@theklee

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Razor 1911 made a PC demo for Revision 2026 that's a whirlwind retrospective of the group, touching on a lot of warez/art/demoscene tech, tools, and history since they started in 1985. It won the PC Demo category and clearly earned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM
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Das ist einer der stärksten Blogartikel der letzten 10 Jahre, welchen ich gelesen habe. Er spricht mir als GenX so massiv aus der Seele, ich wünschte ich hätte selbst diese Worte gefunden.

Das schlimme, da fehlen noch locker 30%. Aber jenes welches hier in Worte gefasst wurde, kann ich so unterschreiben.

Diesen Link hatte @dde in seinem Blog geteilt.

#lesetipp

https://e13.de/zurueck-in-die-zukunft/

Zurück in die Zukunft

Meine Großmutter hatte eine Redewendung, die lautete: „Früher, als die Menschen noch…

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Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

Mic. Drop. 🎤 ⬇️

(edited to use a more neutral emoji)

https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier
I don't usually praise Y takes, but this one is rather excellent.

A fantastic, fast regular expression engine that supports intersection, complement, and lookarounds in linear time, combining Brzozowski derivatives and lazy DFA construction.

https://iev.ee/blog/resharp-how-we-built-the-fastest-regex-in-fsharp/

RE#: how we built the world's fastest regex engine in F# | ian erik varatalu

ian erik varatalu

@skyglowberlin When I teach about retinal physiology, it breaks my heart. Often there isn't a single student who has ever experienced vision after true dark adaptation.

It turns out that—it takes time, but it's real—you can see by starlight. And the faintest stars you see? That's a single rod cell detecting A SINGLE PHOTON. Your retina is that sensitive.

Before 1879 this was an absolutely universal human experience. Now it's exotic, unimaginable.