whit waltman

File -> Save As… is an amazing way of distributing a Web app and should be better supported by browsers

:( rip

tartar (sauce, cream of); mahi mahi

A screenshot of browser.engineering, an open access title about web browsers. Shown is the second part of the introduction, Browsers and the Web. Two footnotes appear in the text.

A screenshot of browser.engineering, an open access title about web browsers. Shown is the second part of the introduction, Browsers and the Web. The first footnote is shown with the content expanded inline and with distinct styling from the core text.

just came across this nice and simple implementation. really appreciate the inline expansion (and the intuitive press-to-hide) as compared to the common internal linking practice of footnotes

(just read your most recent blog post and saw the specific line you quoted and now realize where the trouble arose.) fwiw, i didn’t read it that way and focused on the “friction-creating” mechanisms you speculated on, like a confirmation dialog prompting you to acknowledge that your behavior is 👎

wow, really? that’s a shame; I quite liked that post! and yes, I was referencing it haha

would love to read good learning tech + meta librarianship! but they all sound dope tbh

maybe laptops/video call software should have a sense of shame…

not a parent but i like pedagogy and games! a recent jeopardy contestant talked about how she did summer school sessions with her kids. the latest one was "a brief history of timekeeping" and the final project was to design your own calendar

i've filled ziploc bags with ice to bring to friends' houses in the past haha. infinite ice ftw

a screenshot of a footnote displayed as a pop-up window on gwern.net/archiving

i like gwern branwen's, but they're sometimes hard for me to spot because gwern has so many popup links

just found raddle via squonk's anti-match quiz. an instant fav!

i personally use Logseq and beorg on mobile, but can also vouch for the working copy + git setup. it’s a bit of a hassle at first, but you get used to it, and it’s worth it knowing that i’m not overwriting any of my stuff

imagine if your phone’s home screen layout shuffled every morning. or every time you picked up your phone.

we should be able to make books at home. not just zines, not just regular printing, but books, the whole binding.

genuinely appreciate the additional context from the alt text

Search engine where you can sort websites by distance from you (test app running on your laptop is 0 mi away; home server is 0.1 mi away; restaurant website is 0.5 mi away; ...)

Screenshot of Google search results with AI overview at the top. Search query: “Colorado abbreviation 3 letters”. AI overview text states “The 3-letters abbreviation for Colorado is Colo.”

Output like this gets me cuz like … it’s not hard to reason that 3 != 4

Also learned that the Cebuano Wikipedia is the 2nd largest b/c 99% of the articles are generated by a bot written by a guy whose wife’s native language is Cebuano. The more ya know!
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

I did a brief search the other day and found a probably incomplete list. The circle diagram idea is sick! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

bsky.app/profile/greg...

thx @vincentwill.com !!

CSS Speedrun | Test your CSS Skills A small fun app to test your CSS knowledge. Find the correct CSS selectors for the 10 puzzles as fast as possible.

having an inordinate amount of fun playing css-speedrun.netlify.app

Consensus: NAH/NTA

late to the party but i’ve successfully converted all non-iPhone users i’ve dated to join the iPhone club through the power of peer pressure and the allure of facetime

hard agree, but it's been a constant in my life in a way that no other note-taking app has been (by way of it being pre-installed on nearly all of my devices). i think i've mostly used it as a storage bucket for my thoughts rather than a place to develop ideas over time

used to use a "daily note" shortcut all the time for quick capture stuff. was super helpful for quick brain-dumps and task lists when i was in college. now i mostly jot those down in my pocket notebook since it's lower friction

A breadboard with a 16x2 liquid crystal display that has the words “hello world!” printed above a count of the number of seconds the microcontroller has been active for

obligatory “hello world” inaugural post