I was looking at JavaScript Weekly ten years ago and found "State of the Art JavaScript in 2016": medium.com/javascript-a... .. Plus ça change.. 😂
0.3, just out, adds metadata/dimensions reading without a full decode, ICC profile extraction, and optional two-step encoding with Huffman table optimization. github.com/peterc/pure_...
Altman and Dario.. Ultron and Wario.. well I was proud of my joke at the time 😂
And 0.2.0 is now out with progressive JPEG support too. 0.1.0->0.2.0 actually took longer than 0.1.0 did 😅
(Obviously I'm just being playful, but I do recall there being a bit of snobbery over ICQ number length back in the day. Similarly with Slashdot numbers.)
lol, an ICQ number in the millions, what a noob
There are also some fun results of not supporting transparency:
For example, to get that crunchy 2000-era Kodak camera look:
PureJPEG is a pure Ruby JPEG encoder and decoder. While it works as expected, it has a bunch of features to get retro/distorted JPEGs, which is what I was really going for: github.com/peterc/pure_... (Examples shown in the README!)
I love how this has been the case on Google for over ten years now. (The solution is to write USD instead, but it still catches me out.)
Dropping OpenAI for Anthropic out of ethical concerns is understandable, but reading Anthropic's statement of four days ago it feels like ditching Ultron to hang out with Wario?
This HAS to be auto-traced. If there were ever "slop" in the 90s clipart era, this is a peak example 😅
You can play the original SkiFree game from the Windows 3.1 days in your browser - this is not a drill! retrotick.com
The "car wash question" - opper.ai/blog/car-was... - got me wondering what would be the shortest question you can ask that SOTA LLMs would get wrong (not just admitting it doesn't know, which is fine). It'd be neat to find one that's ten words or less.
But did it make you feel a little bit closer to your fellow countrymen? 😅
A question that flummoxes LLMs:
"Does English have any words which are the name of the place where the same named product is purchased or consumed, akin to café in French?"
SOTA models give wrong answers like "bakery" and "bar", except for Gemini 3.1 Pro which got "takeaway" and "carvery".
Briefly caught the genealogy bug and found my most distant ancestor so far: James Waterhouse, born in 1318, in Lincolnshire (where I live now!)
At 23 generations above me, though, I realised I have 8,388,608 such ancestors, so he's probably one of yours too!
You got it already boss: “oh shit I need a title”
A bit sad that 3I/ATLAS didn't turn out to be an alien spaceship.
Early bitmap to vector experiment? One of the more bizarre ones I've seen.
I also hated Wolf Alice for ages when they came on the radio but ended up falling for them. Found most of my favourite bands that way. I HATED Pearl Jam for years, now one of my top bands ever!
Music recs are boring, but OK: WOLF ALICE. They remind me of Fleetwood Mac. All their songs are so different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsf...
It's refreshing how many bands this decade are heavily influenced by the 70s-90s and not continuing with the milquetoast bullshit that ruled the 2010s.
But I imagine someone doing it properly would start from the base and then add only the things they use to it in each case.
(I am far from an authority on this so I could be wrong.) It seems there are two paths you can take: a plain ruby build to which you add what you need, then a ruby+stdlib build with "everything". I shrunk the latter as I wanted a "good enough" small build.
In terms of easy exclusions, you don't need rdoc, any libraries oriented around networking, minitest, etc. At least for making Ruby-powered frontend experiences (as opposed to developer tooling).
Got ruby.wasm down to 4,223 kB over the wire *including* the stdlib!
20MB+ is more typically seen in similar builds, but there's a ton of stuff that can't even be used in the browser including a huge needless C library. More to follow..
Sounds like I have a rabbit hole to go down! I've solely used it for ruby install and switching so far but I hear there's a lot more to it.
Been putting off moving off asdf to mise for managing Ruby versions for months. I shouldn't have. It took two minutes to migrate and it Just Works™.
