Dan Sinker/notes

Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.

my some grave miscalculation this blow-off week is like the busiest fucking thing ever for me

posted at 4:45PM on November 25, 2024

Deprioritizing links in favor of keeping people locked in a platform like some kind of shitty casino with no windows is one of the biggest sins of the major social sites (and even Google search results now). Being able to link directly to information unencumbered is more crucial than ever.

posted at 9:06AM on November 25, 2024

How in the fuck is it nearly the end of November

posted at 7:50AM on November 24, 2024

Was at the library today. They are just the best spaces: free and open to everyone, no questions or judgement. No wonder the fascists hate them.

posted at 10:29PM on November 23, 2024

Here for the abject humiliation of Manchester City.

posted at 1:27PM on November 23, 2024

Anyone have one-page RPGs they really like?

posted at 10:08AM on November 23, 2024

Quietly judging people who refer to it as X. Maybe not so quietly.

posted at 7:13AM on November 23, 2024

The nine-year-old just brought a lice fact sheet home from school so gonna burn the house down now bye

posted at 7:38PM on November 22, 2024

a whole day of breaking and building and ultimately fixing. at this point wouldn't mind adding "napping" in.

posted at 3:01PM on November 22, 2024

just an infinite loop of building and breaking today.

posted at 12:35PM on November 22, 2024

It's genuinely stunning just how much the post-Twitter landscape has changed in the last two weeks. Y'all it was a long, lonely time in the wilderness. So glad to see so many of you again.

posted at 9:20PM on November 21, 2024

still laughing about Matt Gaetz tbh

posted at 6:47PM on November 21, 2024

lol emdash.fan might be the most robust thing I've ever built. the last time I touched the file was over five years ago. It just gives you your emdash, no fuss, no problem. Bulletproof.

posted at 4:55PM on November 21, 2024

had an annual appointment I made like six months ago that was supposed to happen just now and it got silently cancelled at some point by the health system and I am excited for all this to get so much worse soon.

posted at 4:42PM on November 21, 2024

it is slush hell across chicago now

posted at 3:38PM on November 21, 2024

I am very good at coding myself into corners.

posted at 2:52PM on November 21, 2024

Well, JD clearly nailed his one job yesterday.

posted at 12:09PM on November 21, 2024

Current status.

posted at 9:20AM on November 21, 2024

Hear ye, hear ye... Insomnia Club is called to order.

posted at 2:13AM on November 21, 2024

Let's get back to when the message was Republicans were creepy weirdos who wanted to look at your junk before you used the bathroom.

posted at 9:31PM on November 20, 2024

You can follow all my notes on Mastodon or Bluesky.