August 2024

Our immune systems evolved for a different world (that didn’t involve 100,000 global flights per day).

I'm trying to come up with a nice way to visualize the Bluesky / ATProto network as it currently exists. This shows PDSs (blue) and labelers (red) (thanks @mackuba.eu for the data snapshot), along with the relay (yellow), and known appviews (green: @bsky.app, @whtwnd.com, and @smokesignal.events).

TL;DR: Web Push on iOS is nearing its one year anniversary. It's still mostly useless.

Facts about your head worth having in your head

An inky color scheme for prose and code. Contribute to kepano/flexoki development by creating an account on GitHub.

A printable aid to learn piano scales and the circle of fifths.

Stack-agnostic library for uploading, processing, and editing images on-the-fly - uploadcare/file-uploader

The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.

Tiniri: color themes for VSCode and other apps, optimized for calmness and coziness. Available in light and dark.

Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts. Contribute to edwardtufte/tufte-css development by creating an account on GitHub.

The modern API client that lives in your terminal. - darrenburns/posting

Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.

Today I was thinking about why I actually write content for my website. There really aren’t many readers, so you might wonder what the point is. I realised that I can think of a few points, but somehow not as a complete answer. But all the individual aspects written down together actually give the complete answer. And that’s already the first reason why I’m doing this and why, for example, posts like my declaration of love for amateur radio have come about.

Smoke Signal is an event and RSVP management system.

A little rest area by the road to a better web.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

An extended “uses” post that outlines the hardware I’m currently using, the software and tools that I use to get things done, and how I configure things.

A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

Web site content explains the modern view of entropy change and the dispersal of energy in a process (at a specific temperature). It has been selected for instructors in general and physical chemistry by Dr. Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles.

The tools and process used to do end-to-end testing of Smoke Signal.

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LibSQL Studio is a fully-featured, lightweight GUI client for managing SQLite-based databases like Turso, LibSQL, and rqlite. It runs entirely in your browser, so there's no need to download anything

Community-driven tools for the future of technical communication and publication. MyST makes Markdown more extensible and powerful to support an ecosystem of tools for computational narratives, technical documentation, and open scientific communication.