nytimes.com
But it’s hard, very hard, to look out on the familiar lake and forests the way we used to, before the sun was reduced to a murky red dot in an orange sky and an orange pall descended on the children playing on the beach.
compuserve.com
Amazing to relive what speed and lack of user hostility the web used to have.
bbc.com
Mr Millikin and his wife said the house was in disrepair, so they sought to restore it. It may have been these renovations that saved the home, the pair told US media.
They switched out the home’s asphalt roof for one with heavy-gauge metal, surrounded the house with river stones and removed foliage around it. But none of these actions were meant to stop a blaze, they said.
“It’s a 100% wood house, so it’s not like we fireproofed it or anything,” Dora Atwater Millikin told the Los Angeles Times.
bbc.com
While the destruction of a single aircraft will have little effect on the potency of Moscow’s current 60-strong fleet, the operation highlights Kyiv’s growing ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.
Kyiv has over recent months launched dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to attack Moscow, a journey of several hundred miles. Soltsy-2 is around 400 miles (650km) from the Ukraine border.
This is a stunning attack deep inside Russia, all the more a surprise when you see it on a map.
github.com
A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
sr.ht
no description
disconnect.blog
The tech industry always wants us to see its products as inevitable. But this is another moment where we need to recognize that isn’t true, and we do have the collective power to stop technologies that don’t serve us.
This is something I’m currently wrestling with. The appeal and positive potential are so tantalizing.
github.com
TypeScript based Forth-like VM w/ online REPL and extensive kernel (incl. WebGL/WebAudio support)
wiki.xxiivv.com
What is your routine?
I go to bed choosing one thing to accomplish the next day, I wake up to tackle this singular task. I tend to work only in the morning, get everything done before lunch. The afternoons, I spend mostly reading and learning things to help me solve the next day’s task. I usually wake up with the sun, and sleep soon after sunset.
Saving this for posterity, mostly for the reminder that it’s ok not to work all the time — since almost everything else in the Western world tells you that you should be.
alexanderobenauer.com
Anything that makes us, our work, or our lives unique often makes today’s rigid software more frustrating to use. People deserve environments and tools which become more powerful, not more frustrating, as they learn what makes them and their lives more unique. People deserve environments which can evolve with them. People deserve the opportunity to introspect, and craft their digital environments to support their best.
This is the sort of thing I want to see out of computer and software companies these days — new paradigms. Maybe it’s happening inside of R&D labs, but it definitely isn’t happening — or at least being seen — as fast as top-down, controlled, walled gardens are.