Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/3900-pages-of-paul-klees-personal-notebooks-are-now-online-highlighting-his-bauhaus-teachings-1921-1931.html

Mis #Hilvanes sobre #Mastodon

No soy un experto, no soy programador informático, solo un usuario de esta red social.

De este mensaje, colgarán mis #hilos o hilvanes de #Notas y mi #Opinión sobre algunos aspectos de esta red
 
 
(Y mi #Hilarium en <https://hostux.social/@SolamenteItan/115958469312078448>)

Un PC gaming premontado vuelve a tener sentido cuando la RAM se dispara

Comprar componentes por separado suele ser la forma favorita de montar un equipo a medida, pero hay un detalle que está torciendo la balanza: el precio de la memoria. Si has estado mirando DDR5 últimamente, es fácil entender por qué a mucha gente le empieza a picar la curiosidad por los sobremesa premontados. Es como cuando vas al supermercado a por ingredientes...

https://wwwhatsnew.com/2026/01/28/un-pc-gaming-premontado-vuelve-a-tener-sentido-cuando-la-ram-se-dispara/

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.

Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.

It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.

The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.css

so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)

edit: blog post discussing this data in more detail: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

#programming #color #css #website