sentelabs.ai#open-executive
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Massively distracted from my regular work. Giving @matz.bsky.social 's Spinel a go, and for first time ever writing Ruby and getting out a compiled binary! SDL library playing nicely providing native drawing and events.
Code screenshot that shows an event loop looking for mousedown events and draws colour to viewport based on coordinatesScreenshot of a drawing app
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 26/08/2026
as a boy i really hoped these puppies would feature more heavily in adult life than it seems like they're going to
A railroad handcar, which travels along rail lines powered by the mechanical action of folks pumping levers or whatever. idk I pulled up Wikipedia but I didn't read it
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🙋Do you have #opensource stewardship experience? If that's you, then I'd love to chat (15mins) ideally in next few days. I need to make recommendations on the direction of a large project soon and could do with some advice.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
and it's really difficult to rebel against eg being in a WhatsApp group with 3 other people who might pick up your kid after school, even if you loathe meta with an abiding passion. So it makes sense that people will protest physical infra - esp if it is extractive and ugly
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're into fashion/cinema/photography and in Stirling area, head over to the Macrobert Art Centre and check out my dad's exhibition. www.macrobertartscentre.org/shows/821027...
Screen shot from page describing the "Fabrizio Gianni :A life in Cinema and Fashion Photography" exhibition
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-... Yeah this was good, really good, and it makes sense to me, thickness you can feel. It's the film or the book of that thing you saw that you're still thinking about
experimental-history.com
I like 'em thick
OR: an apology to my English teachers
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Of late, I'm going "down the stack" trying to understand internals of stuff. Discovered @fabinou.bsky.social 's fabulous blog and book on Doom
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Intellectually I know this, but seeing it on a graph makes me wince www.ft.com/content/ec59...
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Anyone can generate now. That race is over and it was never worth winning. The discipline that remains—the one the machine cannot rent you and the dashboard cannot see—is in the deletion." notashelf.dev/posts/taste-...
notashelf.dev
Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Filling in a thing, and I've been asked my favourite software dev books or blogs. It's somewhat stopped me in my tracks, I'm not sure I have any.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ever-bigger? Car size at a crossroads - www.transportenvironment.org/share/ever-b...
transportenvironment.org
Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe
Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why do I see so many memes on Reddit with the Prime watermark on it? 🤔
PRIME logo in a meme
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As rough as that was it wasn't as bad as watching Scotland-Morocco
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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 22/06/2026
"Data centres don't use that much water So why did people think they do?" rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com/p/data-centr...
rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com
Data centres don't use that much water
So why did people think they do?
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
😱
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I hate to bring up refereeing, but this guy is confusing as hell #sco #mar
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
No way
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Parents: is YOUR child staying up late at night arguing about the costs of HS2?
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
wait, what counts as "social media" ?
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Changing my career to whatever would necessitate a Fiat tris
This is the Fiat TRIS, and it’s a three-wheeled EV that’s easily the cutest thing you’ll see this week
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Today I feel I am an ICE Agent"
Gianni infantino giving a press conference
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On the topic of enshittification, I am basically unable to transfer and pay a tradesman because he has a new monzo business account. My bank simply says "no, too risky", despite the poor sod working his socks off in my garden. Consequently, I need to fanny about with cash for next few days.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ "the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it"
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Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ha what delight. "CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
A person turning the crank of  "CrankGPT", a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Everything looks like this now 💀
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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 28/05/2026
What about a straight line that bends when the circles get closer and stretches when they get farther. It's surely not possible using pure CSS, right? Right!? 👀 css-tip.com/bending-line/ Probably my new favorite demo, powered by the modern features. CSS is awesome! 😍
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It's all going a bit Frank Herbert www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 22/05/2026
Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)
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Mozilla and Adafruit bring Web Serial workflows to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
Launching Web Serial in Firefox 151 The web is built by communities, but not all communities use the web the same way.  That philosophy shaped part of
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No Juve. Como in the champions league. Roma return. Magnificent. #seriea
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daniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 12/05/2026
it’s a big ask > think a little bit and don’t be a prick
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
With Mike Berners-Lee et al involved the nebriefing.org should provide a legit view on #climate situation. Can't make this viewing but coming up this week if you're in #Edinburgh www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-em...
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People’s Emergency Briefing Film Screening – Edinburgh
Join one of two screenings of the People’s Emergency Briefing film, followed by discussion exploring what action could look like locally.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Mind Enterprises tonight lads 🎵
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ugh, checking out someone's sideproject repo on gh with a couple of forks and a few stars. The only issue and pr are from two different founders basically shilling their startup.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Facing a deep internal battle not to become a total grump about how things are going
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Mira Missingtexture @fedi.argentumcation.zip · 06/05/2026
You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Does anyone want daily updates? Just let me use my software.
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Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
These are delightful! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp
Texico | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer in this new-style education program. Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming proc...
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