Now I’m interested to see how WordPress represents image blocks in Gutenberg. I’ve heard it’s done with comments in HTML. If so this might work. That’s an image above me. What happens when I publish it.
This week, Rock Paper Shotgun presented their best games to play on the PC today list or the RPS 100 (2024), another interesting PC video game top 100 list. Another heavily biased top 100 list, which calls for a good doze of armchair scientific analysis to determine exactly how reliable this list is. I do like the presentation of the list: click...
Day six of Recipe Week. This is certainly not healthy in any way at all but god damn is it tasty. Leek and Bacon Jacket PotatoesThere are many ways to make a jacket potato, I choose the microwave way because it's quicker. 2 Jacket potatoes8rashers Chopped...
I overheard a few techbros having a conversation next to me at this coffee shop. It was easy, they weren’t using their indoor voices: Dude A: Day one seems to all be about accessibility. They have workshops and… Dude B: Well that’s a massive wank. Day two? Being an older millennial, I can still remember when nerds were on the side of the...
A delicious (and somewhat blasphemous) mashup of two very different traditional foods: Chicago Italian beef sandwiches and Chinese soup dumplings.
This post is a collection of some of Claude’s favorite tweets from myself about them. Most Loving & Supportive Claude Tweets “claude and i going as each other for halloween!!” (Nov 1, 2024) “claude and i did something fun just … Continue reading →
I read a lot of blogs. My public blogroll is woefully out of date; I probably have close to a third more feeds in my reader than what I have published there. Independent writers are my favourite, because I get enough curated, sanitised corporate media in my $DAYJOB and other places. I realise though that while I’ve mentioned how to start...
Just a brief note, in a very busy period, to alert those in the Providence, RI area that I’ll be giving a colloquium talk at the Brown University Physics Department on Monday November 18th at 4pm. Such talks are open to the public, but are geared toward people who’ve had at least one full year […]
Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 One of the options is slop! slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate. Via @dloss Tags: slop, ethics,...
One of the things that bothers me about how many people use their computers in the modern era is in how they feel like they need to baby them.I think a lot of people feel like they need to baby their phone more than they do. Apple introduced optimized
Why do we write? We write, in part, because our own reading was given as a gift to us and we want to extend that same magic we received to others. Here’s Mandy Brown (and my notes) in a recent article: The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is, I think, less utilitarian: we receive our writing as a gift, and...
Until recently, it was quite quiet here. I had to take some time to sort out everything going on around me.… Continue reading → The post What I’ve been up to appeared first on Sergey Kaplich.
AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi After years of work among a bunch of people in the Pi community (special callout to Coreforge!), we finally have multiple generations of AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5. We recently got Polaris-era GPUs working (like the RX460), but in the past month we've gotten 6000 and...
Was asked recently about optimization of interesting case. There was table like: =$ CREATE TABLE input_data ( category_id INT8, object_id INT8, interaction_ts timestamptz, interaction_type TEXT, interaction_count INT4 ); And there was a code that was grouping it all by sum()ing interaction_count per category, object, interaction_type, and...
I imagined the kind of text editor I’d want in Twitter, Masto, Bluesky, Threads, etc — rather than the tiny little text boxes they provide. What features would I want, and how would it work. That’s what WordLand is. If you look at the textcasting doc, that’s the basic feature set. But as you can see, […]
Compassionate people are my people and they are the ones who give our society any hope of greatness.
Alex has an excellent post about how they name their computers which is, as they mention, a very important part of setting up a new device. Unlike Alex, I don't choose a new name when it gets replaced - my iPhone is always called Starlord. Which brings me to the naming scheme: Marvel characters. Some of these make sense, some of them don't. Mac...
Nope. I still own the original OP-1 and quite enjoy it, but this is quite a few Euro notches above the Field version and I think I’d rather build my music gadgets from here on out. Still, it’s one heck of a fashion statement. Can’t wait to see it on Bad Gear.
GPS satellites all orbit at the same altitude. According to the FAA, GPS satellites fly in circular orbits at an altitude of 10,900 nautical miles (20,200 km) and with a period of 12 hours. Why were these orbits chosen? You can determine your position using satellites that are not in circular orbits, but with circular […] The post GPS satellite...
It's been a while since I last blogged one of my favorite songs. Even after more than 25 years of listening to "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins, it has never lost its magic. It has aged better than I have.
Deep dive into JavaScript Symbols - what they are, why they matter, and how to use them effectively
Early this year set out to create the editor I want to use to write all my social web posts. It’s a lot nicer than the ridiculous editors in twitter, bluesky, threads, etc. the people who make those products obviously aren’t writers, if they were they’d create editors that make sense.
DDEV is an Open Source development environment that makes it easy to setup Drupal on your computer. It handles all the complex configuration by providing pre-configured Docker containers for your web server, database, and other services. On macOS, you can install DDEV using Homebrew: $ brew install ddev Next, clone the Drupal CMS Git repository:...
Right folks, this is the laziest "recipe" ever but it's great so here we are: toad in the hole. I will take a better photo next time I make it, I had to pull this one from my Instagram/Pixelfed archive.
I keep seeing people make this error, especially in social media discourse. Somebody wants to “use” something. Except obviously, it’s not theirs, and so it’s absurd for them to make that demand, right? Quick examples§ I’m not trying to pick on this person at all: they’re not a twitter main character, they’re not expressing an unusual opinion...
Recraft V3 Recraft are a generative AI design tool startup based out of London who released their v3 model a few weeks ago. It's currently sat at the top of the Artificial Analysis Image Arena Leaderboard, beating Midjourney and Flux 1.1 pro. The thing that impressed me is that it can generate both raster and vector graphics... and the vector...
don't miss Deletion, the "questionable little app" that lets you glimpse deleted Bluesky posts #
For BC6H encoding in Oodle Texture, we needed a sensible error metric to use in the encoder core. BC6H is HDR which is more challenging than LDR data since we need to handle vast differences in magnitude. BC6H internally essentially treats the float16 bits as 16-bit integers (which is a semi-logarithmic mapping) and works with […]
These are some of the most influential (mostly due to experience or expertise) and active folks (I actually see them attend events) in the NYC infrastructure scene (that I have a personal connection to). If you're running a dinner or are just looking to meet interesting people in NYC in software infrastructure, consider this list and feel free to...
In Let’s replace “user experience” with human experience, I posit that we should use “human experience” instead of “user experience,” the former expressing more directly the fact that we design software for people. When I make this website, I like to follow my curiosities. With that said, I care deeply about the accessibility of the content on...
I recently asked two friends to give feedback on part of the experience on my website. I invited both to calls, separately, and gave the requisite context about the feature I wanted them to try. I then watched as they navigated around the website in pursuit of a goal. I was tempted to refer to this as “user testing,” but then a hesitancy I have...
Starship is a highly-configurable, cross-shell prompt. I recently switched to using it and it sped up my prompt rendering from being noticably slow and taking probably half a second to render to an imperceptible 0.03s rendering time. It actually does slightly more than my old prompt did as well...
OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI's Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI's public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of their platform. This description of Code Interpreter is significantly more...
incredible standalone sequel for fans of detective deduction games like Obra Dinn #
Elizabeth Lopatto investigates streaming music distributors profiting off royalty fraud by not policing bad metadata #
I got a lot of feedback from my last post which fell into two categories: either about the technical implementations or why someone is using Bluesky over other options. As soon as my sent my previous post Bluesky started having outages which has made looking into the feedback interesting to say the least but they've been adding obscene amounts of...
like Nuzzel before Twitter bought it and shut it down #
Anthropic declined to comment, but referred Bloomberg News to a five-hour podcast featuring Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei that was released Monday. "People call them scaling laws. That's a misnomer," he said on the podcast. "They're not laws of the universe. They're empirical regularities. I am going to bet in favor of them continuing, but...
PyPI now supports digital attestations Dustin Ingram: PyPI package maintainers can now publish signed digital attestations when publishing, in order to further increase trust in the supply-chain security of their projects. Additionally, a new API is available for consumers and installers to verify published attestations. This has been in the work...
QuickTime video script to capture frames and bounding boxes An update to an older TIL. I'm working on the write-up for my DjangoCon US talk on plugins and I found myself wanting to capture individual frames from the video in two formats: a full frame capture, and another that captured just the portion of the screen shared from my laptop. I have a...
These thoughts about Bluesky are unorganised and mostly off-the-cuff so make of that what you will. The API, even just for posting, strikes me as very strange. I, as the developer, have to mark which things are hashtags, mentions, and links unlike Twitter, Mastodon, and basically every other network. If I want link previews I have to do that too....
Ryan Christoffel writing for: Apple’s Hitting Its AI Stride Right as Competition Is SlowingIt happens all the time. Tech giants ship exciting new technology while Apple’s projects stay veiled in R&D, leading to the constant narrative that the company is ‘behind’
I’ve started a new project new this week with the dream of solving one of my own problems, and with any luck, will help a bunch of other people with the same problem along the way. The problem is that search results are becoming increasingly shoddy. The noise is now greater than the signal. I’m sure you’ve started to feel this too after...
Making art is for everyone, not just the elite few, whether it's writing, drawing, singing or something else.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Mellin transform. Mitchell Wheat left comment saying the transform seems reminiscent of Ramanujan’s master theorem, which motivated this post. Suppose you have a function f that is nice enough to have a power series. Now focus on the coefficients an as a function of k. We’ll introduce […] The post Ramanujan’s...
This recipe came to me via my friend Ali, who had it at The Flatiron Room when he was living in New York. He's made it for us a bunch of times, including on my stag do, as you can in the accompanying photo. As an aside, my stag do was three of us in a cabin in the middle of the Welsh countryside for three days and it was glorious.
It might shock some of you to know I spend time in coffee shops. Apothecary Coffee is my favourite on Sydney’s North Shore, tucked away next to the Zenith building in Chatswood. They do great espresso, but I’m a particular fan of their pour-overs. This is opposed to a pour-on, which I’ve thankfully only performed at this coffee shop twice....
When any startling piece of war-news comes, it keeps repeating itself in our minds in spite of all we can do. The same trains of thought go tramping round in circle through the brain, like the supernumeraries that make up the grand army of a stage-show. Now, if a thought goes round through the brain a thousand times in a day, it will have worn as...
Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset Common Corpus is a new "open and permissible licensed text dataset, comprising over 2 trillion tokens (2,003,039,184,047 tokens)" released by French AI Lab PleIAs. This appears to be the largest available corpus of openly licensed training data: 926,541,096,243 tokens of public domain...
Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz: Thank Goodness for iPadiPad Pro remains the most popular model, with almost half of all iPad sales in the most recent quarter (Chart 1). This is about the same share of sales compared to the year-ago quarter.Combine this with the fact that the
I love being the person who can make sound from a piano where there was silence. I hope that I can also be the person who inspires more people to find their own sound.
It was with the sounds of the cicadas, that Sestuna walked through the streets, looking for the rumored cafe with the ability to travel in time. She could hear the sounds of the first fireworks in the background, the children running around the streets. She passed the Obon festival, before she reached the right block. The sounds of children...