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Not to your taste, I see.

I thought I'd ask in public because I just don't have the connections.

I'd like to publish a coffee table book of full colour AI restored images of historical figures.

I'd appreciate if you could share & repost to help me find a publisher.

I think these images are worth it.

This is EXACTLY how I imagined Franz Liszt's smile.

Like Mephisto about to offer Faust a bargain he can't refuse.

Charles Valentin Alkan is delighted to make your acquaintance ...

@gibbonsofficial.bsky.social

Fabio Vitali: From Knowledge to Conjectures: A Modal Framework for Reasoning about Hypotheses https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07304 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07304 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.07304

Struzan by himself

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

A perceptual model of a poetic phrase by I. A. Richards.

A magazine ad showing the Hyper7. It's a dedicated word processor all-in-one, with a PS/2 keyboard, a monochrome backlit LCD monitor device left, twin vertically mounted 3.5" floppies device right, and a thermal printer device rear. The screen on the device shows a multi-application operating system, including word processor, spreadsheet, rolodex, drawing program, graphing program, disk utility, telecommunications terminal, and tutorial. The only thing it's lacking is a way to program on the thing.

The NEC Bungo Hyper 7 (1991) (Source.)

At last ... this is him!

Young Ruskin

Forgive me, I mistook #atproto for #atjson!

But your work also looks intriguing!

Did somebody say 'standoff markup' ... my ears are burning. 😀

Codex progress update:

You can now create Book Documents with fixed size pages, which can store page-sized images (scans) or regular editable text blocks.

I have a hunch that fixed-size Book Documents may prove more useful than free-form Documents at times.

Experimenting with a BookBlock in Codex for when you want to position two pages side by side ...

More work required

+ page navigation controls
+ page turning effects (CSS)
+ adding new pages from templates or images
+ text annotation of image areas
+ bookmarks
+ create a TableOfContentsBlock

Templates in Codex ...

totally doing this

Codex progress update:

Sticky tags!

You can now add coloured sticky tabs to the side of Codex documents for recording brief notes about the document.

E.g., you could put a checklist of work items for the document, questions to follow up, etc.

Codex progress update:

+ Instead of having to use modals or pop-ups you can now enter values directly into the context menu, as here where we change the name of a Page in the document ...

Moritz Moszkowski

Moritz Moszkowski (1854 – 1925) was a German-Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and teacher.

His last years were spent in poverty for he sold all his copyrights & invested the lot in German, Polish, & Russian bonds & securities, which were rendered worthless on the outbreak of WWI.

Mark Hambourg (1879 – 1960), Russian British concert pianist.

According to Henry Wood, his appearance and technique were compared to that of Anton Rubinstein, and Ferruccio Busoni later told Wood that Hambourg's was then the greatest talent of the time.

Alfred Cortot (1877 – 1962), French pianist, conductor, and teacher, and one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.

Why shouldn't your documents give you the space to capture a 3D image of your topics?

Aside from the text of 'The Raven' I've always wanted to collect together:

+ the best illustrations
+ further reading
+ LLM analyses

And pull out any Page into its own Document if you wish.

Why should only spreadsheets get to have multiple tabs?

Don't they make just as much sense to include in documents?

Each tab is essentially a document - but tabs allow us to group these documents together.

Soon you'll be able to just drag them in and out as needed.

Here you can see the new Pages feature of Codex in action.

The text for Poe's The Raven is on the first page, while illustrations for it can be put on the second.

It allows us to keep both text and images together without cluttering up the document.

Codex progress update:

+ finished work on the new Pages feature 📄

+ add, delete, and move Pages inside a document, just like sheets in a spreadsheet

+ a document becomes more like a dossier 📄📂

YouTube video by Iian Neill New Block features in Codex

Codex progress update:

A video showing some new features.

+ block styling, alignment, and indentation
+ left and right marginalia spaces
+ inline tabs (for drafts, text variants, compacting information, etc.)
+ grid de/structuring

youtu.be/2YoBhOTQ3AM?...

Codex progress update:

I've always wanted to do this in Code!

You can now indent and de-indent Blocks along the positive and negative X axis.

Codex progress update:

+ added font colour styling
+ added background colour styling
+ added option to clear Block and Standoff styles
+ moved window themes into the context menu

Absolutely real photographs of Franz Liszt giving a performance ...

Actual photo of Franz Liszt giving a performance ...