Maud

Link: www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FON...

Great read!
Summary: This article envisions the memex, a mechanized personal library that would allow users to create and follow trails of interconnected information, mirroring the human mind's associative nature and solving the growing challenge of information overload in the post-World War II era.

The difficulty seems to be [...] that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Mendel’s concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.

Friday read: As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945.

Music icon David Bowie joins Jeremy Paxman for a discussion about his life in music. He explains the necessity that drove him to create Ziggy Stardust and hi... 1999: DAVID BOWIE: Internet is the new rock n roll | Newsnight | Classic Interview | BBC Archive

...of something exhilarating and terrifying."
Interviewer: "It's just a tool though, isn't it?"
Bowie: "No, no it's not. It's an alien life form. Is there life on Mars? Yes, and it's just landed here."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf...

Friday watch: "Internet is the new rock & roll", David Bowie interview, 1999.
"I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. We're on the cusp...

Suspicious minds would agree, too. Enjoy! I feel nostalgia 🌟

Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song—is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the surprising answer is yes: n…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877750316304471?via%3Dihub

- Mark Ibrahim, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds - Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network, Journal of Computational Scien
ce, 2017

Far from dispersed, first links disproportionately accumulate at a few articles—[...] culminating around fundamental notions such as Community, State, and Science. Philosophy directs more paths than any other article by two orders of magnitude."

By following the first link in each article, we algorithmically construct a directed network of all 4.7 million articles: Wikipedia's First Link Network.

Abstract illustration of a network

Friday read:
"Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song—is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the answer is yes: nearly all paths lead to Philosophy.

YouTube video by Chrome for Developers Practical built-in AI with Gemini Nano in Chrome

My #GoogleIO talk "Practical built-in Al with Gemini Nano in Chrome" is live: youtu.be/CjpZCWYrSxM?.... Learn about the following new APIs and see partner demos:

🔮 Prompt API
…with image input 🖼️
…with audio input 👂
…with textual input 🔤
🖊️ Writing Assistance APIs
🗣️ Translation API
✔️ Proofreading API

"Your privacy is important to us and our 614 partners"

oh great tip, thank you 💙 I'll try it out

Colorful painting on fabric

Testing painting on fabric. Some hits, some misses. Next up, I'd like to try and get a cleaner finish - using a finer brush, maybe tape

but we are also able to improvise new thoughts that are not accessible to us alone.
We often do not even know what we are thinking until we express it, either in writing or in speech."
— "It takes two to think", intro, Itai Yanai & Martin J Lercher

Illustration: two abstract shapes looking at each other

Friday read:
"One tried-and-true — though often overlooked — trick for generating new ideas stands out. It may sound trivial, yet it is as reliable as it is simple: talk to someone. By talking with other people, we not only pool the information or ideas that each of us individually lacks,

Nap time project coming along - not pretty, but it works 👾
No database, this relies solely on Google's People API

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @chronicles.org on advancing the Enum proposal to Stage 1 at TC39 today 🎉

This aims to bring the good parts of TypeScript enums to JavaScript plus enhancements such as new datatypes & potentially runtime performance improvements 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...

people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/links/...

[...] Real freedom, on the other hand, involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
— paraphrase, David Foster Wallace, This is Water (2005)

Illustration: a person roaming freely on a lake

Friday read:
"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is *what* to worship.
Money. Things. Our own beauty or intellect. Power. These are our default settings, and these will eat you alive. [...]

On Looking — Alexandra Horowitz "Undoubtedly one of the most stimulating books of the year, if not the decade, and the most enchanting thing I've read in ages." — Maria Popova, brainpickings.org

"[...] It almost seems like in someplace like that, where there is just a little scrap of nature, life is more condensed."
— Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation, 103
alexandrahorowitz.net/On-Looking

illustration: a tree on a purple hill

Friday read:
"One might imagine that a typical city does not host too many bugs; this walk was convincing me otherwise. Cities are not unnatural so much as they are *concentrated* nature [...]"

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy coding purely for fun. Bringing ideas to life in my browser. When baby is napping I'm building a web app to help me better stay in touch with friends & fam 🖤

CSS Wrapped 2024

one stop shop for the Chrome #CSS features launched in 2024!

nerdy.dev/css-wrapped-...

Mayday! Mayday! We need a CSS hero to save our flight! 🛩️ (Spoiler: it involves a lot of frustrated yelling 😂) Watch and find out: youtube.com/shorts/E_3wm...

#codinglife #CSS #DevToolsAI @matthiasrohmer.bsky.social

you can use CSS to detect not only when a form is :valid but also when it's been interacted with

s/:valid/:user-valid 🤙

.group:has(:user-invalid) { --color: var(--invalid); }
input:user-invalid + .error { display: block; }

The 2024 Web Almanac The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

I announced it yesterday, but I'm very excited for the @httparchive.org's stream I'll be leading in under 2 weeks:

✨ The Web Almanac Live! ✨

We'll discuss findings re: how the web is built. Data collected over months of research across 17 million sites + published
almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/

YouTube video by Chrome for Developers Lessons learned from being customer zero of Chrome's built-in APIs

Lessons learned from being customer zero of Chrome's built-in APIs—My #WebAI Summit 🧠 talk is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=surh.... There're many more videos from the event in the official playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....