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Writing alt text descriptions is good practice for writers.

Think about it. You reader can’t see what you’re describing. So you need to capture what conveys the meaning you want to get across. It’s the exact same skill, and will help you understand aspects of the descriptive process like choosing what to focus on.

If you’re a writer who wants practice, describe your own pictures, or follow the #Alt4Me and #Alt4You tags and write descriptions for those who can’t or won’t.

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A bit of a rambly one this time ahaha

hey remember years ago when i was gonna sell prints of my demoscene art?

I *finally* did the thing, with the artworks lovingly re-rendered in extreme resolution perfect for print!

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/lunasorcery/

very foone-ass dialog box

I just turned this into a presentation remote that'll work with Google Sheets and (hopefully, I haven't actually checked yet) Microsoft PowerPoint 4.3 for Windows 3.11

The "stop doing 𝑋" meme template works way better when 𝑋 is a good thing that should be done, but has some weird baggage that the meme pokes fun at. For example, math is good, but is sometimes a bit absurd in its conventions and notations, such that STOP DOING MATH can poke fun at those bits of nonsense, while still delivering the punchline that only a crank could truly object to any doing of math whatsoever.

Okay, you asked, and now there's a hand near the mouse to meet the one on the nearby socket as well. Thank you all for the suggestions so far. (already on Nodezator's dev branch as well). #Python #nodeeditor

you don't need notarization to ship mac versions on steam, and you don't need to pay apple any fees for this, why do people keep spreading this shit

oh, uh, cargo doesn't have protection against "SIGINT while downloading a crate file"? that's surprising — atomic renames are easy on *nix

it doesn't even clear the corrupted download (or tell you where it is! it's somewhere in `~/.cargo/registry/cache`)

the debugging manifesto poster I've been talking about is finally available for sale! You can get it here for $20: https://store.wizardzines.com/products/poster-debugging-manifesto

In case you never noticed, the LEGO bonsai tree buds are in fact… smiling sitting pink frogs! <3

Just a reminder that LLMs have never provided actual answers to any question asked of them or any actual prompt set forth.

They have, however, provided answer-shaped responses, and we as humans are seriously lacking when it comes to telling one from the other.

Folks, a banana-shaped piece of wood is not edible, and I am embarrassed for our species that you cannot tell the difference.

‪i don't want everyone to go back to old computers, i do want everyone to be able to have a computer that empowers them for creative ends, that gets out of their way, and that is as good at running 30-year-old creative tools as it is at running whatever the hot new thing is‬

‪functionally though the difference is that i don't have a win9x computer. i have a 2017 macbook with a modern linux install and frequently use it to run old windows software in wine with a win9x theme. there's a difference,‬

i'm not a retrocomputing person, i'm a modern computing person with respect for the past and an affection for certain old things, but mostly a belief that certain principles must not die

@hikari this has a bunch of corollaries that I like
One of them is that when we write software now, we should ideally write software that is likely to run well on HLE rather than only LLE. They way, if the machine we used to run the software originally goes away, it will be much easier to make a good enough emulator that runs fast rather than one that is slow. This way we won't require the replacement machine to be much faster than the original machine.