Toots for arjache@toot.cat account

Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-28 at 00:07

“every Jedi builds their own light saber” → yes, good, very wise

“every developer builds their own static site generator” → loud, knowing sigh

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-26 at 21:40

I like most sports and I’m definitely not a “lol sportsball” kind of person but unfortunately the one sport I’ve never really been able to get into is American football so I had to be reminded by the radio today that there’s some sort of championship game happening today leading into the Superbowl, which I also temporarily forgot was a thing

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-17 at 22:10

"it's follow friday!” what? no. saturday is follow friday. friday is follow thursday.

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-17 at 02:14

Damn. They're closing the original Burgermaster. https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/the-original-seattle-burgermaster-will-close-next-month/

[#]Seattle

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-16 at 22:42

@catandgirl you appear to have reposted the first comic by mistake? thought it might be a bit until I checked the alt text

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-16 at 19:19

I have a complicated relationship with David Lynch’s work, in that I am deeply allergic to his own works, but often very fond of the works he inspired. I am sad he will no longer be around to vex me so.

[#]DavidLynch

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-12 at 10:54

it’s 3am but unfortunately I have the zoomies

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-12 at 07:35

I accidentally input this name creating a new randomizer save, but in retrospect, I think it fits my mood and choice of sprite tonight.

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-02 at 01:52

Happy new year! Have you seen these images floating around online of animated pixel art? These are scenes from a calendar program from the 90s called Seize the Day, featuring art by Mark Ferrari. The scenes used palette cycling, a very efficient limited form of animation.

Did you know that there's a mobile port called Living Worlds that shows you the scene for the month? Each scene has a tiny story that progresses over the year, so now's the perfect time to check it out.

Enjoy it, and seize the day!

https://pixfabrik.com/livingworlds/

@LivingWorldsArt

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2025-01-01 at 05:06

TMNT live action movie marathon for new years y/n

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-12-23 at 01:14

@MichaelKlamerus Shareware Heroes touched on this. It sounded...complicated.

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-11-26 at 21:18

scary stories to tell your programmer friends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-11-02 at 03:48

I've spent this whole election feeling conflicted about donating to canvassing efforts, but today I made a donation I feel good about: Down Home North Carolina, a rural organizing group in North Carolina working to build multiracial, working-class power.

I'm not from NC, but I figured they could use some help after Helene, and these folks seem like they're looking out for their fellow neighbors.

https://downhomenc.org

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-10-19 at 23:34

I went to the trouble of getting a DOSBox set up with Windows 3.1 so I could enjoy Castle of the Winds as it was meant to be played, with Windows 3.1 window decorations. Now I'm wondering -- what other classic Windows 3.1 games should I install in this DOSBox? Recommendations welcomed.

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-10-18 at 00:34

Incredible. The Great Ace Attorney’s fourth case has you defending Natsume Sōseki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_S%C5%8Dseki

[#]aceattorney #TheGreatAceAttorney

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Written by Rachel Stantz on 2024-10-09 at 22:59

I was trying to figure out why a guinea was worth 21 shillings. It's an odd number (literally and figuratively!) even for predecimal currency because it only has two factors, 3 and 7. That doesn't seem all that useful, though I suppose there are additional factors if you're willing to subdivide shillings into pence.

It turns out that historically a guinea was 20 shillings, or a pound, which of course is a nice round number. But the guinea was a gold coin on the silver standard, and its value fluctuated until Britain accidentally moved to the gold standard in 1717, at which point it was fixed at 21 shillings.

How do you accidentally move to the gold standard? Apparently it's Sir Isaac Newton's fault, because in his side job as master of the mint, he fixed the price of the guinea too high with regards to silver. So I guess the real answer to my question is: Because Isaac Newton got the math wrong. Everyone makes mistakes now and then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin)

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