PSA for any other online sellers out there:

My spidey senses went off about an order this week and I want to share my experience so you don’t potentially get scammed. I received a larger order than usual on Etsy (above the seller protection amount), checked the address, and it was Canadian — BUT —- it had an unusual second line to the address that I’d not seen before, so I went investigating.

Turns out it was a well known ‘freight forwarding’ scam address. The buyer doesn’t live in Canada, and they use this location as a front to be able to ‘buy’ Canadian products.

This location is known to be used by the “my item never arrived” type of scammers who will tell Etsy that the item never arrived and get refunds plus keep the items. They’re not purchasing in good faith, and not actually even located in Canada. They’re overseas buyers using the location as a front to scam sellers. I canceled the order.

Please BEWARE! If something looks off, take the time to look into it.

/end PSA

My wife has decided that we need to drive across town to check on her 3D print.

This is a new level of nerdy.

Here's what the #GoToSocial domain limits stuff will let you do, when it comes out in v0.21.0, it's pretty cool!!!

https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/domain_limits/

STOP!

This is your #Monday reminder that Baby Pomp does, in fact, have turkey toes.

May I present Exhibit A

#cats #catsofmastodon

@alex @IAmDannyBoling Emmy couldn’t agree more

@ajroach42 Honestly a six-episode final season was real weird anyway. Kind of odd that they didn't really do more of a finale arc with it, even if they did want to do flashbacks.

It would be cool if tankies were just really into tanks and not a political ideology

It's happening! Tomorrow I leave for Aotearoa New Zealand to visit a whole bunch of amateur astronomy clubs (to yell about satellite pollution) and then spend a few weeks with collaborators at University of Canterbury (to yell about satellite pollution, and hopefully also talk about the Kuiper Belt and interstellar objects!)

I am looking forward to new foods, visiting farms, having conversations with farmers and astronomers, and different stars (hello MAGELLENIC CLOUDS!!) #ProfSamLectureTour

Best coworker is back on duty for #Monday

How’s your week starting out, fedi friends?

#catsofmastodon #today #cats

The current plan is to finish the static server: I need to teach it to handle conditional requests (if-modified-since, if-match and the like) and compression, and then it's pretty much good to go, I think.

It can already handle range requests, and can serve partial content, and I'm pretty darn proud of that part of the code1. I've yet to test it with anything that can support resuming, mind you.... but I'll get there.

Once the static server is done, there's a whole bunch of proxy work left: like, actually spinning up configured iocaine instances, and updating the configuration live. That'll be fun.

Then, some HTML UI to write, a whole lot of docs, and then I "only" need to figure out how to make it easier for people to upload a static site. S3 is... more difficult than I anticipated. So I might try webdav or sftp, or "drop a zip, and I'll take care of it, yo!" (since I'm going to use an invite system, I trust my beta users enough to not try and abuse the system).

1. Because I didn't cheap out by select * from blobs-ing the whole file, but only retrieve the parts actually requested. It also supports multiple ranges, not just one, so parallel downloads will work too. ↩︎

Absolutely this. This whole collection of photos does the exact opposite of what Bondi thinks this is doing.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:urdk2e6xtrlaa2g6mnzc3ks7/post/3mdj5k6b7qc2v

NOBODY PANIC!!

new profile pic

same cat pics and weirdness

Here we go…

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-visible-zorker-patreon

This is a Patreon-supported project. Yes, I am asking for money for IF work. Patreon supporters get to see the sausage made. But it'll all be open-source after a couple of months delay.

https://www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker

#InteractiveFiction #Zork

A Great Horned Owl at Owl Ridge Raptor Center, Tennessee posted with the caption "Someone did not want to take their medicine and therefore, must be placed in the burrito of towel. He was thrilled." Want to donate to ORRC? https://owlridge.org/ways-to-donate Source: https://fb.com/10162387511109103 #owlsintowels 💛🦉

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/115963924049444355

Text-adventure archwizard @zarfeblong wants to turn the success of his amazing game-studies project "The Visible Zorker" into a monthly series of self-study exhibitions, each of which will let you poke around the guts of a different game in the #Infocom classic catalog. If this is your kind of thing, maybe sign up for the project’s Patreon! #Videogames #InteractiveFiction

Tesla's quarterly net income is down 61% from a year ago, in which time frame our savvy investor classes have bid its stock up 9%.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tesla-annual-profit-plunges-lowest-level-pandemic-129651624

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115975096438601134

nature is healing

OH at a fancy restaurant: “Put your tuchus in the chair, Zachary!”

@Username_Here_ASAP I mean...

No?

I hate the enterprise finale, but mostly because it was just getting good when it ended.

@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? 😊 https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/