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Walking

Should I go for a walk? There is always that moment of hesitation. I could stay in, do chores, watch television, and relax. Or I could go outside and walk, maybe even explore. I put on my shoes and headed out without a particular path in mind. I think I was a bit excited to g...

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The way I think about a song

Zachary and I are exchanging blog post titles with each other (inspired by kami). I chose the title “What making this by hand means to me” for Zachary; he chose the topic “The way I think about a song” for me. Thank you Zachary for the excellent topic choice. Is there a lyri...

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How do you write HTML?

At Homebrew Website Club yesterday evening, I had an idea: what if there was a piano that, when you pressed a key, it typed a HTML opening tag? While this may be somewhat impractical for authoring HTML documents, on reflection I think this idea gets at a deeper interest: how we author HTML documents. This made me think: how do people write HTML? What tools are used? Tantek demo’ed the text expansion feature in macOS that lets you type letters and expand them into larger sequences. This could be used, for example, to turn

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Text representations of posts in Artemis

One feature I am working on is being able to follow Mastodon feeds via ActivityPub in Artemis 1. I am working on this because there are a few low-volume accounts whose content I would like to see in my reader. In doing so, I have been asking myself the question: how do I wan...

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The bookmark

This week my edition of the good internet magazine arrived, a fantastic web-focused print publication. I am delighted to hold stories of the web in my hands; this web we weave is real. The edition has been sitting on my coffee table since it arrived, enticing me with stories ...

Matthias Ott Valid

I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.

Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?

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“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”

A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg

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A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background nois...

A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background noise or hum with low latency when you're not speaking. Boz Digital’s “Big Beautiful Door 2” even combines this with a four-band EQ for the closed and open sections and is currently on sale ($49 - 50% with BOZ-JULY-4). I just couldn’t resist… 😅
https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/big-beautiful-door-2/

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Evening

Looking around in thought, I notice one of the trees outside is swaying from the wind. It has been a bit cooler in the latter half of the week — most welcome after the warm weather of late. There are a few raindrops on the window from when the rain was falling earlier, but ar...

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Impressions of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook

Jo and I are doing a poetry exchange collaboration. We have each selected a poem for each other that we have never read, about which we will share our impressions. Below are my impressions from reading the poem Jo selected for me to read and write about You can read Jo’s entr...

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It’s possible, maybe useful; but is it necessary?

When I started visiting art galleries, I would take pictures of the placards of pieces of work I liked. I would take pictures of the art, too; just enough so that I could map the placard to the painting. I wanted to document the art I really liked; to be able to go back and r...

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Keyboards and mice

My wrists have been a bit tense lately so I have decided to try to use my desk more. I had grown comfortable sitting in my armchair using my computer but, if I am to be using my computer several hours per day, perhaps I need a more ergonomic setup. This week I have changed t...

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Notes from the world, part two

When I am out and about, I like to take notes when something makes me wonder, smile, or otherwise makes me think. Here are a few notes I have taken over the last few weeks. “How did you find out about us?”; “the internet,” I say. The clerk responds, playfully, “sometimes it...

Matthias Ott Valid

Berliners: “Sorry, cache only.”

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Move fast an cache things.

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Cache it till you make it.

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The early bird caches the worm.

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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got caching.

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Cache me if you can.

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Cache Royale.