Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing

Happy New Year everyone! Just three hours into 2025, I received an email from Google Play Support with the following subject line:

Action Required: Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies (Luck be a Landlord)

Nothing has changed with Luck be…

CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #MetaBlockingPixelfed

I just tried posting a message on Facebook that reads: "Anyone here using Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed.Social

Within *seconds* I got a post saying my post was…

Last year’s app debacle has finally led to Spence’s ouster.

Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission

Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over seven years.

It's now 2025. Software assistants are now a core…

This g.stand, by Seoul-based industrial design firm grape lab, is made from a single sheet of recycled paper. It weighs just 45g (1.5oz), but is sturdy enough to hold "even the heaviest laptops," the firm writes. "The carefully designed origami structure…

Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting…

If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail; a simulation of the hardships faced by a group of colonists in 1848 as they travel by covered wagon from Independence Missouri to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The game was wildly successful…

A beautiful and interactive visualization of the MTA's subway ridership data. Created for the 2024 MTA Open Data Challenge.

It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not…