Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.
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Likes Draw all roads in a city at once by .
Render every road in a city, customize colors, and export as PNG or SVG. Fun little tool.
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Likes Typewriter interview with Liana Finck by .
I love this interview format! Good kid book recommendations, too.
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Likes Dumb Pipe.
This looks useful, bookmarking for future use.
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A vision for community-hosted Web 2.0 utilities.
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Likes Draw a Fish – Interactive Fish Drawing Game by .
This is fun! Go draw a fish.
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Likes P&B: Marisabel Munoz – Manu.
Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series reached 100 interviews. Congrats! Excellent series.
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Likes The freedom to fuck off (2025) by .
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Likes Weeknotes 34.
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Likes A note by .
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Likes P&B: Alex Sirac – Manu.
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Likes AT Toolbox.
Easy way to include atproto calls in your Apple Shortcuts. I’ll get some use out of this! h/t Eric Davis
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Good info for new owners of old Shopsmith machines. This would have been useful for me six years ago when I got started with my machine.
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Good, very open post about turning Medium around.
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ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing @Iconfactory and I’m not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.
This makes me sad, and we are going to see a lot more of it in the next couple years. Times are tough in tech and tech-adjacent work. Layoffs everywhere, small businesses losing revenue at a rapid pace. Would be wise to have a couple backup plans (and I don’t have one yet…)
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Fun account posting screenshots from the early days of the web. Reminds me a lot of the Internet Atlas book I found a couple years ago at the used bookstore.
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New Yorkers are lucky to have at least 40 species of fireflies sharing the state with them. You may know that fireflies are not flies, but rather beetles in the family Lampyridae. Most, but not all of them, flash to communicate. There are three different groups of flashing fireflies that can commonly be seen in New York in the Photuris, Photinus, and Pyractomena genera.
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of fireflies! In retrospect, I’m not surprised, I guess I just haven’t thought about it before.
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Likes Were we wrong? by .
Manton says, “I don’t delete posts. They are a snapshot of how I was thinking about a topic. Sometimes the world moves on and the old posts are no longer relevant. Sometimes the world moves closer and the old posts are gold.”
I completely agree.