Today is @craigmaloney 's birthday. I've been looking at it in my calendar all week, with fondness and sadness. He would have been 53. He fought cancer for over two years before this lap around the sun was truncated on April 2. He was a huge part of my life while he was here. He has continued to be so through the ways he helped me, the friends and relationships I made and kept through him, and the experiences I would otherwise have missed if he had not introduced me to various concepts, groups, and spaces. He supported me in all I did.

I wanted to put something out into the world to honor him on his birthday. Craig encouraged everyone he knew to create and put things out into the world. Nothing was considered too insignificant to matter, everything counted. "The world" didn't have to mean at large, creating something for yourself in your personal world was more than enough. I am relearning how to knit, and today I knitted a new lace pattern in purple yarn. It doesn't look quite right, but it doesn't matter. I created it.

Today, I encourage you to do the same. Whether you knew Craig or not, create something and share it with someone. If you don't feel that you have anyone to share it with, share it with me. If someone shares something they created with you, give them support. Add something positive to the world. Create, share, and support.

Published on my blog.

Sim City 2000 Big Box (MS-DOS 3.5" floppy version) [1993]

Sentinel 65X prototype boards have been in people's hands for a while now, and I'm wondering if anyone has completed theirs yet.

#Sentinel65x

#AusPol #VicPol #CFMEU #sexism #hypocrisy #Labor #ALP #Albanese

After the Albanese led Labor government and capitalist news media used allegations of sexism to justify ousting the CFMEU leadership, the person they appointed to run it, Grahame McCulloch, has been forced to resign after making a string of sexist and sexual comments towards female union staff. McCulloch, a so-called leftist had previously blocked the NTEU from supporting BDS when he was their National Secretary.

archival link:
The Australian: Why CFMEU Victorian administrator Grahame McCulloch abruptly resigned

Been really enjoying learning #Inkscape over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.

Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.

It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.

#FOSS for the win!

If you have any misconceived idea about Australians having a right to peacefully protest, or that anti terrorism laws are for your protection, have another think.
#DisruptLandForces #naarm #WagePeace
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-6-15-september-2024

This is the Medley Interlisp environment cosplaying as the Blit terminal. Medley now takes command line options for setting the foreground and background colors, an idea by @kirtai.

Cc @robpike

#interlisp #lisp

never forget september 11th 1973, in Chile when Salvador Allende’s democratically elected socialist government was overthrown in a US backed coup, replacing him with the neoliberal dictator Pinochet

The economy isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended: funneling wealth upwards while the rest of us drown in debt and ill conceived Linkin Park reunions.

#AusPol #VicPol #DisruptLandForces #Naarm #Melbourne #PoliceViolence #ACAB
Preface: fuck the age, archival link so as to not give them traffic

A police officer shot a protest photographer at the Disrupt Land Forces rally in Naarm (Melbourne) with a rubber bullet which resulted in him losing part of his ear and perforating an eardrum.

The Age: Protest photographer loses part of ear after being shot by rubber bullet

#AusPol #VicPol #FreePalestine #FreeWestPapua #DisruptLandForces #protestPhotography #GreenLeft

Photos from the Disrupt Land Forces anti-war protest in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/photos-some-images-disrupt-land-forces

Has anyone made an audiocassette data storage card for #RC2014?

I just think it’d be neat to use as the reader/punch serial device in CP/M.

DEQ, the way the DEC/Compag merger should have gone.

if you really think about it, having opinions and not having opinions are the same thing. this is why I hold every possible opinion at once, including and not including this one

I need an illustrator who can execute an idea I have involving Tux the penguin and the BSD daemon mascot. The illustration will be used as a logo on web pages and also on branding items like stickers and coffee mugs. This is a paid commission, please respond with rates and a portfolio link via Mastodon, LinkedIn, or email (hrpomeranz@gmail.com).

Before the reply people jump in, I specifically do not want to use generative AI or sites like UpWork. Both are extremely exploitive. I prefer to deal directly with human artists.

Santos works as a grape packer in Bakersfield CA. Freshly picked grapes have just been brought out to him for packing. Temperatures this week are supposed to be in the upper 90s and feels hotter under the vines. #WeFeedYou

Anniversary time! 🥂🎉

Exactly one year ago we published our Development Fund, which has since helped propell our project forward.

https://fund.godotengine.org

Big thank you to all who believe in the future of free, open-source projects like our game engine here.

#godot #godotengine #gamedev #foss