Manuel Esposito

Frozen Trees
Black Forest, Germany

#landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #winter

How to Test the Writing Capabilities of Your AI (via a haiku)

And don’t forget to take my little quiz: only two questions.
How hard can it be?

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer Automatically fix broken links by replacing them with archived versions from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this.

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Early-morning market decisions are rarely wise. This one feels especially questionable. #CarolinaReaper #FutureMeProblem

Glad your son felt better, and even happier to hear you’re back on a snowboard. That part sounds like it needs repeating.

Maybe that’s even better.

a cheerful “Buongiorno” in the morning could be the next step… :)

I like the movie “your name”. The music is by Radwinps too. Is that correct?

@perishablepress.com I was brainstorming a name for a new theme and thought ‘Entropy’ would be perfect. Naturally, I had to check if it was already taken… and, well, you can guess where that led me. Haha! perishablepress.com/entropy-theme/

The AI that we’ll have after AI Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.

“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.

“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”

Such beautiful rock formations!

What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?

State of the Word, WordPress 6.9, Carousel Block and more — Weekend Edition #350 Read onlineIssue #350 | November 22, 2025 Hi there, Munich got hit with the first snow for this Winter. It started slowly on Friday morning, and by the afternoon the flakes got larger and the white started to cover tree branches, roofs and cars. It might all be gone by tomorrow, though, as the weather forecast shows -7 °C (19.4 °F) with sunshine.❄️ I am still a Floridian Weather whimp, but I like the snow covering the overcast gray of an Autumn day.

State of the Word, WordPress 6.9, Carousel Block and more — Weekend Edition #350

Read onlineIssue #350 | November 22, 2025 Hi there, Munich got hit with the first snow for this Winter. It started slowly on Friday morning, and by the afternoon the flakes got larger and the white started to cover…

A Simpler Page Want to design a book? There are mountains of beautifully designed examples to inspire you. But what about digital books? How do you create elegantly typeset, gloriously balanced reading experience…

Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design

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MUST READ - “Why I gave the world wide web away for free - by Tim Berners Lee” web.archive.org/web/20250930...

This TED Talk Is Full of Bad Ideas | Gabe Whaley | TED

This #TED Talk Is Full of Bad Ideas
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Simplify Website Analytics: Essential Insights for Growth Simplify your website analytics with user-friendly tools that present essential data clearly, helping you track growth and conversions easily.

Simplify Website Analytics: Essential Insights for Growth https://openchannels.fm/why-simplicity-matters-in-website-analytics/

Osaka Streets (part 3)

Osaka Streets (part 2)

Osaka Streets

Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. 1Inspired by the success of PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver, our "Push!" story argued that Web browsers were about to become obsolete. 

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck Enshittification author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to today’s broken web — and could lead us out.

Excellent and depressing! nymag.com/intelligence...

I still love this navigation bar. 🤩

Mega Menus in core, WordPress 6.9 calls for testing, going from Elementor to Site Editor — Weekend Edition 344 Read onlineIssue #344 | October 11, 2025 Howdy, After meeting so many people at WordCamp Gdynia, on the plane and then on the train, I caught a nasty cold and struggled all week. I call this stage mushbrain, and everything becomes much harder, especially reading comprehension suffers. I am over it now, though. It also wasn't the first time that I sounded horsey on a podcast episode.

Mega Menus in core, WordPress 6.9 calls for testing, going from Elementor to Site Editor — Weekend Edition 344

Read onlineIssue #344 | October 11, 2025 Howdy, After meeting so many people at WordCamp Gdynia, on the plane and then on the train, I caught a nasty cold and struggled all week. I call…

Website Menu Navigation vs Mega Menu Navigation: Why Simplicity Still Wins in 2025 - elliott richmond Menus are for navigation not design showcases. Explore the impact of website menu navigation vs mega menu navigation on usability, SEO, and consistency in 2025.

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This one’s got a wonderfully weird design that really stands out from the usual toy crowd - “Tiger Moth” Airplane, #design #color

I wrote some words about how I implemented the dark mode on my site, heavily inspired by a post from @clagnut.com (Thanks a lot for sharing!) with some small adjustments.

🔗 claudiorimann.com/dark-mode/

#CSS #HTML #JavaScript #webdev

Man at microphone: “Is this thing on?”

An article published on a blog is a blog post. It is not a blog.

“Do you read my blog?” is a correctly worded question. “Did you read my blog?” (meaning did you read my blog post) is not.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.