h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

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 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/uk-must-follow-europe-lead-prioritising-walking-cycling-public-transport

Mathematical Objects: On-Sets https://aperiodical.com/2023/07/mathematical-objects-on-sets/

My third album, Final Boss, is fifteen years old! For the rest of the day, have 15% off my whole catalog at https://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!

📚 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.

https://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.

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

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

and you're like ???

(from https://github.com/quartzjer/cb0r/blob/master/src/cb0r.c)

Nice to see the BBC joining the fediverse @BBCRD
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

🆕 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: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/shakespeare-serif-a-new-font-based-on-the-first-folio/
⸻
#font #python #shakespeare

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.

https://sites.google.com/view/apogeebk01/

#ApogeeBK01c #Apogee #ApogeyBK01c #Apogey #retrocomputing

It's publication day! #Firefly Coup de Grace is out now!
#ScienceFiction #SpaceWestern

https://titanbooks.com/70744-firefly-coup-de-grace/

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

Fabled Lands look at AI and non-AI cover art https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/03/got-it-covered.html

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!

“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

https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023/07/20/2023-Election-report-and-user-feedback/