Google’s John Mueller likes to experiment and last month, he embedded a robots.txt file into an audio file. What’s more, it’s valid as both a robots.txt file for search engines and an audio file for… listening. And OpenAI can ignore both!
Article Performance Leaderboard: a showcase of news sites and their varying page speeds
Might as well buy a physical paper with some of these scores.
For Quanta, Solomon Adams wrote about Karl Weierstrass and his controversial influence on calculus thanks to a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ‘deplorable evil.’
Tam Tam: the cutest baby pygmy hippo in Japan
What a cutie!
Google is really shoehorning Gemini into all of its products. Almost as if they want to increase user adoption figures by plastering it everywhere. Not very organic of them.
Here’s how to build an OS in 1,000 lines of code. I would have killed for this when I told a prospective university lecturer in an interview that my dream was to build an operating system. Thankfully, I shifted my sights eventually.
How an unsolveable problem taught 3Blue1Brown about topology
I like my mathematical problems like I like my— never mind.
Atlas of Space is an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
Amazing for anyone remotely interested in the universe that we live in.
Robotics guy Kevin McAleer used his skills to make a Tamagotchi out of a Raspberry Pi Pico, dubbed the Picotamachibi. The shell is 3D printed and it comes with the standard three buttons to take care of your virtual pet.
Shank Mods on the Sony PVM-4300: the world's largest CRT
That’s a big TV!
Dean Burnett on the misunderstandings of smartphones and their effect on the brain
Is smartphone a misnomer or an ironic name?
Apple reportedly ceasing production of the Vision Pro
7.8 – too much vision, too much pro