h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Happy CSS Naked Day to all who celebrate!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/this-blog-strips-off-for-css-naked-day/

Happy Easter. Here’s an article where I interviewed the first programmer to ever hide an Easter Egg in software way back in 1968:

https://www.acriticalhit.com/make-love-not-war-first-software-easter-egg/

Newspeak House in that London are looking for resident fellows for their next cohort! If you're interested in tech and making things less bad, think about applying! Scholarships available: https://newspeak.house/residency

Now that WebGPU is shipping(!), I want to share some thoughts on the API.
Please note that as an editor of the spec, I'm literally as biased as you can get. So take my words with a massive grain of salt, but my intent is to encourage people to try the API for themselves, not accept my opinion verbatim. #WebGPU
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/

They’ve figured out the secret of ancient Roman concrete’s durability! And it’s really cool! https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106

Open source software is free and enables people to do great things with it. This is the #opensource software/data I've been using to create maps, process images, make animations etc. related to #NASA's #Mars2020 mission:

#GIMP : https://www.gimp.org
#Geogebra : https://www.geogebra.org
#ImageMagick : https://imagemagick.org
#QGIS : https : https://www.qgis.org
#Stellarium : https://stellarium.org

@kevinmgill's and @stim3on's flats: https://github.com/kmgill/mars-raw-utils-data/tree/61a3b4477b541d4749c66b348c2098a931369d93/caldata

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Just as "serverless" means you are using more than one server, see "driverless"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447 “They will have two members of staff on board.
A safety driver will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding, buying tickets and queries.”

Our first Bleak Weekend was a great success. I can thoroughly recommend staying in a motorway service station for a weekend https://rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/127/ #WeekNotes

🗳️ Local elections are taking place across England and Northern Ireland this May.

🙋 8,519 councillors are to be elected, the largest number since 2019.

📝 Nominations for England close on 4 April. Our volunteers will be collecting these over the following days and publishing them for voters on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk.

👀 Get the full details and find out how you can volunteer for democracy on our blog! ⬇️

https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023/03/02/whats-up-for-election-in-2023/

This is MADNESS.

"The UK government will defy scientific doubts to place a massive bet on technology to capture and store carbon dioxide in undersea caverns, to enable an expansion of oil and gas in the North Sea."

Carbon capture/removal techniques (which don't even work yet) are not an excuse to keep burning anything. They're utterly pointless until we have decarbonised everything else as much as we can. Renewables are already cheaper & better - there's no contest.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/government-gambles-on-carbon-capture-and-storage-tech-despite-scientists-doubts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hello, world 🐘

In my latest blog post, I catch up with a ride I did last year on the excellent Coundon Cycleway in Coventry.

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2023/03/cycling-in-uks-motor-city.html

I've ported 10print, https://10print.org/, to Unix shell:

The classic C64 one-liner

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

becomes:

yes '╱ ╲' | awk '{printf $(1.5+rand())}'

The loop has become implicit, in what is essentially a pair of endless coroutines.

#10Print