Part of the model used to create the 3D landscapes for the video game Creatures.

Monitors websites for changes on specifics areas of the page and notifies via e-mail when updates are detected.

Busy Status Bar is a productivity multi-tool device with an LED pixel screen. Displays a personal busy message. Built-in Pomodoro timer and Apps. Fully customizable, open-source, and hacker-friendly.

A collection of 175 quality pixel fonts, great for games, videos, stream overlays, websites, and more.

Step-by-step guide on how to get EverQuest to play on the Steam Deck

How to prevent Microsoft clients from responding to e-mail with a “reaction”.

Applications of [LLMs] have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit […]: the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions.

On the merits of relying on livestock even after mastering interstellar travel, using the TV show Firefly as an example.

A tool to read your old MSN Messenger XML chat logs written using Vue.js.

On using a Raspberry Pi, a stepper motor and AI to automatically drop hats from a window onto pedestrian’s heads.

An online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source Stellarium Web Engine project.

TLA+ is a high-level language for modeling programs and systems – especially concurrent and distributed ones. It’s based on the idea that the best way to describe things precisely is with simple mathematics. TLA+ and its tools are useful for eliminating fundamental design errors, which are hard to find and expensive to correct in code.

On the origins of the arrow used by Google Maps navigation.

An attempt to map the relationships and connections between generative AI technologies and human activities.

Unofficial archive of Google Code Jam, Kick Start and Hash Code competitions held by Google in 2003–2022 and discontinued in 2023. All available data was downloaded from the official website in early March 2023 (and updated in late May 2023). This includes scoreboards, problem statements, editorials and test data.

Jgs Font is a font family made in tribute to Joan G. Stark (aka jgs, Spunk), a pioneer of ASCII art.

The glyphs can be combined from one character to another, from one line to another. Thus from single characters it is possible to draw continuous lines, frames and patterns.

Details the design and construction of an orrery with the spheres for the sun, earth and moon using Lego Technic pieces.

Federated bookmarking software.

Paths in SVG can already be morphed with <animate> for the 'd' attribute. The catch is that the paths need to have exactly the same number of points and the drawing commands need to be of exactly the same type. You can’t morph a line into a curve, for example.

On the origin of the photo that inspired The Backrooms mythos.