Tedu wrote a tool that lets you handle errors in Go like this:

func decomp(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
        fd := ^os.Open(filename)
        defer fd.Close()
        zd := ^gzip.NewReader(fd)
        data := ^io.ReadAll(zd)
        return data, nil
}

Funky!

Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids in games

Plain text Moby-dick.

15 years ago, Apple helped the US government develop a custom iPod for clandestine missions. Of course, neither Apple nor the US government will admit this ever happened. Former Apple engineer and inadvertent intelligence operative David Shayer tells the story of the iPod that never existed.

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable. Following these guidelines which utilize environment, social, and governance (ESG) principles throughout the decision-making processes, you can minimize your environmental impact through a mixture of user-centered design, performant web development, renewable infrastructure, sustainable business strategy, and (with metrics) various combinations of those mentioned. It should be noted that these guidelines will not address every possible mechanism or strategy to become sustainable, as such, these guidelines (which are notably Web orientated and focused) should be seen as a starting point in a sustainability journey (coverage does not extend for example to manufacturing or shipping of physical products). Following these guidelines will often make Web content more accessible, usable, and performant as a by-product.

Big text!

Author says Go is good because it's stuck in the 70s. Also tells a bit how the 70s were like. Mentions IBM 360, Oberon and whatnot.

Try to out smart the cat! Don't let him escape. This game is addicting, be forewarned!

Simple but fun game. I want to port it to uxn or something someday...

Zim is a notepad like desktop application that is inspired by the way people use wikis.

A minimalist coding environment. Control 16x16 points with a single JavaScript function.

What can be left out.

You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way.

I never really used XHTML, but this article lists some useful tricks with HTML.

esoteric videogame

Decode the control glyph and challenge strange entities in a short audiovisual composition / videogame hybrid.

Wanna play.

Flus est une plateforme pour agréger, stocker et partager votre veille autour de vous.

These works became public domain in 2023. There are good works I've read/watched and enjoyed too!

Les maisons-ponts ont été très populaires à Venise, Florence et Bath, mais désormais aussi en Suisse. Après avoir échoué pour la quatrième fois dans sa tentative de rejoindre l'Union européenne, la Suisse se concentre sur sa position géographique stratégique.

Мосты-дома!

Deep in a forest in the Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a castle the medieval way — no motorized machines included.

Very cool! I wanna see it.

Schroeder finds out he doesn't need Sitelen Mute, his custom gallery static site generator, anymore, since his wiki can host images just fine. It just shows how universal wikis are again!

Spreadsheet for uxn. Minimal but might be usable.

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

Я заметил, что люди постоянно задают одни и те же вопросы в чатах, интервью и радиоэфирах, и приходится объяснять снова и снова. При этом мне и самому было интересно разобраться, узнал для себя несколько новых вещей, пока вникал. Например, почему даже гонять полупустой автобус с гармошкой — не самая плохая идея.

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything

An unofficial Google Nearby Share app for macOS

Правда ли это? Не шляпа ли?

COUNTER-N is a web-based publishing, exchange, and research collection curated by Shintaro Miyazaki and Özgün Eylül İşcen.

Glass frogs move all their blood to their liver at night to become almost invisible. Cute!

A good overview of Solresol.

Overcoming limitations of text email.

2010-era discussion. They generally agree it's a bad netiquette. Here in 2020-era I agree.

Now I use my inbox as a to do list of sorts. Emails are only there as long as they're relevant. Confirmation of a table reservation at a restaurant? It's at most relevant until the date of the booking has past. Archive it.

A recent article has prompted me to rethink my position on self-hosted email as being a lost cause. I may be coming to a different conclusion than its author.

A response to 738.

You cannot set up a home email server.

You cannot set it up on a VPS.

You cannot set it up on your own datacenter.

an email-based bookmarking service

Good considerations. Did I tell you I want to have a eink cyberdeck?

Make is logic.

Civilization leaves very few traces detectable centuries later. What if there were advanced civilizations that we didn't know of? Whale civilizations?

Xah dislikes Clojure for the reasons listed.