~hedy

Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/

everyday i use vscode is a day i am reminded how emacs remains infinitely better

So. I got bored the other day so I wrote a shortcut for iOS that grabs text from images and reads it aloud for you. Open the image, tap Share, scroll down to Speak Image Text. That's how to invoke it. Caveat: Apple OCR can sometimes be shitty and confusing. Sorry.

Color blindness Color blindness is an inaccurate term. Most color-blind people can see color, they just don't see the same colors as everyone else. There ha...

Reposting a link to my article about my color blindness. My color blindness, not yours. Most articles about how to produce figures that work for colorblind people are written by people with normal vision who don't know what it's like.

commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/colo...

going to walk up to someone, punch them in the face, and then go "now is the time for peace!" and see how it works out

Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.

Teams recognizing regex as French.

Oh Teams, my sweet summer child.

Webweaving Workshop 6: ITS ON A SATURDAY THIS TIME Hi all, hope you’re doing well! I am happy to announce our SIXTH Webweaving Workshop, once again hosted by myself and @capjamesg ! Due to some scheduling shenanigans, we’re going to have to move this ...

Happy Spring! Every month, our members Jay and James host Webweaving Workshops- and the next one upcoming is THIS SATURDAY! RSVP, find the link, and get more information on our forum post here:

tinyurl.com/nhfw8325

added :)

AI is like a mirror. If we are offended by what we see, it is because we are offensive (from Mastering AI by Jeremy Kahn)

Astro Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

Astro.build is pretty awesome, only that it's bit of an overkill to have to use an entire bundling and build system for a simple personal site.

Default Apps 2024 Software I appreciate. Or, long lists of apps I would include if I had a /uses page.

last post of the year!

home.hedy.dev/posts/defaul...

The speed improvement in Ghostty is pretty impressive, but there are still a few things I miss from Kitty:

- Recognizing "cut-off" links -- a huge thing in IRC clients!
- Automatically wrapping pasted text in quotes at the prompt
- Automatically sanitizing pasted text from escape codes

Ghostty looks like the Windows Terminal for MacOS as the default terminal app

Re: @baty.net's post on "Emacs from scratch"

smol.hedy.dev/re-baty-emac...

wrote a bit about my own experience when starting my emacs config

The #W3C ARIA in HTML specification has been updated:
www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/

These are the authoring rules for using #ARIA when #HTML is the host language.

The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content Experiencing the internet through different lenses: feed readers, textual browsers, the Gemini protocol, and more.

new post!
home.hedy.dev/posts/the-jo...

1 more thing on alt text for tonight. I have had at least a dozen people who have asked me what alt text is/why it's important

Many folks simply don't know. Most seem happy to include it when they understand

While it's important to vigorously encourage people to use it, be inclusive to them too

if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux

HTML for People HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People.

Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

And it’s free for all. 🚀

htmlforpeople.com

Good writeup from @css-tricks.com on the situation with "Masonry"† and whether it belongs as part of grid or its own `display` type. It's largely neck-and-neck and won't move unless some minds on either side change.

css-tricks.com/csswg-minute...

† Still a bad name.

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

2024 CSS Unwrapped

most used: color
most misspelled: appearence
most just pray it works: word-break
most warm vibes: @container
get out of jail free: subgrid
easiest to forget to use: inset
low key gold: min()
lusting after: random()

bring back the personal site!

tilde.team is a shared computer and everyone gets their own webpage

this is mine and it's artisanally handcrafted: tilde.team/~ben/

i have a blog too i guess benharri.org

Some bsky.el progress for today, it now has rudimentary support for reply threads. (org-indent-mode might not be good for this)

I hate how much the tech industry (which is actually finance) has made me hate technology. I was a little girl who hung out at Radio Shack. I went to college where BASIC was invented and "artificial intelligence" was coined.

And all these fuckheads care about is making money.

anyone wanna try a "slow social media" experiment, called izzzzi?

nnnnnnnn.co/izzzzi.html

let me know if you've signed up! I'm "hedy" on there.

when i made my own website and started exploring other pesonal sites, my relationship with the internet got so much better. i have fun online again!

the best page on my site is this one, where i link to nearly 500 of my favorite sites: ribo.zone/links