Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've learned SO MUCH from Miriam over the years and continue to have my perspectives changed and challenged by her thinking and hard-earned wisdom. It's an insta-buy for me. You should order it to, especially while it's on pre-sale.
The remarkable voice system described for Mubi seems to interact with relativisation, but textual data is scarce. In textual examples of subject relativisation, the same suffix shows up that Jungraithmayr describes as forming attributive adjectives; compare: njótúgìhìtt-ìtsàhíitú person?M.RELpronounce.IPFV-ADJtruth? a person who speaks the truth (Jungraithmayr 2013:64, 115) jórólgìmèed-ít jackalM.RELdie.PFV-ADJ a dead jackal / a jackal which has died Lukas gives phrasal examples…
It is too hot. I sat and read some random assorted comics that I enjoyed today, but couldn't put words together in my head to describe much about them other than, "Matt Fraction's take on the original Batman deserves more love, along with how Absolute Batman is getting so much press." A single sentence does not make for a particularly good article, however. I read that some members of Gen Z are apparently more prudish and dislike all the kissing and sex-talk on, "Love Island," which made me…
I haven't read much any Stephen King fiction books. It, Pet Sematary, Green Mile... None. I know, I'm a terrible, awful person who doesn't deserve the title of a 'reader'. That said, I thought it was about time I gave some King books a try, the books have never been a genre I wanted to try but I'm not too proud to admit when I'm wrong. The book I started with? The Dead Zone. The first 40-50 pages were a slog... I figured perhaps I was right that King was never going to be for me. Then it…
Replied to You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain by Chris Wiegman (chriswiegman.com) There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain to access DuckDuckGo, a method that works, but not in every situation, you can just use the normal DuckDuckGo domain, without AI and customizable even further to serve your needs. Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need…
I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
When Apple announced Siri A.I. would not be available on E.U. iPhones or iPads at launch, it said: Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual assistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI for devices in the EU. Apple also shared a plan to launch Siri AI in the EU while gradually rolling out this new solution over an 18-month period. The European Commission said no. In fact, the…
Even as my colleagues around Europe complain of a heat wave, things have been pretty much normal here–35oC outside, 27-ish inside, made tolerable only by the fact that I have minimized the number of active devices in my office (where the hottest things are probably my monitors and the ageing Surface Pro 3 that I use at my standing desk). Borg ThermalsWhich doesn’t mean things don’t get too hot. I woke up the other day to find that borg had halted at around 5AM, and I immediately suspected…
Schon im Pilotprojekt von 1988 war die Veloroute 11 angelegt – inklusive Radkreuz. Aber dem Radkreuz wird gerade – noch bevor es fertig ist – ein Arm amputiert1. Und wo bleibt die Veloroute 11? Selbst im allerersten, rudimentären Radverkehrskonzept der Autostadt Bochum, im Generalverkehrsplan von 1979, ist die Veloroute 11 schon erkennbar. Nur die Alleestraße ist ausgespart. Aber die wird ja gerade neu gebaut und bekommt Radfahrstreifen (sonst gäbe es keine Fördermittel). »Radverkehrskonzept«…
After being thoroughly disappointed with Ruler of the World, one of J. T. McIntosh’s later works, I decided to try one of his earliest novels. One from his prime. I chose The Fittest when I read that it was about animals with enhanced intelligence. It was his fourth published novel, from 1955. I love science fiction tales set just as civilization is collapsing. I have a strong affinity with Robinsonades, which are closely related to post-apocalyptic fiction. I especially love the cozy ones,…
Sophie Swithinbank's Sting draws parallels between the modern-day collusion of men and institutions against women experiencing abuse, and the historical persecution of women accused of witchcraft, through a pair of women conducting an academic study on just that subject: Lily (Phoebe Ladenburg) is a university lecturer specialising in the history of witch hunts, attempting to digitise a unique archive of cases and evidence. She hires a part-time assistant to help speed up the process, but…
New vegan joint opened down from the studio. Currently Listening: Pneumatic Tubes “A Letter from TreeTops”Reply via email
Two middle-aged doctors, two grade schoolers, a teenager, an infant and a very loud cat: say hello to the Miljković family flying circus, coming to Denver this very evening.
Apple's Cmd+Tab has real blind spots. It works on apps, not windows. It doesn't know about Spaces. It has no search, fuzzy or otherwise. Several independent developers have recently taken a crack at fixing it, each with a different idea of what "better" means. I'm not picking a winner here -- just laying out what each one gets right and where it falls short, in case you want to try one yourself. GroupCtrl -- Free, Open Source (GPL-3.0) Instead of assigning a different hotkey to each app,…
I remember the first time I really began to understand the true nature of capitalism. I was sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room and, like every doctor’s office I’ve ever been in, they had TVs playing HGTV on a wall-mounted TV. It was one of those house hunter shows, the kind where the husband is a professional mosquito trainer and the wife teaches philately to underprivileged shelter animals, and their budget is somehow 1.2 million dollars. A youngish couple was looking specifically for a…
Tags: #portraits #musicWhen Cleveland was about 8 years old, he was working out in the cotton field doing some hoeing, and when the lightning hit him “Cleveland went one way and the hoe went the other way.” My dad is telling me this on the phone, on Father’s day. During the story I learned that Cleveland is a black man, “a very black man” from Mississippi. And that he has white hair, he’s in his eighties, and the contrast looks “very cool.” Cleveland, a friend of my dad’s whom I will very…
Alice Dragoon writes for MIT Technology Review about a man of many words: Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words they’re given at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—arguably the world’s most prestigious competition of its kind. The story of how the word earned the top spot on his personal list may well mark the beginning of his unique…
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<!-- end-chunk --> <!-- begin-chunk data-anchor="raidio-ga-ga" --> <h4>Ra.i.dio Ga Ga.</h4> <p><em>Vol. 6, No. 8</em></p> <img class="art" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1783026162/Pop_Loser_V6N8_c4lbmb.png" alt="A stylized image of a vintage FM radio"> <p>While this brave new world of AI is also a hellscape of rapacious capitalism, the ability to bang out tiny pieces of hyper-specific software is pretty sweet. I dropped <a…
The white form of Rosebay Willowherb. Never seen in the wild, at least not by me but I do see it planted in gardens from time to time. The pink is definitely invasive, the white less so (it is said).
I went to Knott's with some visiting family members this past week. It's the "cheaper Disneyland" of Buena Park - a budget theme park located in the exact same part of the region, with better rollercoasters and worse signage and strange, abandoned attempts at its own IP development hiding here and there among decades of weird old-west animatronics. The history of Knott's is fascinating - the wikipedia page for both Knott's Berry Farm and the boysenberry are fascinating. Basically, this park has…
Bella doesn't know she is humiliated. Sweater on, box ready, camera rolling. Confused face. Laughing. Share. Forty likes. Love you Bella. In nature, predator kills and eats. Clean. Honest. Bella gets something worse. Alive, dependent, no exit. Dressed up, laughed at, photographed daily. Death would be more honest. You call it love.
Dear Loiterers It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and so that means time to loiter together again. Join The LRM outside the main entrance to Manchester Piccadilly Station (top of station approach NOT the Fairfield Street entrance) at 2pm Sunday 5th July. As ever our wander will be free and open to all who are curious, convivial and up for a mooch. The only rules are take care of yourself, each other and our environment. And don’t be an arse. The direction and pace will be set collectively, and…
This week on the show: The Apple Watch is rumored to undergo some big changes, Safari is gaining MCP support, and the Rickies may have accidentally created a black hole.
I open the window just a little to let some light in terrified but tired of the dark
I spent some time polishing my Inconsolata fork into something I would actually want to use every day: coding ligatures, a slightly narrower variant, rebuilt font artifacts, and a small live specimen site. The demo is live here: https://vinitkumar.github.io/Inconsolata/ What changed The first pass added ligature glyphs, but I realized quickly that having them only under dlig was not enough. Most editors do not enable discretionary ligatures by default. So the rebuilt font now exposes the…
On June 22nd, I gave the opening keynote for the 2026 Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (aka CAPAL-ACBES)...
The Ramanujan challenge Ido Kaminer shared with me the following information about The Ramanujan Challenge for AI, and I am happy to share it with the readers of this blog. The challenge page is at ramanujanmachine.com/ramanujan-challenge; Here is the The full challenge paper, and a quote from Ido’s email. “The challenge launched today and will run until August 1, 2026. It consists of [ten] research-level problems on explicit formulas for mathematical constants, designed to test whether AI…
At FOSDEM 2025 I presented my (intentionally controversial) proposal how to keep copyright and licensing info in minified JS/CSS and asked for feedback, including from front-end developers. Two months later, I took the feedback from FOSDEM and held a small workshop session with a group consisting of OSPO leaders, FOSS lawyers and a handful of FOSS developers at LLW 2025. This blog post was finished1 more than a year after both, so I will not be summarizing my FOSDEM talk, and suggest you listen…
