As a professional software developer, I can only say: Yes!

I really love FastHTML, but have been putting off investing time into drinking the nbdev Kool-Aid. At some point I should _really_ just take an evening and give it a whirl.
Thanks for the heads-up.

Now that you mention it...

iconclass.org/31B623591

For a nice sample of some more December labours, see:
iconclass.org/23K43

Tip: presse the little "full-screen" button in the image overview for some gorgeous views of the materials.

I should monitor my feed more often... 🤪

Funny, even on here, I still refer to things as "tweets" when I think about them.

“Boids Demo Reel” survived as a videotape cassette on my bookshelf for many years, then was digitized for a documentary around 2010. “Breaking the Ice” was on broadcast quality reel-to-reel videotape until 2023 when Tom McMahon and others worked on a remastering for the 50ᵗʰ SIGGRAPH conference.

FliiipBook - A simple gif animation app for the web Draw frame-by-frame animations and create GIFs directly in your browser. Simple, fun, and powerful animation tool with onion skinning, timeline controls, and instant GIF export.

Why I 🧡 the web.

Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".

www.fliiipbook.com

#webtools #animation

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Having a bad day? World politics getting you down, heat too much to bear?

Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.

Model year 2016. Not *that* old, but clearly old enough to have dropped off the radar.

I just bought a 2nd-hand Volkswagen car, and I am gob-smacked that you can not download the user manual as a PDF anywhere.
Been scouring forums, various sites, pages and pages of search engine links, but, nada.

"official" VW position? You should order the dead-tree version from a dealer for €€€€

My son is nuts about Balatro, and quite ace with it. He showed it to me, and I was WTF? You enjoy doing this?!

A page from a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity.

A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity.

One of the best hard SF reads ever. Riveting right up to the end.

Instead, Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk- purchasing their print copies for the AI firm’s “research library” (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp. Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of print books, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scanned pages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books). Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, including of all works at issue for all Authors.2

I'm reading Bartz v Anthropic, of course, from a very practical, interested perspective. ("What can libraries let me do, and how exactly can we stay out of jail?")

The first thing I notice: I didn't realize Anthropic had rolled their own GBooks. Doesn't sound prohibitively $$$. 1/3

Jottum, mee eens.
Dit druist gewoon in tegen het idee van om met z'n allen iets te maken om vooruit te komen.
Ik was bij een van de eerste meetings met erfgoed instellingen om data te vinden, en "word het open weights?" was mijn grote vraag. Njet, dus.
Zeer teleurstellend.

Making.a MonsterUI blog with Isaac and Audrey YouTube video by Isaac Flath

I am really quite charmed with MonsterUI monsterui.answer.ai

It feels like that moment when Bootstrap came out way back when, and made everyones lives easier.
See this great video tutorial for why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVWA...

Curious about ICONCLASS?

👉 You can still register for the two-part online workshop “Iconclass - Content Classification and Technical Features” on Monday, June 30 and Tuesday, July 1 (10:00 - 13:00)

nfdi4culture.de/events/detai...

Castle Entrance in Bertinoro, Italy

And so it begins!

#isws2025 #group7

Off to Bertinoro, Italy today for:
International Semantic Web Research Summer School
Knowledge graphs for reliable AI

2025.semanticwebschool.org

Looking forward to being a participant, and not a tutor or speaker. Fun!

And it is 23:30, done for now. 2 hours later.

I learnt enough about the project, and to be honest, my first experience with using Claude Code to explain something to me is astonishingly good.

Next up, asking it to help in making some stuff. But that will have to wait for another day.

And as background music at high volume:

"Levi Schechtmann, born in 1999 in Hamburg, is a German pianist redefining classical music by fusing it with hip-hop, electronic beats, and contemporary sounds."

open.spotify.com/album/3BHHdM...

My first question was:

"can you explain how the sparql evaulation is done when processing a sparql query?"

And the explanation ran through the various files and the methods with line numbers, explained the parsing and how the mapping to SQL is done. 😵‍💫

Waaaaaay better than I have understood it

Approximately 90min later, it has been crunching away. (after buying and setting up a Pro account)
Asked it to explain the code for: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tinysp...

Seems to take forever, but so far the explanations seem *very* impressive.

Trying Claude Code this evening, instead of going Tango dancing.
#nerd

It's just too tantalizing. First thing is trying to understand an existing codebase from an opensource project I wanted to read ages ago.

Yes, there are still stupid, racist dingbats. But it is not the default any more. You are not looked at weirdly for being "the other" just because of your skin-tone.
Yes, there is still crazy inequality and poverty and crime.

But slowly, the wheel turns, and things become lekker again.

And that was for me symbolic, things have changed.

There were white/black/whatever people having a good time. Looking for fun, drowning the boredom of living in the hinterland with booze.
The MC spoke Afrikaans as fluent as anything (maybe it was his mothertongue) but had a black skin and dreads.

Last weekend I was at a festival in Welkom, Vrystaat. Most of the people there would readily identify as "Afrikaners".

Early afternoon, not many people there yet. The cover band plays the iconic "Pata, Pata" by Miriam Makeba, and the few people bop happily. Gave me the feels.