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Tufte CSS
Elegant if slightly twee CSS from a visual designer
2023-04-30 css • design • tufte • visualization • web
Belafonte + Danny Kaye
Fun video of two amazing performers clowning around. I like the subversion of masculinity here.
2023-04-29 belafonte • dannykaye • music
nanoGPT
A desktop-scale system for training your own large language model
2023-04-28 ai • gpt • language • learning • llm • text
Trainspotter
Neat hack: webcam taking videos of trains moving at 100kph past someone's house; software stitches it into a static image
2023-04-28 hacks • sbb • switzerland • trains • trainspotting
Bespoke personal tech
Hacker News discussion about tech projects people build for themselves; lots of nice things here
2023-04-28 fun • hackernews • hacking • projects • software • tech
Hugo starter theme
A nice very simple blog theme suitable as a base for developing
2023-04-27 blogs • hugo • simple • weblogs
Feditrends
Popular links on Mastodon / the fediverse
2023-04-26 aggregator • fediverse • linkblog • links • mastodon • socialmedia
Feed Your Email
Convert a newsletter into an RSS feed by setting up a burner email address to subscribe to it
2023-04-26 email • feedly • newsreader • rss • substack
YouTube Transcript
An alternate UI for viewing Youtube videos where the transcript is made more visible as a text document
2023-04-25 reading • subtitle • transcript • video • youtube
Bluesky funding
Twitter clone is funded by Twitter; not clear what that means under musk
2023-04-24 bluesky • elonmusk • jackdorsey • musk • socialmedia • twitter
RISC-V experience #2
Another writeup of using the Starfive Visionfive 2. This one runs into a lot of performance problems; early days.
2023-04-23 linux • raspberrypi • riscv • rpi • sbc
RISC-V user experience
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.
2023-04-23 linux • raspberrypi • riscv • rpi • sbc • server
Tax loss harvesting
Details of a legal tax avoidance system available to wealthy investors
2023-04-23 finance • investment • politics • taxes • washsale
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr
Overview of a bunch of new social media protocols
2023-04-23 activitypub • mastodon • socialmedia • twitter
Imgur being burnt down
Image hosting site is having a corporate purge. Including porn and "old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account"
2023-04-21 archive • culture • images • imgur • internet • porn • reddit • sharing
Soothing Sounds For Baby
Accidental experiments in minimalist electronica, 1962
2023-04-21 baby • electronica • music • synthesizer
Pornhub acquisition
Shell company appears to have bought the largest porn video company on the Internet and very little is known about where the money came from
2023-04-18 business • finance • internet • porn • pornhub
Noir Kei Ninomiya
Extreme acts of couture
2023-04-17 art • bjork • costume • couture • fashion • runway
Kehinde Wiley / Māhū
2019 exhibit of paintings of Tahitian models from the Māhū, a third gender. Gorgeous, evoking Gauguin but much more interesting.
2023-04-17 māhū • art • gauguin • polynesia • tahiti • transgender
California Road Charge
A plan to replace the current gas tax with something mileage-based to charge all drivers fairly going forward
2023-04-15 california • evs • politics • roads • tax
EV Database
A simple list of electric cars by range, price, etc
2023-04-13 cars • ev • shopping
Discord intel leak
Details on "OG", who apparently is behind the most recent leak of military documents
2023-04-13 classified • discord • gamers • guns • leak • military • politics
NPR quits Twitter
This feels like a milestone in the quick moving disaster of Musk's Twitter. Also, well written article.
2023-04-12 elonmusk • journalism • musk • npr • twitter
RuPublicans
Republican leaders imagined as drag queens by an AI
2023-04-12 ai • drag • funny • politics • republicans
Empire Podcast
William Dalrymple on the British in India, the Ottoman Empire, etc
2023-04-12 dalrymple • empire • history • india • ottoman • podcast
Star Wars women
Midjourney produces images of Star Wars characters as women
2023-04-11 ai • art • gender • midjourney • ml • movies • starwars • women
Discord espionage origins
Details on where the intelligence leak might have first shown up
2023-04-09 bellingcat • discord • intelligence • socialmedia • spycraft
New Mexican Spanish
A unique colonial dialect in rural New Mexico is dying out
2023-04-09 dialect • language • newmexico • spanish • via:hackernews
Mastodon co-op
Group sets up a proper member-owned co-op to be their Mastodon host
2023-04-08 canada • coop • mastodon • ownership • socialmedia
Designing for colorblindness
Andy Baio's experiences with colorblindness.
2023-04-08 color • colorblindness • design • redgreen • visualization
Mastodon Data Viewer
A nice simple personal server for looking at a downloaded Mastodon archive
2023-04-06 archive • code • mastodon • python • search
Supreme Court corruption
Clarence Thomas and this millions of dollars in gifts of luxury travel from a Republican donor
2023-04-06 corruption • politics • supremecourt • thomas
Big tech and AI
Overview of the business landscape in the west
2023-04-06 ai • amazon • apple • facebook • google • startups
Osborn and Woods
A gay couple in Grass Valley who had a lot of cultural influence in the 60s and 70s
2023-04-05 culture • gay • grassvalley • kvmr • lgbt • minersunion • nevadacity
Stable Diffusion copyright suit
Details on the claims made by artists against a trained AI
2023-04-04 ai • copyright • legal • licensing • stablediffusion
Practical stuff with AI
A guide to ways to engage with ChatGPT and other MLMs productively
2023-04-02 ai • chatgpt • tools • via:simonw • writing
A calculator for words
Simon has an interesting framing for how to think about ChatGPT and other LLMs.
2023-04-02 ai • chatgpt • llms • tools
Doña Ángela update
New article about the enormous Youtube cooking star, a sweet Mexican grandmother
2023-04-01 cooking • food • melancholy • mexico • video • youtube
Semiconductor market breakdown
Details of which countries dominate different kinds of chips
2023-04-01 china • chips • economics • marketshare • politics • semiconductors • taiwan • tsmc
Brighton Swimming Club
A delightful web page about 19th century English men's swimming costumes, with many photos
2023-04-01 brighton • clothing • men • photography • photos • swimming