Meta, the terribile company we know, episode 123:
"One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it"
— https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-facial-recognition-code-followup/
It is so good to read that US Government has "common sense" again. This was
posted a year ago. Things are going great since then!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/03/president-trump-is-restoring-common-sense-to-government/
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
One more reason to _not_ upgrade to macOS Tahoe yet. Hope this mess will be fixed someday. 😒
@codinghorror Do you know https://purrli.com ? Cat purring as a service...
Phenomenal article I missed back in 2023: "How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)"
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Oh, now we know who to blame for the UI mess in recent years at Apple:
"Alan Dye is not untalented. But his talents at Apple were in politics. His political skill was so profound that it was his decision to leave, despite the fact that his tenure is considered a disaster by actual designers inside and outside the company."
Full post here: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
I'm looking into Haxe (https://haxe.org) with the Flixel 2d game graphics library (https://haxeflixel.com) and play around with. They have a nice integration with VSCode so using it is quite a pleasure.
The #Oatmeal on AI art! https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Priceless!
Great article by The Verge about politics, power, and the role of Wikipedia: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
Once in a while I read how good the UserLand Frontier was. This time is from an insider.
Guys, we need to talk more about UE #ChatControl proposal. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
Here we go: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-delightful-and-elegant-new-software-design/
Hey, graphic designers posting on Dribbble, set aside those neumorphism designs you were working on and start your photocopiers to envision (!) new UI's based on Apple ideas.
Phenomenal article about Python's long trek from generators to async/await, with examples.
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-12-how-asyncawait-works-in-python/
I'm back to #Elm and I'm toying with the idea of writing a little point & click adventure game using Elm Narrative Engine (https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/jschomay/elm-narrative-engine/latest/) and Elm Canvas (https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/joakin/elm-canvas/latest/) packages. There's a lot to chew: I need story, graphics (think about something like Maniac Manson) and code. Given my background, code is the easy part. Or at least, I know where to find answers. Right now I'm working on the other two. I've found that ChatGPT and friends are good to develop story ideas and dialogs. I'm revisiting Aseprite for graphics. That's gonna be tough. Pixel art isn't easy. I expect the project will take months and months, but I have time. I'll post progress here on Mastodon. Here we go!
“How much is enough for Apple?“ — https://lmnt.me/blog/forbidden-fruit.html
When it comes to your content do not rely on Google anymore. 🙄 https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/
Figma: “Here, have a slap in the face!” https://ia.net/topics/figma-here-have-a-slap-in-the-face 🙄
Newsletters and the web. https://robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters/
For the new Coldsweat UI I'm trying to render stuff on the server as much as possible with the usual Flask + JInja approach and update elements on demand via Javascript and “fetch” calls.
This is a very old-school technique but it works and it is very lightweight on the client side. To update the page DOM I’m experimenting with morphdom (https://github.com/patrick-steele-idem/morphdom) and it is pretty cool.
I’ve resisted to recode everything using a SPA-like architecture because: 1) there’s too much work to do and I would end up to not release anything for another year, which is a non-goal for me; 2) at this point it is not clear to me if the overall UX would be better.
Another approach to update UI elements on the client would use a LiveView-like approach. In the Python world there are various packages for Django and Flask that implement that and I hoped to use them somehow but this complicates deploy.
Since LiveView needs and extra channel (being Serve Side Events or WebSockets) to communicate with client you have to start a separate process aside the Flask app.
Server Side Events are nice and way simpler than WebSockets but they need to works on multi-process deploy solutions too and this require extra complexity on the server. In Videobox I can use them, since I control the environment and run it via Waitress which use a multi-threaded server but for Coldsweat this is a deal-breaker.
Trade-offs, as usual…