imscript is interesting. It’s a collection of standalone image processing utilities: repository.

3D Photosphere Viewer: 3D Photosphere Viewer

Golden Gallopers Carousel on the seafront in Brighton, East Sussex, England (© Graham Prentice/Alamy)

If you’re not trying to pad a resume, one of the best kept secrets to being quick with a computer is to just use “complete” programs/primitives.

Unfashionable programs with low ecosystem churn that allow quickly and predictably producing similar quality software/architecture as modern high churn ecosystems are “complete”, imo.

Sometimes it’s amusing to stumble upon the latest centralization/decentralization debate. You could argue technically against centralization, spof, and censorship until you’re blue in the face.

Decentralization is pretty much a solved technical problem, but for very special non–technical reasons everything only gets more centralized from this point onwards :-)

An inquiry about intelligence.

Amelia Earhart teaching students in Newark, New Jersey (© Bettmann/Getty Images)

This blog is really really good for robust usage of Nix/NixOS. I stumble upon it every so often. Another excellent blog is “How to Learn Nix” which explores in excruciating detail the painful parts of nix and its documentation. Discovered that one recently.

Elephant hawk-moth on foxglove flower (© David Chapman/Alamy)

nikitonsky: Why just 7? Why not 14 or 100 or, you know, until the end of time? Are computers not powerful enough to do that? What’s the motivation here? And please don’t tell me it’s secure