over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

i hope you enjoy this read. <https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/>

Run Claude Code CLI in an isolated Docker container to protect your Mac's filesystem while using yolo mode.

dessine-moi les personnages de l’histoire dit le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Richard Berner, UK-based illustrator
[#drawing](https://h4.io/tags/drawing) [#art](https://h4.io/tags/art) [#history](https://h4.io/tags/history) [#illustration](https://h4.io/tags/illustration)

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

Benieuwd naar het geluidniveau in jouw omgeving? Doe mee aan de Nationale Geluidmeetdag op 30 april! Download alvast de Klankbord App. 🔉

Na de meting van 30 seconden in de buitenlucht, volgen vijf vragen over hoe het geluid ervaren wordt.

Download nu alvast de Klankbord App en zet de pushmeldingen aan. Je ontvangt dan een pushmelding op de dag zelf met het verzoek om je directe buitengeluid te meten. ⏰

ℹ️ <https://www.nationalegeluidmeetdag.nl/>

[#Geluidmeetdag](https://social.overheid.nl/tags/Geluidmeetdag) [#SamenMeten](https://social.overheid.nl/tags/SamenMeten) [#CitizenScience](https://social.overheid.nl/tags/CitizenScience)

I recently got one of these for my new Mac Studio and it's a phenomenal product for external storage:

<https:amzn.to/44AAMQz>

It's a solid piece of aluminum with a circuit board where you can mount a NVME M.2 stick (like they use in the Playstation).

Real world transfer speeds are 3.5+ GB/s on Thunderbolt 5 (~1 GB/s on TB 3, ~2.5 GB/s on TB 4).

The enclosure is $120 and a 2 TB NVME is in the $120-150 range.

A great way to keep VMs, photos, and other big stuff out of Apple's pricey storage.

MangoForm is a simple, powerful, and beautiful form builder without the bloat of traditional form builders.

- Advanced Question Types
- Conditional Logic
- Beautiful Themes
- Analytics & Insights

Batch photo resizer and image converter to crop, convert, compress, resize images.

Sync your markdown files with Confluence pages. Contribute to kovetskiy/mark development by creating an account on GitHub.

Discovered a neat new tool last week: <https://github.com/wr7/refold>

It's similar to fmt and fold except that it automatically handles prefixes. Vim/Neovim gq can do this out of the box but fails (for me at least) when multiple prefixes are present, such as a Markdown block-quote inside Rust comments. E.g.

// > Some quoted text  
// > to reflow.  

refold handles this.

[#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#RustLang](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/RustLang) [#TextProcessing](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextProcessing) [#TextManipulation](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextManipulation) [#TextEditor](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextEditor)

“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>

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!

The future of digital asset management is here with a powerful solution to organize, edit, and share your digital media with ease. Musebox empowers visual artists like you to focus on your muse, not your mess.

shit shit shit shit shit. Dealt with my first set of AI-generated-code plagiarism cases this semester.

Dear students: LLMs are terrible plagiarists and they do not give a damn (or have any capacity to care or avoid doing so) if they get you in deep doodoo by reproducing verbatim code from existing repositories on github or from web pages. And on assignments, it's quite likely to happen.

We didn't identify these cases by using an AI detector: They were identical to a source on the web!

I’m never really a fan of covers, but Royel Otis' cover of Linger by The Cranberries is incredible. Feels like going back to the 90s/00s. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUVB19e13s>

A sobering thought! [#statistics](https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics) [#analytics](https://mastodon.social/tags/analytics) more at timoelliott.com/blog/cartoons

Black phoebes are near me often but I still try to find different ways to frame them. This one was sort of dark/shade-based.

Cloudflare's internet speed test tool provides a lot of nerdy details above & beyond upload/download measurements ✨

🔗 <https://speed.cloudflare.com/>

Just posted slides for Beyond Paradigms, updated for [@NorthBayPython](https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython) 2023.

Thanks to all who attended and made me feel welcome!

<https:speakerdeck.com/ramalho/beyond-paradigms-with-python-examples>