In today's livestream: a big announcement I've been working on for a long time, plus what's coming up with the channel. 🎉 JUST RELEASED – The Beato Ear Training Method, completely rebuilt from scratch! Train your ears until you can play what you hear ⇢ https://beatoeartraining.com What's inside: 1. 20 chapters and 180 interactive lessons 2. Four brand-new chapters, including Melodic Dictation 3. 58 lessons with dedicated video instruction 4. Listen, Practice, and Test modes on every lesson 5. Lifetime access, all future updates free A $199 program, yours for $49 during launch week. Ends Sunday, July 26th at midnight ET. Already own the Ear Training Method? You've been upgraded to the new version for free. Just log in.
Hey all. It’s Sunday afternoon of a holiday weekend and the weather is glorious here, so what better (worse) time to unleash a new feature on KDO? I’ve been working on a new wysiwyg comment editor for the past few days and it’s finally ready to go. Asking you folks to deal with HTML while leaving a comment was always a bit of a kludge, but now you can include links, blockquoted text, lists, and bold/italic text formatting in your comments and know exactly what it’s going to look like before posting.
You can try it out by sharing something worthwhile you’ve seen, heard, or learned recently. Feedback and bug reports welcome!!
Tags: kottke.org
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
"Creating isn't something we do (in Spain), it's something we are," the artist says. "And I come from that; I carry it in my body."
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González appeared first on Colossal.
As the United States celebrates 250 years since its founding, this week The Global Story has been exploring the surprising and often hidden ways the US has shaped the modern world. In this episode, listeners from The Global Story and Global News Podcast ask their questions to hosts Asma Khalid, Tristan Redman and Celia Hatton. BBC’s international editor, Jeremy Bowen, who has reported from more than 90 countries over the past 40 years, also joins.
To hear more of the US and the World at 250 special episodes, search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Programming note: I’m delighted to announce that this newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers!
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes
Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data:
The key trick is to use deflate compression, which is then wired together using this neat snippet of JavaScript. I didn't know you could use fetch() with data: URIs like this:
fetch('data:;base64,1ZpLsgIxCEXnrM...==').then(
r => r.body.pipeThrough(new DecompressionStream('deflate-raw'))
).then(
s => new Response(s).text()
).then(
t => b.innerHTML = '<pre style=font-size:.65vw>' + t
)
Via Hacker News
Tags: ascii-art, javascript
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
daringfireball.net/2018/12/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
flexibits.com/blog/2026/06/double-booked-never-heard-of-it-meet-calendar-mirroring-in-fantastical/
Was actually quite well done with not much (effectively just one on-camera actor). But I found the plot too constructed and a little incoherent, which made it less spooky than it could’ve been.
