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100% agree that _should_ be totally unacceptable, but how many of these small businesses will actually care? Especially those which are primarily or exclusively non-technical

This is absolutely fantastic.

I've thought before about trying to render skies on the web as a series of gradients overlaid on top of one another. I expect I could have had some level of success and gotten some mediocre results, but it would be nothing compared to what you've created.

Thank you so much for sharing this; it's inspirational, must have taken you a very long time to put together, and I'm blown away by your results.

Is anyone else just getting this?

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To play devil’s advocate^, wouldn’t it be plagiarism if it didn’t?

^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.

It’s either worth it or it will be a very, very short lived experiment. $3k is not even a fraction of a fraction of what you could call pocket change to Meta, of course.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Parsing dates with anything other than fromisoformat feels totally backwards in comparison. We were using ciso8601 until fromisoformat was in the standard library. And now things are incredibly simple and reliable.

What are your thoughts on people self hosting their own websites and blogs instead of posting to big tech platforms? I’d say that extra openness was a good thing. I absolutely believe in privacy as well, and think ownership is important too.

I built https://dailyalbum.art/ to solve a part of the browsing problem you're talking about. Nothing physical I'm afraid, but I do really love this RFID tap to play idea!

I've curated a list of 500+ critically acclaimed albums, which I continue to add to as the Mercury Prize nominees are announced each year, Rough Trade releases its albums of the year, etc.

It picks 12 a day and that's that; it's the same 12 for everyone. If you see something familiar, you might want to go for that. Or if you're in the mood for something new & different, you can give something unknown a try.

Thanks for the info, that does help me understand what's going on in the protocol.

I suppose I was thinking about the app responsible for getting the data into, say, Leaflet's local database in the first place. For that app, the data structures you describe are the APIs that it consumes, for the sole purpose of populating its own database.

That gets my cogs whirring about how good a use-case this would be for SQLite. I suppose it would be somewhat appropriate for a small, private, PDS? Although, if I understand correctly, I wouldn't need to worry about that anyway if I'm using some off-the shelf PDS software, e.g. https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

I'm pretty new to the at:// protocol, and I like what I'm reading, thanks for the write-up.

To your "This is not done by hitting an API" point; if I understand correctly, I'd argue that the _endpoints_ that you detail in your post _are_ the API. The whole point is that there's no single _central_ API, but each server that wants to be part of the network participates by hosting an API that meets the standard outlined in the protocol.

In a way it's semantics, but I'd be interested in yours thoughts on that. To either correct or confirm my understanding.

If you add storage to the network you can store the surplus renewable generation for later dispatch, Europe's largest just went online: https://archive.is/p9qsS

> If you can remember it any modern computer can guess it in a short time.

That's not true. A long sentence of your choosing is easy to memorise and plenty long enough to not be able to be guessed by a computer (brute force).

I’ve been using it for a couple of years and would add that it’s probably the density of high quality results that’s better, rather than the best results being better than Google.

In other words, there are fewer low quality results which raises the average quality of the results you’re presented with

Something that I believe sets chess aside from most other pursuits (e.g. sports, other games) is the lack of luck; it’s almost all skill. You and your opponent both have everything laid out in front of you, and if you’re skilled enough you can see more than they see, etc etc

Dark patterns quite often come up here but rarely seem to make it into the mainstream media

Wait, what?! There is such a thing as a bond (glue) that will “debond” by applying a voltage? And that’s built into every iPhone 16?

Gone are the days of sketchily using a hairdryer, apparently.

Really cool! I want this for my own vinyl so I can physically flip through my collection (with nfc tags stuck on) then place my sleeve of choice on a stand (with embedded nfc reader) to listen to the “vinyl” without having to touch a computer. That would be amazing and you’ve just proved it’s totally doable.

Totally agree. I’ve found goaccess to be the perfect tool for this. No tracking at all on the user’s side and enough information in the logs for me to get a feel for how much traffic I’m getting.

There was a post here recently about anonymising the IP addresses in the logs to be absolutely sure that you don’t end up collecting any personally identifying information (PII).

I added an alias `cm='cd $(chezmoi source-path)'` to my shell config to cd to the chezmoi directory (without opening a new shell) so I can use all the usual commands (e.g. git) without need the chezmoi prefix. The alias is in a chezmoi-managed file, naturally.

Thanks for writing about what was at times an unpleasant experience with such care and attention to detail

It's the same with a sufficiently narrow browser window on my laptop.

Firefox: https://i.ibb.co/NW69hK2/carousel.png

Have you tried this in a mobile browser? I’m seeing the headline cut off because the page ends up being wider than my viewport because of the position of the later carousel elements.

It otherwise looks great but the side scrolling is too much of a compromise for me.

I’m using Safari on iPhone.

I stand corrected :)

This is impressive Matt, and I love the design system GDS has developed, but I'm not sure they want non-government services to use the system. From the second link you posted:

> Use this design system to make *government* services consistent with GOV.UK

Emphasis mine. Are GDS aware of this work? I am in no way affiliated with GDS by the way.

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I'm always wary of this kind of thing not being on a gov.uk domain, which in this case is entirely appropriate because it's not in anyway official or endorsed by GDS. Not for any direct phishing/crooks concerns as raised above, but because it waters down the impact of this kind of thing always being on gov.uk domains.

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Edit: I'd be _very_ surprised if GDS don't take issue with you having "GOV.UK" in the name given that it is no way associated with gov.uk

Isn't that the point though? Plastic's only cheaper when you're thinking short term and have externalised any non-material costs – which is exactly how capitalism has set us up to think.

Where do you propose we go instead?

That one’s useful too. If you know a few Fibonacci numbers you can convert miles to kilometres and vice versa with ease.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 …

21 km is ~13 miles, 13 km is ~8 miles, etc.

A 26 mile marathon? Must be ~42km.

Same for speed limits too; 34 mph is ~55 kmh

Figure 1 is somehow beautiful in it's chaotic dis/organised structure, a representation of the whole internet, something which us humans now so heavily rely on

ipv6 yadda yadda yadda

As a Brit that map at the bottom is very confusing. A Bristol not to far from a Glastonbury, ok yeah, that makes sense but the map mustn't be north-oriented. Oh, and what's Manchester doing so close to Glastonbury, and that's not where Durham would be, or Norwich, or New Haven. Hmm.. and I didn't think we had a _New_ London.

https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/da3386ad-a465-4e41-834e-354...

Also, Cheshire is a county in the north of England so the whole article was very confusing from the get go as to where this station was located. Here it is on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aEWT2L6QYqntYDDz5

Bolton, Kensington, Oxford, Coventry, and—slightly left field—Berlin are also nearby.

It only affects AeroSpace.

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