Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…

Pour one out for John Blanche today. Dude came up with one of the most iconic modern art aesthetics I've ever seen.

Funny - somebody built an Ad Blocker that replaces ads with slogans from the 1988's movie 'They Live' by John Carpenter:

Neo's apartment in The Matrix

Those magnificent structures on the top were all over America in the 90s thanks to volunteers. Almost no one knows the name Bob Leathers but they should. He grew up in Maine, studied architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, and landed in Ithaca raising kids. In 1970 his children's elementary school needed a playground. He organized the parents to build one. That weekend reorganized the rest of his life. He founded Leathers and Associates a few years later. The product was a four-day community build. The town raised the money, the kids drew the design, and 500 to 2,000 volunteers showed up with hammers and built the entire castle. Materials cost $10,000 to $60,000. Donated labor was worth multiples of that. The Washington Post called it a "burgeoning movement" in 1982. Mister Rogers filmed an episode at one of his builds in 1986. Sesame Street did the same. The Chicago Tribune called him "the guru of contemporary playground design" in 1989. His firm coordinated more than 3,400 playgrounds across the United States, Israel, and Australia. An entire generation of American kids climbed turrets, crossed rope bridges, and disappeared into wooden tunnels designed by a guy in upstate New York who took his cues from their drawings. He never franchised the model. He never sold the firm. His son Marc runs it today, still in Ithaca, still doing community builds. The bottom picture is what the market built when nobody was there to organize the volunteers.

Susan Kare, the graphic artist behind many of the fonts, icons, and graphics used by Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM (1980s)

An extreme commitment to the truth makes relationships acutely dysfunctional but systems chronically functional (think Elon Musk). An extreme commitment to kindness makes relationships acutely functional but systems chronically dysfunctional (think Sweden, UK)

> O ano é 2006 > Você chega da escola > Vai direto pro computador > Abre o uTorrent > Percebe que ainda faltam alguns minutos > Sua internet de 200kb não é lá essas coisas > Ok, você tem tempo de almoçar > Meia hora depois retorna > Legal, a ISO terminou de baixar! > Deixa o seed ligado por um tempo > Outra pessoa quer baixar também > Abre o Nero (quem lembra?) > Burning… > Grava a ISO! > Abre o Daemon Tools (os de verdade sabem) > Monta a imagem > Instala o jogo! > Inicia… ainda está pedindo um CD > De volta pra internet > Procure um crack No-Cd > Baixe o crack > AVAST grita: uma ameaça foi detectada! > De volta pra internet > Encontre um keygen russo misterioso > Você vê dois botões, mas não fala russo > Escolha com sabedoria > Apareceu um código na tela! > Copia, cola, copia, cola, copia, cola… > Inicia o jogo de novo > Tá rodando, bora caralho > EA GAMES, challenge everything! 🫦 > Tun de run dun, de run de run dun oooh 🔈 > Through the window, to the wall (the wall)🔉 Eu vivi isso, tempos bons que não voltam mais 🥹

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

testing some audio playback controls / spectrum analyzer with dithered VGA gradients in my CRT shader UI system

Caspar David Friedrich

Did you personally use the greatest audio player of alltime?

Jackie Chan’s Official Home Page in 1995

The free nights and weekends generation is getting a throw back! x.com/claudeai/status/203291…

Btw, in case you are wondering, the graphics were actually mostly vector graphics which were then directly digital laser printed on the 35mm film, which is why we don't have surviving animation cells of those interfaces. The warm glow you see in all the old interfaces comes from the exposure on the 35mm film.

AHHHH IM HOPEMAXXXXING

I've not been this pumped about computers since I saw that first BBS appear from the magic hiss of a 2400-baud modem. Incredible time to be alive and in love with the dancing bits.

OCaml sudoku solver running on a 1960s UNIVAC 1219B! (OCaml -> C -> RISC-V -> RISC-V emu written in UNIVAC asm). Many more cool demos to come. There's lots of cool tech in this project to talk about. This is the first time C is run on this machine, let alone OCaml 🐪

1980 Porsche 911 3.0 SC ‘Safari’