Looking forward to State of the Browser and @ohhelloana’s talk on Exploring the Potential of the Web Speech API in Karaoke. Sounds like a lot of fun!

    We wrote this week’s newsletter from the Norrmans Castle (Häckeberga slott). An out of the ordinary but/and cozy hotel. Worth a visit!

    The newsletter issue features the cover of Butts – A Backstory and a couple of reading tips. Check it out if you love books and understand Swedish.

    A room and corridor in a hotell. The room is decorated with flowers, lots of color, a photo wall and a couple of comfy looking armchairs. The hallway is murky with red walls and carpet.

    404 Media was an instant add to my feed reader. First read: Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale.

    404 Media is a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world.

    We’re focused on investigative reports, longform features, blogs, and scoops about topics including: hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sex, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.

    Thinking about doing the Micro.blog photo challenge with a twist this time. I post a pic every day, you guess whether it’s snapped by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖.

    It might be fun! And, hopefully, at the end of the challenge, we will all be able to spot fakes more easily.

    I’m time-traveling tonight. A bootleg uploaded to YouTube transports me to Huskvarna Folkets Park where we caught Nina Persson + Martin Hederos during the temporary easing of restrictions in 2021.

    Sitting there on our plastic chair islands at a comfortable distance from other humans. Weird times. 🎵

    Today I learned that pickles are to Gen Z what bacon was to my generation. Huh. 🥒 🥓

    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.

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