IFTTT Blog – A change in how Instagram works with IFTTT – GAHHH. Instagram changed their API and broke all my IFTTT rules. I’ll have to come up with another way to get my photos backed up here. Maybe it’s time to roll my own again…

Ooh, somehow I missed the CampJS promo video! I’m in there in a few places, wearing my light-up beanie and teaching folks to knit and blathering on about technology. The next one is coming up on June 3-6, and I highly recommend you go. (Unfortunately I’ll be overseas on vacation!)

https://vimeo.com/159874394

Our Newest Pattern: Willow! | grainline – Lovely new tank top/dress pattern from Grainline. Definitely bookmarking this one for Spring!

MENACE 2, an artificial intelligence made of wooden drawers and coloured beads – We Make Money Not Art – This is beautiful and miraculous. It’s a computer, an AI, that learns to play tic-tac-toe. You can make one yourself out of matchboxes and beads. I am tickled. Tickled, I tell you!

FASTE: Ferris Bueller’s Bedroom – Suggested to the Snook as another potential redecorating option for his office…

I remember once being at an event with a group of women and telling a silly anecdote about something I was excited about. I honestly can’t even remember the topic. But what I do remember was one of the other women – who’d been drinking quite a bit – sneering at me, “Isn’t that all just a bit much?” The implication was that my enthusiasm was too much, that I was coming off as a try-hard or a show-off. I laughed it off at the time, but it stung. It’s such a shitty thing to say to someone else.

Not that I don’t recognise the impulse. I was reminded of it today because I actually found myself thinking the same thing towards someone else. It’s someone who has newly joined a community I’m in, and this person is 100% ALL ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME. I saw yet another social media post from this person and felt the urge to roll my eyes. It’s like their enthusiasm is so huge that it feels like they’re performing it, to shame the rest of us who aren’t that gung-ho. Obviously as a senior member of the group, I’m over such huge public displays, right? It marks them as such a n00b. And what are they trying to do, take over from those of us who’ve been involved a lot longer?

And then I realised I don’t want to be a person who thinks like that. So what if someone is head-over-heels in love with a new thing? GOOD FOR THEM! It’s so easy to become jaded and “over it.” Why should someone liking something a lot threaten me? Why should it make me want to take them down a peg? I remember how that feels. It’s crappy. Maybe this is maturity – realising that I’d rather be someone who is supportive and kind and builds people up, than someone who has to protect her position by cutting others down.

Anyway, just rambling…

NASA’s new space tourism posters are spellbinding | The Verge – GASP. I love these. If anybody wants to get me a fantastic birthday present, well, here it is.

My family uses Slack. It’s pretty interesting. | Labs – I started off rolling my eyes at this, but by the end I was getting some ideas. The Snook and I have used Google Hangouts for years, which is great because the whole history is searchable. But it doesn’t really have integrations like this… Hmm. Ideas. (Link courtesy of @mpesce).

Spotted on Ask Metafilter: this incredibly useful list of regular maintenance-type tasks that grown-ups should know about. We just discovered that our new air conditioner’s manual recommends cleaning out the filters inside every two weeks. Whaaa? Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.

But we are getting pretty good at this grown-up stuff. We have a shared Todoist project of recurring tasks. I’m reviewing them now alongside the Metafilter list, as well as this Art of Manliness checklist too. Anything else I should have on there?

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