Instead of fireworks, Rockport, Massachusetts hosts a massive bonfire on Back Beach. As the blaze grows to staggering proportions, fire hoses douse it to maintain some semblance of control. This year, the fire became a monster raging against the fire hose. It looked like this for several minutes — pretty surreal.
Thank you to Florian Dahlitz for getting me over the hump on configuring a Python app in a container as a non-root user. My python app container now creates files in the volume mapped to my local drive as my local user rather than as root.
Great post calling out the growing apathy around government corruption.
I was cruising around this lovely personal website — another pixel artist — and was curious what tool she uses to create her art. It’s https://www.piskelapp.com/ — a fun and free web-based alternative to Aseprite that can save files in browser storage.
Neocities provides a free website builder in the spirit of Geocities.
I found that at pomelo.lol, which also led me to Aseprite.
How to Survive the Broligarchy by journalist Carole Cadwalladr succinctly captures a lot of what I’ve been thinking about since January.
Speak n Spell implemented in JavaScript — Bonus points if you can get it to say “butcher”.
I thoroughly enjoyed this BBC article on the medlar tree and its fruit’s curious past. This was a discovery from Pocket, which I found out today is unfortunately shutting down.
Webrings are one of the best ways to surf the web. I will eventually get around to adding this site to the IndieWeb Webring. Check out a random site from the webring. There’s also a large webring of personal websites.