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laurence.gonsalv.es

I like old computers, making things, science, math, and science fiction. Currently making something new at @Nipht.io. Helped create Google Reader. @[email protected] on the fediverse. Formerly @laurence on the birdsite. IDIC 🖖

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In recent years I've seen people online use "weary" in place of "wary" so many times. I feel like it's becoming more common than the "their/there/they're" mixup. weary: feeling or showing tiredness wary: feeling or showing caution Mnemonic: it's "beWARE", not "beWEAR".

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

One feature of @nipht.io's browser extension I really like is that you can save a set of tabs all at once. It's handy for when you get to that state where you've got a dozen tabs open on some subject you were researching, but don't have time to deal with them "now".

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The "you probably don't know about" part here is killing me. The last version of Windows that I used regularly, required that you press Ctrl+Alt+Del just to log on. This was supposedly a security measure, to make it harder for someone to create a password harvester.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Does anyone know the original source of this image? It's usually described as a 1970s or '80s vision of what a PDA or smartphone would look like, but the book it came from is never named. It resembles the style of some Usborne books (and the spelling of "colour" suggests that it isn't American).

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

My friend Tim Russ is very funny. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZR...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I enjoyed this post about pipelining in programming languages. It doesn't mention Kotlin at all, but the way Kotlin's extension functions and lambda syntax support pipelining is probably one of its most underrated features. herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipe...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Tired of manually moving bookmarks from your browser to Niphtio? Now you can import directly from Chrome (and Chromium browsers)! 🤯Save time, effort, and more easily organize all your links in one place. Give it a try today! #Niphtio #Chrome #BookmarkImport #TechTips

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Weird but interesting sculpture (?) at SJC.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It looks like if you block enough of your recent followers (my guess is the last "page" worth), then the UI doesn't display your list of followers.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Oof. Sold out as I was checking out.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

There are -17 hard problems in computer science...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this mural in a restaurant the other day. To drink is human, but to eat salad is divine?

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

It always cracks me up when a site uses a spinner (the up/down arrows) on their security code input. To get to a random 6-digit code is going to take a lot longer (on average) than the 30-second timeout.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Not my home, but I know my way around.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a terrible UI from Nextdoor. Dark pattern, or incompetence? I'm not sure. Does this mean one is unsubscribed from all of their emails, or subscribed to all of their emails? How is one meant to interpret the double-negative of "you will no longer receive the following" with an OFF switch?

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

The last couple of days I keep seeing "Chat" in Bluesky light up like I received a DM, but when I check, there are no new messages and it stops lighting up. A few hours later, it happens again. It's happening on both desktop and mobile. I'm wondering if it's bots DMing me and then getting deleted.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

🎉 Niphtio’s free browser extension just got better—you can now save Bluesky posts quickly and easily. This new feature is currently available in beta. Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-... Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Is there an easy way to create a task in Google tasks that won't show up until some point in the future? This is what I'd expect creating a task on Google calendar to do, but instead it creates the task immediately, but with a due date in the future.

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment