seedyh @seedyh@social.cleverlibre.org

Given its latitude, from ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile you can see the core of the #MilkyWay passing directly overhead. In this pic I took a few years ago you can see its faint glow reflected off the dome of one of our 8 m telescopes.

My neck wasn't happy when framing this shot, though, as my camera doesn't have a flip screen! 😅

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

So, CEOs...

#Capitalism #AI #work

"Myers-Briggs is basically astrology for people with LinkedIn profiles."

The ability to be honest with yourself is a super power. Many people fail to grow because they’d rather lie to themselves than acknowledge the truth.

It must have been Christmas 1980 when I received and built the original Lego Galaxy Explorer. It was, and still is, most cherished toy as you can see by the fact that I still have it with me here in Japan, fully assembled, at age 52.

This Christmas I bought myself the re-release version and look forward to building it with my daughters over the New Year. #lego #christmas

Official holiday greeting of #Mastodon:

Wow this is fascinating and counterintuitive: people don't just prefer sloppily wrapped presents, but they prefer what's inside the package "significantly" more when it is sloppily wrapped. What a COOL experiment https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-gift-wrapping-explains-why-sloppy-is-better-128506

When your father is a network engineer 😂

#retrocomputing

For the record, no, dishwashing liquid cannot be used in place of dishwasher detergent.

My oldest just brought in his Arduino and breadboard and said, "Look what I made! Press the button!"

I press it and it started playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the piezo speaker.

I stumbled upon this truly fascinating video that explains that steering a bicycle doesn't work like most of us thinks it does -- yet we seem to do it intuitively anyway.

https://laughingsquid.com/physics-of-bicycle-turns/

One of the few cases where a video is actually the perfect form of information delivery.

Immigrants aren't polluting the blood of our country. You're thinking of microplastics.

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue
2019: React hooks invented to fix React
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites

(by @fireship_dev on Birdsite)

The data of your customers that you don't collect and store cannot be stolen from your systems.

Donald Trump’s excuse for quoting Mein Kampf is “I never read ‘Mein Kampf.’”

I don’t know that “I came cup with the same ideas and language as Hitler did all on my own” is really the strong defense he thinks it is.

@hbuchel Reminds me of this XKCD cartoon: