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by wgx 1mo ago
I’m building an image sharing site (just for me and a couple of friends) that tries to emulate the old days of Flickr and Instagram. Chronological feed, no recommendation algorithm, no reels, no ads, etc. Knowing that it’ll never be open to
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by wgx 1mo ago
A nice nostalgia hit. The "Bondi blue" iMac was my first workplace computer, for a local council. I had Photohop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress, making websites, banner graphics(!), print artwork, all kinds of things. Even then, I d
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The Hardest Way to Make a GIF(blog.willgrant.org)
2 points by wgx 2mo ago|1 comments
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by wgx 2mo ago
An icon is kind of “visual shorthand”: a way to leverage peripheral vision and pre-attentive processing so a user can understand a control's purpose in milliseconds. The user won't learn a UI from icons alone, but once learned, di
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by wgx 2mo ago
He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”
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by wgx 8mo ago
See also: https://www.wikitok.io/ And a plug for my own (fiendishly difficult) Wikipedia-based game: https://studiowgx.willgrant.org/wikipedia-golf/
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by wgx 1y ago
Why did I see graphite on the roof?
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Flipper Zero Geiger Counter(kasiin.top)
270 points by wgx 1y ago|83 comments
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by wgx 1y ago
Try searching Reddit, I just found some lists. I’ve given up and instead just don’t allow things on my network. My “smart” TV begs me to see the network but I just use a Roku instead. I fear it’s come to this where we have to circumvent our
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CSS Minecraft(benjaminaster.com)
2 points by wgx 1y ago|1 comments
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A Writers frustrating experience with ChatGPT's approach to lying(amandaguinzburg.substack.com)
2 points by wgx 1y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 1y ago
Interesting! >Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured environments, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasi
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by wgx 1y ago
They’re not
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Brain implant to cure addiction enters clinical trials(brain-pacer.com)
1 points by wgx 2y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group based in Germany that tracks support from foreign governments toward Ukraine, estimates that the U.S. has allocated about $119 billion. The reason the estimate is different from U.S
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Show HN: Find Your Next Rabbit Hole(wgx.github.io)
1 points by wgx 2y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
I recall getting a DC tour of LON3 and being totally blown away by it all as a 20-something web dev. Good times.
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by wgx 2y ago
Is there a viable way for me to make every site load like this (iOS)? And optimally toggle back to the “full site” if I want to.
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by wgx 2y ago
Add to that: Floating Points, Rival Consoles, Brian Eno…
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Never Forgive Them(wheresyoured.at)
21 points by wgx 2y ago|9 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
Thank you for this! You just unlocked some old memories of “Digitiser” which led me here: https://teletextart.co.uk/artists/paul-rose-mr-biffo
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by wgx 2y ago
Text of the letter: Corsewall Light & Fog Signal Station, Sept 4th 1892. This lantern was erected by James Wells Engineer, John Westwood Millwright, James Brodie Engineer, David Scott Labourer, of the firm of James Milne & Son Engin
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SQLizer JavaScript Library on NPM Converts XML, JSON, Excel to SQL Statements(blog.sqlizer.io)
2 points by wgx 2y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
I find the EFF site perfectly readable. Not sure what you’re experiencing but it looks fine to me.
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by wgx 2y ago
I think it's fair to say that my 25+ year career in design started with DPaint on an Amiga, and I'd be somewhere very different today without it.
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Do engineers hate working from home? Gartner podcast [audio](steering-engineering-podcast.simplecast.com)
1 points by wgx 2y ago|1 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
"In this episode of the Steering Engineering Podcast, we examine key findings from a recent survey of 500 developers about their satisfaction with 17 critical attributes of their developer experience."
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by wgx 2y ago
Why?
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1M homepages scanned, and 95% failed basic accessibility checks(webaim.org)
21 points by wgx 2y ago|20 comments
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by wgx 2y ago
> would Tufte is still alive!

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