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And now for something completely different: Check out this nifty how-to for highlighting text on a page when you link to it.

<https:weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/08/08/how-to-highlight-text-fragments-when-linking/>

Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. Typst creates beautiful PDF output with blazing fast render times.

Use the typst format to create a PDF document via Typst

[@phire](https://phire.place/@phire) [@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye) a friend said once that enterprise architects exist so programmers don't have to talk to business analysts, and BAs exist so that EAs don't have to talk to customers/users

It has forever changed my perception of the development process

Useful to save web pages as local markdown files, for search

Also useful to output PDF from pages!

i'm getting too old for this stuff
(WWDC24 recap song)

Cool new fan site for NetNewsWire themes!

<https:paiji.github.io/NetNewsWire-themes-collection/>

An ongoing pattern in the AI march:

- the hardware efficiency improves
- the software efficiency improves

So I continue to argue that energy consumption as a PRIMARY criticism of AI is going to be unpersuasive, as incentives drive down the energy costs with time, and all critique of the energy costs is just as applicable to conventional cloud computing, which we have already accepted into our social bargain

(and which underpins every single tech salary)

so instead:

<https:redeem-tomorrow.com/the-average-ai-criticism-has-gotten-lazy-and-thats-dangerous>

[@blabberlicious](https://toot.community/@blabberlicious) [@baldur](https://toot.cafe/@baldur) Corollary:
Experienced Writers: "Why would you use AI for writing? It's good at code generation tho."

Experienced Devs: "AI for code is garbage. I use it to summarize text, tho."

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!

Numbat (<https://numbat.dev/>) is a calculator thing that understands units. They recently added some date and time support, which I'm hoping will satisfy my need for easy to use date math. [#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#cli](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/cli)

Happy 30th to [#Python](https://mastodon.social/tags/Python) 1.0.0, announced by Guido van Rossum on 27 Jan 1994 in comp.lang.misc! 🎂 🎈 3️⃣0️⃣ 🍾 🎉

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Python 1.0.0 is out!

Guido van Rossum
27 Jan 1994

--> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

--> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax?

--> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately?

Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented
scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax.

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Read in full:
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.misc/c/_QUzdEGFwCo/m/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ>

Anyone have any good wireless or wired earbud recommendations? I'm not talking high-end here. We need to be able to afford 3 of them because they'd be for the kids. We're a heavily Apple household, but there's no way we can afford AirPods x 3 so it has to be something cheaper but also something that doesn't totally suck and would hopefully last awhile.

Dang, it's a shame the Cybertruck looks so dumb and is headed by your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving because the tech actually seems pretty dope

[@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/>

My attempt at [@RecDiffs](https://mastodon.social/@RecDiffs) BFF

Best: 97: Invisible Work. Genuinely enlightening and a good example of how their two brains work together to say true things.

First: 12: Hobbit Tendencies. A good example of what makes John, John. And a label that has stuck with me for years.

Favorite: 16: Ancient Bird. Truly wondrous is the dream journal of Merlin Mann. _Permiso_.

Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!

<https:b612-font.com/>

Oh gawd this feels too real.

Source (updated) he has more of these.
christhebarker ☑️
[@christhebarker](https://mastodon.social/@christhebarker)
[#satire](https://meow.social/tags/satire) [#funny](https://meow.social/tags/funny) [#starwars](https://meow.social/tags/starwars)

[#ouch](https://hachyderm.io/tags/ouch) is a [#CLI](https://hachyderm.io/tags/CLI) [#compression](https://hachyderm.io/tags/compression) [#helper](https://hachyderm.io/tags/helper) written in [#Rust](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust) which works better than any [#terminal](https://hachyderm.io/tags/terminal) function wrapper to the compressors.

<https:github.com/ouch-org/ouch>