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It's summer soon ☀️

Reading

• Reading about how HTTP/3 works
• Reading about how Noise Protocol Framework works
• https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/04/the-seven-year-rule/ matches the way I think about all of us “dying” each night as we go to sleep and waking up a new person.
• https://www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown
• https://rntq.substack.com/p/6-principles-of-getting-shit-done-9c9
• https://stephango.com/file-over-app good read on principles of app design; if you design a file, a spec, a protocol, that will allow users freedom and allow everyone's work to live on long past your app.
• https://dariusforoux.com/rich-stoic/ be content
• https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet cool implementation of a p2p vpn solution
• https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/css-blend-mode-shaders/ how to emulate traditional photo editing techniques in CSS shaders
• https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/ trying to give a name to a random location on earth is hard to automate.
• https://www.germnetwork.com/blog/autonomous-communicator-ac-protocol Germ Network seems like a cool implementation of a chat app, it implements MLS (Messaging Layer Security) and allows creating multiple "cards" or profiles that you can hand out, allowing you to separate your personas across different interactions: work, personal life, organizing, book club, etc.
• https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/syntactic-musings-on-view-types/ love yoshua writing about esoteric programming language principles, feels like Lingthusiasm for PL

Love how safer streets can also mean greener streets that flood less:

Transportation Alternatives@transalt.org

Universal daylighting will make intersections safer, but it can also improve your neighborhood in other ways 🌳 When it rains, does it flood so much that it's hard to cross the street? Daylighting can help with that! We can use the reclaimed curb space to absorb excess rainfall:

April 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM UTC

And good transit doesn't always have to mean super dense buildings or trains for good service:

Jonathan English@englishrail.bsky.social

I've written an article on the extraordinary transit success of Brampton, how it was achieved, and the lessons it has for other suburban areas in North America. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

www.bloomberg.com

How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?

Transit ridership is off the charts in Brampton, Ontario, despite its typical low-density suburban layout. Here’s how the city got residents to get on the bus.

April 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM UTC

I've been investigating options for updating my bookmarking approach, I use https://pinboard.in, which is reliable and offers html archival, but I'd like something with better search. I have the vision of being able to create a bespoke search engine, filled with the webpages and RSS feeds I've saved. I've got a roster of options:

• https://pincone.com/
• https://linkding.link
• https://karakeep.app
• https://pinboard.in
• https://readwise.io/read
• https://fabric.so
• https://obsidian.md/clipper

It seems that the best options are also read-it-later apps, since they can ingest the text and offer full-text search over it. Some options can use AI to automatically tag entries, which feels close to what I want from a personal NLP search engine, one that is more adept than simple CMD+F.

Currently I'm really appreciating Readwise Reader, which is in beta. It's grown out of a highlighting app, which may be why it's a good archival app as well. I appreciate that I can add things to read, then finishing them is considered "archiving" them. There's also the "Feed", which I can point RSS feeds, email newsletters, YouTube channels, and Twitter lists into, and scroll through at my leisure. I'm definitely in want of a more algorithmic RSS feed reader… I have 42,583 unread entries in my Feedbin. 🙈

Watching

Saw Pluto, was moving

Saw Sinners, was a good fucking movie with a single weird plot hole

Chris Krycho put out more content on jj, which I've been dailying as my git frontend <3

Music

Got to see Weatherday in concert!

Got to see Explosions in the Sky again!!!

Got a copy of From Low Beams of Hope by Pijn on CD for my car's stereo 😛. Love bandcamp allowing me to buy DRM-free files and physical media so I can actually properly own my media.

Love YSEULT she brings ENERGY. She did a collab with SHYGIRL called F*Me

Found this bop on the net:

Photo Time 📸

I've been playing around with Halide by Lux, with their "Process Zero" setting turned on, which disables all of the machine learning and automatic sharpening and denoising. I end up with some really cool effects that feel, to me, as if I'm operating a film camera.

P.S.

I've added video support to my Keystatic x Astro setup thanks to Armno's guide.

Adding Videos to Keystatic Content with Astro armno.in.th

My notes on building a custom component in Keystatic using Content Components feature for my Astro blog