28 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
A variable font that turns text into charts. {b:20,55,40,80,65} {l:10,40,25,70,50,90} {p:73} {b:85,30,60,10,45} {l:50,20,80,35,65,10} {p:41} GitHub ★ Google Fonts Datatype is data as type Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype's ligature substitution does the rest. {b:30,70,50,90} {b:30,70,50,90} Bar chart {l:10,50,30,80,20} {l:10,50,30,80,20} Sparkline Dat…
27 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
"Now, when we program with the artificial intelligences, we are exactly that same thing. We are Linus Torvalds, not always with the talent that he has, but the role we should assume" antirez 2 days ago. 39022 views. (This blog post was adapted from the transcription obtained from my YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lxgYeVZqs) When Linus Torvalds developed the first Linux kernel, he had studied the Minix sources, he had studied computer architecture, he had the base knowledge ne…
18 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
I know. As if what the world needed was yet another blogpost about LLMs and AI tech. Yet there is a pile of things which have been on my mind, and I haven't seen them laid out elsewhere in the way I'm going to write them, and so here we go. I still don't use genAI to write my articles, fwiw. Here or anywhere else. These rambly words are my own. The tower tilts I read The Tower Keeps Rising recently, and it has stuck in my mind. The piece is an observation, and according to Armin on lobste.rs , i…
13 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
"In the AI bubble, we are pressured to build things nobody wants, poorly. Pop the bubble." Redirecting from /post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/ to /post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade
11 Jul 2026 · splitbrain.org - blog
Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short while ago, homeassistant was suddenly no longer responding. Neither web ui nor a SSH login worked. So I cut the RPi's power and rebooted it. That seemed to have fixed it and I didn't think about it. Then this weekend I wanted to update Home Assistant and create a backup as usual beforehand. But somehow this backup always failed with failed to perform the action update/install. Error…
11 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
unstory If this is the solution, I want my problem back. 2026-06-29 01:49 Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines: As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Feeding raw HTML to an AI is like paying by the word to read packaging instead of the letter inside. You get HTML, trackers, cookie banners, popups, and JavaScript. This needs …
9 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point. that is an amazing idea and you are a genius, dave We're living in split realities. There's what modern software is actually capable of , and then there's the gargantuan pile of "AI" hype, fraud, and bullshit our biggest tech companies (and their lazy enablers in the tech press ) have shoveled down the public's throat for the better part of the last five years. There's useful automation software that makes it e…
9 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
splitbrain starred pghqdev/OpenScreenShot · July 8, 2026 22:27 pghqdev/OpenScreenShot OpenScreenShot is a privacy-first, free, open-source screenshot extension — zero data leaves your device, no account needed, no telemetry, no third… TypeScript 9 Updated Jul 7
5 Jul 2026 · Linkblog
Respecting the user’s OS setting is straightforward: use the prefers-color-scheme media query in CSS. Arguably, that isn’t enough: users should also be able to customise their choice on a per-site basis. A user might want dark mode for the UI of an application, but light mode for reading long-form text on content-heavy sites, for example. We need to: Support the user’s system setting as the default for when the user lands on our website for the first time Allow the user to override their s…
4 Jul 2026 · splitbrain.org - blog
Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop 1) charges via USB-C. When I got it, I bought a Ugreen Nexode charger, an Anker Powerline Flow III cable and 3D printed an oganizer for it. It works, but the result is a bit bulky and the cable is already showing some wear from being pinched by the organizer. So when I came across a 65W charger with a built-in retractable cable, I was intrigued. Could such a charger be a good solution? When I look…
25 Jun 2026 · Linkblog
25 Jun 2026 · Linkblog
"People accuse each other of using ChatGPT like they’re exposing a steroid scandal in professional baseball. Someone uses an em dash and suddenly we’re convening a digital ethics tribunal. God forbid you use an antithesis statement. Meanwhile the people actually building this stuff are moving at corporate scale. Quietly. Casually. Confidently." I used to work at Meta. Not in tech. God no. I was a pastry chef at one of the Meta data centers, which is somehow an even stranger sentence to say o…
24 Jun 2026 · Linkblog
handy bookmarklet to export a chat from the claude web interface 1 Install the Bookmarklet Drag this button to your browser's bookmarks bar: Export Claude to Markdown v0.5.24.3 2 Use the Bookmarklet Navigate to a Claude conversation on claude.ai and click the bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar. The tool will: Extract the conversation content Remove unnecessary UI elements Prepare a clean export file 3 Save the Export The bookmarklet downloads a .md file to your computer. Keep the conversation in …
22 Jun 2026 · Linkblog
seriously. it's not fucking hard Oh, Bluesky is getting a little shitty, you say? Oh no! Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird Jack Dorsey, and that their current CEO came from a weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird background. You know. Besides them. Now quelle surprise, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber’s out there mocking people asking why …
21 Jun 2026 · Linkblog
12 Jun 2026 · splitbrain.org - blog
PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town , a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the idea is that you can discover new blogs one random post at a time . Bubble's approach is a different one. Instead of showing you random posts, they want to “bubble up” the best posts by user votes, similar to what Reddit or Hackernews do. However unlike on those sites, the posts are not user subm…