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! (Via sensomatic.com.)
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.
How to get a feel for the data
In this post, we'll look at the best plots for getting a feel for your data and what to look for in each one.
Covert messages in spam e-mails.
Any email message would work, but spam was ideal. The sender could re-use any spam message as camouflage. The unintended recipients (regular people) had already been trained to see and delete spam, so nobody (well, except me) would look closely enough to see the covert message.
Skåpa, a parametric 3D printing app like an IKEA manual.
To use it, head over to skapa.build, specify the dimensions (width, height & depth) and click the download button. Open the downloaded file in your slicer of choice (PrusaSlicer team here) and print. Voila!
Beautifully designed interactivity.
Learn about the 'overengineered anchoring' pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.
I 🫶 Yunohost!
Top 10 European open-source projects to watch in 2025.
How Open-Source European Innovation is Changing Digital Sovereignty, Privacy, and Security.
99% resonates with me.
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything.
I have written entire applications just to avoid thinking about why I was unhappy. Programming gives you instant feedback. You run the thing, and it works. Or it doesn’t, and you fix it. Either way, you’re doing something.