it’s plato’s cave but instead of a fire and shadow puppets you got a 486 with a turbo button hooked up to a projector
which was probably a weird dream carmack had some afternoon in the dog days of the summer of ‘93
have just seen a livecoding/procgen art streaming site called "eulerroom" and i am in awe of the pun
This app is 1.47 GB, in the 90s it would have needed to ship on 3 CD-ROMS, like Final Fantasy 7
CrUX data is collected from real browsers around the world, based on certain browser options which determine user eligibility. A set of dimensions and metrics are collected which allow site owners to determine how users experience their sites. The data collected by CrUX is available publicly through a number of Google tools and third-party tools and is used by Google Search to inform the page experience ranking factor.
feels like google has been signalling that performance telemetry data from sources like the Chrome UX Report would influence ranking for a good long while, popularity doesn’t seem like a big stretch from there.
developer.chrome.com/docs/crux
then there’s this fantastic ze records published cover of pop country star eddie rabbitt’s “someone could lose a heart tonight”, by sweet pea atkinson with dinosaur walkers was (not was)
youtu.be/jIujL9MXxys
i love baker street by gerry rafferty, but it’s not outlaw country enough
youtu.be/LtN849mcn1g
it was only a matter of time ‘til i hit the steely dan covers: this is falco doing it again, as remixed by frequent madonna, janet jackson, new order and depeche editor, shep pettibone
youtu.be/L1_2lO6wD1I
here’s taka boom, chaka khan’s sister, covering ride like the wind
youtu.be/tu33dDSTSwc?...
just gonna post some covers of 70s soft rock i have been into lately
let’s start with yukihiro takahashi (of yellow magic orchestra fame) covering todd rundegren
youtu.be/UU3cFimyoBI
feels like it should be a good day for discounts on a 12 ft. skeleton
medium focused mystery/thrillers are a tight genre
what about blow out and blow up?
built in 6 hours with 3 engineers, 4 designers, and 2 marketers!!
@jason.energy says “build silly shit just for fun” on putting fun back into coding at @cascadiajs.bsky.social
here’s the silliest thing i ever worked on: Webscape Wavewalker - a functional Android Web browser and ode to Netscape Communicator 4.5.1 and Windows 98: youtube.com/shorts/2CS9l...
gonna spend the holidays trying to remember the unlock gesture for my 2015 phone so i can download photos off of it
wishing y’all a weird one
the manifesto declares bertrand russel a patron saint, and socialism an enemy… i think someone needs to… read more betrand russel, maybe starting with in praise of idleness
harpers.org/archive/1932...
was the e street band holding him back from an aspiration to be bryan ferry?
what happened to bruce springsteen in 1985 that made him start to make roxy music records?
when your truck needs more truck
more like brucesky (my cat’s name is bruce)
my cat being bad cat
i went on scenic nature bike ride on sunday here’s pics
Everybody go update your iPhones.
The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.
who keeps torturing all these kittens for ever more “hang in there” photo shoots?
hoping enya cola is in stock
sad that the authors of the CBOR encoding standard didn’t further contort their wording to make the acronym be BORT - Binary Objects Represented Tersely
am i going to get clocked as a ska enjoyer?
