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.

Agile Project Management & Software Engineering

Building a so-called “Game Boy Macro” is a great way to salvage a Nintendo DS that has a broken hinge or top screen, as the system only needs the lower display to play Game Boy Advance