Andy Baio / is on Nostr

I write Waxy.org (npub1qau…ulnw), made XOXO (npub19rw…zsgh), Skittish, Upcoming.org, Belong.io, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter. P.S. I love you.

homepage: https://waxy.org
pronouns: he/him
Location: Portland, OR

Last Notes

2024-08-08 15:50:53

The last XOXO starts two weeks from today! After five years, time to break out the ol’ #xoxofest hashtag.

2024-07-05 19:01:56

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Isn't it weird that there are no requirements to run for President besides being at least 35 years old, a natural-born citizen, and a U.S. resident for 14 years? The screening process to become a U.S. citizen is far more rigorous, but anyone born here that's rich and famous enough is somehow qualified to run the country, even if they don't know how a bill becomes a law.

2024-07-05 18:43:45

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https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/735/356/310/562/276/original/0fc0fe8b32ff2bdb.png

2024-07-05 18:42:52

Hank Green posted a video today about why outsiders with little experience in governing should not run for President, even if they're famous and they can win. It's a good video, but the reason I'm posting about it is a short exchange I saw in the comments... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYA3hOzxYeo

2024-07-03 15:09:43

Cloudflare launched a one-click option to block known AI bots, crawlers, and scrapers. https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click

2024-06-12 18:36:35

I last updated my LinkedIn in 2014 and it continues to pay dividends.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/605/095/001/067/370/original/f1deb4021d315931.png
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2024-06-04 14:16:56

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View source on this page to have your mind blown, a seven-segment digital quine clock made out of its own 321 bytes of JavaScript. https://aem1k.com/qlock/

2024-06-04 14:14:02

Here’s a thread of some good stuff I found on the internet recently, starting with Louie Zong’s latest, “a song about perception?? and messing around with content aware scaling lmao” https://youtu.be/D9JKCoj8BJc

2024-05-14 16:34:29

me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
*monkey’s paw curls*
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112439941615950550

2024-05-02 03:11:02

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imagine that https://archive.is/2024.05.01-190235/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-01/will-gm-regret-kicking-apple-carplay-off-the-dashboard
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/369/300/856/553/928/original/a507634696d0e11b.jpeg

2024-04-26 17:15:00

404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/
And Apple removed multiple AI “nudify” apps from the App Store.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/
(Note: 404 Media articles are all free to read, but you have to register.)

2024-04-22 17:46:50

Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉

2024-04-22 17:46:50

Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉

2024-04-15 18:36:51

"Consent Mode is off by default" is like the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/276/682/019/518/353/original/8907ea9d3a090393.png

2024-03-25 19:06:22

How Comics Were Made is a visual history of printing cartoons currently funding on Kickstarter, 76% to the goal with under 70 hours to hit it. [@glennf](https://twit.social/@glennf) exhaustively researched this 288-page full-color book for years, interviewing dozens of mainstream and alternative cartoonists, and I really hope it gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/