Tag: technology
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My Default Apps at the End of 2023
All the cool kids are sharing their "lifestack" as we approach the end of 2023. Here's mine.
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Gemini and Spartan without a browser
Half a dozen different ways of downloading content from Gemini (and Spartan) servers from the command-line using everyday tools.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting
People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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AI is lying to you
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?
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Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.
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Bypassing Region Restrictions on radio.garden
As the last person on Earth to discover radio.garden, I was disappointed to find that you can't access non-UK stations from within the UK. So I "fixed" it.
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The tape library robot that served drinks
@SecurityWriter shares a story about repurposing a backup tape management robot as a barkeep.
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Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)
At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so.
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The Page With No Code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Why Did Media Players Look Like That?
As MP3s took off, early player software looked... weird and ugly. To this day, I can't understand why.
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Reply to The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why.
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Announcers and Automation
A friend of mine used to do railway station announcements and was so good that he could do it from memory. That job now belongs to a computer. And that's fine.