“I’m betting on HTML.”

Below are a few examples of UI elements I found novel or useful. No style has been applied to these beyond the browser’s built-in style. Note that because of this, these examples may look vastly different (or be completely unsupported) in various browsers.

The bancor…

…was a supranational currency that John Maynard Keynes and E. F. Schumacher. conceptualised in the years 1940–1942 and which the United Kingdom proposed to introduce after World War II. The name was inspired by the French banque or ('bank gold'). This newly created supranational currency would then be used in international trade as a unit of account within a multilateral clearing system—the International Clearing Union—which would also need to be founded.

This was one uncanny exhibition… 🙀

Delaine Le Bas.

Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning.

Mondragon Corporation.

It is the seventh-largest Spanish company in terms of asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country. (…) Mondragon cooperatives operate in accordance with the Statement on the Co-operative Identity maintained by the International Co-operative Alliance.

TAC: A CSS methodology for the Web Components era.

All our favorite CSS methodologies were created more than 10 years ago in the pre-Web Components era. (…) I've found all that in a new methodology I've been following for the past 5 years. I call it Tag, Attributes, then Classes or TAC (…):

1. Style a custom HTML tag x-badge { ... }
2. Define and style custom attributes x-badge[count] { ... }
3. Customize with utility classes, like .mar-r-sm

0% world peace today.

Worldometer.

Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.

»Wir lassen Waldrappe abheben« – Tiergarten Schönbrunn.

In Kürze soll die heurige Reise der Waldrappe in Richtung Süden starten. Derzeit wird noch in Deutschland für den Flug nach Andalusien trainiert. Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn koordiniert dieses wichtige Artenschutzprojekt seit 2022.

Petrosexual psychoanalysis.

Freud’s model for the mind was the steam engine, meaning containment, pressure, and release.

— “The Ministry of the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Started with chezmoi… not looking great, needs too much effort, as soon as I worked on another machine 🙄

Also evaluated some alternatives but it’s all same-same but different:

• yadm
• nix

Relevant: Using computers more freely and safely. (Found the meme there.)

You heard it on the news, recently – I heard it for the first time: skiplagged.com.

Earlier this week, an unaccompanied minor departing Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida found himself in headlines after he was denied boarding to an American Airlines flight. He hadn’t committed a crime, nor was he accused of being unruly.

His offense? Attempting to make use of a money-saving hack that gutsy fliers use every year.