bouncepaw's links

2069.

Britannia (atlas) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_(atlas)

There used to be atlases of so-called “strip maps”, which are in a way precursors to modern navigators and metro line maps. The artist put less emphasis on legibility than modern designers do; they cared more about decorations. Beautiful!

history,map

2054.

alecthomas/participle: A parser library for Go

github.com/alecthomas/participle

type INI struct {
  Properties []*Property `@@*`
  Sections   []*Section  `@@*`
}

type Section struct {
  Identifier string      `"[" @Ident "]"`
  Properties []*Property `@@*`
}

type Property struct {
  Key   string `@Ident "="`
  Value *Value `@@`
}

type Value struct {
  String *string  `  @String`
  Float *float64  `| @Float`
  Int    *int     `| @Int`
}

go,library,parsing

2010.

Are We Decentralized Yet?

arewedecentralizedyet.online

A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services

Fediverse: yes
The Atmosphere and Git forges: no

bluesky,fediverse,forge

1828.

Adjectives That Start With B | List & Examples

quillbot.com/blog/word-finder/adjectives-that-start-with-b

english

1779.

Российская федерация Го

gofederation.ru

Меня опять очаровал го. Может, вступить? Первого марта Кубок мэра Казани, но судя по рейтингу участников, мне там делать нечего. Надо разузнать про сообщество, короче.

go_game,russia

1765.

Providing HTML Content Using Htmx

docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/how-tos/providing-html-content-using-htmx.html

HTMX in PostgREST!

create or replace function api.index() returns "text/html" as $$
  select $html$
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    ...
    </html>
  $html$;
$$ language sql;

database,htmx

1712.

Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology

collapseos.org

future,operating_system,sustainability

1419.

VK Teams Bot API

teams.vk.com/botapi/tutorial

Yet another dialect of Markdown here!

markdown

1301.

Directory enquiries

adactio.com/journal/19342

Search engines put their money on computation, or to use today’s parlance, algorithms (or if you’re really shameless, AI). Directories put their money on humans. Good ol’ information architecture.

It turned out that computation scaled faster than humans. Search won out over directories.

search

Reposted 1078.

C Preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms

github.com/pfultz2/Cloak/wiki/C-Preprocessor-tricks,-tips,-and-idioms

c

1071.

Barcoding bees - The Apiarist

theapiarist.org/barcoding-bees

Scientist labeled a colony of bees with QR codes and observed what happened. Turned out, information flow in the colony is pretty effective, it's not just random. Also I learned of trophallaxis.

biology,machine_learning

1000.

Truly Forever Computers

sebastian.graphics/blog/truly-forever-computers.html

Semiconductors are not sustainable, we need mechanical relays for a truly sustainable computer.

computer,sustainability

870.

Plastic Waste in the Fuel Tank? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/11/plastic-waste-in-the-fuel-tank

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.

ecology,transport

788.

КИТАЙСКИЕ СТИХИ, ДЗЭН И ЧАЙНАЯ КОМНАТА

t.me/HaikuDaily/1491

Как же японцы читают китайские стихи? По-китайски? Самое интересное, что нет.

Японцы читают, конечно же, по-японски - переставляя слова согласно японской грамматике и добавляя японские окончания, которые пишут азбукой. Если китайский текст длинный, то сбоку приписывают специальные символы, которые подсказывают, в каком порядке нужно читать иероглифы по-японски.

掬水月在手
水を掬すれば月、手に在り

china,japan,poetry

595.

Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/why-we-need-a-speed-limit-for-the-internet

The energy use of the internet can only stop growing when energy sources run out, unless we impose self-chosen limits.

ecology,internet,todo

524.

Post Collapse Computing Part 1: The Crisis is Here – Space and Meaning

blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2022/08/24/post-collapse-computing-1

Tetralogy. The climate catastrophe is two years away (just by the time I'll finish the bachelor degree).

To save the planet, actions are needed. They are not done.

Also, further parts of the series talk about software.

if we fail to mitigate the climate crisis, we’re headed for a world where it’s expensive or impossible to get new hardware, where electrical power is scarce, internet access is not the norm, and cloud services don’t exist anymore or are largely inaccessible due to lack of internet.

ecology,programming

161.