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Steve Rudolfi
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Web Developer. Incurably curious.
Runner. Maker. Reader.
Mental health & empathy advocate. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Love science, animals, photography, & travel.
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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format | Tom's Hardware
Nudibranchs: How Sea Slugs Steal Venom | Natural History Museum
Stinging cells, produced by cnidarians such as jellyfish and anemones, are one of ocean creatures’ most effective defences.
This method of protection can keep almost all predators at bay – but not the kaleidoscopically colourful sea slug.
Discover the incredible world of sea slugs that commit serial stinging-cell crimes.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/nudibranchs-psychedelic-thieves-of-the-sea.html
It's Sonic the Hedgehog's 35th anniversary!
Here's a shelf of some of my Sonic and Sega stuff.
#SonicTheHedgehog #Sega #Sonic35 #Sonic35thAnniversary #VideoGames
The OpenStreetMap Community
"Over the last 20 years the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project has collected an enormous amount of data about our planet and written a lot of Open Source software. OSM-based maps and apps are everywhere. How do you organize two million contributors in a mostly volunteer project to work on a common goal? And what exactly is that common goal?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsw9k4Udtk
#openStreetMap #foss #freeAndOpenSourceSoftware #fossBack #techGovernance
If You Own It, Why Can't You Fix It?
~"Corps are making it harder for you to repair the devices you already own, & forcing you to pay for repairs & replacements. Costs consumers millions worldwide, sends tons of perfectly fixable items to landfills, & hands big tech control over your property. Join #AdamSavage and our friends at #iFixit to dive into how manufacturers lock you out of the stuff you own, how the #RightToRepair movement is fighting back, & what you can do."
Finally got around to trying out the Mario Kart 64: Amped Up mod today. Fun, nostalgic, and very well done.
I love having character skins, the levels were surprising and fun, and the soundtrack fit well.
I finally hit publish on a post I've been kicking around.
The Human/Personal/Indie Web
I didn't really want to wind up with a {collection of links + mine & others' general vibes about the human/personal/indie web} or to try to be a resource.
Alas, I landed at no greater message than: here’s a collection of meandering vibes and links and an enthusiastic "here here" from my small corner.
https://steverudolfi.com/posts/the-human-personal-indie-web/
#theWebWeWant #humanWeb #personalWebsites #indieWeb #simpleTech #enshittification
"Hedgehog hospital in England rescues and rehabilitates 984 animals that were sick, injured, or orphaned during first year of opening The rescue facility now includes 106 treatment pods, 16 intensive care units, six maternity suites, and 12 outdoor recovery units"
https://www.swanage.news/hospital-for-purbeck-hedgehogs-helps-almost-1000-in-first-year/
Help Shape the Future of PHP: Take the State of PHP Survey
PHP is powered by a global community of developers, maintainers, contributors, companies, and users. To better understand that community and the ecosystem around it, The PHP Foundation and PhpStorm, a JetBrains IDE, are launching the first annual State of PHP survey.
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/06/09/help-shape-the-future-of-php/
Voyager 1 Approaches One Light-Day from Earth
As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that a radio signal from Earth takes 24 hours, or one light day, to reach it.
https://newatlas.com/space/voyager-approaches-1-light-day-from-earth/
Love deep dive videos like this.
"I built a custom open-world engine for the N64. In this video, I break down how I achieved a seamless, massive world with zero loading screens on N64 hardware."
CERN built an antimatter containment unit and took it for a literal test drive
Scientists in Geneva took 92 antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy.
Seeing Red: Dragonflies and Humans Share the Same Red-light Detection Mechanism
"A new study from Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) has found that dragonflies sense red light similarly to mammals, including us. As many medical devices also rely on red light, their findings could be important not just in zoology but also in medical fields that rely on red light-sensing."
The Web Platform is moving faster than ever. Catch up on some things you might have missed.
"Invoker Commands, Dialog Light Dismiss, Popover Hint, Customizable Select, Carousel Markers And Buttons, Scroll Target Group, Anchored Container Queries, Interest Invokers, Scroll State Queries, Tree Counting Functions, Scroll Into View Container, Nested View Transition Groups, DOM State-Preserving Move... and more"
Nice. "New CSS Property corner-shape Is Amazing"
"The new CSS corner-shape property may seem niche in use, but it allows you to do some crazy things in CSS that used to be entirely impossible! In this video I will show you how this property works all the way from the basics to the more advanced use cases."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhBL2MYlQj0
MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/corner-shape
Can I Use: https://caniuse.com/wf-corner-shape
I dig helpful roundup videos like like this.
10 New CSS and HTML APIs | Syntax.fm
- Grid Lines API for masonry-style layouts
- HTML in canvas and next-gen UI effects
- Name-only container queries for scoped styles
- CSS random()
- Styling find-in-page with ::search-text
- Sticky positioning now works in both axes
- Multi-column CSS fixes
- Border shape improvements and new design options
- Element-scoped view transitions for cleaner animations
Why CSS Style Queries Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think | Dripyard
https://dripyard.com/blog/why-css-style-queries-are-bigger-deal-you-think
Side note: I would love to see Cory Doctorow and Adam Savage in conversation about enshittification and right to repair.
EFFecting Change: If You Own It, Why Can't You Fix It? | July 23 @12pm ET.
"Owning something should mean more than just bragging rights and a receipt. Corporations are making it harder for you to repair the devices & products you already own, & forcing you to pay them again for repairs & replacements. It costs consumers millions worldwide, sends tons of perfectly fixable items to landfills, & hands corps control over your property."
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-if-you-own-it-why-cant-you-fix-it
wp2shell Aftermath: The First Critical Unauthenticated WordPress Core RCE in Nearly a Decade
I love this-- and I wish I had this level of skill with hardware.
"Recycling Destroyed Tech into Beautiful PCs"