Trimming dependencies. I wish we did that at work

P.S. oh how poorly raindrop behaves! Titles, links, descriptions — all trimmed, for reader's inconvenience. They should've used Betula.

cute pixtures

Zine on decentralized tech and other open stuff. Good design, many pages. Is it really a zine at this point?

via astynax

When a player starts a session, they are the car driver, and each person that joins is seated in one of the other three passenger seats.

Players are automatically connected via voice chat.

The radios stations are real-life internet radio streams and several of them are available in the game world.

An alternative to the World Wide Web

TL;DR: You can request a Linux manual page version of a blog post with the following HTTP request:

curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff" https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/28/programming-projects/ > post.page && man ./post.page

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

Designed to be embedded. A Lisp!

Libre audio books. Recommended by Flancian.

All about hypertext!

The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.

Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing left to do is to pick our poison.

This is actually why I prefer Safari.

The keyboard is cute! A symmetrical layout. 3 keys for fingers, except for the index, which has 6; 3 thumbs. Low profile.

The bridge spider uses its web as an engineered “external ear” up to 10,000 times the size of its body, according to a preprint study posted to bioRxiv on October 18. The discovery, which has not yet been peer reviewed, challenges many assumptions that scientists have held for years about how spiders and potentially other arthropods navigate and interact with the world around them.

“Evolutionarily speaking, spiders are just weird animals,” Jessica Petko, a Pennsylvania State University York biologist who didn’t work on the new study, writes in an email to The Scientist. “While it has been long known that spiders sense sound vibration with sensory hairs on their legs, this paper is the first to show that orb weaving spiders can amplify this sound by building specialized web structures.”