Year: 2025
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sophie reviews Psynwav - Musical Transients
After sharing the album yesterday, today I found a review of Musical Transients which 100% echoes my experience of this amazing concept album. Spoiler warning: there are themes in the album that I think are most-fun to discover as you listen to it, but if you already did, or if you're not going to anyway, then you might as well read my and sophie's thoughts about it now.
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Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
A recent video by Will Smith gained widespread condemnation for using AI to artificially-inflate his crowd's size. Except that's not what happened at all: a little creative editing by his media team, combined with a secret experiment by YouTube to make some videos look immeasurably more-shit by performing AI upscaling on them, seems to have kicked off this particular round of Internet craziness.
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Last month, my friend Gareth observed that the numbered lists in my blog posts "looked wrong" in his feed reader. I checked, and I decided I was following the standards correctly and it must have been his app that was misbehaving.
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App Store page for Unread: An RSS Reader by Golden Hill Software. What's New for version 4.5.2 includes a bullet point, highlighted, which reads 'This update improves display of articles from danq.me."
So he contacted the authors of Unread, his feed reader, and they fixed it. Pretty fast, I've got to say. And I was amused to see that I'm clearly now a test case because my name's in their release notes!
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Musical Transients
Musical Transients from Psynwav is absolutely excellent, and (unless you've already learned better than to pay attention to my music recommendations) you should give it a listen.
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Maybe I'm just hungry, but this morning's breakfast bagel with brie looks especially scrumptious, right?
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On a floral plate atop a wooden surface z an open sesame bagel contains an Escherian 'endless staircase' of sliced brie.
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MS Paint-grade QR Codes?
I hand-drew a QR code so it looks like what I did was made a maze in Microsoft Paint. But it works! Here's how.
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Four perspectives on AI
Sean McPherson shared a "four quadrants" diagram for people's beliefs about AI, with a specific focus on LLMs used for coding assistance. Here's where I sit on it, and why.
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Just a Little More Context Bro, I Promise, and It’ll Fix Everything
Based on my experience of 'vibe coding', I think Jim Nielsen's analogies are absolutely spot on.
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Details/summary lightboxes in pure HTML + CSS
For years, I've been using a HTML+CSS-only technique for popover 'lightbox' images on my blog. Now I've come up with a more-semantic way to do the same, and its HTML code is tidier too!
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A moderately-large house spider dropped down and startled my dog as she napped in her basket, so now she's hiding under my desk and refusing to return to bed. 🙄😂
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In faux-soft-focus, a champagne-coloured French Bulldog looks up from beneath an office desk, framed between the shorts-wearing legs of a white man.
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Found GC2CWQ7 #036 Just Northamptonshire
I walked to a different COUNTY one morning before breakfast, just to get a geocache!
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Found GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak
This checkin to GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My little tribe and I have, in some form of another, been attending Cropredy for decades: intermittently in the past, but lately with more regularity every year. For me, it's coincided with the growth of our family: I've …
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Found GC8Z1F6 Church Micro 13672...Great Bourton ⛪️
This checkin to GC8Z1F6 Church Micro 13672...Great Bourton ⛪️ reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I have made a tradition of our regular attendance of Fairport's Cropredy Convention. There I - being the earliest riser of us - have in turn made a tradition of getting up …
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Did not find GC91EH6 War Memorial #1,340 ~ Great Bourton 🌹
This checkin to GC91EH6 War Memorial #1,340 ~ Great Bourton 🌹 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I have made a tradition of our regular attendance of Fairport's Cropredy Convention. There I - being the earliest riser of us - have in turn made a tradition of …
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Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s
From 1973 onwards Doug Biggert, driving around California, took an (analogue!) photograph of every hitch-hiker to whom he offered a lift. Now you can view a gallery and read his story.