Updates from me…
Alternative browsers for macOS
I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.
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Flash fiction February 2023
This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day.
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Tech
Try Astro 2.0 Today →
Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm i astro@latest or start a new Astro project right in your browser by visiting astro.new. Looking for more? Tune into a special Twitter space this afternoon at 12pm PST feat.
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts →
When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI too.
This 1980s computer was a huge leap forward. Now you can download its source code →
To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer.
The Calculator Drawer →
Remember scientific calculators? The Internet Archive now has dozens for you to play with in emulators and remember how we all used to live.
Writing
I Finished My Novel. Now What? →
Most people have ideas for a novel. Many people start a novel. Some people even bang out a good chunk of manuscript. But few ever finish a real novel with an actual conflict, characters, climax, and all that jazz — and it’s no wonder. That s**t is no joke.
And finally
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It →
Sarah Stewart Johnson was a college sophomore when she first stood atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano. Its dried lava surface was so different from the eroded, tree-draped mountains of her home state of Kentucky.
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Christian Nunciato - Pulumi in Action
Contentful with Paolo Negri
D&D and Teams with Karthik Nagarajan
KubeCon EU 2020
Robert Reeves of Liquibase
Tanmai Gopal of Hasura - Instant GraphQL APIs for your data
Confluent Cloud with Dan Rosanova
Detecting infections from X-Rays - Alexander Wong of COVID-Net
Interchain, Tech privilege and inclusion with Tess Rinearson
In-memory computing with Dale Kim of Hazelcast
Kubernetes as a Service with Spectro Cloud
Scalable Graph databases with TigerGraph
Decentralized entertainment with Breaker.io
Augmented AI with Chris Longstaff of Mindtech
Universal code search with Sourcegraph - Civilization, Lockdowns, and AmigaOS
Cybersecurity during a Pandemic - An interview with Critical Start
Peter Suma of Applied Brain Research, a new Hello World, and how games influence policy
Mobile engagement with mGage, why you should use Brave, ditch Discord and what actually is a URL
Computing history with Sinclair Target of two-bit history
Patrick McFadin talks Datastax and Cassandra, MIDI 2.0 and how do planes fly?
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