Official toot-space of the front-end specialist with a beard and glasses, living and working on Boonwurrung country. ♻️ Only boosting images with descriptions 🗑️ Auto-deleting old posts 🧠 Neurospicy 🔍 All views are my own, etc. Avatar alt: b&w self-portrait of Michael taking a photo in the mirror Hero alt: 5 photo composite sequence of Michael performing a switch backside pop shuv it on a skateboard. #NoBot #NoAI #NoIndex #NoBots #Skateboarding #IndieWeb #Blogging #FOSS #OldSkaters
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Last Notes npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…3d77 lineageOS? npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…nekg so we're just very rare pen pals? Ok but can we also send floppy disks with music with the mail? Cus I have a bunch left 👀 npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…crkt is doing a little remix situation for the 1 year anniversary of their album and this post is really to remind me to download the stems and mess around with them myself. I'm imagining somewhat of a companion piece to "justin bieber's baby 600% slower" from YouTube. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…nekg oh wow. So they knew lol. 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Just migrated from #Github and feeling lonely, wondering where all the other cool people are? Me too! So let me follow ya! Get that community aspect cracking. This is me: https://codeberg.org/miclgael Post your link if you like 👇 Edit: just to be clear you're definitely cool if you're on codeberg. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…cqgf @nprofile…fcj8 petition to rename all heavy/block fonts "chonk" fonts npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…t0hh now got my eyes on Streets of Rage 4. I loved the first one on Mega Drive as a kid! npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y70r omg the ultimate! `yeah-right-the-guy-in-the-4000-dollar-suit-is-holding-the-elevator-for-a-guy-who-doesnt-make-that-in-three-months.cmon` npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y70r omg.damn-it.cmon npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog This was a truly annoying amount of work, and long overdue, but I now have blog CATEGORIES. There's also a dedicated #RSS feed for each content type. So if you only want to follow my incredibly rare travel diary #photography entries ( there are two of these lol) and you hate everything else I write, well now you can isolate them. #Blogging #Blogs #IndieWeb #RSSfeed #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #WebDev npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…va3u @nprofile…6tqm Are you aware of this handy little thing in Extension Manager? https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/456/441/720/182/472/original/91ab0811fcb48dca.png npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) I feel that "#JavaScript is purely terrible and should be obliterated from the planet because modern #CSS is enough" crowd often miss the role it plays in dictating the weight of importance for new features that flow into native #HTML and #CSS. Its right there in chapter four of "HTML5 for Web Designers" (Jeremy Keith) Developers hack together a solution with #JS and eventually browser vendors go "oh snap, yeah, maybe we *could* just have CSS for popular thing" and out it comes. You can't have amazing CSS without browser vendors understanding what is important for developers. Its a lovely, beautiful feedback loop. #WebDev #HTML https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/363/725/112/387/244/original/32bdd2e6d3e3fb04.png npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) I'm an Australian politician. Ive got 25 properties, 15 are airbnbs, 5 are rentals I neglect so I can negative gear the hell out of everything, and 4 i am just technically landbanking cus I sorta forgot about 'em. The other one is my enormous mansion in Toorak. But the KEY problem with Australia is definitely immigrants. #AusPol #Australia #Politics #Sarcasm #HousingCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…d82u I'm enjoying Planify. It's Flatpak and syncs to Todoist on my phone. Would love to replace Todoist my phone, however 😅 npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) I just found this most excellent page on the internet. It lists a bunch of resources for fixing things yourself, and goes on to list a bunch of local repair cafes in Victoria. https://zerowastevictoria.org.au/resources/repair/ #Australia #Victoria #Melbourne #RepairReuseRecycle npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…gqp6 @nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…sxdw @nprofile…4fn8 Still seems iffy to me. Lol Don't get me wrong, I see some benefits here and there. Little morsels. The tinier and less significant the nugget of help is, the easier it is to trust. But as far as skills go, maybe it's just not provable to me. My outputs only get worse the more effort put into this particular skill. My effort goes up, the output goes down, my effort goes up somewhere else (verify verify verify, fix fix fix) Maybe the machine gods are A/B testing something and you're both getting resplendent A's and I'm getting B's. Maybe I could get wonderful A-like results by tweaking my prompt exactly like Jeff's - but - I'm not sure I can be bothered. Much like I couldn't with crypto, NFTs, VR, and what was that other thing again?? Unicycles? But maybe that's okay. 😆 Thanks for your time 🙏 npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…0nz2 yes! YES! Well said. 😆 Its like digital rewilding or something, (self-puke at this term) npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…gmzx Staying neutral is a political stance. ✌️ npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Small acts of rebellion to give you back a sense of control - Ride your bike - Shop local and independent - Use a website instead of an app - Find a more ethical brand of an everyday item - Repair something instead of replacing it - Buy direct from an artist whose work you love - Turn your phone off for 1 hour - Block ads with uBlock Origin and Firefox - Make an actual phone call to a loved one - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Add more 👇 npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t This photo - ugh Your tag of " life goals " is so real. I feel that one here. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t this is very familiar though. You go in with the reserve of 20 resource points (RP) and the ad leaves you with -800 RP, and you have to grind two more weeks to build it back up and hope the RNG gods are kind next time you attempt to play nice fun video. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…0dca thanks liberal party. Smh. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Internet culture peaked with Nintendo 64 kid. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t I've been watching too - I'm up to Ep 7 There's a couple gronks annoying me, but mostly agree, seems a good bunch! npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t this place looks incredible. also, love to see the norsca in the trolley! one of the only semi-ethical widely available deodorants ? npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…t5r6 @nprofile…f9nh yesterday i put my new noise cancelling headphones in ready to listen to music and popped the rain generator on and then all of a sudden it was like 4 hours later and i had been super productive because i was in total zen flow. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t Very true. I don't know how effective it is to advertise the elements of the #LNP (i.e, the racism, misogyny, sexism, paedo/rape apologies, and ineffective policy) that their voters are FOR. that's the challenge. PS - thank you for giving it a listen. Greg is one of my favorite comedians. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Play this episode for someone who might vote for the liberal party https://pca.st/episode/0b78e6d7-e175-4aa9-af47-dba36fb6bf03 #AusPol #Australia #Politics #LibNat https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/074/721/584/795/231/original/869b4ddd9afd5b02.jpg npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t apple should be contacting you about supplying their next suite of desktop backies npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/ First good news I have heard in the #AI space in quite some time. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-25/grace-tame-wears-shirt-calling-out-rupert-murdoch/104859114 Total legend #auspol npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…5lc3 Belesn npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) January 2024 137kg January 2025 122.7kg I am kinda shocked because I have seen and felt the biggest change in the last month. I think I hit a plateau really early into last year and the consistency is only now starting to pay off. It's a much needed boost/energiser. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) I accidentally had beige.party blocked. The last 6 months of misery make so much sense all of a sudden npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) do you ever have a blocker in your life get lifted, and it suddenly lets 50 tiny things that have been bothering you slip into place? May your next 365 be chock full of unblockers npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Just organised a pickup of my old mattress with the Mattress Recycling Company. A bit expensive, but 1) I really cannot be ARSED hauling this thing down 3 flights of stairs myself 2) Feels good in brain https://themattressrecyclingcompany.com.au/ npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…e4c3 Teague! 👋 I hope you follow @nprofile…y54t npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t Being creative and making art is doing the thing humans should be doing. If your career isn't actively making the world worse, like, for example, a real estate agent - you can always spend your downtime making it better for net positive. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…qfh3 the self-hosting we thought we knew was really friend-hosting all along npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Inspired by @nprofile…qfh3 to switch from #FreshRSS to #Miniflux and observed how easy it is to interact with its APIs - so, after a little boxingday morning fiddling, I've now got a public blogroll! https://www.michaelgale.dev/blogroll #blogging #selfhosting npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…4tpe how dare you npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…4tpe * my toot to be read with zero irony or sarcasm. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…4tpe See now, this is a very good use for web components. 👏 TOYS. Also I am mainly retootin' for that amazing page. https://techarseholeoftheyear.com/ npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t Damn. Some 7:51AM philosophy. Is this pre or post coffee? npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Is it just me or is the end to end experience of waking up and returning to bed at the end of the day just constantly excruciating for others as well npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @nprofile…y54t A new car to me is simply a way to spot a fool. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Its Bandcamp friday and I would like to pitch to you this: https://iamtheagent.bandcamp.com/album/wolves Thank you for your time kind time line #bandcamp #friday #actuallyitissaturdaysillybandcamp npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) *~be gay do crime* npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) https://support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/virtual-food-drive Reminder about the virtual food drive. I know it’s rough at the moment. If you can afford to give without discomfort please do. You can add rice to your cart for as little as $2 #Australia #Victoria #Melbourne #AusPol #LaboralLegacy #FuckNeoLiberalism npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @npub1mpw…4h3u Yeah, that's a fair cop. The details don't match but I think it was a good move to highlight the conflict of interest though. npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) @npub1mpw…4h3u + that this model fits the recent behaviour our actual PM is disgoostang. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-16/albanese-tenant-blindisded-eviction-notice-rental-cost-of-living/103854966 npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) I told a friend I was self-hosting my website and they assumed I meant I had moved from Netlify back to some “old school” CPanel/FTP thing. (It would honestly be a great step-up in DX to be plopping some html files onto a droplet to publish but no, no) No, I mean my site is literally served from my living room. Welcome into my home 👋 #SelfHosting npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Foodbank emergency food drive. **This is not a drill! ** Please add some stuff to your cart and donate if you have the means. From as little as a few bucks to a full shopping cart of goods. Families are living rough and starving to death because Labor and Liberal don't give a shit about anything but their 17+ property portfolios. https://www.foodbank.org.au/emergency-food-drive/?state=vic npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Releasing an album on floppy disk (part 1) by Michael Gale (I got the idea from @npub19lt…qfjk 🙏) https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/releasing-an-album-on-floppy-disk #blogging #blog #music #production npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) This rules #BoycottColesworth #Auspol https://www.reddit.com/r/boycottcolesworth/comments/1dpzmuf/update_first_boycott_complete/ npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) https://listmonk.app/ Ooooooo **Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager** **Mailchimp alternative ** #selfhosted npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) No Liberal No Labor #NoLaboral #AusPol npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Spend the money on the people ya dogs #auspol npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Internet learning journey 1) Word of mouth and connection 2) Algorithm 3) A.I. There’s only one that I look back on fondly. Anyway, fellow humans - got any #music recommendations for me? npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Thinking about this Benn Jordan video again as Spotify phases out monetization for songs with under 1000 plays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU npub1n2lc5y744th87e9pkpvxrpjura60uyfxn329quu93q6myehgcsvqv8lz5u Michael Gale (he/him) Do you drive in #melbourne #victoria #australia ? Please read this road rule that all of you seem to have forgotten or never learned. https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/safety-and-road-rules/road-rules/a-to-z-of-road-rules/use-of-standard-headlights #FuckCars