Breakfast at Talldungen. 🤤

    A bountiful breakfast table with coffee, apple juice, freshly baked bread, plenty of toppings, and homemade muesli.

    To block OpenAI and ChatGPT from training on your Micro.blog’s data, paste the following into the robots.txt file.

    User-agent: GPTBot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: ChatGPT-User
    Disallow: /

    The easiest way to do that is by installing my plug-in Custom Robots, tap the Settings button and paste the snippet above in the text area named robots.txt Content.

    the coolness of the url is inversely proportional to the coolness of the web project. the best website you'll ever find is gonna be something like libra.v2.progrecali.​edu/oct2023/dept/manifesto.html, but going to etherzone​.ooo or, say, x.​com will be the worst experience of your life

    It’s amazing how creative two-year-olds Balder and Haakon are when it comes to coming up with insults! I wish I had their imagination. 🥰

    I’ll fire you up! I’ll poop on you and sit on you!

    From the documentary Store små mennesker.

    Still from a documentary. Two kids at foot screaming insults and chasing a slightly older kid on a bike. The caption, in Swedish, says: Jag eldar upp dig! Jag bajsar på dig och sätter mig på dig!

    Kräftfiske och poddinspelning, är det en bra kombo? Japp! I senaste avsnittet av Hej (resten av) internet! följer upp @sannalund och jag upp Tiny Awards, pratar mysig UFO-blogg, Barbie-kaninhål och fiskar kräftor, förstås. 🦞 🎙️

    Here’s the outcome from the foggy morning: crayfish with dill. We’re all set for kräftskiva.

    A pot filled with boiled red crayfish and dill brine.

    We woke up early to go catch some crayfish and were met with this foggy morning. I was in charge of propelling the boat forward while @sannalund captured the magic vibe on video.

    It’s not every day that your to-do list is filled with items like “put the secret message in a bottle” and “row out to the island and bury the treasure”. 🏴‍☠️

    The cutest, tiniest island on a nice summer day. Perfect for a treasure hunt.

    Tänk om det fanns en podd där två vänner delade surftips med varandra till tonerna av ett stilla (?!) sommarregn… Det gör det! Podden heter Hej (resten av) internet! och i det rykande färska avsnittet Sommarvykort #1 bjussar @sannalund och jag på länkar från vår balkong. 🌧️

    I helped snap photos today for @sannalund’s upcoming online course. It’s pretty neat how moving furniture around transforms our study into a makeshift studio.

    A behind the scenes look of camera, rigged to shoot a view of a desk with a laptop.Photo of a woman working with the laptop behind said desk.

    It’s good news from two of my favorite projects: Marginalia Search and the Ladybird browser project got a bunch of funding this month. There’s still hope for the open web!

    I just put up my Super Game Boy 2 for sale. I love how the translucent blue shell exposes the PCB. As a kid growing up in the 90s, a fair share of my electronics and toys looked like this. Do you remember the clear craze? 👻

    A Super Game Boy 2 accessory, original box, and instruction booklet lay on a wooden table. The cartridge is transparent blue, exposing the electronics inside.

    Tiny Awards is my kind of award. 🥰 Looking forward to the finalist reveal next week. Voting opens June 22.

    Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.

    The award will take the form of an actual, physical trophy and a small cash prize thanks to ZINE, and will almost certainly result in literally no additional accolades or fame or fortune whatsoever.

    I can confirm the following statement is true, those strawberries were tasty. 😋

    Well, hello! The yummiest strawberries I’ve ever tasted.

    Four cartons filled with delicious-looking strawberries.

    macOS Sonoma features I look forward to:

    • Safari web apps & profiles
    • Sorting groceries into categories in Reminders
    • Support for linking between Notes

    Amazing. 🤯

    Protovision, I’ve got you now! David’s room from 1983 Wargames. Scratch built 1:12 scale model.

    Miniature 1:12 scale model of David Lightman bedroom from the movie Wargames from 1983. A normal sized hand is seen entering the frame of the picture from the left, holding a miniature printout paper.

    It was inevitable. I’ve orbited around @[email protected]’s Uxn project for a while, knowing I would fall down the rabbit hole sooner or later. Today, I wrote my first lines of Uxntal, probably not my last. Uxn is an ecosystem (assembler, emulator, etc.) around a little fantasy computer.

    Two windows on a macOS desktop. A text editor with assembly source code, mentioning “alien art formula” in the comments, and generated graphics. The graphics resemble the fractal Sierpiński triangle rendered in light-on-dark green.

    Thanks to Veronique and Manu for letting me know about CtrI-ZINE. I plan to catch up on all four issues from the hammock this summer.

    [T]hese are the stories and entries of those who love the Web. … We want “what’s best” for us. The Netizens at-large. Be it a digital native, a mobile-first upbringing, oldcore BBS’ers from the last century, or those who will get help with their homework from AI. It (the Web) is BY and FOR us - let’s do our damnedest to have it serve us well!

    Love Hultén’s creations always put a smile on my face. Here’s TEGEL, a sound sculpture based on biodata. 🪴

    An intricate sculpture, crafted from miniature bricks, that doubles as a synthesizer, exuding an aura of vintage industrial charm. It features an array of buttons and an authentic analog meter. Encased in a glass dome, a tiny tree plant is ingeniously connected to the synthesizer, adding an organic touch to the mechanical marvel.

    Apple devices will be getting on-device voice cloning later this year, and I’m pretty excited to give it a whirl, even though it’s only available in English for now. Among the Big Five, I have a hunch that Apple might be the one to offer machine learning features in a way that respects our privacy.

    Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad. … [It] integrates seamlessly with Live Speech so users can speak with their Personal Voice when connecting with loved ones.

    I just updated my now page! I’m deep into the new Zelda game, almost done with Aurora, still figuring out large language models, and preparing for a party. What are you up to?

    Link stands before a stone ruin amidst a field of golden grass. Trees, their leaves echoing the same autumnal hue, dot the landscape. In the distance, an island appears to be floating in the sky. Link, armed with a shield and an axe, readies for adventure. This is a screenshot from the early stages of Tears of the Kingdom.

    Then

    Jotted down from my home in Jönköping.

    👰🏻‍♂️ Next weekend, I’m getting married! Well, that’s not entirely true. Sanna and I were actually married last year, but we’ve been celebrating multiple times. In just seven days, we’re hosting a party at Villa Strömsfors for our closest family members. I can’t wait!

    📚 I’m nearing the end of the sci-fi novel Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. There’s a passage in it where one character has a conversation with the starship’s AI, and it reminds me a lot of interacting with large language models. I’m really enjoying it so far.

    🤖 As for LLMs… I’m continuing to explore them and I see both potential and risks. Ted Chiang recently pondered the question of how we can ensure AI benefits everyone, not just capitalists, in his piece Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?

    🧝‍♀️ The new Zelda adventure, Tears of the Kingdom, was released this past Friday, and I stayed up just to wait for the game to unlock. I’ve been eagerly anticipating this one, feeling like a kid counting down the days until Christmas. Now that it’s finally here, my Switch is going to get a serious workout in the coming weeks!

    Link stands before a stone ruin amidst a field of golden grass. Trees, their leaves echoing the same autumnal hue, dot the landscape. In the distance, an island appears to be floating in the sky. Link, armed with a shield and an axe, readies for adventure. This is a screenshot from the early stages of Tears of the Kingdom.

    (This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’s now page idea. You should make one, too.)

    The release date of Tears of the Kingdom has never been closer and yet so far away. I’m struggling with the urge to just download the leaked version rather than wait for seven more days for my preloaded copy to unlock. 🫠 🎮

    Nintendo Switch with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom preloaded – but not playable.

    New sci-fi concept album from The Cotton Modules is out today. 🎵 Of course, it comes with a tappable short story because… Robin Sloan. 🥰

    The Deep Space Sloop John Bethel was leaving Earth because culture had stopped.

    It was an age of paranoia and boredom.

    Politics and entertainment ran in a dumb, dark loop — the regurgitations of banal AIs that were, apparently, good enough.

    Album art. Some kind of vessel floating around in space. Probably the deep space sloop John Bethel. It says The Cotton Modules: The Greatest Remaining Hits.

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