Wobbly clock https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/wobble-clock/
A cab ride I'll never forget (1999) https://kentnerburn.com/the-cab-ride-ill-never-forget/
Kent Nerburn
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget | Kent Nerburn
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss, constant movement and the thrill of a dice roll every time…
What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) http://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html
Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-gorgeous-photos-capture-life-inside-drop-seawater-180981297/
Smithsonian Magazine
These Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater
A passion for the infinitesimal leads a photographer to discover the countless creatures that live unseen in the ocean
Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/blob/master/README.md
GitHub
imaginAIry/README.md at master · brycedrennan/imaginAIry
Pythonic AI generation of images and videos. Contribute to brycedrennan/imaginAIry development by creating an account on GitHub.
Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel https://querystorm.com/csharp-in-excel/
QueryStorm
QueryStorm | C# in Excel - QueryStorm
Run C# scripts, create custom functions, and automate workbooks with C#. QueryStorm is a C# IDE and runtime in Excel that fully replaces VBA.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting https://www.calligrapher.ai/
www.calligrapher.ai
Calligrapher.ai: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
Convert text to handwriting using an in-browser recurrent neural network. Choose from various print and cursive styles. Customize the outputs and download as SVG.
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Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing https://github.com/stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems/blob/main/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md
GitHub
armstrong-distributed-systems/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md at main · stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems
Notes on how we potentially could build reliable, scalable and maintainable computer systems. - stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems
Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996) https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-simulation-games-bd7a9d81e62d
Medium
Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…
Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight https://www.flightradar24.com/GTI747/2f0b1162
Flightradar24
Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24
View flight 5Y747 from Everett to Cincinnati on Flightradar24
Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser https://play-cs.com/en/servers
Visual design rules you can safely follow https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/
“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/
mtlynch.io
My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
Five years ago today, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
Medium
The maze is in the mouse
What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …
Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00383-9
Nature
Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
Nature - A treasure trove of fossils uncovered in China challenges the idea that marine animals took millions of years to recover from the world’s worst die-off.