jonnyscholes

Gosh it's hard not to enjoy this, even as an artist who is uneasy about the whole GenAI image thing. Having said that, I'm temporarily comforted at how ugly a lot of the abstract paintings are once animated.

I used the original SAM (alongside Grounding DINO) to create an ever growing database of all the individual objects I see as I go about my daily life. It automatically parses all the photos I take on my Meta Raybans and my phone along with all my laptop screenshots. I made it for an artwork that's exhibiting in Australia, and it will likely form the basis of many artworks to come.

I haven't put it up on my website yet (and proper documentation is still coming) so unfortunately the best I can do is show you an Instagram link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C98t1hlzDLx/?igsh=MWxuOHlsY2lvdT...

Not exactly functional, but fun . Artwork aside it's quite interesting to see your life broken into all its little bits. Provides a new perspective (apparently, there are a lot more teacups in my life than I notice).

Fair point. I'd be the first to admit I have rose tinted glasses about those early years! And also the first to grumble at those who came later...

For me there's 2 things:

Whilst being post-dotcom, where a lot of the internet was worked out technically, culturally platforms were still only just starting out. It was before social network UIs all looked the same and there was a play book for creating a network for X. Small communities were thriving and they all still had control of their ecosystems. Internet "mediums" were still in a state of flux on all fronts.

It was the start of "the masses" coming online and creating profiles - but they came online through things like MSN spaces, MySpace and geocities. Which were a lot less sanitized than today's equivalents. Everyday people experimented with their pages the same way teenages do with their bedroom walls. They looked awful, but the medium was alive.

Both of these made me feel more like making for the sake of making was less linked to ego. And overall every community I was part of was still innovating on the medium as much as their niche (be it art, netsec, photography, local history etc).

The parallels I'm thinking of in particular are both artists rushing to the platforms and trying digital art for the first time (admittedly many driven by $$). Meanwhile community leaders are having to deal with new technical, cultural and governance issues - many of which are novel issues imo.

That's fair, and perhaps for you that true. But 99-05ish are the internet years that I remember as the most creative. It was well before everyones IRL persona was mirrored online, which is when I saw a dramatic shift in what people created online (at least where I lived). Broadly speaking it become less about experimenting with the medium and more about broadcasting what already existed.

The communities I came across were for the most part making for the sake of making. And plenty of them were building new things and experimenting.

Everyone's experience is relative. Perhaps my experiences are rose tinted by nostalgia.

All that is to say, I observe aspects of some NFT (or crypto) communities feel the same to me - new mediums, new challenges and a new excitement around them.

* However I do still think that there is a huge NFT/crypto bubble and there is cataclysmic amounts fud.

This is my experience. Hicentnunc (and the tezos community at large) is the closest I've felt to 00s internet culture/content which got me hooked on programming.

Although perhaps paradoxically, I suspect the barrier to entry is part of this.

Full disclosure: I hold a small amount of tezos.

Product looks great and I look forward to working with it, but they should think about how to solve the drag-trap on mobile for these types of experiences. I literally had to scroll by touching my finger on the top menu and flicking. Google maps eventually move to a two finger drag on mobile to fix this...

This is particularly true on iPads. Instagram has clearly decided it's not worth the engineering effort to adapt Instagram (a multi billion dollar asset) for iPad. No matter - add the PWA to your homescreen!

There's a bot on Reddit that summarizes articles, I see it on r/worldnews. It does a pretty good job most of the time. Looks like it's based on smmry [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotl...

[1] https://smmry.com/

Can confirm PB&H is a thing in Aus - however peanutbutter and Vegimite is where it's at

This comment is just as applicable to the sibling comment here and many others, I don't mean to pick. Peace.

I've seen this comment and reserved comment a few times but here we go...

Sure, Standard on the face of it seems simple technologically, and compared to many other things it is. But it's value lies in completely removing long winded and often unnecessary conversations within teams about code style.

Standard represents a standard style of writing JS that has gained widespread support (similar to Airbnb's linter config). It's value is that a team can adopt broadly sane conventions then never think about it again - which leaves those dev cycles for shipping features. Without widespread use, Standard would be just another linter config - but large parts of the JS ecosystem (regardless of what people think of JS) have adopted it and as a result it has saved the world a million conversations that "didn't need to happen".

If you care enough about style to not pick their choices, you're free not to use it. But for a lot of us we just want a broadly accepted opinion so we can focus on features.

And as it turns out, maintaining a style guide for how to write JS for the masses takes quite a lot of work. Not writing code necessarily, but considering and replying to all the feedback on that style.

Not for or against the funding project - but within the JS ecosystem Standard has meant many hundreds of hours that might have been spent biked shedding, have been spent shipping features.

Standard has been genuinely useful to myself and pretty much every other JS developer I know. And whilst I'm in no position to speak to weather I'm junior or not I know a lot of the most experienced programmers in the JS ecosystem reach for Standard so they can focus on more important matters.

It's not JS that has such opinions enshrined in law, Python for example has pep8.

I think it's for running nodejs not "browser js" (via aws lambda or similar) without leaving the browser. I guess it's novel because it makes it easier to execute random nodejs?

What if they clash (eh user/package exist both on npmjs.com and GitHub)? Does it go through each of the configured repositories in sequence looking for a match?

Site took ages to load for me. For a moment I thought it was a clever statement about the state of websites in 2019, before realising it's probably being pounded with traffic.

Whilst also maintaining a great developer experience too! I'd never enjoyed working with CMS' until I met Wagtail.

2.4 just got it's first release candidate and has a bunch of enhancements aimed at first time users so it's a good time to give it a go!

Interesting idea... Kind of reminds me of (part of) the role artist managers have. Many (but certainly not all) artists find time management near impossible and need someone checking in constantly. Many (again definitely not all) also are technaphobes who do whatever they can do get away from digital tools. A human todo list might well appeal to them.

I think there could be a niche version or this service for that industry - esp if the "bosses" in this service were vetted in a way an artist could know they understand the industry. I could see some mid-high level artists paying for this (esp if social/marketing were slapped on top). Might need to be localised somewhat though...

As a complete aside if anyone running the business is reading this I found the centered text for everything inc body copy pretty hard to read. Solid website overall though.

Yes :) Companies have actually been able to manage the details that come up in the knowledge graph box for a while now via Google My Business. Posts now allow you to add updates from the company to that box.

Which as someone who had been asked to fix wrong information in Google search results dozens of times over the years is a god send!

Not really - these posts are part of the knowledge graph box (which can already be controlled by a company if it's a company result). They aren't mixed in with the actual search results (although on mobile the knowledge graph box can appear above a search results depending on the search/context).

I've never heard of this phenomenon and find it interesting as someone who does advocate for such policies from time to time. I'd love to read some reasearch on the topic if you have any? (Genuinely interested not trolling).

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Phew!

Down from Aus too - can't find anything about it from their status page or Twitter account. We just moved back from (free) self hosted to a paid hosted account :(

Edit: Turns out we're both from Aus :party:

I assume you're talking about CSS columns? Again they're not designed for layout - it's designed specifically for newspaper style columns of text where it doesn't matter which piece of text flows into which column. To use it for layout requires hacks or luck to adhear closely to designs. Pre-grid and flex I spent many hours of my life dealing with oddities around CSS columns - my life is in a much better place now not having to resort to it!

inline-block isn't designed for layout - so you get side effects like the preservation of whitespace which you have to use hacks to resolve. Sure it works - but flex-wrap is a syntactically correct solution that doesn't require hacks.

Sorry I just linked to the first one that looked right as I was on the move. Flexible height is definitely possible as we're using it that in prod. Here's another examplei found with working flexible height :)

https://codepen.io/Kseso/pen/ZJbEMe/

+1 This is a great solution that doesn't take a huge amount of time to implement. Esp if you only use CSS Grid for 2d layouts and use flex for which has decent IE11 support for laying out components (where mobile is often just stacked 100% width components).

A good way to bring a client round is to explain that the time saved on making IE11 pixel perfect is better spent adding features elsewhere.

CSS grid can do this! Sure not as freedom as a JS implementation but its good enough in 95% of scenarios in my experience! https://codepen.io/balazs_sziklai/pen/mOwoLg (not my code - just one of the examples on codepen)

Then yeah CSS grid is not right for that project. But not everyone is in that camp - and some are a bit of both. We have clients like yours and then many others that don't even need IE11 based on their stats. The money saved because we can use more efficient tech like CSS grid mean more time to add features!

(All our websites work in IE11 - they're just allowed to be "visually different from the approved designs" - it's a pretty good compromise for many clients!)