HTML for People is a web project by Blake Watson that aims to help people make their own websites using the humble markup language: HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
(via; quote from the original website, shared via CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence)
Update: there’s now a Spanish version.
Eryk Salvaggio put a call out on Bluesky for the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024 and his thread is a treasure trove of critical insight into AI.
Who needs an MD player when you can have a whole laptop?
Watch it grow!
1-bit Puerto Rico is an interactive web project by rubén rodríguez where he has created 1-bit maps of Puerto Rico.
Alan Emtage is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who created Archie, the world’s first Internet search engine. It helped users find files on public FTP archives and was created and implemented in 1989, nearly a full decade before Google came onto the scene (that also means it’s as old as me!) If you find this page …
They were really putting radium in the water, huh?
23andMe is struggling and I can’t find my tiny violin anywhere. I’m sure some people have taken comfort in their DNA results but so many haven’t and I’ve always had concerns about the data.
Primes and pitchforks.
Good news for Oceanic frogs—research suggests frogs in other contintents hold the key to fighting off deadly fungi that are killing them: […] There’s evidence that some frogs are naturally evolving resistance. Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.
otterwiki is Python-based wiki software. As someone who loves Python and wikis, I had to post it here. Sadly the otter is just for the name and logo.
Is there anything Arduino boards can’t do? (Don’t answer that.)