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The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)

Sundays are for recovering after a late night of trailerblogging and oop, no, wait, there’s another two full-length showcases just this evening. It’s too late for me, readers, but you can save yourselves with some more thoughtful, maybe even calming ...

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I’ve always liked the ideas behind HTMX. Namely, keep templates and rendering on the server, ship HTML to the browser. I rolled my own HTMX for a side project I still use today. “Streaming HTML” by Ollie Williams demonstrates how ...

Arp 297:(opens in new tab)

North is left. (mirrored). 13.5x8.5 arcmin (0.35 arcsec/pixel) dt {color: var(--em-color)} Total exposure time:410 * 30 seconds = 3.4 hours. (across 2 nights) Exposure used in stack: 329 * 30 seconds = 2.7 hours. Telescope: C9.25 (230mm, f/10, fl=2300mm) Camera: ...

Finding the Middle in AI Narratives(opens in new tab)

A pendulum swung from a collapsing clock tower to an immovable monolith, its heavy bob now resting at center/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp Another major AI vibe shift is happening. The tech is moving so fast that our collective rea...

Saturday, June 6, 2026(opens in new tab)

I have spent so much time futzing with Emacs this week that I need a break from it. For a minute, anyway.Finally got around to doing a water change in the fish tank. It's been nearly 3 weeks. I'm losing ...

micropython-wasm 0.1a2(opens in new tab)

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm (issue #7), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, ...

Communities of Not(opens in new tab)

There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer ...

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode(opens in new tab)

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February, but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts": Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the ...

Are you standard.site?(opens in new tab)

Standard.site provides shared AT Protocol lexicons. Atproto is just spicy JSON and asymmetric cryptography. I’ve tried to explain atproto in more detail before. Bluesky has always supported a few open graph meta tags which I use to generate images for ...

Quoting Andreas Kling(opens in new tab)

We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...] Whether code was typed by hand is ...