Look, I’m not going to justify this experiment. It makes no sense that it pleases me that my website’s html/css/js is pretty when you pull up the source. So that’s it. There’s nothing else to say about it. It is what it is.
Having a human-readable website source code would be beneficial for humanity overall, maybe not in huge amounts but small is beautiful after all, too.
Willard Wigan, MBE (born June 1957) is a British sculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield, England, the son of Jamaican immigrants, who makes micro miniature sculptures.
His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin. A single sculpture can be as small as 0.005 mm (0.0002 in).
Chickens figure out enshittification.
Relevant: The Man Who Killed Google Search.
Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB: Collection of decent Community-made GRUB themes.
There are many great community made GRUB themes to spice up your bootloader before booting into your system proper. Unfortunately, they're spread across multiple sites and it can be difficult to find good ones. As another user told me, the majority of themes on Pling (the largest host of GRUB themes currently) are fairly low effort and can be boring to trawl through. Hence, I decided to put together this page to bring attention to some decent themes I've found around the internet over time.
Relevant: Boot Linux using Unified Kernel Image (i.e. no GRUB).
Agile Landscape from Deloitte.
I am not sure what I find more unnerving: this abomination of a chart representing how a group of people should be working to accomplish something, or that someone in Switzerland deems it brilliant.
I am defeated in the sense that I can’t argue strongly against using these tools (they bust out unit tests way faster than I can, and can I really say that I was ever lovingly-crafting my unit tests?), and I’m defeated in the sense that I can no longer confidently assert that brute-force statistics can never approach the ineffable beauty of the human mind that Chomsky described. (If they can’t, they’re sure doing a good imitation of it.)
Fanzineist Vienna – Art Book & Zine Fair.
16-17-18 May 2025
Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
(Semperdepot)
Youtube stars May 2025:
You have found strudel, a new live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser!
It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike.
Relevant: tidalcycles.org.
I saw function signatures and comments that looked very familiar, as if I had written them myself. Digging deeper I found test cases referencing Spegel and my previous employer, test cases that have been taken directly from my project. References that are still present to this day. The project is a forked version of Spegel, maintained by Microsoft, but under Microsoft’s MIT license.