20 random bookmarks

2025-06-13

7296.

20 years of ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ ↦

sixcolors.com/link/2025/06/20-years-of-stay-hungry-stay-foolish

2025-03-12

7272.

toot by https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm

mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/114151763394425035

OMG this looks amazing on multiple levels!

"Code in BASIC, explore the magic of Lisp, taste the elegance of Unix, play retro games and digital music all in just 260KB memory. Infinite possibilities, inspired by the genius in you!"

<https:www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/copy-of-uconsole-kit-a-06>

2024-09-07

7230.

toot by https://mas.to/@fritzoids

mas.to/@fritzoids/113097777800067093

“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”

<https:www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324>

2024-08-21

7222.

docling

pypi.org/project/docling

Docling bundles PDF document conversion to JSON and Markdown in an easy, self-contained package.

2024-08-10

7215.

toot by https://mastodon.social/@Edent

mastodon.social/@Edent/112938873419108770

OK gang! This is ready for you to test.

python tweet2html.py --css 1234

That will take a Twitter ID and return HTML and CSS for you to embed in your website with no calling back to Twitter.

Features:
🗣 Avatars inlined as Base64 WebP
📸 All attached photos inlined
🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original source
🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co
#️⃣ Hashtags and @ mentions linked
🕰 Semantic time
♥ and 🗨 counts

Try it out at <https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed>

Feedback and pull requests very welcome!

2024-07-20

7204.

HTML email designer

designer.sendune.com

HTML for email is probably the hardest code to write. Even a teeny-tiny deviation from the rules will break the email in untold combination of os/desktop/mobile clients.

It's mid 2024. Almost 50 years since email was invented and 35 years since HTML was born. A 'basic-open-source-HTML-email-designer' must be a solved problem, right? We thought so too.

Sadly, that's not the case.

There are a few decent open source email designers but they carry dependencies that make them cumbersome to embed within your app. That's why we decided to open source our HTML Email Designer.

The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.

2024-04-22

7140.

toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom

fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112316252276386437

Golden hour is for rabbits too.

2024-04-20

7133.

toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom

fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112302205065369262
7132.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112300818053845553

I upgraded the llm-gpt4all plugin to support running Llama 3 8B Instruct (thanks, Nomic AI):

llm install --upgrade llm-gpt4all  
llm -m Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 'Write Python code to print 5 great names for a pet pelican'  

The quantized model is a 4.34GB download and should run on machine with 8GB RAM - works great on my M2 MacBook Pro

<https:github.com/simonw/llm-gpt4all/releases/tag/0.4>

2024-02-13

7109.

toot by https://social.panic.com/@cabel

social.panic.com/@cabel/111926095291896639

I’ve never been more excited to do a blog post.

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a famous Disney-employee dixieland jazz band.

But along the way, I accidentally uncovered something incredible… a lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella, a song that hasn’t been heard in almost 75 years.

And you’re about to hear it too.

Read now: 🌟 <https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/>

2024-01-05

7090.

toot by https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona

mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/111705867578860305

Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame, is a very accomplished mathematician and computer scientist with a Turing award for his work on “fundamental contributions to the theory and
practice of distributed and concurrent systems”. He just published a draft of his new book:

"A science of concurrent programs"

<https:lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf>

True to his pedagogic approach to everything he does, "The book assumes only that you know the math one learns before entering a university." Even the appendices are fantastic. Can only wish I'll remain this lucid at his 82 years old.

[#multithreading](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/multithreading) [#maths](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths) [#LesleyLamport](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LesleyLamport)

2023-11-30

7071.

toot by https://tooting.ch/@oscherler

tooting.ch/@oscherler/111497654532211339

[@jonafato](https://mastodon.social/@jonafato) [@glyph](https://mastodon.social/@glyph) Paperless-ngx might do the trick. I think it’s more targeted for mail, but I came to know about it from someone who used it to store manuals. It does OCR, the correspondant can be the product manufacturer, and it has tags. I run it in Docker on my Synology and I love it.

<https:docs.paperless-ngx.com/>

2023-11-22

7068.

toot by https://hachyderm.io/@collinsworth

hachyderm.io/@collinsworth/111455073305710058

2023-11-18

7064.

toot by https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom

mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/111430804517126114

2023-11-08

7057.

toot by https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk

social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111376521786331642

do any of you use micro (a new-ish command line text editor)? do you like it?

I've been looking for a command line editor to recommend to friends who don't like vim/emacs and I'm curious if this is a good option. It looks like a big improvement on nano but I haven't used it much.

<https:micro-editor.github.io/>

2023-11-06

7056.

toot by https://mastodon.social/@retrobatch

mastodon.social/@retrobatch/111365908842026463

Retrobatch turned 2.0!

<https:flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/>

Gus is a little slow at getting announcements out and such, but hey it's got a bunch of neat new features: <https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/releasenotes.html>

And for the first time, it's on the App Store.

2023-07-11

7021.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110692685364135792

I'm in this 2 hour(!) podcast episode about the newly released ChatGPT Code Interpreter - you can get a good overview of why I'm so excited about it from the first 15 minutes, I think it's the most interesting tool in the whole AI space right now <https://www.latent.space/p/code-interpreter#details>

2023-05-18

7037.

toot by https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/110390739226017146

This thread is now available as a blog post:
<https:innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto>

–––

In college, I took a class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:

1. I was (and am) named Paul.
2. The prof, Cal Roetzel, was (and is) cool.

I didn’t figure it was an especially practical course. It was for fun, for the challenge, for the cultural knowledge, for the pleasure of doing it.

WHAT LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS FOR: A THREAD

1/

2023-04-24

7003.

toot by https://cosocial.ca/@timbray

cosocial.ca/@timbray/110254699168918559

The problem with AI/ML isn’t what the tech is or isn’t useful for (we don’t really know yet). The problem is the people who build and own and operate it, a mix of giant tech monopolies and VC-funded growth-crazed startups. Both are entirely oblivious to ethics and the civic good.

It is fair and reasonable to be paranoid and suspicious about *any* tech pushed by this cabal.

[This post from a member-owned co-op Fediverse instance, see <https://cosocial.info>]

2023-04-20

7000.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110232289637822527