rash @rash@chaos.social

I went through my books and decided to get rid of about 40% of them. Most of those are German, but some are English – if you want any of them, you can have them for just the shipping costs. The list (you can filter by language) is here: https://books.rixx.de/giveaway/

lotr but every time sam takes a step towards mordor he says it'll be the farthest he's ever been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzF5KnoN20

pretalx now has a Funding page that explains how you can support the project financially, if you want to, and it's linked whereever the documentation refers to missing features. https://docs.pretalx.org/funding.html

#CSS #Performance
content-visibility enables the user agent to skip an element's rendering work, including layout and painting, until it is needed (Chromium 85), this is an interesting boost for performance :o

https://web.dev/content-visibility/

One episode in, I' am VERY here for Star Trek: Lower Decks.

If you meet a polycule for the first time, please be polite and keep your stereotypes to yourself. Nobody wants to get asked who is the top, the bottom, the up, the down, the charm or the strange in the relationship.

I was asked for a list of all my five-star books – it's a weird mix, but here you go: https://books.rixx.de/lists/five-stars/

My book website now has book shelves!

I grouped the books on my book site into lists, so it's easier to find the good stuff: https://books.rixx.de/lists/

There are broad and boring lists like scifi and fantasy, and then there's the good stuff, like "Space Monks": https://books.rixx.de/lists/space-monks/

Complaining is good, actually: https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/you-should-complain-about-it

David makes some really good points about complaining as a driver for building connections and community trust. Generally, his (weeky) newsletter is super good, and I can recommend reading it.

Everything about "The problem with the Romans is they always try to walk it in" is good.
https://medium.com/@garius/the-problem-with-the-romans-is-they-always-try-to-walk-it-in-65a961e59648

I've accumulated a long-ish quotes.txt with interesting/relevant/funny quotes, mostly from books I've read. What would be a good way of sharing those? Daily posting twitter bot? A page on https://books.rixx.de? 🤔

Today we announced that I'm building venueless.org together with @rixx, @rash, and the pretix.eu team. Let me know what you think – and please share the word with anyone you think this might be relevant for!

You are not special: https://ramble.rixx.de/2020/04/24/you-are-not-special.html

(I'm sorry, but you really aren't.)