DOODAD.dev - a sick pattern generator for web design

Tools for making websites fast, accessible, expressive, and green. These tools are mostly for helping web developers build small websites (sites that use fewer bytes) without sacrificing expression.

I randomly stumbled across this a few minutes ago when I was trying to find a way to generate Memphis design patterns. You can choose from a ton of different SVG patterns, manipulate the size, shape, color and angle and generate an image from it. Love this kind of thing! Feels like a desktop app on a website.

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today.

Wow that must be pretty serious huh?

It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post.

Oh 🤨

Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right’s New Reality

A curious set of claims has recently emerged from…X: FEMA is systematically abandoning Trump-supporting Hurricane Helene victims; Democrats (and perhaps Jewish people) are manipulating the weather; Haitian immigrants are eating pet cats in Springfield, Ohio.

I remember when conspiracy theories used to be shit like subterranean lizard people and hollow moon theory. No one took it this seriously and it definitely wasn’t part of anyone’s political campaign. I think RFK’s brain worms must be contagious 🤪

In SSRI Withdrawal, Brain Zaps Go from Overlooked Symptom to Center Stage

A sensation unofficially known as “brain zaps” has caused concern in patients stepping off of their SSRIs. Until recently, physicians have widely been unaware or dismissive of the symptom. 

“There was an emphasis both within the [psychiatric] profession and pharmacological companies to make these medications sound not addictive,” [Alexander Papp] told Psychiatrist.com. Therefore, when SSRIs first became popular, very few systematic studies were conducted on antidepressant discontinuation effects.

I went through opiate addiction when I was in my 20s and that was nothing compared to how… off I felt when my doctor pulled me off of Cymbalta cold turkey a few years ago. She switched me to a completely different class of antidepressant and said I shouldn’t have any noticeable side effects or withdrawals.

I felt fucking insane after about two days. I was getting brain zaps every time I’d look...

WordPress Alternatives

Due to…everything going on right now with WordPress, I thought I’d put together a list of alternative CMSs that better fit the criteria someone might have for their website … The criteria for this list are “Can it be downloaded, dropped onto a server, and you’ll have a website?”

Great post on WP alternatives! I’ve never liked it for a personal blog, it just feels too commercial for me. But I know it’s something a ton of people use. Like most bloggers and commercial websites. Worth checking out if you use WP and don’t like the direction it’s headed these days.

A deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School - Los Angeles Times

Researchers uncovered two distinct sites on campus where new buildings were under construction: a bone bed dating back 8.7 million years in the Miocene era and a shell bed about 120,000 years old from the Pleistocene era.

It’s crazy that at any given place in the world you could be standing on top of millions of years of undiscovered history and not even know it.

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

“Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!,” reads a JavaScript alert shown on the compromised archive.org site.

Earlier today, the Internet Archive suffered a DDoS attack, which has now been claimed by the BlackMeta hacktivist group, who says they will be conducting additional attacks.

What a bunch of losers. It’s like throwing a molotov cocktail through a library’s window.

Elon Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink for Hurricane Helene Victims Will Cost at Least $400

Musk made headlines with a promise that SpaceX Starlink would be free for 30 days to help in places where fiber and cellular infrastructure might have been knocked offline.

…anyone interested in taking up the offer still has to pay approximately $400 for the dish itself (including shipping and tax) and they’re getting automatically rolled into a $120 per-month contract when the free month ends.

Literal supervillain.

CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance” - Ars Technica

Not only does CTV operate in ways that are unfair to consumers, it is also putting them and their families at risk as it gathers and uses sensitive data about health, children, race, and political interests

…buying a smart TV set in today’s connected television marketplace is akin to bringing a digital Trojan Horse into one’s home

Not surprising honestly. Everyone’s a Neilson family now eh?

Kyle Rittenhouse Metal Fest Booking Causes Bands to Drop Out

Shell Shock founder and CEO, Tyler Hoover:

The lynch mob here to take down Shell Shock will not win. It doesn’t matter, because guess what? You can’t kill spirit. You can’t kill punk. And you can’t fucking kill Shell Shock.

I’m sorry but a pseudo celebrity who literally got away with murder at a protest against police brutality is NOT fucking punk in any way shape or form. I think this guy is confused… his kind of people are literally the lynch mob.