Joshua McVey @Joshuamcvey@qoto.org

Here are 10, independent, free games that you can download right now to play on Delta.
#iPhone #Emulator #Homebrew
https://www.imore.com/iphone/here-are-10-great-free-games-you-can-legally-play-on-delta-emulator-for-iphone

Hell yeah
https://thehill.com/business/4615452-ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements/

To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Retro Gamer magazine (a favorite of ours) we mined the depths of Cabel's basement to photograph a (highly unstable) tower of back issues to make a fun back cover.

Happy 20, Retro Gamer!!

(magazine pic from mark lentz, thx mark)

A fun part of putting together the 10 Years Ago This Month column is finding stories of serial entrepreneurs setting up their new thing and then going to LinkedIn to see what they're up to, only to discover they've memory holed all their unsuccessful projects so it's like "2004-2009: Did an actual successful thing" followed by a handful of advisory or board of director positions at start-ups other serial entrepreneur founders probably scrubbed from their own pages.

One of the big worries I had with Swift from the very start was how long it would take me to get back to building cross-platform apps and games if I adopted it.

Well, we're here, ten years later. Swift is robust, portable, and with C++ support easily handles Windows, the Windows App Platform, and now game dev through the magnificent work of @Migueldeicaza and SwiftGodot. I can build a game in Xcode and Godot that deploys to Windows, Linux and Android using Swift, and that's pretty f-ing cool

@futurebird "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." ― Stephen Jay Gould

I get to go visit the house my oldest son and his fiancé are buying today. I have to say that it’s an odd realization that my biological purpose for existing is now complete.

I used the `light-dark` function quite a lot in recent demos. It makes implementing dark mode so easy!

Drop this in your base styles:
```
:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
}
```
Then, any time you define a color, do it like this…. to assign the first color to light mode, and the second to the dark mode.
```
color: light-dark(#000, #fff);
background-color: light-dark(#fff, #999);
```
This will save you from writing lots of conditional code inside `prefers-color-scheme` media queries.

I've been writing serverside SQLite applications for several years now and I still picked things up from this article, which is extremely good. https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers

I link to this paragraph by Eva Parish at least once a week.

"One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it. "

https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit#repeat

my love language is manually deleting all the tracking bullshit from a link before i text it to you

I finished the book “Wool” by Hugh Howey today. This is the first of 3 books the TV show Silo is based on. It’s also the first fiction book I’ve read since the early 1990’s.

I’m already into the next book, Shift. I maintain my view that Hugh had some really problematic encounters with IT in his past.

I am really liking them. This is an instance where I think the story telling in the TV show is better than the book, IMO

So many ideas for #JukeboxFridayNight #CelebrateWomen!

Silversun Pickups - Alone on a Hill
https://songwhip.com/silversun-pickups/alone-on-a-hill

The first SSPU single with Nikki on sole lead vocals. I adore her.

Love this online recipe hack!
...

If you add “cooked.wiki/“ to beginning of ANY recipe url (before the https:/) it strips away everything but the recipe and organizes the ingredients and method into separate columns.

Also adds a dictation option too!

#cooking #recipe

Health checks and internal networks are now in place. It went smoothly!

This should ensure that if our system crashes **for any reason** it will automatically restore itself. Should give us better uptime in the future.

#QOTO
QT: https://qoto.org/@QOTO/111988351143316298

Me, abusing save states to find the one timeline where I can beat an SNK fighting game boss

One of my friends said, "Describe your life in another language, and you will realize how ridiculous it is." I didn't believe it until today. I'm kinda explaining what life looks like in China. It's pretty normal in Chinese words, but when you have to find those words to represent those Chinese only things, it becomes ridiculous.

For example, the house price. There is no land price in China since by law all lands are government properties and they lend the land to you because you buy a house. And the household registration thing, we called hukou (there is an entry on Wikipedia for this term), it basically limits the freedom of moving to a city. You must bond to a city/place before you can live. The bond requires government approval. Not mention the already scary thing, like during the covid19, the police will break into your house and force you to be isolated, not because you're affected but because they think you're suspicious.

That sentence might not always be correct. Sorry for my limited knowledge, but I assume if you live somewhere like Europe, then your life is not ridiculous at all. One's life won't become ridiculous just because they use different languages to describe. It sounds ridiculous because it's ridiculous. They just didn't notice that in their native/local language.

#QOTO is back after a long migration in the first stage of our upgrade. Now that we are on a new home we will give it 24 horus to see if the move was bug free (As it seems to be) and then we will start upgrading versions one at a time day by day.. The upgrades are prepared and ready and should be **much** quicker.

The move took a while as we keep a backlog of every message to the start of the fediverse so our media and DB stores are quite large and it took a long time. But we are back!!!