Saturday, 30. August 12025
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Misleading title.

You no longer need JavaScript,

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

Malle Antifa 1-2, by Kommando Internet (via taz.de).

Das Kommando Internet bringt zehn Ballermannsongs für einen Partysommer mit Links. Sie sind unerträglich. Und unerträglich gut. Die rechte Ecke meckert.

Source: f4.bcbits.com

Parse, don’t validate.

(…) about a month ago, I was reflecting on Twitter about the differences I experienced parsing JSON in statically- and dynamically-typed languages, and finally, I realized what I was looking for. Now I have a single, snappy slogan that encapsulates what type-driven design means to me, and better yet, it’s only three words long.

Germany's private internet censorship organization gives up (via lobste.rs).

A group of major corporations blocked domains in Germany without courts. That ends now.

Quincy Jones, 1933–2024.

Few producers in music history have had the impact of Quincy Jones, the man behind some of the biggest records of all time, who died on 3rd November aged 91. Steve Lukather, best known as one of the founding members of Toto, was Jones’ go-to guitarist in the ’80s, contributing to his crowning achievement, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. He remembers his friend and collaborator, the man he called ‘Q’

Leben wir im Technofeudalismus?

Der Technofeudalismus ist ein Märchen, das die wahre Geschichte verschleiert: Mit der unangefochtenen Vorherrschaft der Techgiganten kommt ein Prozess zum Abschluss, der vor 70 Jahren begann.7 Hand in Hand haben die Wall Street, das Silicon Valley, das Pentagon und die CIA systematisch auf die Zermürbung aufmüpfiger Länder hingearbeitet, die nach echter technologischer und wirtschaftlicher Souveränität strebten. Dass Staaten heute Geld für die Bereitstellung digitaler Souveränität – Stichwort Sovereignty-as-a-Service – ausgeben müssen, ist eine Ironie des Schicksals. Aber keine Sorge: Microsoft, Palantir und Co. werden alle Bedürfnisse zu einem erschwinglichen Preis erfüllen.

Filmtagebuch.

Grand Theft Hamlet / Hundreds of Beavers / Takeshi Kitano / Caleb Landry Jones / Lea Seydoux / Berlinale-Gewinner Dahomey / Jessica Hausner

The single scream on the album becomes a wonderful cathartic mass screaming live on stage (announced at 2:28).

Wet Leg: Ur Mum, live at Glastonbury 2025.

The Hype is the Product.

There is more and more proof these tools are not as useful as they are hyped out to be. LLM-based coding tools seem to actually hurt programmers’ productivity. “Hallucinations” are not going away because the only thing these LLMs can do is “hallucinate”; they just sometimes (about 30% of the time, in fact) happen to generate some text that has some connection to reality. They also keep causing information security problems and turn out to be vulnerable in most hilarious of ways.

Markdown Monster.

This document is supposed to demonstrate just how bloated and riddled with edge cases Markdown is. It can distinguish 24 different Markdown implementations. Simply render the document using one of the supported parsers and follow the instructions starting at Section 0 to identify which parser was used.