Mastodawn

Well, a bit of a tangent, but the PNG w/ code is .2MB less than the heptads individually compressed with zstd and a dictionary.

divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt$ du -h --apparent-size heptapp-20260531T221739346Z.png
1.5M heptapp-20260531T221739346Z.png
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt$ du -h --apparent-size assets/compressed
1.7M assets/compressed

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𒐌 33m ago

no dog slime, but some friendly tail wags

𒐌 1h ago

No day of coding is complete without making a custom tool with an angle grinder. Sparks, folks, sparks, and big screeching sound. This is not an allegory. Now for a walk, hoping a dog slimes my hand in greeting and touching grass (metaphor, as I think I'll just walk with shoes and socks).

𒐌 2h ago

The cool thing about the PNG packaging is that it makes embedding uint8array data easy. I'm quite curious about what would happen if I streamed the compressed heptads directly into localstorage with the bootstrap (index.html). I could verify if the timestamp was up to date before attempting.

𒐌 3h ago

I'm getting some great compression with zstandard and a dictionary:
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt/assets/compressed$ du --apparent-size -h
1.7M .
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt/assets/compressed$ cd ../dict
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt/assets/dict$ du --apparent-size -h
4.8M .
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~/websites/site/hpt/assets/dict$

This is for 8,000 heptads.

𒐌 5h ago

Today I'm going to research the options for quick off-line only, off-line first, oneline-sometimes, and online-always. Yesterday's work was meh. Must have:

- < .5 seconds load for time to interaction w/o cache enabled and full CPU
- cache full store to make future visits quicker

Nice to have:

- run w/o a server, just the page and a PNG for initial load
- run fully cached w/o PNG fetch

I'm thinking that zstd w/ a dictionary and localstorage might be a good solution. I'll test today.

𒐌 1d ago

This one is growing on me. #NowPlaying #AnasaziKaha #CodingMusic
https://archive.org/details/anasazi_kaha_-_space?webamp=default

Space in my inner mind : Anasazi Kaha : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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𒐌 1d ago

Alan J. Cain 6d ago

I made a edition of Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ as a phone/tablet-sized PDF: https://archive.org/details/gibbon_declineandfall (3863 pages!)

LuaLaTeX source code: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/gibbon_declineandfall

The style uses the interfaces created by the LaTeX tagging project, so (at least in theory), it is an accessible #TaggedPDF.

The font is @mc_wiki’s beautiful Garamontio.

1/2

#TeXLaTeX #typography #history #literature #RomanHistory

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𒐌 2d ago

I used the wrong term. It should be "Climate adaptation corridors"; however, I see it as broader than most. Close enough.

𒐌 2d ago

The more I think about it, the more a cultural change to facilitating adaption pathways, rather than being self-appointed center stage silver-bullet tech overlords of the biosphere, makes sense. Don't overthink nature. She will find a way. With this cultural shift, we might tag along.