I should monitor my feed more often... 🤪

Funny, even on here, I still refer to things as "tweets" when I think about them.

“Boids Demo Reel” survived as a videotape cassette on my bookshelf for many years, then was digitized for a documentary around 2010. “Breaking the Ice” was on broadcast quality reel-to-reel videotape until 2023 when Tom McMahon and others worked on a remastering for the 50ᵗʰ SIGGRAPH conference.

Why I 🧡 the web.

Fliiipbook is a "simple #gif animation app for the web".

www.fliiipbook.com

#webtools #animation

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Having a bad day? World politics getting you down, heat too much to bear?

Behold the Singer-theremin-hurdygurdy magic.

Model year 2016. Not *that* old, but clearly old enough to have dropped off the radar.

I just bought a 2nd-hand Volkswagen car, and I am gob-smacked that you can not download the user manual as a PDF anywhere.
Been scouring forums, various sites, pages and pages of search engine links, but, nada.

"official" VW position? You should order the dead-tree version from a dealer for €€€€

My son is nuts about Balatro, and quite ace with it. He showed it to me, and I was WTF? You enjoy doing this?!

A printed ❤️ symbol from a 1702 text about the Holy Trinity.

One of the best hard SF reads ever. Riveting right up to the end.

I'm reading Bartz v Anthropic, of course, from a very practical, interested perspective. ("What can libraries let me do, and how exactly can we stay out of jail?")

The first thing I notice: I didn't realize Anthropic had rolled their own GBooks. Doesn't sound prohibitively $$$. 1/3

Jottum, mee eens.
Dit druist gewoon in tegen het idee van om met z'n allen iets te maken om vooruit te komen.
Ik was bij een van de eerste meetings met erfgoed instellingen om data te vinden, en "word het open weights?" was mijn grote vraag. Njet, dus.
Zeer teleurstellend.

I am really quite charmed with MonsterUI monsterui.answer.ai

It feels like that moment when Bootstrap came out way back when, and made everyones lives easier.
See this great video tutorial for why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVWA...

Curious about ICONCLASS?

👉 You can still register for the two-part online workshop “Iconclass - Content Classification and Technical Features” on Monday, June 30 and Tuesday, July 1 (10:00 - 13:00)

nfdi4culture.de/events/detai...

And so it begins!

#isws2025 #group7

Off to Bertinoro, Italy today for:
International Semantic Web Research Summer School
Knowledge graphs for reliable AI

2025.semanticwebschool.org

Looking forward to being a participant, and not a tutor or speaker. Fun!

And it is 23:30, done for now. 2 hours later.

I learnt enough about the project, and to be honest, my first experience with using Claude Code to explain something to me is astonishingly good.

Next up, asking it to help in making some stuff. But that will have to wait for another day.

And as background music at high volume:

"Levi Schechtmann, born in 1999 in Hamburg, is a German pianist redefining classical music by fusing it with hip-hop, electronic beats, and contemporary sounds."

open.spotify.com/album/3BHHdM...

My first question was:

"can you explain how the sparql evaulation is done when processing a sparql query?"

And the explanation ran through the various files and the methods with line numbers, explained the parsing and how the mapping to SQL is done. 😵‍💫

Waaaaaay better than I have understood it

Approximately 90min later, it has been crunching away. (after buying and setting up a Pro account)
Asked it to explain the code for: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tinysp...

Seems to take forever, but so far the explanations seem *very* impressive.

Trying Claude Code this evening, instead of going Tango dancing.
#nerd

It's just too tantalizing. First thing is trying to understand an existing codebase from an opensource project I wanted to read ages ago.

Yes, there are still stupid, racist dingbats. But it is not the default any more. You are not looked at weirdly for being "the other" just because of your skin-tone.
Yes, there is still crazy inequality and poverty and crime.

But slowly, the wheel turns, and things become lekker again.

And that was for me symbolic, things have changed.

There were white/black/whatever people having a good time. Looking for fun, drowning the boredom of living in the hinterland with booze.
The MC spoke Afrikaans as fluent as anything (maybe it was his mothertongue) but had a black skin and dreads.