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I’m building an image sharing site (just for me and a couple of friends) that tries to emulate the old days of Flickr and Instagram. Chronological feed, no recommendation algorithm…

A nice nostalgia hit. The "Bondi blue" iMac was my first workplace computer, for a local council. I had Photohop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress, making websites, banner graphics(!), …

An icon is kind of “visual shorthand”: a way to leverage peripheral vision and pre-attentive processing so a user can understand a control's purpose in milliseconds. The user won't…

He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”

See also: https://www.wikitok.io/ And a plug for my own (fiendishly difficult) Wikipedia-based game: https://studiowgx.willgrant.org/wikipedia-golf/

Why did I see graphite on the roof?

Try searching Reddit, I just found some lists. I’ve given up and instead just don’t allow things on my network. My “smart” TV begs me to see the network but I just use a Roku inste…

Interesting! >Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured environm…

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The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group based in Germany that tracks support from foreign governments toward Ukraine, estimates that the U.S. has allocated about…

I recall getting a DC tour of LON3 and being totally blown away by it all as a 20-something web dev. Good times.

Is there a viable way for me to make every site load like this (iOS)? And optimally toggle back to the “full site” if I want to.

Add to that: Floating Points, Rival Consoles, Brian Eno…

Thank you for this! You just unlocked some old memories of “Digitiser” which led me here: https://teletextart.co.uk/artists/paul-rose-mr-biffo

Text of the letter: Corsewall Light & Fog Signal Station, Sept 4th 1892. This lantern was erected by James Wells Engineer, John Westwood Millwright, James Brodie Engineer, David Sc…

I find the EFF site perfectly readable. Not sure what you’re experiencing but it looks fine to me.