h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Really looking forward to this meteor show! Up to 100 per hour in Toronto (estimated) https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html
#astrodon #astronomy #meteorshower #perseids #toronto

🎯✅ "the Internet Archive has a big collection of Flash games, and you can search the entire archive to find even more." https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-play-old-flash-games-ruffle/

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/
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#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