August 2024

Highlight:At the entrance to the park was a sign that caught my eye. I’m fairly certain I have seen it in previous years, but this year it caught my attention enough to park itself in my brain. Lower Your Expectations I thought about that sign all weekend, joked on Slack about how to “win” it after the festival shuts down, and sketched some iterations of a desktop version while waiting for speakers to start. I wanted to be able to slide out the display board, so the toughest part was coming up with a retention mechanism. I did things like this in the past by sandwiching layers, but found tabbed guides to be a better way to achieve that in this form factor.

Dot grid! Highlight:Make lists, plan your next book, study for a test, design an app—you get the idea. Endless potential. Plan your next book, study for a test, design an app—you get the idea. Endless potential.

Highlight:In the virtual corridors of RadioShackCatalogs.com, a digital archive unfolds like a time capsule, preserving the history of RadioShack from its inception in 1921.  As a venerable retailer, RadioShack had been a cornerstone of innovation for over 100 years, providing an array of cutting-edge technology products and services that spanned personal, mobile, and home technology. Flip-through every RadioShack electronics & computer catalog. These catalogs include vintage electronics, stereos, speakers, CB radios, tube radios, computers, communication equipment, electronic test equipment, gadgets, technology & more!

Highlight:Introducing the ultimate indoor summertime activity - the Retro Turtle Sandbox! Inspired by the iconic Little Tikes sandbox from our childhood, this sandbox is perfect for hours of endless fun sculpting with kinetic sand. To give you an idea of its size, I've included a Lego minifig in the picture. Perfect for tabletop play with kinetic sand or hide your valuables! Enjoy this throwback to your childhood! | Download free 3D printable STL models

Highlight:A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could be a big deal. According to data from Podtrac, overall downloads across the industry were down 15 percent as of February.  This American Life lost 20 percent of their downloads. Some shows at NPR saw a 30 percent dip. In this week's midweek podcast, OTM producer Molly Rosen looks at how Apple has shaped the podcast industry. A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could b...

Highlight:Suddenly, Trump seems less like a guy who has his finger on the pulse of an unseen America and more like a man whose own once-pounding vigor has curdled—and who cannot conceal his rage at a brighter, fresher opponent who embodies all the change that he knows will mark his demise. Her crowd sizes really are larger, and he cannot accept that.

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Highlight:It’s just that feeds could be so much more with some love and directed care – something that could jump from a niche use case to a widespread ‘normal’ part of the Web for many. Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.

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Highlight:Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese word for “tree,” 木, the word that means “to leak,” 漏れ, and the word for “sun,” 日. Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese

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Highlight:Begging your parents to buy you a Happy Meal has been a time honored tradition for decades, but kids growing up in the '80s and '90s know the pestering was even more necessary in October when the wonderful pumpkin buckets appeared. It seemed burgers were just a little juicier and fries were just a little saltier when they came served in these. And then you got to hang on to them and fill them with candy on Halloween night! Available in my Etsy storeBegging your parents to buy you a Happy Meal has been a time honored tradition for decades, but kids growing up in the '80s and '90s know the pestering was even more necessary in October when the wonderful pumpkin buckets appeared. It seemed burgers were just a little juicier and fries were just a little saltier when they came served in these. And then you got to hang on to them and fill them with candy on Halloween night!Most of us may have grown out of eating happy meals and trick-or-treating, but these nostalgic, iconic designs can live on as small ornaments perfect for decorating a desk or mantle. The buckets have been faithfully recreated, measured from a real bucket to get the right proportions and profile but tweaked just enough to be easy to print without supports. The memorable pumpkin-ribbed lids with the little button on top are removable and the handles swing satisfyingly. The face designs were carefully redrawn exactly from photos, the witch even has the sneaky spider hiding in the back amidst her hair. There are two variations available, if you opt for the set with holes, you can add a string of LED lights and really make them pop!I've found this size seems to work really well without needing any supports and is a good size to use with standard LED lights. Any larger and you'll likely get some drooping in some of the face elements and the rim of the bucket. It might be fun to make larger, candy dish sized buckets, but I haven't experimented with going that big. The inside of the lids, without supports will probably look a mess, but who really cares. right? The handles might look a bit precarious but I'm able to print these, and even smaller, without a brim or raft just by slowing down my speeds a bit. They are small and only take a few minutes anyway, may as well slow things down and give them the best chance for success. Once printed, trim the middle support piece away,as shown in the picture above, and bend the handle just a bit to get it to pop into the bucket holes. Don't trim away too much or the posts will be too short and the handle may slip out of the bucket easily. Try using cjgkun's Light Clips to help secure your lights inside the buckets!

Highlight:In this article, I hope to convince you of the power of post-processing effects and that nothing beats an elegant retro vibe applied to a website 👌✨. We'll also look into examples of dithering and pixel art from very talented folks who use the same processes that I'll be introducing later on, as well as some of my own creations that I built while learning about all this. A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work.

Highlight:I thought this concept hadn't really gone anywhere but it turns out that The Semantic Web (best read in a very deep voice) is now very widely adopted. Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god

Highlight:Unfurl (spread out from a furled state) will take a url and some options, fetch the url, extract the metadata we care about and format the result in a sane way. It supports all major metadata providers and expanding it to work for any others should be trivial. Metadata scraper with support for oEmbed, Twitter Cards and Open Graph Protocol for Node.js :zap: - jacktuck/unfurl

Highlight:The metascraper library allows you to easily scrape metadata from an article on the web using Open Graph metadata, regular HTML metadata, and series of fallbacks. Get unified metadata from websites using Open Graph, Microdata, RDFa, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD, HTML, and more. - microlinkhq/metascraper

Highlight:The Bart model was proposed in BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension by Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Omer Levy, Ves Stoyanov and Luke Zettlemoyer on 29 Oct, 2019. We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

This tutorial covers the origins and uses of the BART model for text summarization tasks, and concludes with a brief demo for using BART with Paperspace Notebooks.

Highlight:A TV show retconning its entire story in its final moments would seem, on paper, like a creatively frustrating move for viewers — one that runs the risk of invalidating the emotions they'd felt watching its previous episodes. And yet Legion's finale does not elicit frustration or disappointment. Instead, there is something — like David suggests — both mad and graceful about how the show wraps up its story because it chooses to earnestly argue that anyone can change, grow, and improve. "This is the end. The beginning. The end." Five years ago, the most experimental, radical, and underrated superhero show in TV history saved its boldest swerve for its finale.

Disney and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Lego set is coming this September.

Highlight:I've seen a number of folks with questions lately about bringing up 6100 monitors. On that topic, I have a set of notes that I'd been compiling and adding to over time, with info I've learned (sometimes the hard way) from repairing many 6100 monitors and boardsets. How to bring up a 6100 color vector monitor (A PDF guide) Hi all, I've seen a number of folks with questions lately about bringing up 6100 monitors. On that topic, I have a set of notes that I'd been compiling and adding to over time, with info I've learned (sometimes the hard way) from...

Robert J. Sawyer put weeks of work into packaging this abandonware.

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