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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
actualtorgo@threads.net ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Good news from Moldova today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo 🇪🇺

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Ok, with this and some other tweaks (faster CSS selectors, bundling image-prep script in `rAF`via `MutationObserver,` etc.), pretty happy with the outcome, even with this post pulling in a chonky pair of scripts for charts (which I need to make `IntersectionObserver`-based):

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250928%5FYiDc8Z%5F2N8-l:sept%2027,250929%5FZiDcE2%5F2A4-l:sept%2028&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=visual

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻"):
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

📝 Some misc. thoughts of dependency management and what not.

Software is just a giant witch’s brew lol

dependencies:
eye-of-newt: ^1.4.0
tongue-of-dog: ^2.7.0

scripts:
build: "double double tooling and trouble"
deploy: "fire burn and cauldron bubble"

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/run-software-on-software-youve-never-run/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Ditch DocuSign! Use DocuSeal. It is a free, open source secure, and efficient tool to handle all your documents. Simply create PDF forms that anyone can fill and sign online using easy, mobile optimized tool and much more. Give it a try https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Interestingly, because the Netlify Image CDN now supports AVIF and I adopted it a few months ago, the window for observing these previews only seems to show up on emulated 2G links on first view, or very image-heavy pages:

https://docs.netlify.com/build/image-cdn/overview/

Good times!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This differs from the original, which did not adjust gamma and set different values for sharpening. There are also some "fudge" constants in the post-colour-space conversions that I don't fully understand, but I was able to get the same output for Lean's test images, so happy enough with it for now.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Specifically, this is what we end up with for the sharp conversions to get the sample image:

```js
let previewBuffer = await sf.gamma(2)
.resize(3, 2, { fit: "fill" })
.sharpen({ sigma: 0.5 })
.removeAlpha()
.toFormat("raw", { bitdepth: 8 })
.toBuffer();
```

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The other unsettling thing is that the `colorthief` library the approach uses is *very* slow. Going to need to either figure out a different quantization strategy, start parallelizing (first port of call), or both.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Just pushed a version of these badass CSS-only image previews to my blog:

https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Biggest upside is cleaner markup. Also gave me the excuse to defer raster of below-the-fold images entirely with `content-visibility`.

A few tricky things getting it good enough to replace the AVIF-based placeholders I was using before:

- colourspace conversion functions Lean uses aren't accurate; need to copy specific files
- the algorithm for the sample images changed since publication

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

Kidz Bop is getting wild!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

I love the concept art here of a piloted, reusable main booster for the space shuttle: https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-ambitious-space-shuttle-concept-was-a-post-apollo-pipe-dream-we-never-got

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

How Jensen Huang is Using Nvidia Cash to Rule the AI Economy — The Information:

"Nvidia’s investments have become so large and broad—often consisting of multiple companies in data centers, model making and other categories—that it’s starting to turn into something like AI’s government." https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jensen-huang-using-nvidia-cash-rule-ai-economy

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Don't tell Gail but I actually murdered her one of those times. IN PORTLAND.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DPKbWn3Ekna

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

I assume a fair bit of people don’t know I make fonts. Even if you don’t have a need for fonts, I recommend checking out the website I made for my type foundry, Crown. A lot of work went into this website to make it a great showcase for the work Ender and I are doing together.

🔗 https://crowntype.com/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

New blog post about “ikigai” as it pertains to me and why it took me so long to get here.

https://blog.webb.page/2025-09-28-ikigai.txt

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Alright here’s my hot take on AI. *hides under desk*

https://blakewatson.com/journal/understanding-not-slop-is-whats-interesting-about-llms/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aud@fire.asta.lgbt ("Asta [AMP]") wrote:

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social DNC stans: "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO"

NYC: chooses a socialist lite candidate as the DNC nominee

DNC: "... ooooooooooh... uhhhhh..."

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New hat!

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

And yes, if you’ve already donated $20 or more, you’re getting all five stickers already. But you can certainly donate more if you’d like! https://stjude.omg.lol

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

We’re down to the wire on the @robb × omg.lol St. Jude fundraiser; just two days left and we’re around $3,200 shy of our goal. If you’ve been thinking about donating but haven’t gotten around to it yet, here’s an awesome reason to do it: we’re adding *another* exclusive sticker to the sticker pack! That’s right — a donation of just $20 or more gets you the four awesome stickers that you see on https://stjude.omg.lol as well as this fifth new glow-in-the-dark Ghost Prami! :prami_happy:

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

one thing that feels good about this project: some decisions that felt like silly over-engineering in the past have made new moves very easy. adding support for The Walrus, for example, was about ~8 lines of code; switching the New Yorker backend was only a few dozen

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

🮕 New release for xword-dl, the command line tool to scrape crossword puzzles from online solvers 🮕

This version updates the New Yorker for their new Puzzmo-powered backend, adds support for the New Yorker Mini, Observer puzzles Everyman and Speedy, and The Walrus https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2025.9.28

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

Good God. Apparently there is a Laura Loomer Halloween mask out there, but please don't wear it around kids. Neither you nor anybody else needs the kids terrified she's under their beds.

#Halloween #LauraLoomer #Fascism

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
JellyTBeagle@plush.city ("jely da beegol") wrote:

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

Boosted by jwz:
justjanne@decentralised.chat ("justJanne") wrote:

@pojntfx that's why this sticker exists :)

SVG: https://github.com/justjanne/stickers/blob/main/designs/ssl%20added%20and%20removed%20here.svg

Boosted by jwz:
pojntfx ("Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅") wrote:

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

Boosted by jwz:
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Found a feral cursor today in Łódź.

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Federal government funding runs out on Tuesday night. This means it’s important to remind our Democratic senators that we expect them to hold their ground — not roll over like last time. Urge your Democratic senators to HOLD THE LINE against any GOP funding deal that hands Trump a blank check: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/funding-fight-democratic-senator/?source=mastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Not the droid you're looking for. (Buy my new book at gricklemart.com) #grickledoodle #horror #starwars #thering #cartoon #art #drawing #funny