A no build repository for SolidJS. Don’t ask. I found this splendid repository while strategically traversing the void. Demo.

Isn’t this a beautiful lithographic painting? (Don’t worry, I got permission from the relevant authorities to post this)

I used up all my free time points last month experimenting with a Guile Scheme webserver. Then I discovered ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-examples… Haunt is also an interesting static site generator.

Marketing has advanced…

It’s amusing the sort of easter eggs found hiding in open source code. I’ve been playing around with farzher/fuzzysort, a fast fuzzy search picked up from the Stack Overflow fuzzy search tag.

On line 27 and 40 there’s a horizontal off–screen scroll easter egg.

if(search=='farzher')return{target:"farzher was here (^-^*)/",score:0,_indexes:[0]}
if(search=='farzher')return[{target:"farzher was here (^-^*)/",score:0,_indexes:[0],obj:targets?targets[0]:NULL}]

Yes, I happen to be one of those who read the code eventually. And obviously, it goes without saying, no one person reads all the code. But it’s the Internet, can’t be too sure ;)

Maybe I’m dreaming.. but a stealthy trend of distorted words is afoot. Is that an ai defense/poisoning mechanism, innocuous misspellings/truncations or artifacts in generated content?

Wehn you tinhk auobt it, hnumas inrtrpeet glphys saliyombllcy and can raed wodrs eevn when deitsortd. I might be following too many feeds…

You can never be too sure anymore..

$ git remote -v
all             cgit@thedroneely.com:thedroneely/dotfiles (fetch)
all             git@codeberg.org:tdro/dotfiles.git        (push)
all             git@github.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (push)
all             cgit@thedroneely.com:thedroneely/dotfiles (push)
all             git@gitlab.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (push)
codeberg.org    git@codeberg.org:tdro/dotfiles.git        (fetch)
codeberg.org    git@codeberg.org:tdro/dotfiles.git        (push)
github.com      git@github.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (fetch)
github.com      git@github.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (push)
gitlab.com      git@gitlab.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (fetch)
gitlab.com      git@gitlab.com:tdro/dotfiles.git          (push)
thedroneely.com cgit@thedroneely.com:thedroneely/dotfiles (fetch)
thedroneely.com cgit@thedroneely.com:thedroneely/dotfiles (push)

Basically setup the configuration in the right place, find the extension id from the Chrome web store URL and run chromexup.

[main]
branding           = chromium
remove_orphans     = True
parallel_downloads = 4

[extensions]
BlankNewTabPage   = jaadjnlkjnhohljficgoddcjmndjfdmi
JavaScriptToggle  = cdcgbgnfhhdmdkallfmlachogpghifgf
NoHistory         = ljamgkbcojbnmcaonjokopmcblmmpfch

Side note: NoHistory is good for disabling history (Firefox has options). If the history/bookmarks database gets too large, funky auto–suggestion stuff can happen (100% processor usage). imo, it’s best not to trust browsers storing bookmarks anyway and use an independent tool/method. The less data coupled to browsers the better — at least if you’re like me and swap browsers regularly.

Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

Many suns ago, local events “piqued” my curiosity into cryptocurrency hype. Praise be to the king–no really! Anyway, reading the leaves and decrypting the crypto–babble made bits of sense… at least superficially.

The point: there’s plausibility that one or many powerful democratic government(s) designed/orchestrated the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Yes, hard to prove but… the architecture is an uncanny 1:1 copy of government communication. Even abuse/failure modes are 1:1 (see sybil, a 51% attack: similar to democracy’s extra fun “limbo” mode).

..if it wasn’t for this guy visiting my country. I am now “enlightened”. Spoiler: Blockchain protocols computationally formalize/describe a government’s high power restraints within democracy. In civics (social studies), democracy is decentralized power (no/many kings) and therefore implicitly inefficient.

Democratic governments (in perfect world) communicate/act/bank;

1. In public (freedom of information)
2. With immutability (no deleting things)
3. With consensus (majority vote)
4. With inefficiency (to weaken bad actors)

Citizens and other low power (centralized) entities can do some of the above (federation), but mostly (wisely) communicate/act/bank;

5. In private (freedom of association)
6. With mutability (to protect privacy)
7. Without consensus (freedom of expression)
8. With efficiency (to build–up fast actors)

Individually, (5-8 > 1-4) no? But (1-4 > 5-8) in dictatorships (5-8)? Blockchain governments for maximal oversight? Not happening :)