24 ways still exists as a website, but it was published yearly until 2019. Somehow the concept still feels relevant, even while the world of web development has changed a lot after that. It is largely understandable why they stopped publishing it. I just hope there would be lessons learned from the long run of the website. Fortunately it still exists as a public archive of writing from years 2005–2019.
“HYPERBLAM [created by Heydon Pickering] lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free.” I haven’t read the site that much yet, but their documentation & guides look well written and visually nicely designed. Especially like the hand-drawn illustrations, as it makes the site look a lot more human-made.
light-dark() CSS color function helps to make better color schemes for websites.
Most of “AI” is a rebranded side effect of the surveillance technology.
Still warms my heart after 7 years: people making music with floppy drives.
Packet loss is likely with avian carriers.
Ruffle is a Rust-based Flash Player reimplementation.
Google’s YouTube Music is now testing “AI” radio announcers, mainly to mess up the experience of people who paid to get music without interruptions.
Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes data between educational institutions, advertisers, and governments.
This is impressive work of art: wearable wedding dress made of 3 kilograms in LEGO bricks. Designed by Satu Aaltonen, a Finnish hobbyist builder. She was invited to Lego House Masterpiece Gallery. Her LinkedIn post tells a bit more about it.
Surprisingly, totally awful lack of ‘security’ on a call-recording application that sells people’s private conversations to unknown “AI” companies. Why in the world are such clearly malicious applications allowed on mobile application stores?
Shopify was behind the last week’s hostile takeover of RubyGems and other Ruby-based projects, according to Joel Drapper. As the biggest corporate sponsor of Ruby Central, Shopify already had oversized financial influence on Ruby’s core projects and infrastructure. Now their role is increasingly seen as hostile towards rest of the Ruby community.
Overview of the outcome of recent hostile takeover of RubyGems’ infrastructure.
There will be paid advertising on OpenAI systems. That will make OpenAI even less reliable as a data source.
YouTube goes full speed towards disasters.
All platforms (including Mastodon) are required to do certain levels of moderation to stay compliant with the laws and regulations.
You should opt-out from the data mining of your posts.
Intel still holds the key technologies for x86 CPU computing.
Multi-purpose automation at home or office.
Netlify limits Free tier users to only 20 builds a month.