Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Maybe Later
"Install update" Maybe later. An excellent... I want to say poem?... from Ian Eure.
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Recreational programming
Foone shares that "the world needs more recreational programming". I agree.
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A Friend Used AI to Wish me Happy Birthday
Robert shares his experience of receiving a birthday greeting from a friend, that had clearly been written by an AI. I echo his sentiment.
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kirby vs. this blog post
mgx shows off a cute use of Javascript to make a fun blog post post more-fun, all the while helping to keep the Internet fun and weird.
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Balance bikes are just better
Sean McP justifies why balance bikes are better than stabilisers (training wheels) for kids to learn to cycle, and I ponder the possibility of popping the pedals off our youngest's first bike, perhaps later this year.
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Miika used a marquee tag to add a cable car to a web page, and I think I couldn't be more impressed.
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Build Colors from Colors with CSS Relative Color Syntax
Caleb Hearth wrote an inspiring piece about CSS's new OKLCH functions, and now I want nothing more than to (re-?)implement something using this colour model!
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Hey Google, pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Wait, it isn't supposed to be pronounced "clan via Pokemon Go garage city of cocoa"? I've been saying it wrong my whole life! 😅
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3D Workers Island
Tony Domenico's 3D Workers Island is a clever application of the retro-Web as a storytelling medium, in sort of a "found footage" way but with webpages instead of, y'know, videotape. The story's not perfect, but the execution is great.
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Bluesky and enshittification
Cory Doctorow's post this week about how Bluesky's model isn't (yet) immune to enshittification matches my reasoning for not using it, too. But also points out a hypocrisy in my own behaviour for so-far failing to apply a "Ulysses Pact" model to Three Rings.
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The Time Travel Movie That Doesn't Move
The Nerdwriter's done a video essay about La Jetée, and it truly does justice to that remarkable movie.
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Sex With Monsters
Just in time for Halloween, this comic (published via the ever-excellent Oh Joy Sex Toy) is fundamentally pretty silly... and yet still manages to touch upon important concepts of safer sex, consent, aftercare etc.
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Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
As Google invest in next-generation nuclear generation to provide electricity to their energy-hungry AI datacentres, so they can keep providing shit answers to everyday questions, I'm optimistic that maybe after the LLM fad fizzles out we'll be left with new power technologies that can benefit all of humankind.
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London Transport 25
Girl on the Net diverts from her usual sex blogging to write about taking a date on a 25-forms-of-transport tour of London, and it's delightful.
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Calm after the storm
Rosie, who like me never even considered taking Automattic's alignment offer, writes about her experience of this week's meetup.