AI as a Fascist Artifact
"The singularity is MAGA for nerds. A fascist narrative used to undermine everyone’s right and ability to envision futures." (among various other quotables)
Neo6502 - Open Source Hardware Board
6502-based sbc with a "rp2040 soc" (i.e., the rp2040 implements all of the peripherals)
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript | Trekhleb
love some good old fashioned image processing, no deep learning needed
Kin - Everyday tools. No strings.
"[A] curated collection of simple, free web tools that just work. No subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking. Install them to your phone, use them offline..." these are nice but the lack of explicit licensing and source code gives me pause. also the font choice—unfortunately narrow serifs have been completely colonized by fascists and grifters
kitspace/awesome-electronics: A curated list of awesome resources for Electronic Engineers and hobbyists
ok this is actually super handy
Grave Oak - Wikipedia
"[T]he age of around 2000 years stated in the Guinness Book is contested. According to the latest literature, the oak is estimated to be between 700 and 800 years old. [...] In its root zone, directly below the hollow trunk, there is a brick-built crypt containing the body of the manor owner Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel [de], who died in 1824."
Logic Level Shifting Basics | DigiKey
level translation with n-mosfets, with helpful circuit diagrams and explanations
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog
heroism! and a great write-up
Malleable Systems Collective
"Modern computing is far too rigid. Applications can only function in preset ways determined by some far away team. Software is trapped in hermetically sealed silos and is rewritten many times over rather than recomposed.... This community catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power"
Love letter to catlangs - Ideas - Malleable Systems Forum
incredible thread on concatenative languages that goes to some unexpected places
Block Draft Drafter
"a sketching tool for quickly generating profile/block drafts for weaving"
Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History
great timeline, including the 996ICU license and Huawei's labor-intensive response to being added to the US Department of Commerce's 'entity list'
Let’s talk about LLMs
"[LLM] advocates can’t have it both ways: either LLM coding will be an exclusive club for those who built up the necessary skills, XOR it will be a great democratizer and do away with the need for those skills." cogent, calm, well-sourced
Unicode Visual Explorer
"A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard."
❒ Tofu | CJK Han Character Comparison Tool
great tool for comparing how hanzi are rendered in different regions
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Dynamics
well argued and thoroughly researched
Oatmeal - The Seed Beneath the Snow
"Le Guin teaches us that legibility isn’t something imposed once by villains. It’s like a totally entropic force. It accretes."
Des verbes | Tûtie’s blog
"[L]es IA génératives... détruisent ce lien à l’humain que je perçois dans le code, cette base de raisonnement qui n’existe soudain plus du tout. Je n’ai plus d’autrice pour m’expliquer, je n’ai plus personne à comprendre." The part where she lists friends and acquaintances she learned particular technologies from is very touching
Mystery House, the French version (1980) | Renga in Blue
fun history and walkthrough of "the first 'official' (sold in stores) translation of an adventure game." DAISY EST MORTE
curb cut cartography
i swear i nearly died a dozen times on that / hellish stretch the challenge was exhilarating until / one day suddenly the whole lot had been repaved