Dec 17, 2024 from Bartosz Ciechanowski Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable...
Dec 15, 2024 from R74n Newsletter 🎉 Sandboxels v1.10.2 - Birthday Update OUT NOW ⛄️ Long-awaited additions and polish to celebrate this year's Sandboxels anniversary.
Dec 14, 2024 from ~hedy The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content Let’s talk about feed readers: software that lets you subscribe to feeds to get updates when new content is published. There are many kinds of feeds and feed readers. We’ll focus on the ones that p...
Dec 08, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Weekly update #20241208 Note: I will be moving to short notes in addition to longer form content, inspired by rbv. Trying to do anything meaningful automating rekordbox is painful. pyrekordbox and DJ-Tools make it a bit l...
Dec 04, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Build a search engine, not a vector DB If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over those documents that would be good enough for a human to use themselves. This is ex...
Dec 01, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Access Google Gemini LLM via OpenAI Python Library Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY", base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"...
Nov 29, 2024 from ~hedy Removing comments on my posts A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing list. Here’s how it worked. I had set up a mailing list on lists.sr.ht, which a...
Nov 28, 2024 from ~hedy Webmentions Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site. It originated from the IndieWeb and is now a W3C Recommendation. To receive Web...
Nov 27, 2024 from The Linkfest Linkfest #27: Aztec Death Whistles, "Supercircular" Solar, and Collateralized GPU Obligations Why HELLO THERE. It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”: A collection of the best stuff in science, culture and technology that I could ransack from the rangy glob...
Nov 25, 2024 from ~hedy Hugo shortcodes in Lume Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for Hugo on my site. I decided to give it a try when starting a new project, the sta...
Nov 22, 2024 from nutcroft Goodbye I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I do. I admired the people who did and now I'm one of them. The feeling now is: th...
Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...
Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...
Nov 19, 2024 from ttntm.me - Blog App Defaults - 2024 It’s that time of the year again: here’s my extended “frozen /uses page” for late 2024. Whenever multiple applications are listed, p marks private use, w marks software that I (have to) use at work...
Nov 17, 2024 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts A reading list for Japan I visited Japan in Autumn 2024. As is tradition, I enriched my visit with as much reading about Japan as I could get my eyes on. Below is a list of the more interesting things I have read. Japanese...
Nov 17, 2024 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts A reading list for Japan I visited Japan in Autumn 2024. As is tradition, I enriched my visit with as much reading about Japan as I could get my eyes on. Below is a list of the more interesting things I have read. Japanese...
Nov 15, 2024 from ~hedy Starting afresh It’s nice to set up your digital workspace again sometimes, from scratch. One that isn’t your main computer so as to not interfere with ongoing work. You are freed from the shackles of backward com...
Nov 12, 2024 from nutcroft Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering Why do I bother getting angry about software? When I started writing, it came from a place of ennui — absolute despair at the amount of waste I was seeing in the technology sector since leaving uni...
Nov 11, 2024 from ~hedy A new webring for the weird and wonderful personal web Following up on my recent post about colophons (“meta” pages), I’ve decided to create a webring to gather more personal websites through opt-ins. I chewed over the initial idea for the former blog ...
Nov 09, 2024 from ~hedy Writing Fonts In search of the perfect font for drafting and digital journalling. # Inter The story began when I was looking for Logseq themes. I chose miA, a theme inspired by iA Writer and MacOS UI. It recomme...
