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All the HTML Elements: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-01-25

This article playfully explores every HTML element, from common headings, paragraphs, and lists to lesser-known elements like `` and ``, and even deprecated elements such as `` and ``. An interactive survey is included to test your understanding. It's a fun and comprehensive journey through the world of HTML, showcasing its richness and versatility.

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(iamwillwang.com)
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Isomorphic Web Components: Server-Side Rendering Made Easy

2024-12-15
Isomorphic Web Components: Server-Side Rendering Made Easy

The long-held belief that server-side rendering of web components is difficult has been challenged. This article demonstrates how to achieve server-side rendering of existing web components by cleverly using Happy DOM to emulate a browser environment. Two methods are detailed: using the `` tag for direct rendering and emulating the DOM to run component code and generate HTML. The author emphasizes the advantages of this approach: compatibility with all web components, robustness in the face of JavaScript failure, and avoidance of framework lock-in. This solves the server-side rendering problem for web components, offering a flexible and resilient solution.

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A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks: Unveiling the Power of Graph Data

2024-12-20
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks: Unveiling the Power of Graph Data

This article provides an accessible introduction to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). It begins by explaining graph data and its real-world applications, such as social networks, molecular structures, and text. The article then delves into the core components of GNNs, including message passing, pooling operations, and various types of graph data. By building a modern GNN model step-by-step, it clarifies the role and motivation behind each component's design. Finally, it offers an interactive GNN playground, allowing readers to experience firsthand the construction and prediction process of a GNN model, deepening their understanding.

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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

2024-12-21
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a $92 million project near Los Angeles, is the world's largest wildlife crossing of its kind. This article delves into the engineering behind these vital structures, addressing the challenges of habitat fragmentation, noise pollution, and wildlife-vehicle collisions caused by roads. It explores various design aspects, including site selection, crossing types (underpasses, overpasses, culverts), fencing strategies, and attracting animals to use the crossings. The article highlights the different crossing behaviors of various species and corresponding engineering solutions, such as elevated bridges for large animals and culverts for smaller ones. Design considerations include animal behavior, topography, vegetation, and ensuring the crossings blend seamlessly into the landscape, minimizing human-wildlife conflict.

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Node.js EPUB Library @smoores/epub Released

2024-12-13
Node.js EPUB Library @smoores/epub Released

A new Node.js library, @smoores/epub, has been released. It allows developers to inspect, modify, and create EPUB 3 publications. The library offers high-level APIs that simplify interaction with the EPUB specification, such as setting the title and retrieving author information. Lower-level APIs provide granular control over the EPUB structure, enabling tasks like adding chapters and metadata. Built upon fast-xml-parser, @smoores/epub provides robust XML parsing and manipulation capabilities, facilitating efficient handling of EPUB file XML content.

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AI Revolutionizes Protein Design: New Tool Unveiled

2024-12-15

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered tool, RoseTTAFold, for designing novel proteins. This tool predicts the amino acid sequence of a protein based on a user-specified target structure, generating stable and functional proteins. This breakthrough promises to accelerate advancements in drug discovery, materials science, and bioengineering, offering new possibilities for addressing various challenges facing humanity. The technology holds the potential to revolutionize biomedicine by creating proteins with specific functions for treating diseases or developing new materials.

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AI Protein Design Biomedicine

Building an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch: The anyon_e Project

2025-01-22
Building an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch: The anyon_e Project

Bryan embarked on an ambitious journey to build a highly integrated open-source laptop, anyon_e, from the ground up. The resulting machine boasts a 4K AMOLED display, a Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, and impressive performance running games like Minecraft and 7B parameter LLMs, all while maintaining ~7 hours of battery life. The project involved designing a custom motherboard around an RK3588 SoC, a dedicated power controller (ESP32-S3), and creating a mechanical keyboard and trackpad. This interdisciplinary endeavor, spanning hardware design, software development, and mechanical engineering, showcases the power of open-source collaboration and the drive to push boundaries.

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(www.byran.ee)
Hardware

Trellis: AI-Powered PDF Workflow Automation

2025-01-22
Trellis: AI-Powered PDF Workflow Automation

Trellis is an AI-powered platform that automates PDF workflows. Its engine transforms complex documents and calls into usable data for Ops and engineering teams in seconds, not weeks. Offering customizable actions, data validation, and real-time syncing with data sources, Trellis prioritizes security with SOC II Type 2 compliance, data encryption, and private cloud deployment options. Applicable across finance, healthcare, and real estate, Trellis helps organizations improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance.

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Tech PDF Automation Data Processing

Entropy: A Rethink of Disorder in the Universe

2024-12-14
Entropy: A Rethink of Disorder in the Universe

Two hundred years ago, French engineer Sadi Carnot introduced the concept of entropy to quantify the universe's irreversible slide into decay. However, modern physics views entropy not simply as 'disorder,' but as a reflection of an observer's limited knowledge of a system. This new perspective illuminates the deep connection between information and energy, driving technological advancements at the nanoscale. From Carnot's steam engine to modern information engines, the concept of entropy continues to evolve, helping us understand the universe's workings and prompting us to rethink the purpose of science and our place within it.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
AI entropy information thermodynamics

Lucy: A Concise DSL for Finite State Machines

2025-01-01

Lucy is a concise language for describing Finite State Machines (FSMs). It allows complex events, guards, actions, and destination states to be expressed in a single line. Nesting machines enables hierarchical FSMs. Lucy compiles to XState, a leading JavaScript FSM library, supporting all its core features. Written in C and compiled to WebAssembly, Lucy boasts a significant speed advantage (15x faster than its previous JavaScript-based compiler), making it ideal for JavaScript projects.

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Maxing Out Alpine Package Installs: An NP-Hard Challenge

2025-01-21

This article details an experiment to determine the maximum number of Alpine Linux packages installable simultaneously. The author parsed Alpine's APKINDEX files, extracting package dependencies, conflicts, and provides relationships. These were translated into constraints for a PuLP solver. The experiment successfully installed 98.5% of packages from the main repository and 97.8% from main + community. This showcases algorithmic optimization of package installation, offering insights into building leaner container images.

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Development Package Management Constraint Solving

PuzzleZilla: Online Jigsaw Puzzle Maker Launches

2024-12-15

PuzzleZilla is a new online platform allowing users to create custom jigsaw puzzles from any image uploaded from their device or the internet. The site offers a wide variety of pre-categorized puzzles, including cars, babies, cities, animals, flowers, nature, girls, landscapes, dinosaurs, castles, movies, anime, cats, dogs, paintings, food, and fantasy themes. Users can easily create and play their puzzles online.

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Reflections on Building with the Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Mixed Bag

2024-12-15
Reflections on Building with the Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Mixed Bag

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) aims to connect LLMs with external tools and data, allowing apps like Claude Desktop to access databases, search engines, and more. While MCP offers exciting possibilities for expanding AI application functionality, its current implementation has shortcomings. Claude Desktop only supports local servers, lacks robust handling of complex inputs, and suffers from client-side timeouts. Furthermore, improvements are needed in documentation and configuration, such as an official registry, support for asynchronous task scheduling, and multi-client collaboration, to fully realize MCP's potential for users.

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(outlore.dev)
AI Model Context Protocol

AI-Powered Dev: My Codescribble Debugging Nightmare

2025-01-26
AI-Powered Dev: My Codescribble Debugging Nightmare

The author used LLMs to build Codescribble, a simple shared text editor. While the initial development was incredibly fast, almost entirely LLM-driven, deployment became a major headache. The generated code suffered from hardcoded values, inconsistent methods, and a broken automated deployment script. Ultimately, the author spent far more time debugging and fixing LLM-introduced errors than anticipated. This experience highlights the need for developers to maintain a solid grasp of underlying technologies and thoroughly review AI-generated code. Blindly trusting AI can lead to significant inefficiencies and even counter-productive outcomes.

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Caves of Qud's Gigantic World Map: A 13.8 Gigapixel Adventure

2024-12-13
Caves of Qud's Gigantic World Map: A 13.8 Gigapixel Adventure

The upcoming sci-fi roguelike Caves of Qud, launching December 5th, boasts a massive world map totaling an astounding 13.8 gigapixels! This immense map consists of 240 x 75 zones, each zone containing 25 x 80 tiles, with each tile being 16 x 24 pixels. A web viewer allows exploration of the surface and even the first underground level (the remaining 2 billion+ levels are omitted due to data size). This breathtaking scale promises an epic, fantastical adventure, ripe with exploration possibilities.

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(kernelmethod.org)
Game Caves of Qud World Map

Is Creating a Perfectly Spherical Prince Rupert's Drop Possible?

2024-12-14
Is Creating a Perfectly Spherical Prince Rupert's Drop Possible?

An engineering question explores the possibility of creating a perfectly spherical Prince Rupert's drop. Prince Rupert's drops are glass objects formed by dripping molten glass into cold water, their unique internal stresses making them incredibly tough except at the tail. The article discusses how, theoretically, in a zero-gravity environment by controlling the cooling rate and removing the effects of gravity, a spherical Prince Rupert's drop could be made, but significant practical challenges remain.

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Tech Prince Rupert's Drop Glass Material Science

Banish WFH Eye Strain: Optimizing Your Home Office Lighting

2025-01-22
Banish WFH Eye Strain: Optimizing Your Home Office Lighting

Working from home causing eye strain? Blogger Russell Baylis shares his journey to optimal lighting, emphasizing even, diffused light as key to reducing eye fatigue. He transformed his workspace with floor lamps and dimmable lights, eliminating harsh shadows and high contrast. Natural light is softened with diffusing curtains, and high-quality, flicker-free lighting is prioritized. The 20-20-20 rule and regular breaks are also stressed for eye health.

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(rustle.ca)
Design eye strain office lighting

Archive Team: Rescuing Digital History from the Brink

2024-12-18

Archive Team is a loose collective of archivists, programmers, and volunteers dedicated to preserving our digital heritage. Since 2009, they've been battling website shutdowns, data deletions, and more, striving to save historical information before it's lost forever. They actively participate in various data archiving projects, offering advice on data management and recovery. Current projects include saving data from platforms like Telegram and Cohost, along with ongoing efforts for sites such as Blogger, GitHub, and Imgur.

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(wiki.archiveteam.org)
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The Graphics Codex: Your Ultimate Guide to Computer Graphics

2025-01-26

The Graphics Codex is an interactive learning resource for computer graphics, featuring 400+ cross-referenced equations and diagrams, 14 chapters on physically-based shading and rendering, and multi-platform programming projects with links to external API documentation. It serves as a reference, textbook supplement, or standalone learning guide, updated monthly. Topics range from ray tracing and shadow map shaders to the rendering equation and Fresnel equations, making it ideal for students and professionals alike.

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Infinite World Generation: An Improved Wave Function Collapse Algorithm

2025-01-18
Infinite World Generation: An Improved Wave Function Collapse Algorithm

This article details a fast, deterministic, parallelizable, and reliable method for generating infinite cities using an improved Wave Function Collapse (WFC) algorithm. The author addresses previous limitations such as non-determinism, memory leaks, and single-threadedness. The new approach generates infinite worlds by pre-generating tiled maps and replacing blocks at runtime, adapting to arbitrary heightmaps, resulting in stunning visuals.

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(marian42.de)
Game Wave Function Collapse Infinite World Generation

The Rise of AI Slop: How to Fight Back and Profit

2025-01-26
The Rise of AI Slop: How to Fight Back and Profit

Blogger Ben Congdon observes the proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content, which he terms "AI slop," across the internet. While seemingly convincing at first glance, closer inspection reveals its formulaic nature and lack of originality. He argues against directly copying and pasting AI-generated content, suggesting creators should use AI tools for assistance but meticulously edit and maintain a unique personal voice. He further proposes that creating high-quality content and building a personal brand are key to remaining competitive in the age of AI, and that influencing AI training datasets can even shape the future direction of AI.

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(benjamincongdon.me)
AI

Forgejo: A Self-Hosted GitHub Alternative

2025-01-19
Forgejo: A Self-Hosted GitHub Alternative

Forgejo is a lightweight, self-hosted software forge, easy to install and maintain, powered by the Codeberg e.V. community. It prioritizes security, scalability, federation, and privacy, offering a familiar GitHub-like experience for a smooth transition. 100% free and open-source, Forgejo boasts low resource consumption, high performance, and a commitment to fostering collaborative software development through decentralized platforms.

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(forgejo.org)
Development GitHub alternative

Italian Town Solves Winter Darkness with Giant Mirror

2024-12-13
Italian Town Solves Winter Darkness with Giant Mirror

Nestled in a valley between Italy and Switzerland, the town of Viganella suffers from three months of winter darkness each year. To combat this, in 2006, residents ingeniously installed a massive mirror on a nearby mountain peak. This mirror reflects sunlight into the town square, providing much-needed light and warmth during the long winter. The project, a testament to human ingenuity and community spirit, has since inspired similar initiatives worldwide.

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(www.vice.com)
Tech innovation community

Converge Careers: Redefining Career Development

2025-01-24

Converge Careers isn't your average job board. It's a personalized career development platform leveraging AI to help users understand their skills, identify career paths, and access relevant learning resources and opportunities. Think of it less as a job search engine and more as a career navigation system guiding users through the ever-evolving professional landscape.

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(jobs.gem.com)
Startup talent matching

Reclaiming Sensor Data: Breaking Free from the Cloud

2024-12-18
Reclaiming Sensor Data: Breaking Free from the Cloud

This article details how an embedded software engineer regained control of data from a cloud-connected radon sensor by bypassing the manufacturer's servers. By analyzing network traffic, the engineer discovered a vulnerability where the sensor didn't properly validate server certificates. Leveraging a local DNS server and a custom Python web server, the engineer successfully intercepted and read the raw sensor data. This grants programmatic access and ensures continued functionality even if the manufacturer's servers go down. The article highlights the importance of network security and the privacy risks associated with DNS traffic.

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(embeddedartistry.com)
Development IoT security data autonomy embedded systems

KubeStatus Operator: Easily Add a Status Page to Your Kubernetes Cluster

2025-01-24
KubeStatus Operator: Easily Add a Status Page to Your Kubernetes Cluster

KubeStatus Operator is a free and open-source tool that easily adds a status page to your Kubernetes cluster, displaying the operational status (operational, degraded, or DOWN) of services. Written in Go and utilizing the Kubernetes API to fetch cluster and resource information, KubeStatus provides a simple and convenient way to view the current state of your cluster and resources without needing the kubectl command-line tool or the Kubernetes dashboard. It also offers a user-friendly page that can serve as your main status page.

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(github.com)
Development Status Monitoring Open Source Tool

Developer Creates Game Boy Advance Game in Zig

2024-12-31

A developer created a Game Boy Advance game, 2048, using the emerging programming language Zig. The article highlights Zig's advantages in embedded programming, particularly its streamlined cross-compilation process, efficient memory management (including packed structs), and powerful compile-time code generation. The author contrasts the development experience using C++ versus Zig, noting Zig's ease and efficiency in handling the Game Boy Advance's peculiar memory layout and hardware registers. While Zig has some shortcomings, such as limited inline assembly and Thumb instruction support, its numerous advantages make it an ideal choice for developing games for retro consoles.

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(jonot.me)
Development Embedded Development

Finley Technologies Hiring Growth Associate to Fuel Fintech Expansion

2024-12-22
Finley Technologies Hiring Growth Associate to Fuel Fintech Expansion

Finley Technologies, a Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures-backed fintech startup, is seeking a Growth Associate. This role focuses on the credit fund segment and requires 2-3 years of finance experience, strategic thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and strong communication skills. The successful candidate will help shape go-to-market strategy, product roadmap, and more, collaborating with a team to drive company growth.

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(jobs.lever.co)
Startup Growth Associate

The Secret Spy Satellite That Helped Win the Cold War

2025-01-22
The Secret Spy Satellite That Helped Win the Cold War

In the 1970s, the rise of the Soviet Navy posed a significant threat to the US. To counter the emergence of powerful new Soviet warships, the top-secret Parcae satellite program was launched. Developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, Parcae provided real-time location data on Soviet vessels, drastically reducing the time between signal interception and intelligence reporting to mere minutes. This near-instantaneous intelligence was crucial for military decision-making. Employing multiple satellites working in concert and advanced computer systems to process massive amounts of data, Parcae helped maintain the strategic balance during the Cold War. Its technology continues to influence modern satellite signals intelligence systems.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
Tech spy satellite signals intelligence
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