It's live! I've been working on the "Refugium Starter Kit," a guide to help you change stress & anxiety about <gestures at the world> into a protective or restorative project making things just a little better.

A refugium is a protected place that supports life, even if the area around might be inhospitable. We certainly need whatever unique refugium is right for YOU to make.

31-page PDF; pay what you like (including free)

https://ko-fi.com/s/20c4cb871b

#solarpunk #refugiumSK

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A 3D render of a book. "Refugium Starter Kit: making a difference one project at a time. Michael J. Coffey"

If you read this you are gay

How much do you want to know about a book before you read it (or what makes you interested)? Welcome to boost for more reach. #books #bookstodon

Shhhhh...I'm supposed to be doing chores right now. Shhhhhh. Guess what? I'm not.

Choose your doom:
A) Trampled to death by duck-sized horses
B) Pecked to death by horse-sized duck

My backpack has a rainbow pin with the Finnish phrase "Olen turvallinen," meaning "I'm safe," given to me by my daughter. I wanted to reflect that online too, so I added "a11y" and "ally" in my profile along with the rainbow emoji. 🌈

Peace, safety, kindness, and diversity are things I truly value. ✌️

I die every time someone says that "e.g." comes from "example given" and "i.e." from "in essence" and fail to state that these come from Latin and not English.

I mean that's a great way to remember it but please do not touch my fav Latin abbreviations. You can take "exempli gratia" and "id est" from my cold, dead hands, if only because I like the way they sound.

(It's perfectly fine to introduce someone to "example given" and "in essence" though, cause that's a nice way to remember it. But smh it's not English.)

Eclipse Collections features JDK-compatible List, Set and Map implementations with superior memory efficiency, rich API and many utility classes. It also features additional data types such as bags, bimaps and multimaps.
What's best: Its API docs are now on APIdia:
https://apidia.net/mvn/org.eclipse.collections

#java #javadoc

Reminder that the England flag (flag of St George) is also commonly known as the Butcher's Apron because of it's association with crimes against humanity (specifically, massacres).
https://mastodon.online/@iinavpov/115157051548383085

"Why do all these migrants have expensive mobile phones?!?!?"
A blog post from a decade ago which is, tragically, still relevant today.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/09/migrants-and-mobiles/

Listening to American YouTubers who do technical stuff (electronics, engineering,...) are truly painful and confusing. They constantly switch between imperial and metric. For example wire gauge is in AWG, but the polyimide tape is always in millimeters. The measurements and files/rasps are in imperial (e.g., 1/32nd or the other one), but 3D printing is in mm.

We are officially 201 years after British Weights and Measures Act of 1824. Maybe it is time all of us switch to #metric!

Took some time off & was subsequently inundated with slightly stressful & unexpected stuff on my return, so that's me telt. Pffft.

On the plus side
1. we went to the seaside which is a Good Thing &
2. I remembered it was Friday which is, frankly, a miracle.

As ever, have a good weekend, if you possibly can

#sillyScribbles #FridaySparklyDancers #nonsense

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If other jobs had the same hiring process as programming roles:

"For this sous chef role, we will only accept applicants familiar with modern cooking methods such as microwave ovens and freeze-dried Maggi powders".

#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Have you ever based a character on yourself? If not, would you?

Nope. I probably did when learning how to write in my teens, but figured out ages ago that I'm an incredibly boring monomaniac shut-in who's utterly uninteresting to read about. Maybe the odd anecdote slipped out over the years, but in general I try to base my characters on observation.

It's amazing to be my full self around others and to be loved. ❤️

صبح همگی بخیر

Artist : #Twisted_Sister
Title : Don't Let Me Down

#GMPL
#Thursday

https://youtu.be/fEffE4VTeMI?si=gdoOOTEfWJ6uZxlc

It's kinda sad watching people on BlueSky worry that their engagement is low. Yeah, it's a smaller scientific community compared to Twitter, but so what? Chasing likes is exhausting. You should post unhinged shit to the Internet for the love of the game!

Me circa 1988 in the kitchen of my future mother-in-law. North Chili, Rochester, New York. She was a hard working immigrant with strong opinions but not unkind. #ThrowbackThursday

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Two Caucasian women in a kitchen with apricot colored walls dark cabinets and counters and frilly curtains. The older woman in the background has dark short hair and wears a navy & white polka dot dress and it always cleaning something. The younger woman (me) is leaning against the counter with her chin resting in her hand near a store-bought birthday cake (Hub's?) with chocolate frosting and yellow decoration. She's looking bored because she was never allowed to help as a "Guest" and is wearing unattractive loose pink and peach pastel clothes, with a short 80s haircut for her auburn hair.

There are so many cool performance tricks for JavaFX that I sometimes think I should write a book about it. But that takes a huge amount of time. I'll think a bit more about how to deal with this.
#java #javafx

Writing your own ebook and document reader is really nice when you're in college, because it lets you read all your textbooks and documents exactly how you want.
Writing your own ebook and document reader is also really awful when you're in college, because finding a bug will send you down the coding rabithole for 15 minutes during a lecture and now oops, you're not sure what we're doing.

Now I'm pleased to announce this single-user instance is hosted by me.
pros: I'm in charge of everything ☺️
cons: I'm in charge of everything 😓

- Best regards, Nadiyar