When is art "finished"? For me, the answer seems to be never. I love reincarnating older works into something new. A fresh presentation of my Colorful Beetle!
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Us Open: battuto Auger-Aliassime, Sinner in finale - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Us Open: battuto Auger-Aliassime, Sinner in finale - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Jannik Sinner ha battuto il canadese Felix Auger-Aliassime e ha conquistato la finale degli Us Open, dove incontrerà Carlos Alcaraz. Il numero uno al mondo ha vinto 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. La partita è durata 3 ore e 21 minuti. (ANSA). (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Perché sempre più persone smettono di seguire le notizie - Valigia Blu
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> Sempre più persone stanno decidendo di non seguire più le notizie su quanto accade nel mondo. Per alcuni è l'enorme volume di informazioni a cui siamo sottoposti, per altri il peso emotivo delle notizie negative o la sfiducia nei confronti dei media stessi. Nei forum online dedicati alla salute mentale, le persone discutono su come cautelarsi:
Perché sempre più persone smettono di seguire le notizie - Valigia Blu
Sempre più persone stanno decidendo di non seguire più le notizie su quanto accade nel mondo. Per alcuni è l'enorme volume di informazioni a cui siamo sottoposti, per altri il peso emotivo delle notizie negative o la sfiducia nei confronti dei m…Valigia Blu
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Spiderkitty wants out. Now.
She gets her post-op checkup in two days, and hopefully she'll be cleared to leave her confinement.
(early) #Caturday
Mind The Gap, London 💗
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Trump is president in ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says
Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930sRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
California joins firefighting compact with a dozen Northwest states and Canadian provinces
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California joins firefighting compact with a dozen Northwest states and Canadian provinces
The Northwest Wildland Fire Fighting Compact facilitates sharing of firefighting resources and technology amongst U.S. and Canadian members — now including California — during emergencies.Hayley Smith (Los Angeles Times)
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Meshnet is Dead - Long Live Mesh Networking. What's the difference? I explain here.
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Meshnet is Dead – Long Live Mesh Networking - Inkican
Meshnet is Dead - Long Live Mesh Networking. What's the difference? I explain here. Get out there and make something cool so I can talk about you here!@dmin-inkican (Inkican)
Moderne Zeiten // Modern times #FotoVorschlag
Belgrade, Serbia
Sep 2007
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Trump’s Fed Chair Finalists, RFK to Link Tylenol to Autism, More
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Cadets perform Kalaripayattu martial arts before their graduation ceremony at the Officers Training Academy, Chennai, #India
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Significant change in NHC forecast for direction of Kiko. Which, however, is a very strong store (CAT4) right now.
#HurricaneKiko #Kiko #hurricane
From Old Books dot Org
Dictionaries, biographies, encyclopedias, taken from old books and made searchablewords.fromoldbooks.org
Hegseth installs ‘Secretary of War’ nameplate outside office ~
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He also said he wants “maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” at a Trump press conference at the White House earlier today.
(h/t: MSNBC)
A006073: Numbers k such that k, k+1 and k+2 all have the same number of distinct prime divisors
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Decomposition into weight × level + jump of A006073 in 3D - three.js webGL - Rémi Eismann
Decomposition into weight × level + jump of A006073 in 3D. Made with three.js webGL. Rémi Eismanndecompwlj.com
Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe
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Gaining Control by Letting Go - Practising the Piano
Discover how a whole-body approach to piano technique can transform tension into ease and unlock expressive, injury-free playing.Informance (Practising the Piano)
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Towering sea stacks (thrjatiudalastapi in English) rise above the rugged coastline of the Westfjords in Iceland. The grass peeking through the crevices adds a touch of color to the stark, gray stones. A cloudy sky looms overhead, completing the dramatic scene.
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Dark blue-ground festival kimono decorated with sea creatures
Japan, 1st half 20th c.
Cloth: cotton, tsutsugaki (freehand resist)
43 3/4 × 51 in. (111.13 × 129.54 cm)
MIA 2019.20.62 collections.artsmia.org/art/13…
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Who’s afraid of the big bad soccer wolf mascot? Goalies everywhere! Our wolf mascot is playing soccer, but we have the mascot solo and playing other sports too, shown on a stick, available on 100+ made to order products.
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2003 Rio Cali Sport MP3 player I dumpster-dived earlier this week is impressively functional. 1.) It's in flawless condition. 2.) It's tiny 128mb internal storage is filled with 20 great EDM tracks. 3.) Everything seems to work: playback, file navigation, FM tuner, stopwatch. 4.) Running off AAA battery avoids problem of cycled-out, hard-wired ni-cad or Li-ion battery. And one could now get an AAA form factor USB Li-ion rechargeable for it.
Today it passed it's another test. Using appropriate USB-mini-A cable, the 22-yr-old Rio's internal storage mounted fine in Windows 10. This is the virtue of industry-wide consumer electronics standards & adherence to backwards compatability.
Next test will involve SD support. It takes a full size SD card. Will it recognize anything above 128mb? Also, will it mount the SD storage in Windows?
This Rio might be good for one of my #homeless peers. I could load it with bands they like & they get an FM tuner besides & we always find AAA batteries in the trash.
#Vancouver
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Decomposition into weight × level + jump - 3D graphs - 2D graphs - First 500 terms - Rémi Eismann
Decomposition into weight × level + jump with 3D graphs (WebGL three.js), 2D graphs and first 500 terms. This decomposition is an extension of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and a new way to see the numbers.decompwlj.com
View of Morant's Curve in Banff National Park, featuring a winding railway and stunning mountain landscape.
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Two Belted Kingfishers having a argument
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Remembering Nicky Hopkins , who died today 6th September
1994 .
"Rock Classics Improved by Nicky Hopkins".. great piece by
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15 Rock Classics Improved by Nicky Hopkins
The greatest session man ever? Hopkins' keyboard work on songs by the Who, Beatles, Kinks and Rolling Stones makes a pretty good case.Ultimate Classic Rock
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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
BREAKING: Feud erupts at US Supreme Court. Via @briantylercohen #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ youtu.be/PPibtWESIus?...
Why am I, at my age, still a radical progressive socialist?
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
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US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.Al Jazeera
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Remembering Dolores O'Riordan on what would have been her birthday, she was born today 6th September 1971
"I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life."
#DoloresORiordan #TheCranberries #music #photography
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爆発数時間前の恒星内部の変化を物語る？ 超新星残骸「カシオペヤ座A」の研究成果 - sorae 宇宙へのポータルサイト - YAYAFA
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Happy birthday to photographer and musician Henry Stanford Diltz , Born today 6th September 1938.
#henrydiltz #photooftheday #music #photography
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WTN #3: XSLT Heat, Cool Fedi Apps, Web UIs in Agents
Welcome to Web Technology News (WTN), my weekly newsletter tracking what's next on the web. As usual, I'm using the following three categories:
- Web platform
- Open social web
- Web + AI
Web Platform
"Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?" That question was asked by Google engineer Mason Freed on the WHATWG GitHub account a few weeks ago. "Its role within the web browser has been largely superseded by JavaScript-based technologies such as JSON+React," explained Freed, adding that it's now a big security risk in browsers.
Judging by the comments, one of the primary uses of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is for "displaying RSS feeds pleasantly." Another commenter added that "XSLT is extensively used by podcast hosting companies to beautify their raw feeds." The discussion around this got heated, so the thread was locked to non-collaborators. A second thread also got locked.
In other news, Mozilla has launched a new front end for MDN: "We've intentionally targeted Baseline "Widely available" features when deciding on which ones to use, and polyfilling or progressively enhancing when using anything Baseline "Newly available"."
Staying with Mozilla, its newly hired Web Dev Relations Lead, Jake Archibald, took to Mastodon to promote Firefox v142. I like the video explanations.
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Let's get crazy now... I stumbled upon a couple of 'out there' ideas this week.
Hyperclay is a new product pitching itself as "Google Docs for interactive code." The site further explains:
"What if web apps were as simple to edit as documents? Hyperclay makes it possible: UI, logic, and data live in one self-modifying HTML file."
There's an excellent discussion about this on Hacker News. Hyperclay's developer, panphora, has also created a Markdown editor called Overtype.
I liked this web dev head-mash by Chris Shank: "This may look like my personal website, but it's not served via a traditional web server. Rather it's served from a service worker that proxies all network requests to a locally cloned git repository (stored in-browser)!"
Open Social Web
It's great to see Bluesky starting to have alternative servers (i.e. ones not owned and run by the Bluesky company). As reported by Laurens Hof in his Connected Places blog:
"Blacksky is taking further steps towards their own community platform within the ATmosphere, and have started inviting community members on their own Blacksky PDS servers. Blacksky has their own PDS migration tooling, Tektike, to help users transfer their account to a new PDS."
On the fedi side of the open social pond, Sean Tilley has written a roundup of the recent FediCon event in Canada. I was pleased to see this note from Sean:
"...there's some legitimately interesting developments happening with paying server admins, artists, and developers. I've written a bit about what Bandwagon and CrowdBucks are doing, and hopeful some collaboration can emerge between projects."
CrowdBucks is fairly new to me, but the following thread told me that Charles Iliya Krempeaux — a.k.a. reiver — is behind it (Charles also organized FediCon and is an active fediverse developer).
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Another cool-sounding open web app I came across this week:
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In Mastodon news, quote-posts are officially coming:
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Finally in this section, you might be interested in my blog post this week outlining my experiences with Ghost, Substack, Eleventy and WordPress. I focus in particular on Ghost's federation (I use Ghost to publish this newsletter).
Web + AI
Vercel is proposing a convention to include instructions to an LLM directly in HTML responses as <script type="text/llms.txt">. But standards be damned...in classic 'Marc Andreessen and the <img> tag' fashion, Vercel encourages its users to just go ahead and do it anyway: "[it] doesn't need to be a formal standard. You can just start using it now."
For my post on The New Stack this week, I interviewed the two creators of MCP-UI, an open source project that creates React or web components for agents. The technology is just 3 months old, but is already being used by Shopify and others. One of the founders, Ido Salomon, explained to me why it's using the HTML <iframe> element to ferry UI components to agents:
"I think MCP-UI, at its core, is fairly simple. It basically takes the building blocks of MCP [the parent protocol] — MCP has a way to respond not just with text, but with an embedded resource that can be anything. So the idea was, how do I take something like an embedded resource, get some consensus around when this embedded resource contains something. Then the host — you know, ChatGPT, whatever — can render it. And how does it run basically arbitrary code, that is unsafe, without harming the users. Iframe is kind of the only way to do that. And sandbox iframe in particular gives you an extra edge."
Web UIs in agents — it's a trend to watch. I have another post coming up early next week about MCP-UI, based on an interview with two Shopify engineers.
Meanwhile, Paul Kinlan from Google is calling for experimentation with hyperlinks in the AI age:
"LLMs also offer the practical tools to finally realize the promise of hypertext on the web itself. They are the enabling technology that can upgrade the humble <a> tag and make it truly “hyper.”"
Launched this week: Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix, "a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context." (via Hacker News)
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What's the point of vibe coding if...
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MCP-UI Creators on Why AI Agents Need Rich User Interfaces - The New Stack
We speak to the developers behind MCP-UI, a way to add React components or Web Components to agentic chats. This may be the future of the web.Richard MacManus (The New Stack)
chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.
chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu
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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...mfreed7 (GitHub)
"D.C. voters have critical decisions to make, and they don’t have all the time in the world to make them."
The latest from Colbert I. King: wapo.st/4naUN6q
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Immagino di essere l'unico che, per i siti di notizie locali, per un bel po' ha usato un firefox con lo User-Agent impostato a "I vostri banner ficcateveli su per il culo, straccioni".
Ma immagino che non siano molti i siti che analizzano i log di accesso a un livello tale da riuscire a leggere il mio messaggio (belìn, costa!).