will.stedden @bonkerfield@fosstodon.org

Making #apps that respect privacy is important, but if we want everyone from our kids to grandparents to use them, there needs to be a stellar user experience.

Not only does it need to be on-par with "the other" websites that everyone uses, the UX actually needs to be better.

Respect for the user's needs and desires is paramount to gain widespread adoption.

Here's to all the #dev folks that create easy to use, #opensource #software that respects #privacy.

@bonkerfield All tacos are good tacos. They are doing their best!

Shared a milestone on IndieHackers: Plausible Analytics now has more than 100 paying customers! May has been pretty crazy so far with 3 people on average per day deciding to de-Google-ify their sites and become Plausible.io paying customers 😲

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/plausible-insights/plausible-now-has-more-than-100-paying-customers--M76mJ6pnRWhH9fq5yMJ

click here to be reminded when that you clicked here long after you've forgotten about it

Quick reminder that Maslow's hierarchy of needs is based on his mid-twentieth century U.S. middle class man values
@brucel@twitter.com wrote about how it might not apply to asian, arabic, native american cultures https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/maslows-hierarchy-of-me-me-me/
@mrjoe@twitter.com also wrote this nice one https://mrjoe.uk/maslows-hierarchy-needs-psychology-myth-busting-1/

Sophie Marschner turns real-world data into a digital topography in Monolith
Generative visuals and eerie sound design based on height maps of glaciers, canyons and estuaries.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=bGFeerZ3bqk

https://www.sophiemarschner.com/

I'm watching a Murder She Wrote episode where Jessica Fletcher is gonna learn how to computer!!

Oh. My. God.

They want her to endorse their new space game so they can maybe sell another 50,000 units??

ALSO they're installing a computer at her desk and I'm like -- what's the scammmmm??

I don't know anything about 1993 keyloggers or whatever.

Blue is a bot. A BOT. WHAT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf

"The 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work."

mv my-notes-from-the-meeting{.txt,.md} # Use brace expansion to easily rename a file, in this case, changing the type from plain txt to markdown so you get the syntax highlighting autodetected.

Really liked this data-focused report about how to reduce your personal carbon footprint. (Haven't fact-checked it myself, but it feels consistent with other things I've read.) https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-and-lifestyle-report

#ClimateChange #carbon #lifestyle #data #FoundersPledge

With delight I announce that the #delightful project has its first delightful list.

The first entry of - hopefully - many to come is 'Databases' and was started by @yarmo

The repository README is updated, and a bunch of sub-pages with proper explanation were added, so please check it out :)

#foss #openscience #freecontent --> #freedom

https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful

Now, let's collect those gems 💎

“Influencers are producing free content for a commercial platform that is making money off them. The platform is extracting the value of their labor”

I wish more influencers understood this and built a platform they own alongside their social profiles.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kz5yx/tiktok-gen-z-influencer-labor

Keep a notebook where you write down your ideas, inspirations and wishes. Keep reading your old notes and improve upon them.

If something stays on the list for long enough, start working on it: you probably have given it enough thought now and it clearly seems worth it.

If we can't go to the pub, then I shall bring the pub to you. Join me at the top of the hour (8pm Central, 6pm Pacific) for new and classic Celtic folk, and maybe you bring along a pint of something you like.

I'll be coming to you live from O'Morain's Pub! See you in about 30!

http://tanglewoodhill.ddns.net:2600/twhradio/omorains.html