The Dunning-Kruger effect states that incompetent people overestimate their competence. You've heard of that before, probably. Turns out, there is a major error in the statistics: the effect is actually nothing more than an autocorrelation. If we measure the stuff correctly, the effect disappears.

An archiving HTTP proxy and on-disk archival format for websites.

Domestic animals are sensitive to human cues that facilitate inter-specific communication, including cues to emotional state. The eyes are important in signalling emotions, with the act of narrowing the eyes appearing to be associated with positive emotional communication in a range of species. This study examines the communicatory significance of a widely reported cat behaviour that involves eye narrowing, referred to as the slow blink sequence. Slow blink sequences typically involve a series of half-blinks followed by either a prolonged eye narrow or an eye closure. Our first experiment revealed that cat half-blinks and eye narrowing occurred more frequently in response to owners’ slow blink stimuli towards their cats (compared to no owner–cat interaction). In a second experiment, this time where an experimenter provided the slow blink stimulus, cats had a higher propensity to approach the experimenter after a slow blink interaction than when they had adopted a neutral expression. Collectively, our results suggest that slow blink sequences may function as a form of positive emotional communication between cats and humans.

Focus on your text and let Typst take care of layout and formatting. Sign up now and speed up your writing process.

Gotta try someday? Maybe layout my future zine with it?

Пасы — это система графических знаков чаще геометрической формы, содержащая информацию о происхождении и родственных связях конкретного человека. Пас-основа передавался от отца к младшему сыну в неизменном виде, а к старшим сыновьям — трансформируясь с помощью добавления новых деталей или изменения его расположения.

Now split into three separate packages. Still in Python.

Analyze how a Git repo grows over time

See how I use it:

• https://mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/git_of_theseus

A list of personal websites that run personal software.

We've read tens of articles like this. Let's read another one!

Cartographist is an ‘experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing’ notable for its paned user interface. It is written in Node JS. I haven't tried it out yet.

See also blog announcement. The development seems stalled.

via kirillpogo 2021-06-04

via kirillpogo 2021-06-04

Programming fonts are stuck in the past. Proportional typesetting is everywhere and
there is no reason why you can’t use it for code.

Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.

woob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.

Tedu wrote a terminal and an article about it. Also links two other articles of his on the topic, which I also betulized. Writing your own terminal sounds fun!

UPD: there was a third other article released later, which I didn't particularly like.

Find a web page made by an IndieWeb community member.

Let's look at Indie Search Engines and what they build themselves with

The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.

The author argues that many relations can be represented with hyperlinks. He is right though. A good read.

Там творятся удивительные вещи.

Одна из основных целей проекта - кардинальное внедрение русского языка во всю систему, включая (хотя бы частичный) перевод исходных текстов на русский язык. ЯОС может работать как приложение в окне под Linux или Windows, а также в виде обособленной операционной системы на оборудовании x86 и ARM (поддерживаются платы Zybo Z7-10 и Raspberry Pi 2). Код написан на языке Active Oberon и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

Проект выступает основой для развития идей русскоязычного программирования, повышения комфорта работы с кириллицей и русским языком, опробования на практике разных подходов к вопросам терминологии и к глубине перевода. В отличие от существующих русскоязычных языков программирования, таких как 1С, Кумир и Глагол, проект нацелен на предоставление операционной системы полностью на русском языке, в которой переведён в том числе код загрузчика, ядра, компилятора и драйверов.

Активный Оберон — база, его русский вариант должен, соответственно, быть базой.

• Длинный пример кода

Manu Chao's website

Minimizing your keyboard layout is a slippery slope.
34-keys has been reasonably comfortable to use, for both prose and program. My palms do not move across the desk at all, as I reach for keys. I mostly write Rust and Bash, and my layout has evolved to accomodate special characters from their grammars (angled brackets and hyphens, specifically). If you are on a similar journey, I would suggest focusing on accuracy and comfort over speed. Speed comes with time.

A teacher says that one should teach programming with a programming language that was designed for that. Oberon, for example.

A database of 3d models of toy parts. There's also a Gameboy battery lid there.

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me

An archaic ZUI program. You can download it and find the docs and papers on this site. Gotta try it one day. Will I be able to run it on modern macOS?

An interview with Kinopio's creator.

One can make diesel by burning plastic and make a car go with that diesel! The biggest problem is that in the process of burning too much emissions are produced.

A linter for Go that finds nil panics. It found several potential nil panic in Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases that I didn't bother fixing.

• https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway/

Emersion is making a cool tool called pyonji for easier git patch sending. Good UX.

Bezier curve implementation for numpy. Helping me with an assignment! Thank you author.

Ого сайт танкеток.

Предлагается такая форма стихов для русского языка, вдохновлённая хайку. Две строчки и шесть слогов. Пример:

Сибирь
гиперссылка

CW: spiders

Web-inspired harp-like music instrument. Cool!

A fresh take on typesetting

Вастрик сравнивает программистов, которым по работе надо постоянно выбрасывать свой код, с фермерами, которые при первой необходимости забивают свой скот. Говорит, что пет-проекты — это уже питомцы, и о них уже можно заботиться.

Гайдлайны для создания DSL, 26 шт. В принципе они применимы и для языков общего назначения.

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

A big list of cool paper organization techniques. I love this topic. If you ever visit me in Ufa, let me show my organized binders.