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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

oh it's the oriel extension, huh!

Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

see this is why i hate responsive design! this can't work well dynamically on a screen that's not 4:3 without extreme effort it just does not work at all on portrait or 16:9 without reflowing the layout, which means the layout has to be automatic, which means you can't manually author it anymore

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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That Linux Dude Dominic Hayes @ferenosdev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@ciblesgd.tv Given you're still using KDE Plasma iirc, thought you'd like to know my online buddy WackyIdeas (the AeroThemePlasma guy) made a KWin Effect that optionally adds The Roaring Knight's trails effect to the cursor. github.com/WackyIdeas/k... Also own plush but haven't taken it out yet. 🔥

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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

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Good Virtual Reality @goodvirtualreality.com · 12/07/2026

We can learn important things about VR headset use by looking at laptops, glasses, and cameras. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/lessons-in...

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Lessons In Loving VR Headsets From Glasses, Laptops, & Cameras

The core benefit of a VR headset is the ability to transport anywhere with total focus.

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760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a494 @760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

ok this is so cool. this LED manufacturer designed maybe the coolest demo brochure possible for their COB LEDs, its a ringed binder where each of the pages is a PCB that you plug in and can control via touch to toggle which strips are on 🤯 #electronics

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I think this may have just solved a big issue with spatial UX I'd been having, that being how do you identify things without reading a ton of text? this generator has enough variation to make each one have a unique identity that isn't homogenous or otherwise semantically attached!!!!!

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Stardust XR @stardustxr.org · 10/06/2026

we're still alive!!! been working on the design style with gsplats (nebula design) and porting the whole thing to binder so programs can talk to each other :)

stylized black hole with an alpha hashed core, and swirling smooth red gas around it

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Just like last year, we replaced a whole wall of movie posters with our own punny movie posters at the cinema where RustWeek 2026 took place. I designed seven new posters for this year's event. See the thread below 👇

Nine movie posters displayed next to each other.

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Frooxius @frooxius.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is what it feels like to be in Resonite. I commissioned this art piece years ago from @tigerknight.com and it's still one of my favorites. It captures the wonder and exploration in VR.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/

Remote attestation explained with wojaks.
A bunch of normies' computers/phones are sending a cryptographic proof that their hardware+software is FAANG-approved and signed.

So the cloud service returns the content they're asking for.

A fourth wojak is unable to provide such cryptographic proof (because he runs non-FAANG-approved local software), and gets denied access

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 03/05/2026

Incidentally this is a great adage for both politics *and* UX!

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worm-blossom @worm-blossom.org · 01/05/2026

Introducing bab-hash.org. A cute little website about a family of hashing functions designed for partial data verification in peer-to-peer systems. You can learn what it does, how to use the Rust implementation, and read its specification (with interactive diagrams, ofc).

A screenshot of a portion of bab-hash.org. There is a download window saying “Connection lost. Progress verified and saved”. In two adjacent panels, we see someone annoyed that their phone has lost connection, and a self-satisfied figure who doesn’t mind that the connection was lost at all.

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The Floppy Guy 🌈💾 @floppyguy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

happy friday, my floppy friends #floppydisk

Picture of translucent 3.5" floppy disks, manipulated to look all glowy

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've noticed that people always care more about a tangible thing than abstract, I don't think it's being dumb or anything but just a thing to account for in design

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serenity @sylfr.dev · 29/04/2026

If you want to be a better engineer, you need to take estrogen. Every 10x dev I know is on E. The mass Rust migration? E. Your favorite open source maintainer? On E. The girl using NixOS on a ThinkPad from 2012 who rewrote your entire infra in a weekend? On E. Stay competitive or get left behind.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Did some math to analyze object motion localized within specific areas. Accounts for angular velocity as well as linear velocity. This is gonna be useful for many things in the game. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

@koizumitv.bsky.social i was the person asking about your avatar on stream yesterday!! thanks for your help, and here's a pic of it, modded heavily (importing into vrchat is gonna take time tho)

it me!! curvy anime enby 3D model wearing a crop top, sports bra, and dolphin shorts with cool blue/green highlights

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Servo @servo.org · 13/04/2026

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀 This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version servo.org/blog/2026/04...

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crates.io: Rust Package Registry

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Skyweaver @skyweaver.nekoweb.org · 10/04/2026

machinehood is a spectrum

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 10/04/2026

something that's been bugging me the whole way through the llm psychosis news arc is the realization that most people can hear "you're right" and not immediately think "but what if i am not"; that adversarial metacognition is not only atypical, but foreign enough to register as innovation

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Whether AI security vectors are hypothetical or just hype, New threats require familiar solutions. Secure your code with Project SugarGlass™

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404 Media @404media.co · 09/04/2026

There are ways to turn off notifications from Signal, or at least making it so the message content isn't visible in your notifications. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read the story by @josephcox.bsky.social now: www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Proud to have had a hand in making this happen. Adding visibility to what is supported in middleware helps move the standard forward and give much needed clarity to developers.

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KDE @kde.org · 06/04/2026

The classic Oxygen theme back is (halfway) back on Plasma Tastefully colorful icons, shadows, transparencies and shiny buttons are all part of the spectacular reimagined themes Air and Oxygen being painstakingly reconstructed from scratch by the designers. filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/h...

A detailed, definitely not flat, compass icon.

Three Oxygen widgets, from left to right and top to bottom: A folder showing previews of SVG images, an analog clock, the calendar widget

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 04/04/2026

Oh my god.

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bambi🌹 @radiovomit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I had to draw this cause it makes me very weepy 💖 #sailormoon #artemisii #fanart

Artemis from Sailor Moon sitting on a table as he wears an earpiece saying "Heard you loud and clear, scouts!". He is referencing the plushie that is seen in the Houston Mission Control Center during the takeoff and journey of the Artemis II spacecraft.

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Bob Pony @bobpony.com · 01/04/2026

Just got the new Windows 11 April 2026 Update installed, wth is this Microslop?! 🤮

A Windows 11 desktop screenshot showing there's a lot of Copilot apps installed.

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

1 year ago i invented this whole thing, and gaussian splats totally took off in that time!!! i've so gotta get back on the horse and explore this more... been so busy with the tech side but i wanna make the art/design side amazing too!!!

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 31/03/2026

In gamedev the adage goes, "When the players tell you something is wrong with your game, they are almost always right. When they tell you how to fix it, they are almost always wrong."

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 26/03/2026

We must not let this spread. Rustaceans, time to post some crabs 🦀 🦀 🦀

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

delighted that data visualization has gotten easy enough to produce that people are basically starting to communicate in qualia

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Dumb Doe @itsnoogs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Frutiger Gyro

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Dr. 18 @mariopinball.land · 21/03/2026

This is Microsoft's plan to fix Windows 11:

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 20/03/2026

this is stockholm syndrome.

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Coopertom @coopertom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Yep! I sure did!

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Jono Barel @jonobarel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I absolutely agree. The desire to shove a touchscreen into everything (I love TNG but I think it's partly its fault) is an absolute fucking sin and a real crime. vt.tiktok.com/ZSu9YBJL7/

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HotBloodedHeroine @hotbloodedheroine.petplay.fi · 15/03/2026

stardustxr onion ring 👍

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James GHOULizio 👻 @theswweet.myatproto.social · 14/03/2026

A distilled love of technology in the purest sense. Every computer kid has been there.

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mob @palmonds.dev · 06/03/2026

mobOS trailer - Fake OS & Internet Exploration Game #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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Bazzite @bazzite.gg · 07/03/2026

Hello from the Open Gaming Collective at SCaLE!

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Nova🐧✨ @technobaboo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

everyone talks about the dopamine addiction (which i don't think is a real problem) but nobody talks about how the computer interfaces utterly wreck your brain due to context switching and the near total erosion of object permanence

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface.

Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces.

Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done!

But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.

The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.

screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s

Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version.

Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made

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