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Morgan Aldridge

@morgant@mastodon.social
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Design, development, discourse. He/him.

Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Joined February 09, 2023

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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_Finally_ upgraded my 12.9in #Apple #iPadPro (4th gen) to #iPadOS 26.x a couple days ago.

Glad I waited! I'm not seeing any of the major UI bugs reported in the early days, at least in the apps I use. I am using #WindowedApps and the #MenuBar implementaton is _very_ odd, but it's better than not having it (for me.) I do like the pointer being arrow-shaped, since I mostly use the trackpad and/or controller these days.

I certainly suggest Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass = Tinted.

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Something very #SesameStreet meets #AppleCommercial, but still 100% #SpikeJonze about this:

https://youtu.be/6NVAzWEgTXo

It's really lovely. Just the kind of thing I feel like I needed right now.

#On #ShapeOfDreams #Zendaya #ShortFilm

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @morgant@mastodon.social
@tantramar @gumnos Not arguing against forms, they're just better as an optional alternative as opposed to a replacement for providing an email address. I have _zero_ interest in going back to the early days of the Internet with people emailing orders, contact info, credit cards, etc.! Or, marginally better, emailing with instructions to call to provide those details.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @tantramar@zeroes.ca

@tantramar @gumnos I wholly agree that most of these are shared problems, but I have to — respectfully — disagree on points 1. & 4.

  1. JavaScript and captcha requirements are often a problem for website users (maybe just running older/lower-end hardware, limited/inconsistent Internet access, or accessibility issues due to disabilities) and the spam is still a problem for the receiving user

  2. I encounter this frequently, especially on mobile devices where switching apps may cull browser tasks

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @tantramar@zeroes.ca

@tantramar @gumnos I'll counter that using a form has many downsides (naturally, many still shared by email):

  1. Still a target for spammers, often requiring JS captchas and such
  2. No guarantee the destination is checked or left to collect spam
  3. Doesn't provide the user with actual contact info
  4. Higher liklihood of message data loss (user must remember to copy form content before submitting because an error often results in loss of the message content)
  5. Privacy concerns
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social

Fragile is right.

https://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2026-April/003801.html

#AppleNewton #MessagePad #WaterFieldDesigns #AprilFoolsDay

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @csilverman@mastodon.social
@csilverman@mastodon.social @splorp@mastodon.social @proedie@mastodon.green @likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @falken@qoto.org The hardest parts of really creating a new market is decisiveness. Especially in one so personal as to be carried on one's person all of the time and to store & retrieve intimate details. Then try pushing the envelope with new technologies and interfaces that aren't yet proven. It was much easier for Palm to then create a stripped down and affordable (if significantly less powerful & resilient) PDA, once it had been fully realized.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @flameshot@fosstodon.org
@flameshot@fosstodon.org I thought that might've been the case, but I didn't want to assume. I _very much_ appreciate you not gathering metrics and polling for such helpul info in other ways, plus the inclusion of BSDs in the first place! Furthermore, that you're polling re: #X11 and DE/WM use. I daily #OpenBSD and the Wayland ports/packages are "getting there," but I don't see it moving into base anytime soon. Thanks all around for Flameshot and the above!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social

Apparently, I don't post much here on Mastodon when my mental health is poor.

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @falken@qoto.org
@falken@qoto.org @likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @csilverman@mastodon.social Yeah, somewhere between the early #AppleNewton 'Cadillac' #prototype and an #eMate300 (sans keyboard), if it had been in the PowerBook color palette. See @splorp@mastodon.social's photos of the 'Cadillac': https://flickr.com/photos/splorp/albums/72157623287193080/ And, Sonny Hung's: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonnyhung/albums/72057594095135157/
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @likesoldmacs@bitbang.social
@likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @csilverman@mastodon.social OMG! I had no idea!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @jimmyb@selfhosted.cafe
@jimmyb @HourlyWolves To get that chonky in the wild is quite the feat! Maybe growing some little ones?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @morgant@mastodon.social

@flameshot@fosstodon.org I will admit, I'm not actively using Flameshot, but have considered it in the past. (Still using maim/slop/``Gromit-MPX` under X in the ancient WM I maintain.)

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @flameshot@fosstodon.org
@flameshot@fosstodon.org Any particular reason that these followup questions are "Linux" and not "Linux/BSDs"? Seems like they'd all be applicable to and useful to know about the BSDs too, no?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Mar 28, 2026
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @polpo@chaos.social
@polpo @BigBadBiologist Way cool! And here I was making my modern webcam emulate a Connectix QuickCam under #OpenBSD: https://github.com/morgant/CU-SeeMe-OpenBSD (Still way too much contrast & clarity, despite being 4-bit grayscale.)
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2025
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
@floppy @pauljrobinson And they're clearly labeled as 2HD 1.44MB, so you can't even _pretend_ they're single-sided 400MB floppies and that _maybe_ you're using the non-data side!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Dec 30, 2025
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @nGFX@oldbytes.space
@nGFX@oldbytes.space @kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place Are these just those QuickTime VR files?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop Where's the controversy? Seems pretty accurate to me.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Aug 03, 2025
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @eri@mk.moth.zone
@eri @uliwitness #OpenBSD user: Uh, I'm not actively using it right now, so the privacy shutter is closed, it's physically turned off at my USB hub, and audio & video recording is disabled in my kernel. Whoever you're spying on, it isn't me.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Sep 05, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

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Replying to @Natsura@catgirl.center
@Natsura Looking back through history, "pants" are a relatively new and -- let's fact it -- pretty inconvenient invention.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Aug 30, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
@sinituulia Yup, _everything_ is car oriented here. It's utter insanity and to the detriment of everything that could be good. And I'm a _car person_! (That said, I like to _drive_, which is also negated by having everything be car centric.)
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Aug 28, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @morgant@mastodon.social
@maxleibman And, being the 90's, that meant "Jurassic Park" for biology, "Indiana Jones" for history, Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" in english, etc.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Aug 28, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @maxleibman@mastodon.social
@maxleibman Wow, this rings _sooooo_ true! Funny story: My high school had no "walls" or "doors" -- just wheeled sections of "cubbies" (think shoe box size "lockers" with no doors), about shoulder height, arranged into "rooms" like one might do with cubicles -- so it didn't necessarily even have to be your class watching a movie if you wanted to just listen in on a movie instead of class!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Jun 14, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social
@AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social I've been trying for years (read: decades), but it seems to release more cortisol than dopamine & serotonin, so the overall benefits are... uh, overall effects are... I mean, there have to be some non-downsides, right? Right?!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social · Jun 14, 2024
Morgan Aldridge
@morgant@mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him. Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

mastodon.social
Replying to @saddestrobots@jorts.horse
@saddestrobots@jorts.horse Funny and I agree with the overall sentiment, but #OpenBSD breaks ABI with every release. I don't know Theo de Raadt, so can't say whether he would punch a wall, but he would likely have responded so gruffly as to make the typoist punch a wall.
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