Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

Three new TILs today:

Running Varnish on Fly: https://til.simonwillison.net/fly/varnish-on-fly

How to get Cloudflare to cache HTML: https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/cloudflare-cache-html

Writing Playwright tests for a Datasette Plugin: https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/playwright-tests-datasette-plugin

"You forgot? Must not be important."

Listen bro, I can and have forgotten to eat, pee, sleep, cash cheques. I've lost my car by taking the bus home after driving there.

Importance is not a distinguishing factor here. The fact a commodore 64 has more RAM than I do is the issue

Vanilla whut? https://www.comicsands.com/trump-vanilla-ice-ninja-turtle-2666852177.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Happy New Year everyone!

A wee #picotron update: I've updated the faq, roadmap & playground with a sound toy:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground

Press ESC to get into the terminal, then "load /demos/bells.p64" and hit CTRL+R to run it.

@ferricoxide All 3 seasons of "Connections" are there as well.
https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978

I spent a decade of my life creating game assets, the result is a lot of game assets. They're free, no ads, no tracking, no registration, no subscription, no permission needed, no need for attribution and suited for any use including commercial.

https://gameassets.com

@BoredomFestival @cstross @FredKiesche

🧝Elf Curling :: a 2P game for the #pico8 holiday bundle. Last sock on the right: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=55407
(or LOAD #ELF_CURLING from inside PICO-8)

I just saw “Gen X became 30 at age 10 and is still 30 at age 50” and wow, do I feel seen.

Which is a very strange feeling for a Gen Xer, just sayin’.

@georgetakei Santa is all of us.

As a holiday treat, and because I haven't finished writing about my walk on the Camino yet, I present a rant that I went and polished up.

TL;DR: If you tell me "It's a training issue", I assume the problem is with yours.

https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2023/12/its-a-training-problem/

I should be threading all of this, but what makes the "he was just faithfully executing the laws" particularly absurd is that a president has nothing to do with elections.

Nothing. That was intentional.

It's the business of Congress, state governments, and the courts to resolve disputes.

That's because a president may be running for reelection.

The drafters of the Constitution didn't htink of everything, but they thought of that.

DÄRMOK and JÅLAD at #IKEA

reindeer herder

Absolute treasure trove of #pixelart tutorials 🤩
http://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

@Biggles @matt @danilo @maria @dalias I agree, "actively dangerous for the lazy or gullible" is a good summary of where we are today

That's why I spend so much effort trying to counter the hype and explaining to people that this stuff isn't science fiction AI, it's spicy autocomplete - it takes a surprising amount of work to learn how to use it effectively

@cstross

To be scrupulously fair, the inability of Korob and Sylvia to render a self-consistent and suitably fear-inducing environment, because they don't understand humans, is a significant feature of the episode.

So you could argue that this is clever thematic alignment, and definitely not a random nominally-spooky prop rushed in front of the camera because it was easy.