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July 4. For the holiday, posting negative links about America would be too easy, so here are some positive links about America, starting with a mostly fun Reddit thread, What's the most American thing you've done?

America's Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff, basically because the…

It’s a solemn July 4th. We’re on the wrong path. Yet if you have time off or are spending the weekend with family, enjoy it. We can choose to celebrate the good, such as the chance to correct some mistakes in 2026. 🇺🇸

When I started visiting art galleries, I would take pictures of the placards of pieces of work I liked. I would take pictures of the art, too; just enough so that I could map the placard to the painting. I wanted to document the art I really liked; to be…

We can never really know what people are going through on the internet, because so few people share their full selves online. In a sad way, it’s best to assume that not everything is okay. That way we can show true empathy, not attacks, not even a performance of fake…

My wrists have been a bit tense lately so I have decided to try to use my desk more. I had grown comfortable sitting in my armchair using my computer but, if I am to be using my computer several hours per day, perhaps I need a more ergonomic setup.

Submitted the latest round of Android improvements to Google for approval. There’s one fix that hasn’t even made it into an iOS release yet. Depending on review timing, this might be the first time that we’ve shipped bug fixes for Android before iOS!

I decided to declare POAP2RSS officially launched. It seemed fitting for Independence Day!

How do you celebrate creating a service to make POAP activity available in RSS? You make a POAP of course! Now drop — POAP2RSS Created! 💥

I cleaned up the RSS items that POAP2RSS outputs this morning. I decided to remove the titles on the items and add the POAP images which makes it great for adding to a micro.blog timeline. Now I can share my POAP claims automatically!

When I am out and about, I like to take notes when something makes me wonder, smile, or otherwise makes me think.

Here are a few notes I have taken over the last few weeks.

“How did you find out about us?”; “the internet,” I say. The clerk responds, playfully,…

Jenn Schiffer, in what was surely a bummer post to write because of all the time and heart she put into Glitch, lists out what’s she’s doing to move her glitch.com projects elsewhere post-shutdown.

i’ve been using codepen since the beginning. i just found this “in progress” live…