Andy Sylvester's Web
• Andy
This week, it was announced that Margaret Hamilton had died. From the MIT News article announcing her death: “Hamilton worked first on the software for the uncrewed Apollo missions and then was promoted into leading the team developing the on-board flight software for the crewed missions. By 1968 she was assistant director in charge of […]
When the godparent is the one with the birthday: a photo of godparent and godchild turned into a small jigsaw they open from a link, with a note from the godchild at the end. How much help a young godchild needs, photo ideas, privacy, piece counts, note examples, time zones, honest pricing and other ideas.
💬 me … many many years ago.
💬 There is something called bad revenue. This avoids some of it … but as Charlie says .. it’s a floor. I will drop some other issues in the comments later.
In case you were wondering …
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Before long we’ll have Ukraine style drones raining down on American cities. Meanwhile we have built a military designed to fight WWII. We’d better hope Ukraine wins their war with Russia, and they’re still our friends. Journalism is letting us down bigtime here. The world is at war, it's going to get worse, and the US isn't preparing. We should be defending Ukraine with everything we have, we are still powerful enough to determine the outcome. But of course we are totally asleep at the wheel, gloating over Trump's approval rating, and how the Dems might win the Senate or whatever. Music to relax by. Bedtime stories.
Small Offerings
• Hugh
Our half-acre lot is a rectangle, with our house running perpendicular to the wide side, with a quarter of the lot being front yard, and the rest being back yard. And in the backyard, where it can harm no one, is a large hackberry tree. Or perhaps more accurately, was a hackberry tree. It’s now … Continue reading "The dead hedge"
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botwerks
• steve ulrich
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
Modernity has shifted leisure from activities that require coordination with other people toward activities that can be consumed without the permission or participation of others.
this is (imho) a damning indictment of where things have been going and i’m personally not encouraged by this. we’ve been trying to be better about this in our house, but i get it. it’s a struggle.
botwerks
• steve ulrich
botwerks
• steve ulrich
897: Intergenerational Space Travel - This American Life
i loved this.
Enter a URL and let rip! Aside from being great fun to blast a website to bits, it is above all impressively well made.
When parents downsize and the family home is sold: a photo of the old house turned into a small jigsaw the whole family opens from a link, with a note at the end. Going gently, photo ideas, privacy, piece counts, note examples, timing, honest pricing and other ways to say goodbye to a house.
Indeed it kind of already exists Implemented this for my indiekit blog but only for Articles post type rmendes.net/llms.txt
Also added an AI transparency JSON-LD custom property that declare if AI was used per post
Also integrated with my Plume Micropub Browser extension
