Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò wrote about why [we need to shame bigots, the importance of basic decency, and why you can’t entertain those with ideas that are incompatible with said basic decency and respect.

A little resource on how to make a website.

Choose a blogging platform based on your needs.

You should never trust a free email provider to not share your emails with advertisers and governments. Fortunately Cory has a helpful list of good email providers.

TheZZAZZGlitch got FreeDOS running inside an Emerald save file. That is really cool and impressive.

Cole Hastings talks about the declining literacy in the United States, the likely causes, and ways we can help improve it on both an individual and societal level.

As aside: The whole language model of learning to read is such a backwards idea for how English works. I know some schools are still using it despite how awful of a method it is. Maybe it would work in languages with less complex vocabulary and grammar. There is more to say on the subject, but that is for the future.

Go out there and read good books folks.

Creative Mindstorms built a 3D printer using Lego. Really cool project

Learn to play the ocarina with ‘Serious Ocarina Player’, covering everything from the basics, to advanced topics.

A list of ffmpeg tips and tricks to help you brush up on your ffmpeg scripting skills.

Brad talks about hosting source code on SourceHut and how its features compare to GitHub.

Basically SourceHut has most of what makes GitHub great, but costs money and doesn’t train AI on your code. SourceHut is also outside of U.S. jurisdiction so that is an advantage too.

Keven’s notes on how Generative AI is departmental to the development of the taste necessary to create art.