By age 35, your 500-foot burial pyramid should already be 80% complete. --batkaren

I’ve implemented some performance improvements on my podcast page and published an article about them: “TIL: Podlove Web Player Performance Improvements.” Additionally, I released a new version of django-cast that incorporates the new podlove-player web component and offers official support for Wagtail 6.3.

Articles

• How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – And Why | Revival of the web ring or blogroll?
• Text fragments allow linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document | I cannot believe I didn't know about that 😳
• The body element | Organ donor

Software

• llm-whisper-api | Might come in handy for processing podcast transcripts..
• Form validation styling | Nice to know how to do this
• Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | 6.3 released 🥳
• xml2invoice | Might gonna need this in 2025 - receipts is also great!

Books

• Flexible Typesetting | Now free!

Fediverse

• Whenever I think I might be coming around to Python typing, I end up stumbling across something like this. | 🧵
• In a world where everyone does most internetting on their phones, how are PDFs still a thing? | I find myself asking this question repeatedly. And why do people use office software—which is intended for printing—when they never plan to print anything and just send me their junk via email? Why?

Weeknotes

• W̶e̶e̶k̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ Monthnotes for October | Simon Willison
• Weeklog for Week 43: October 21 to October 27 | Johannes

Videos

• Fixing Latent Unsound Abstract Operators in the eBPF Verifier of the Linux Kernel Santosh Nagarakatte @ SAS 2024, Rutgers University | eBPF is soo cool!
• Midjourney Editor | Nice

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