It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

--Alan Cooper

Failed to avoid reading things despite being still on vacation.

Articles

• Python
  • Tracing the evolution of a Python function with git log | Nice, didn't know it's possible to trace functions directly
  • Three month suspension for a Core Developer | Welp. Getting trolled by the SC for trolling the board seems kind of fair.
• Frontend Stuff
  • Vanilla CSS and efficiencies over Sass
  • The anchor element | Entertaining despite nothing new for me here 😄
  • The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Frontend is haunted by 2013's Great Branch Mispredict
  • Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way | Cool, didn't know about caption and scope let alone all the CSS tricks..
  • Riffing on the latest CSS fit text approach
• Video
  • Adding sound wave overlays to videos and pictures using FFMPEG
  • Video with alpha transparency on the web
• Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
• My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why | Hrhr
• GPT-4o System Card | Interesting writeup

Software

• Bookmarking
  • Betula is a free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web | Cool, bookmarking software is always interesting to me
  • linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself
• RustPython - A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.12.0) Interpreter written in Rust 🐍 😱 🤘 | Heard of it a few years ago, glad to see it's still alive.
• Public Work is a search engine for public domain content | Nice interface!
• Datasette 1.0a14: The annotated release notes
• Python 3.12.5 | New Release
• The Ultimate Collection of CSS-only Shapes
• Django 5.1 released | 🥳

Fediverse

• CSS scroll-driven animation + scroll snap events synchronized with a number input
• How it started. How it's going. | Webcomic - Happy Sisyphus keeps on rollin!
• Gave up and hand coded the #XML files for #SAML2 metadata. | This is only the beginning.
• 1990s internet culture was quite different from 2020s internet culture. | Sigh, those were the times
• This has been passed down in our family for generations | Webcomic - it's not always goodies
• What are examples of fantastic *home pages* of personal websites? 😍 Any site that really stuck with you? And why? | Great examples!
• If a machine accomplishes cognitive tasks in a way that is dissimilar from the way our brain does it, do we call the machine intelligent in this domain, or not? | Nice 🧵

Videos

• How HTMX is changing the web, with Carson Gross | Jeremy Howard speaks with Carson Gross, cool!
• TOY DOLLS-Toccata in D minor

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: a staging environment, a Datasette alpha and a bunch of new LLMs | Simon Willison

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