I’m not in the least surprised people are using their Vision Pro headsets while driving. Even less so that they are in a Cybertruck. 😅
we really in the end times
The video shows a person “driving” a Tesla Cybertruck while using an Apple Vision Pro headset.
I love the prompt for Glitch’s February code jam: Welcome to my blog. They are also starting a blogroll and everyone is welcome. 🥰
We’re celebrating individual expression through the age-old medium of blogging. Start a blog, make a fan page about your favorite blog or platform, whatever the prompt awakens inside of you!
Oh, yes! From the Iconfactory’s blog Kickstarting Project Tapestry:
Today we’re launching a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry: A new iOS app that aims to gather your most important social media services, RSS feeds, and other sources into a single universal timeline. All updates and posts together in one place, in the order they’re created, with no algorithm deciding what you should see or when you should see it.
This part of Apple’s announcement is interesting. It means we soon might have the real Chrome browser, Firefox browser, etc. on iOS here in the EU. But no web developers outside the EU will be able to test their websites and web apps in these browsers on their devices. 🤷♂️
New frameworks and APIs for alternative browser engines — enabling developers to use browser engines, other than WebKit, for browser apps and apps with in-app browsing experiences.
EU really hurt Apple’s feelings. 😬 Announcing changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU:
The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users from the unavoidable increased privacy and security threats this regulation brings.
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That includes guidance to help EU users navigate complexities the DMA’s changes bring — including a less intuitive user experience — and best practices for approaching new risks associated with downloading apps and processing payments outside of the App Store.
Sanna och jag skickade precis ut vårt nyhetsbrev En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till. Om du är en läslus som inte redan prenumererar borde du göra det. Nu! Om du vill, alltså.
Vi delar braiga lästips med dig ungefär en gång i månaden. För att vi kan. Och för att det är sköj. 📚
Recharge (via kottke.org):
Installation featuring a chair where you can relax and charge your phone. However, your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed.
And, after about a week, the final Lego piece found its rightful place. 🌊
Jag fick en legoversion av Under vågen utanför Kanagawa av Sven i tredje advents-present, och det har sysselsatt oss under några frukostar och eftermiddagskaffestunder.
Wow, Anh’s Weeknotes 9 really is next level. 😍
Sanna just told me Ray Nayler (The Mountain in the Sea) has a new novella out tomorrow. 📚 I had totally missed this. What a nice surprise! 🦣
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.
The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.
Vad är det jag hör?! Ett helt nybakat avsnitt av podden Hej (resten av) internet! 🎙️ Sanna och jag tjötar om sökmotorn Kagi (som är rätt bra), rövhattar (som är mindre bra), ActivityPub-tillägg i Wordpress, personliga webbar i Japan samt annat smått & gott. Och så bjussar vi på länktips, förstås.
We spotted these fascinating ice formations during our walk along lake Vättern today. Nature doesn’t mind getting a little weird now and then. 🧊
Kristoffer made a map of the internet and shared it with us in his newsletter. You should go and subscribe and then point your browser to diagram.website and start exploring. 🗺️
Family blogging! 👰🏻♀️ Sanna started a new series on her blog, reaching out to people with five questions about life (in Swedish). Exciting! Gabriella thinks about Celtic mythology, desserts are bouncing around in Amanda’s mind, and Carl-Mikael ponders the queer overlap between drag and wrestling.
This short update from Chuck made me smile today. Family blogging is the best! 🥰
Dad put up a new blog post about how we restored an old work bench!
I wish more electric cars had lines like the Carice TC2. 🤤 (via kottke.org)
I have a hard time seeing the rabbit r1 going anywhere, but it sure is cute and desinged by teenage engineering. 🐇
This list of 42 life lessons is great. My favorite is number 45. Happy birthday, @matthiasott! 🎂
You should stop what you’re doing right now, navigate to Lynn’s site, and start resizing your browser window. 🤯
The video shows a website with an illustration of a headphone-wearing character. When the window is resized, the illustration animates and the character starts walking down the street.
Re: What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image?
Terence posted today:
Here’s my challenge to you - can you do any better? What’s the smallest filesize you can find for a viewable image?
The Netpbm project comes with a bunch of file formats I often reach for when I want to generate images without a lot of code or external dependencies. They have binary and ASCII versions, here’s how to generate a plain text, 1×1 white image using the monochrome pbm format:
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If you copy and paste that into your favorite text editor and save it as white-pixel.pbm you should get a file that weighs 8 bytes. Here’s what that looks like on my machine:
I just bloggeliblogged this year’s first post! 🎉 Check out the End of Year Hyperlink Dump for tantalizing links that will introduce you to lickable fungi and molds, a synth with a ferrofluid visualizer, two hundred and six things a punkist should know, URL poetry, and more. 👀
End of Year Hyperlink Dump
I had a bunch of links sitting around that I meant to share last year, but never got to. I’m just dumping them here now because I wish to kick off 2024 with a clean slate and no link debt. 😊 Let’s go!
First, here’s two hundred and six things a punkist should know (via Veronique) and a synth with a ferrofluid visualizer called Symbiote X. Okay, then there’s (we)bsite – a living collection of internet dreams from people like you and me.
Tom made me aware of this passage from Zadie Smith’s Feel Free that more or less describes me and my brain:
I have the kind of brain that erases everything that passes, almost immediately, like that dustpan-and-brush dog in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland sweeping up the path as he progresses along it. I never know what I was doing on what date, or how old I was when this or that happened–and I like it that way. I feel when I am very old and my brain “goes” it won’t feel so very different from the life I live now, in this miasma of non-memory, which, though it infuriates my nearest and earest, must suit me somehow, as I can’t seem, even by acts of will, to change it.
About getting old and eventually leaving this world… Derek is thinking about our personal websites and how to preserve them after our deaths. Rebecca and I are the same age, so I guess I also have around 16,000 days or so left on earth. On a more cheery subject, I absolutely love Katherine’s site! The typography, the index, and the i carry your website with me (i carry it in my website) section. Jake does a similar thing with JAKE.MUSEUM where he chronicles his journey through the world of web design and development. There are cute details like frames for the frames and the fact that some websites are “on loan”.
Hey, by the way, you should listen to the 6502 song 🎵 and look at some very lickable fungi and slime molds. 🍄
And if you’re a DMG fan, check out Gijs’ modified Game Boy projects, like Reboot. Actually, you should take your time and explore more of gieskes.nl and all of his projects. If you hate the Game Boy but love PC-98, you should check out the anime 16bit Sensation: Another Layer. I’m a couple of episodes in and enjoying it so far. It’s about a 19-year-old illustrator going back in time to make bishōjo games. Fittingly, the series has a very 90s looking website.
Back in August, Zach started this thread that later became an educational, sensational, inspirational, foundational web development reading list mini site.
Dan reminded us that we should use RSS for joy, Rachel answered the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun!” and I couldn’t agree more. Emma shared 50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web, and speaking about the weird wide web, here’s some URL poetry for you.
Also, you should blog, and your website can be like your home.
That’s it. That was all the tabs I had open in my “to blog” tab group. Clean slate. 2024, I welcome you. Happy new year! 🎆
P.S. I haven’t really told anyone yet, but there’s a page I’m calling Hyperlink Hodgepodge where URLs I stumble upon end up. There’s no context other than the URL and its title – no commentary or quotes. They are there because I loved them or hated them or found them interesting enough to hit the little star button in my feed reader. Check it out for even more links.