There are only two queer flags in the official standard for emojis: 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️. The Unicode Consortium has made it clear that it doesn't intend to add any more… But when has a committee ever stopped us queers from enjoying our flags? 😉 What if instead of resorting to heart emojis in the colours from a flag (like 💛🤍💜🖤), you could just say you're 🏳⚨ nonbinary or 🏳∞❤ polyamorous with…
I love Honker , I just wish they simply published prebuilt extensions to download, rather than requiring rust to build it from source… So here's a quick solution: github actions spinning up runners that build the library for all platforms on each release.
If you liked the post The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code by Ally Piechowski , you might also like this interactive Marimo notebook that puts all those commands together and adds some nice charts.
A policy that I've written for Pronouns.page in consultation with the Collective. I am following the same values and guidelines in my open source work outside of that project as well. A post on the pronouns.page blog
let's make rating systems meaningful again!
Last night we were inches away from the Eurovision Song Contest dying a tragic death… I was privileged to be able to fulfil my long time dream and be in the live audience for this amazing event that unites dozen of countries on a continent that used to be torn by constant wars. It was an extraordinary experience, by far the best couple of shows I've ever attended. And yet, coming back home from it…
As a software developer I can't help but look at all the issues plaguing social media and think that surely they can be fixed with code somehow – we just need a cool distributed protocol or something, right? But the thing is, no amount of techy magic is going to help here, because the problems are not technical – they're policy issues. Try to think of a big issue with social media that can't be…
i took this picture exactly 12 years ago, early in the morning, at lake garda in italy. it's a very special photo for me – it marks a day i now consider the first day of my new life ☺️ as a teen i used to partake in language courses in padova, italy. they were organized by an order of catholic monks whose main mission is to… pray for more priests. i'm really grateful to have had this experience. i…
Illustration generated with ChatGPT-4o A big chunk of my free time in the last week has been consumed by work on restoring a bunch of my projects after my hosting provider, OVH , completely removed my server and backups. Here's what happened. TL;DR This post ended up longer than I was hoping for, so if you don't wanna read the whole thing, here's an executive summary: OVH has made me start a new…
There's a song that stole my heart and has been living in my head rent-free for the last few weeks. Before hearing it, the thought “enbies should pick their anthem” had never really occurred to me – but now I can't think of a better contender to that title than “The Code” by Nemo. Nemo is a 24 year old nonbinary rapper, singer and musician who will be representing Switzerland in the Eurovision…
A post on the pronouns.page blog
Wpis na blogu zaimki.pl
A post on the pronouns.page blog
Wpis na blogu zaimki.pl
Wpis na blogu zaimki.pl
unsplash.com/photos/bmJAXAz6ads Nobody likes ads, obviously. But what came as a painful surprise for me is that they don't just annoy people who see them – but also those who try to monetise their projects. It's not just a matter of putting a few tags on your page and waiting for a big fat wire transfer. The process is exhausting and I feel the need to rant about it, as well as maybe warn people…
ULIDs are my favourite identifiers to use in projects, they're soooo cool! There used to be a website that would generate, validate and decode ULIDs right in the browser, but the domain expired and whoever was running it abandoned the project. So I decided to recreate it and keep it alive!
A post on the pronouns.page blog
minimalistic IP country lookup
what are the core values in your life? here's an exercise that can help you discover them!
a minimalistic, privacy-friendly library for browser fingerprinting in nodejs
a minimalistic translator library
a minimalistic library for inline markdown: 9 features – 10 lines of code – 0 dependencies