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a remarkable fact in this great piece by devi sridhar - in 1971, 400 Dutch children died in traffic accidents. In 2021, after safety campaigns and decades of active travel infrastructure investment, child traffic deaths were 17 #cycling #activetravel theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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My third album, Final Boss, is fifteen years old! For the rest of the day, have 15% off my whole catalog at frontalot.bandcamp.com w/ the magic code BOSSYBOSS. Also, take a moment to calm the tumultuous stampede of the passing decades. Or anyhow that's what I'll be doing. Okay, thanks!

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📚 Pretty nervous about this, but here goes. Here's a side project I've been working on for the past few months. It's called Viberary and it's a semantic search engine. It gives you book recommendations based on ✨vibes. ✨ You enter a search query like "funny scifi" and it returns a list of (hopefully!) good recommendations.

viberary.pizza/

There is an about page that explains the data, model, etc. It's still pretty early stages but it's been a labor of love for me.

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You think you have a reasonable grasp on C, then someone goes and writes:

[0x00 ... 0x17] = &&l_int

and you're like ???

(from github.com/quartzjer/cb0r/blob)

Flowchart for the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England v 🇨🇳 China and 🇩🇰 Denmark v 🇭🇹 Haiti matches:

- 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 win or draw = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 top of group
- 🇭🇹 win or draw = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 second in group
- 🇨🇳 win by 2 or more goals = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 out
- 🇩🇰 win by 2 or more goals = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 out
- 🇨🇳 score more goals than 🇩🇰 = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 second in group
- 🇩🇰 score more goals than 🇨🇳 = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 out
- omg 3-way tie with fair play points tiebreaker

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🆕 blog! “Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio”

Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/shake

#font #python #shakespeare

Flight from the Dark gamebook - you're the hero making choices in a fight of good against evil projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/01f

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Currently watching the #Tetris movie, so time for a shameless repost of the time I bought a Russian computer because it was blue. Really need to fire it up again actually.

sites.google.com/view/apogeebk

#ApogeeBK01c #Apogee #ApogeyBK01c #Apogey #retrocomputing

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From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

PSDoom: for when you need to kill processes with as much as fun as possible. psdoom.sourceforge.net/

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I got my first ever pair of glasses, and omg my computer screen now looks like it's in HD!

The optician said my prescription was so minor it wasn't worth bothering with unless I had a load of eye strain. I didn't notice any eye strain but I have been increasing text sizes a little over the last few years, so I thought I'd give it a try with a £20 pair. I'm so glad I did.

I can still see my screen perfectly fine without, but I'm definitely less headachey after wearing them!

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“This has been the most comprehensive site I’ve looked at. Voting location, ward, candidates and information about them.”
- a happy #voter

We've published our report on the 2023 local elections, alongside a review of our user feedback.

Highlights from this year:

🔎 Two million postcode searches from the UK public.

📰 Collaboration with BBC News.

🤝 Partnered with every English council.

#civictech #democracy

democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023

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