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I have co-hosted a lot of online events as part of the IndieWeb, the 32-Bit Cafe, and other communities. A few months ago, I reflected on how events don’t happen without organisers. Organisers put in the time to make events happen – they do all the coordination and prep work,...

Big Thicket National Preserve.

📗 Want to read Not Here, Not Now by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ISBN: 9780262049665

It’s official. No matter how many annoying cookie consent banners you slap on a website, real-time bidding for behavioural adverts is illegal in Europe.

And before you go crying about advertising-supported businesses, this only applies to behavioural advertising, not contextual advertising …which works better anyway.

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Here’s some code to show the distance to the nearest airports on a map.

Here’s a modified version that shows the distance to the nearest Gregg’s. The hub-and-spoke visualisation overlaid on the map changes as you pan around, making it look like a spider bestriding the landscape.

Jonty’s version shows the distance to the nearest Pret a Manger.

I got nerdsniped by someone saying:

@adactio This would be cool for sessions 😉

He’s right, dammit! So here you go:

Session spider.

Now you can see how far you are from the nearest traditional Irish music sessions.

It’s using data from the weekly data dumps from thesession.org—I added a GeoJSON file in there.

Pure silliness, but it does make me wonder what kind of actually good data visualisations could be made with all this scrumptious data.

Acquired used at a second hand store for the As-Seen-On-TV price of $19.99 and in stunning condition. It’ll need a clean, but this is in almost perfect cosmetic condition. It’s my first Underwood and technically also my first Olivetti as it was manufactured after the merger. The touch and speed are truly stunning and may … Continue reading

Twice this week for different reasons, Bell Labs has come up. It’s incredible to re-read about all the things they invented. Wondering if there could be anything comparable to Bell Labs or Xerox Parc today. Maybe highly focused, like AI research.

Acadiana Park in Lafayette. 🌳

Manu Moreale blogs about how so many things feel transactional and why he highlights supporting members on blogroll.org:

We live in the world of paywalled content, unilateral contract modification, micro transactions, serialised content, upsells, and the list goes on and on and on. Everyone is trying to find a way to extract money in one way or another, and that is something I find personally draining and soul-crushing.

Poetical Works of Scott read one of the titles on the shelf in the Poetry section. The word “Poetical” stood out to me; we would say “poetic” now. Language changes over time., I thought to myself. We simplify words; we make new ones; some words fall out of fashion; some are m...

Whenever I go to an art gallery, I strive to make sure I have time to see any Impressionist exhibits. Impressionism is my favourite type of art. Today, with no plans for the afternoon, I went into the National Museum of Scotland. I have been a few times, so I headed directly ...

The sky is wonderfully blue. I can’t see a single cloud. I wrote as I was walking through the park this morning. When I see the sky so blue, I cannot help but crane my head around to see whether I can spot a cloud. I couldn’t! Maybe there was one hidden behind the tall green ...

This morning I woke up early. I like to wake up early on weekends and do some reading. I usually go to a coffee shop. There is nothing like reading a book with a coffee in hand. I’m reading Before Tomorrowland right now, which tells the story before the world in which the Tom...

[Khari Johnson in The Markup] The Republican legislature is working on ensuring that AI is unencumbered by regulations or protections: "The moratorium, bundled in to a sweeping budget reconciliation bill this week, also threatens 30 bills the California Legi...

When I started working on the new version of blogroll.org, one thing I knew I wanted to do from the get-go was to highlight all the wonderful people who are supporting what I do here in the digital world. And the reason why I wanted to do it was not to make them stand out am...

[Mike Monteiro] Such a great piece about language, discrimination, and how we can avoid limiting our own thoughts. It's all delivered through the lens of the MSG scare in the 1970s, which turns out to have been pretty racist: "Monosodium Glutamate is a flav...

Look at this, for an idea of what a product says to the prospect. It makes you laugh. When you laugh inside an idea forms. "Ain't it the truth." That gets you ready to read the pitch, which is stuff you wouldn't have read or even considered if they hadn't said something so ...

The Knicks did actually win last night. I didn't dream it.

I remember when the Knicks sucked.

In my heart I believe they still do.

But here we are, my Knicks actually have an approximately 1 in 4 chance of winning the championship.

I hope it's Minnesota we end up playing.

All in the family. 😀

Finished watching videos and reading about OpenAI’s Codex. Pretty wild. The design they’ve come up with (based on pull requests) is both powerful and encourages human review. I could see using this at least for a narrow set of tasks.

This is what my WordLand blog looks like now. Quite a transformation! Sooo pretty. We're going to keep tweaking it up, so it's even more beautiful and more and more useful, but it's going to take some time. As the Supremes used to sing. I need love love love to ease my mind.