All pages - GbdevWiki
still a lot of info here that isn't anywhere else
Flexflex
a "typeface that responts to spatial requirements rather than imposing them" implemented as a JavaScript library; follows additional constraints like not using any non-diagonal straight lines
Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
I didn't want to bookmark this, but then I found myself swimming through my history to find it, because I wanted to make fun of it, so here we are
Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect
very good list
How to use computing power faster: on the weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI | Gauthier Roussilhe
"[T]he semiconductor industry needs to sell more and more powerful chips to maintain its economies of scale. It is therefore necessary for demand for computing power to increase year on year, at the same rate as gains in computing power." ... goes on to convincingly argue that adoption of AI services lags behind what's nnecessary to "consume" semiconductor production capacity. Model providers are caught in a double bind between reducing per-token marginal costs through increased efficiency and needing to keep semiconductor manufacturers afloat: "What is changing here is the growing interdependence of investment in AI and the insane capitalization of the industry, as exemplified by Nvidia."
Blackface in the machine AKA Who are these Niggas? — J. Clark Comics
"Minstrel shows were popular for two reasons. First it allowed white people to revel in all of the most base and hateful Black stereotypes in public. It validated all of their treatment of real Black people and turned that hate into entertainment. But secondly it allowed for a bit of taboo fantasy.... The audience got to engage with Blackness indirectly and yet still feel like they were experiencing something authentic. Another identity they could pick up and put down at will. What these AI creations make clear is that desire hasn’t gone away in the passing century."
US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology | Truthout
"Campuses have historically been sites of inquiry, dissent, and transformation, not laboratories for digital repression, and we must fight to keep them that way. We must reject the narrative that surveillance is inevitable. It is not. It is a political choice, made behind closed doors, mostly without consent or oversight of those who are affected the most."
AI for Good [Appearance?] | AI Accountability Lab
"The general global trend towards authoritarianism, censorship and silencing of academics, journalists alike that stand up for fundamental rights, the rule of law, and justice is difficult to deal with in the current climate. But for a Summit that supposedly claims that 'AI for Good remains firmly aligned with the collective priorities of the international community' and '[…] it is our responsibility to ensure that no one is left behind', to then censor an invited keynote speaker that advocates for confronting difficult issues and engaging in self-reflection, is doubly disheartening."
millfork | Millfork: a middle-level programming language targeting 6502- and Z80-based microcomputers and home consoles
"a middle-level programming language for 8-bit microprocessors" focused on "performance, compactness, simplicity and readability"
Old Organizers Collection
"This is the biggest collection of monochrome electronic organizers, text and graphic PDA's, older brothers of nowadays multimedia handheld devices in the WORLD." an invaluable resource tbh
Chris Covell's Epoch Game Pocket Computer page
"a handheld game system released by large Japanese toy manufacturer Epoch in 1984/85. For its time, it was quite advanced as far as videogames go, sporting a 75x64 pixel B&W dot-matrix display, interchangeable game cartridges, a circular D-pad, and six action/selection buttons." it's a cutie!
The typographic irregular - by Paul Soulellis
"Can the refusal to deliver perfect legibility be an act of care, a worldview, an intentional practice, even? Deviant design—hand-made letterforms, odd spacing, crowded pages, encoded messages, mimicry, unpredictability—exposes labor and reveals the messiness of political life and work in the collective. Some kind of evidence of human life is made real there in the disruption of the perfect read, in the slowed-down act of reading variant bodies of design that makes felt the work of shaping language."
Wikifunctions
"Wikifunctions is a Wikimedia project for everyone to collaboratively create and maintain a library of code functions to support the Wikimedia projects and beyond.... We are currently primarily focused on functions related to Wikidata Lexemes. The Lexicographical data from Wikidata and functions to process it are essential for the goal of an Abstract Wikipedia." lots of interesting implementations of nlproc-related stuff!
Welcome to the Gameboy Emulator Development Guide! | GBEDG
incomplete but has some very thorough documentation
Engine Lines: Killing by Numbers - by atomless - *less
"[B]eyond the parsing of a vast deluge of data and the instant generation of thousands of target predictions, it is the impunity from responsibility garnered from this deceptive temporal displacement of human agency —and the clear consciences this affords— that is perhaps the key value proposition for the current users of the system. Why unnecessarily burden the psyche of a valuable soldier —already grieving their own losses— if blood on hands and atrocities on consciences can be avoided by having the machines automate away the inconvenient trauma of cold-blooded mass-murder (or at least the perceived responsibility for it)?"
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
"... it's hard to credit the conservative movement with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty, and their gleeful celebration of it suggests that this isn't about hard-nosed pragmatism, but rather a genuine desire for evil things to happen."
umbrella/packages/text-analysis at develop · thi-ng/umbrella
nice little text analysis library for javascript
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
"If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea. It is the greatest threat to your business model. You have to destroy the idea that things are worth doing."
live laugh blog | my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options
praise for digital ocean and val.town
Alternative Layout System
"This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts" with downloadable scripts for indesign. very cool