Craft the Rainbow -
40 Colorful Paper Projects from The House That Lars Built
Doing some maintenance. -steele
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Saturday, 20 September 2025
quote [ my story-telling game engine, designed to be very easy to use, and it can run as a local build or in your browser. ]
Nice writeup on retro adventure interfaces for an engine that's powered by text files and a simple C compiler (didn't test, is multi-platform though) from Mattias Gustavsson
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quote [ “People go after horror films not because they’re violent, but because a lot of times horror films have values that contradict normal values,” he said. “That’s why people are so outraged. ]
Great read. All those laid off journalists produce more existential articles than you can keep track of.
[Edit: ok, checking on Sarah Kendzior, that might have been a bit rude]
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Friday, 19 September 2025
quote [ Proof you really can do anything if you want it bad enough ]
Blasphemy! Sorcery! The black arts of surface physics. Note the lovely illustrations.
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Thursday, 18 September 2025
quote [ Something like 300 friends sounds right. Any more than that and you're a collector, and not using the platform to foster connection.
This feature alone already removes 90% of the marketing interests in the platform. ] cough-cough – ok, like, other than most of the HN commenters, I feel like the remaining few at this place have some worthwile insights on the topic.
Thumb via Clawmarks
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Saturday, 13 September 2025
quote [ In 2009, law professors David A. Hoffman and Salil K. Mehra published a paper analyzing conflicts like these on Wikipedia and noted something unusual. Wikipedia’s dispute resolution system does not actually resolve disputes. In fact, it seems to facilitate them continuing forever.
These disputes may be crucial to Wikipedia’s success ] On political/totalitarian pressure exerted over Wiki editors, usurptation attempts and efforts in moderation – exciting and boring at the same time.
Extended: older critique on Wikipedia itself, that seems a bit dated by now but points out the impossibility of measuring importance by comittee. Note also: you can help the Archive Team by scraping Typepad.
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Saturday, 6 September 2025
quote [ Most water used for transpiration in the dry season did not come from deep reserves, but from shallow soil. In a year without extreme drought or floods, 69 per cent of transpiration on the hill and 46 per cent in the valley came from the top 50 centimetres of soil. ]
Interesting data on how ecosystem circulation works.
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Sunday, 31 August 2025
quote [ /ˈpɔrfɔr/ (poor-for)
[…] Imagine writing a CLI app in JS and compiling it to a one-click executable under 1MB! ] Very techy but possibly the future™️ of Javascript helpers. It allows for easy cross-platform usage via WASM and using light helpers in workflows without the bootup penalty for script interpreters (Node, Deno, Python, PHP …) or version juggling.
You have to have a reason to work with Javascript though .. fast HTML parsers come to my mind. Also, the absence of a branded logo is always a good sign. diary/Mastodon
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Thursday, 28 August 2025
quote [ After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.
Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content. ] Not too much of an advance warning. Sites like these seemed like safe haven amongst dying or morbidly reworked services [Edit: ok, registrations were stopped in 2020]. I'm speculating AI bots did a toll on the traffic as well. Ironically, bot protection makes saving automated copies of blogs much harder.
You got any interesting blogs to save or observe? Share links in the extended! Thumb via New Old Stock
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Monday, 25 August 2025
quote [ Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. ]
A gladly rather dry account of medical people speculating on various illnesses becoming more common in the British Medical Journal; further contributing to everybody feeling a bit shitty as of late.
Thumb via New Old Stock.
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Sunday, 24 August 2025
quote [ I was recently curious about how many 5x5 nonograms can be solved purely with logic, no guessing. After running my nonogram solver on all 33,554,432 possible pixel combinations in a 5x5 grid, it turns out the answer is 24,976,511. ]
A nice way to spend a thousand hours or something. Quote via this thread, found via Sunday Papers
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The Appeal -
podcast hosted by Adam Johnson, is where we take a deeper look at the most important criminal justice stories of the week.
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