makeworld
@makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Aspiring solarpunk living in Toronto. Software developer. Learning what I want and how to live it.
I post a lot of links.
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I post a lot of links.
he/him
[bridged from https://merveilles.town/@makeworld on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Neat, you can induce smell perceptions in humans with ultrasound. https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
我们用超声波诱导气味
We Induced Smells With Ultrasound (writetobrain.com)
11-22 ↑ 112 HN Points
writetobrain.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Neat, you can induce smell perceptions in humans with ultrasound. https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
16 million colours ought to be enough for anybody
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
16 million colours ought to be enough for anybody
> the patient's body can also act as an antenna which picks up electromagnetic interference, especially 50/60 Hz noise from electrical power lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_leg_circuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_leg_circuit
Driven right leg circuit - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
> the patient's body can also act as an antenna which picks up electromagnetic interference, especially 50/60 Hz noise from electrical power lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_leg_circuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_leg_circuit
Just this month, the programmer's oath was archived without explanation. Sad to see it go!
https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
GitHub - Widdershin/programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath
An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath - Widdershin/programmers-oath
github.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Just this month, the programmer's oath was archived without explanation. Sad to see it go!
https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
"Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?" - Valve
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
蒸汽机
Steam Machine (store.steampowered.com)
01:59 ↑ 120 HN Points
store.steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?" - Valve
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
> The new [Alberta] law also bans strikes and lock outs the next three years
https://archive.ph/T5zFo
https://archive.ph/T5zFo
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
> The new [Alberta] law also bans strikes and lock outs the next three years
https://archive.ph/T5zFo
https://archive.ph/T5zFo
TIL if you adjust for age, cancer rates are decreasing!
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-over-time/
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-over-time/
US cancer rates and trends: how have cancer rates and mortality changed over time? | USAFacts
Between 2000 and 2021, the cancer incidence rate per 100,000 people fell by 5.7%, while the mortality rate dropped by 27.5%.
usafacts.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
TIL if you adjust for age, cancer rates are decreasing!
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-over-time/
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-over-time/
Transit (the app) seems to have improved recently, especially around streetcars. I've switched back to it for public transit planning from Google Maps and it looks great!
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Transit (the app) seems to have improved recently, especially around streetcars. I've switched back to it for public transit planning from Google Maps and it looks great!
Did you know Microsoft maintains a fake fashion company website?
https://prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
https://prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Did you know Microsoft maintains a fake fashion company website?
https://prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
https://prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
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We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙
Ways of Seeing the Objective World
orbitalstudies.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
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> Excessively hot weather now causes around 500,000 deaths every year. Despite the impression you’d get from the news, though, the number has been decreasing for some time, chiefly because more people can afford air conditioners […]
Original post on merveilles.town
merveilles.town
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
> Excessively hot weather now causes around 500,000 deaths every year. Despite the impression you’d get from the news, though, the number has been decreasing for some time, chiefly because more people can afford air conditioners […]
Learning Rust for the first time this week
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Learning Rust for the first time this week
I've enabled Signal cloud backups on my phone
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backup
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backup
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I've enabled Signal cloud backups on my phone
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backup
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backup
I have a technical computer graphics question, about colour quantization. Let me know if you know the answer!
https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/how-to-automatically-pick-palette-colours-for-dithering
https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/how-to-automatically-pick-palette-colours-for-dithering
How to automatically pick palette colours for dithering
I have written dithering software, and previously asked a question about that. Now I want to pick palette colours automatically, to make dithering easier for users. The way I've found for doing thi...
computergraphics.stackexchange.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I have a technical computer graphics question, about colour quantization. Let me know if you know the answer!
https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/how-to-automatically-pick-palette-colours-for-dithering
https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/how-to-automatically-pick-palette-colours-for-dithering
Any recommendations for a Toronto print shop? For personal home art printing.
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Any recommendations for a Toronto print shop? For personal home art printing.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John W. Gardner
(from the r/plumbing sidebar)
-- John W. Gardner
(from the r/plumbing sidebar)
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John W. Gardner
(from the r/plumbing sidebar)
-- John W. Gardner
(from the r/plumbing sidebar)
For some reason this Wikipedia page contains a haunting gallery of underwater photographs of infant swimming lessons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For some reason this Wikipedia page contains a haunting gallery of underwater photographs of infant swimming lessons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
> The main danger with believing an extremist idea is that it’s very very easy to be negatively polarized by a ton of bad conversations with normal people about it, until you feel like the whole rest of the world is crazy and asleep […]
Original post on merveilles.town
merveilles.town
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
> The main danger with believing an extremist idea is that it’s very very easy to be negatively polarized by a ton of bad conversations with normal people about it, until you feel like the whole rest of the world is crazy and asleep […]
Framework is so cool, they're like "here's how to resolder the HDMI board if you don't want to buy our updated version"
https://guides.frame.work/Guide/HDMI+Expansion+Card+power+saving+rework+(Beta)/193?lang=en
https://guides.frame.work/Guide/HDMI+Expansion+Card+power+saving+rework+(Beta)/193?lang=en
HDMI Expansion Card power saving rework (Beta)
Reworking an HDMI Expansion Card to enable the new power saving mode.
guides.frame.work
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Framework is so cool, they're like "here's how to resolder the HDMI board if you don't want to buy our updated version"
https://guides.frame.work/Guide/HDMI+Expansion+Card+power+saving+rework+(Beta)/193?lang=en
https://guides.frame.work/Guide/HDMI+Expansion+Card+power+saving+rework+(Beta)/193?lang=en
Maybe I have no principles, but what makes me feel like leaving GitHub the most is how slow it is to use these days.
October 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Maybe I have no principles, but what makes me feel like leaving GitHub the most is how slow it is to use these days.
RIP Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
RIP Jane Goodall