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In the old #ASCII days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.
If you try that with #Unicode code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.
A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.
>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'
oh hey I finally got digital ocean working
behold my new website (lol) https://orca-app-t8xx3.ondigitalocean.app
@eleventy made it mostly easy. comcast dns (and others) made everything else hard.
been a minute, been sorta heads down and also distracted lol
I finally started working on my website, and now I am banging my head against the wall trying to get the stupid (static! simple! a folder of html!) thing hosted
everything easy is hard again, the web technology guarantee ever since frank said it.
what if, and hear me out, what if people who had ideas or stories to share, instead of relying on the commoditization of their ideas and stories into marketable widgets to be sold for profit (such as books), could share them freely and still have a comfortable life
what if we built our way to a society where survival didn’t depend on keeping ideas locked behind a paywall
After pushing generative AI on its users, Canva is now forcing them to pay for it with a 300% price increase that many feel came out of nowhere.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features
Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.
📍: Bruges, Belgium
between some early summer travel, our very quick jump to hot weather, and wildfires I really haven’t gotten outside as much as I’d hoped
on the upside though we’ve been doing longer treks and somehow already passed our total hiking mileage for last year 😅
my partner is currently using a barcode reader/isbn lookup tool to put all of our books into into a catalog
I am currently making a build sheet and architecture diagram for our long overdue home server project
these projects are (soon to be) related, by the power of CSV files and probably a bit of HTML... and a lightweight database
Simon Tatham
Paris Marx
monument valley girl
Jan Adriaenssens