Elegant if slightly twee CSS from a visual designer

Fun video of two amazing performers clowning around. I like the subversion of masculinity here.

A desktop-scale system for training your own large language model

Neat hack: webcam taking videos of trains moving at 100kph past someone's house; software stitches it into a static image

Hacker News discussion about tech projects people build for themselves; lots of nice things here

A nice very simple blog theme suitable as a base for developing

Popular links on Mastodon / the fediverse

Convert a newsletter into an RSS feed by setting up a burner email address to subscribe to it

An alternate UI for viewing Youtube videos where the transcript is made more visible as a text document

Another writeup of using the Starfive Visionfive 2. This one runs into a lot of performance problems; early days.

Starfive Visionfive 2 is an integrated computer like a Raspberry Pi, but with a RISC V processor. It works but a lot of user programs aren't ported yet.

Overview of a bunch of new social media protocols

Accidental experiments in minimalist electronica, 1962

Extreme acts of couture

2019 exhibit of paintings of Tahitian models from the Māhū, a third gender. Gorgeous, evoking Gauguin but much more interesting.

A plan to replace the current gas tax with something mileage-based to charge all drivers fairly going forward

A simple list of electric cars by range, price, etc

Republican leaders imagined as drag queens by an AI

William Dalrymple on the British in India, the Ottoman Empire, etc

Midjourney produces images of Star Wars characters as women

Details on where the intelligence leak might have first shown up

A unique colonial dialect in rural New Mexico is dying out

Group sets up a proper member-owned co-op to be their Mastodon host

Andy Baio's experiences with colorblindness.

A nice simple personal server for looking at a downloaded Mastodon archive

Overview of the business landscape in the west

A gay couple in Grass Valley who had a lot of cultural influence in the 60s and 70s

Details on the claims made by artists against a trained AI

A guide to ways to engage with ChatGPT and other MLMs productively

Simon has an interesting framing for how to think about ChatGPT and other LLMs.

New article about the enormous Youtube cooking store, a sweet Mexican grandmother

Details of which countries dominate different kinds of chips

A delightful web page about 19th century English men's swimming costumes, with many photos