How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Strap in, this story involves a cheese fortune teller, the department of war, and nearly every other government department in between.
Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking
Air Theremin — a browser theremin played in mid-air: tilt your phone, or wave both hands in front of the camera. Pitch, volume and timbre follow you, with note snap, cave reverb and recording.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? – IKEA Sweden
The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! Here you will learn the most about how we name our products and the two rules that must always be followed – because there is a method in the madness.
The Story of Dark Castle
In this video I celebrate 40 years of Dark Castle, the 1986 Macintosh classic that stood out for its animation, sound, artwork, and unusually polished presentation. I look at how Mark Pierce, Jonathan Gay, Eric Zocher, and the small team at Silicon Beach created a game that pushed the early Macintosh in ways few others were attempting at the time. Special thanks to Mark Pierce for sharing material from Dark Castle’s development and helping with the historical details.
Why the Bible Is Mute about Qos, the Edomite God – TheTorah.com
Esau, Jacob’s twin brother, is the ancestor of Edom, Israel’s southern neighbor. The Edomites worshiped the god Qos/Qaus, who emerged around the same time and place as YHWH in the Late Bronze Age, and who was very popular in Persian Period Yehud. And yet, unlike other foreign gods, the Bible never mentions the god Qos. Why?
Stop Making TUIs — Quarrelsome
Five years ago, if I’d had a macOS UI person on my team, I’d have been over the moon to get output of this quality. The truth is, I barely think about these things as “apps” (I have no intention to distribute them). They’re artifacts of me making my computer do stuff for me, the way I want it to. As a Unix nerd, I’ve always been able to do this, in the language of the command line. Now, it’s just as easy to do that kind of work with graphical interfaces. ❦ We build terminal interfaces because we have to, not because we should.
ui, development, AI
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner – T.R Napper
Blade Runner is one of the most visually haunting and memorable movies in the history of cinema. It has inspired art, and is a work of art. It’s a movie I can’t stop watching and talking about. This article, as such, is an indulgence for those like me who can’t help but go back to this classic neo-noir again and again.
Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
Figmimic is a bookmarklet that captures the current web page and copies it to your clipboard as Figma frames. Pasted frames are editable, not flat screenshots. Open Figma and paste it in.
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
It is widely repeated in the popular literature and elsewhere that the singularity at the center of a black hole is a point. It is not true. Two observers who free-fall into a spherical black hole along two different angular trajectories at the same time t do not encounter each other at the central singularity; rather, they lose causal contact with each other already well away from the singularity.
[2608.22209] Rotating needles in space: the road to the Kakeya conjecture, and why it matters
A non-technical exposition of the Kakeya conjecture, why it matters, and the road to the solution of this conjecture in three dimensions by Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl.
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