Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
Tufte CSS
Elegant if slightly twee CSS from a visual designer
2023-04-30 css • web • tufte • visualization • design
Belafonte + Danny Kaye
Fun video of two amazing performers clowning around. I like the subversion of masculinity here.
2023-04-29 music • belafonte • dannykaye
nanoGPT
A desktop-scale system for training your own large language model
2023-04-28 ai • gpt • llm • language • learning • text
Trainspotter
Neat hack: webcam taking videos of trains moving at 100kph past someone's house; software stitches it into a static image
2023-04-28 trains • trainspotting • hacks • switzerland • sbb
Bespoke personal tech
Hacker News discussion about tech projects people build for themselves; lots of nice things here
2023-04-28 hackernews • hacking • tech • software • projects • fun
Hugo starter theme
A nice very simple blog theme suitable as a base for developing
2023-04-27 blogs • weblogs • hugo • simple
Feditrends
Popular links on Mastodon / the fediverse
2023-04-26 mastodon • socialmedia • links • linkblog • fediverse • aggregator
Feed Your Email
Convert a newsletter into an RSS feed by setting up a burner email address to subscribe to it
2023-04-26 rss • email • newsreader • feedly • substack
YouTube Transcript
An alternate UI for viewing Youtube videos where the transcript is made more visible as a text document
2023-04-25 youtube • subtitle • transcript • reading • video
Bluesky funding
Twitter clone is funded by Twitter; not clear what that means under musk
2023-04-24 twitter • bluesky • socialmedia • musk • elonmusk • jackdorsey
RISC-V experience #2
Another writeup of using the Starfive Visionfive 2. This one runs into a lot of performance problems; early days.
2023-04-23 linux • riscv • sbc • rpi • raspberrypi
RISC-V user experience
Starfive Visionfive 2 is an integrated computer like a Raspberry Pi, but with a RISC V processor. It works but a lot of user programs aren't ported yet.
2023-04-23 linux • riscv • rpi • raspberrypi • sbc • server
Tax loss harvesting
Details of a legal tax avoidance system available to wealthy investors
2023-04-23 taxes • finance • investment • politics • washsale
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr
Overview of a bunch of new social media protocols
2023-04-23 mastodon • activitypub • twitter • socialmedia
Imgur being burnt down
Image hosting site is having a corporate purge. Including porn and "old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account"
2023-04-21 imgur • archive • internet • culture • porn • images • sharing • reddit
Soothing Sounds For Baby
Accidental experiments in minimalist electronica, 1962
2023-04-21 music • baby • electronica • synthesizer
Pornhub acquisition
Shell company appears to have bought the largest porn video company on the Internet and very little is known about where the money came from
2023-04-18 porn • pornhub • internet • finance • business
Noir Kei Ninomiya
Extreme acts of couture
2023-04-17 costume • fashion • couture • runway • art • bjork
Kehinde Wiley / Māhū
2019 exhibit of paintings of Tahitian models from the Māhū, a third gender. Gorgeous, evoking Gauguin but much more interesting.
2023-04-17 art • transgender • gauguin • Māhū • tahiti • polynesia
California Road Charge
A plan to replace the current gas tax with something mileage-based to charge all drivers fairly going forward
2023-04-15 california • evs • tax • roads • politics
EV Database
A simple list of electric cars by range, price, etc
2023-04-13 cars • ev • shopping
Discord intel leak
Details on "OG", who apparently is behind the most recent leak of military documents
2023-04-13 discord • military • classified • leak • politics • guns • gamers
NPR quits Twitter
This feels like a milestone in the quick moving disaster of Musk's Twitter. Also, well written article.
2023-04-12 twitter • npr • elonmusk • musk • journalism
RuPublicans
Republican leaders imagined as drag queens by an AI
2023-04-12 funny • drag • ai • republicans • politics
Empire Podcast
William Dalrymple on the British in India, the Ottoman Empire, etc
2023-04-12 podcast • empire • history • india • dalrymple • ottoman
Star Wars women
Midjourney produces images of Star Wars characters as women
2023-04-11 ai • ml • midjourney • art • starwars • movies • gender • women
Discord espionage origins
Details on where the intelligence leak might have first shown up
2023-04-09 intelligence • spycraft • discord • socialmedia • bellingcat
New Mexican Spanish
A unique colonial dialect in rural New Mexico is dying out
2023-04-09 language • spanish • newmexico • dialect • via:hackernews
Mastodon co-op
Group sets up a proper member-owned co-op to be their Mastodon host
2023-04-08 mastodon • coop • socialmedia • ownership • canada
Designing for colorblindness
Andy Baio's experiences with colorblindness.
2023-04-08 color • colorblindness • design • visualization • redgreen
Mastodon Data Viewer
A nice simple personal server for looking at a downloaded Mastodon archive
2023-04-06 mastodon • archive • search • python • code
Supreme Court corruption
Clarence Thomas and this millions of dollars in gifts of luxury travel from a Republican donor
2023-04-06 politics • corruption • thomas • supremecourt
Big tech and AI
Overview of the business landscape in the west
2023-04-06 ai • google • apple • facebook • amazon • startups
Osborn and Woods
A gay couple in Grass Valley who had a lot of cultural influence in the 60s and 70s
2023-04-05 gay • lgbt • grassvalley • nevadacity • culture • minersunion • kvmr
Stable Diffusion copyright suit
Details on the claims made by artists against a trained AI
2023-04-04 copyright • ai • legal • licensing • stablediffusion
Practical stuff with AI
A guide to ways to engage with ChatGPT and other MLMs productively
2023-04-02 ai • chatgpt • tools • via:simonw • writing
A calculator for words
Simon has an interesting framing for how to think about ChatGPT and other LLMs.
2023-04-02 ai • chatgpt • tools • llms
Doña Ángela update
New article about the enormous Youtube cooking store, a sweet Mexican grandmother
2023-04-01 food • mexico • cooking • youtube • video • melancholy
Semiconductor market breakdown
Details of which countries dominate different kinds of chips
2023-04-01 chips • semiconductors • marketshare • politics • china • taiwan • tsmc • economics
Brighton Swimming Club
A delightful web page about 19th century English men's swimming costumes, with many photos
2023-04-01 swimming • brighton • photography • photos • men • clothing