Timo Tijhof @krinkle@mastodon.technology

The Great Pyramid of Giza, from a new perspective.

Alexander Ladanivskyy flew a drone with a high resolution camera over top of the Great Pyramid. That alone is an amazing perspective. Such a recognizable icon if there ever was one, but never from this perspective.

Ladanivskyy then got very very close up! It's easy to forget how big the Pyramid is. Of course it's not a straight-edged triangle, but have you really thought about it? #kottke #photography #giza

https://kottke.org/21/07/a-drones-view-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza

Improving the New York Times’ line wrap balancer
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/text-wrap-balance.html#src=mastodon

Heading towards curl eight https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/13/heading-towards-curl-eight/ - Turning 25 and bumping the major version number on the same day should be fun.

AᗺBAtars. That's it. That's the toot.

Did you know 0 A.D. features a multiplayer lobby?
It's running on the Open Source technology @xmpp .

#opensource #indiegamedev #free

This is what worries me about apple’s privacy pivot and tech in general. The alternatives take a lot of privilege and many can’t use them.
https://twitter.com/iansride2016/status/1436865249819258886

New blog post: "How to write about web performance" https://nolanlawson.com/2021/09/12/how-to-write-about-web-performance/

Wherein I talk about why it's important for non-browser engineers to write about browser performance, and how I go about doing it without (mostly) shooting myself in the foot.

Back on my vague thoughts about writing a tutorial on building modern PHP apps without frameworks. It’s not as much “reinvent the wheel” as it is “learn the wheels that are built-in.”

Superb deep dive on rust compile optimisation with CI caching, examining usage of monomorphisation, and graphing the build tree: https://matklad.github.io/2021/09/04/fast-rust-builds.html

📝 News from last month (2021/09 edition)! Enjoy!
🔗 https://ehret.me/en/news-from-last-month-202109-edition
#️⃣ #NewsFromLastMonth

Best Bulk Data PAYG SIMs in the UK

I want to buy a big chunk of data and use it until it runs out. I'm not interested in a contract. I don't want a phone calls, SMS, or ringtones. Just give me DATA that lasts for as long as possible.

Here's the best data deals that I could find. Stick them in your 2nd SIM slot, use them as broadband backup, or shove in a dongle and attach to a Rasp

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/best-bulk-data-payg-sims-in-the-uk/

#/etc/ #data #mobile #payg #sim

Introducing USA hour format.

hh:ss:mm

My dream set up

Great timing on this, since it addresses the same concerns we raise in the post: the requirement that the system WebKit be the only browser engine on iOS is not only dishonest and shoddy, but it leaves all of us without any leverage to fix the situation. Apple gets to create roadblocks to features, keep their browser in a state of disrepair, and then use that environment as evidence for further neglect. https://infrequently.org/2021/08/webkit-ios-deep-dive/

If you took a drink every time an economist used "network effects" to explain why Big Tech is so big, you'd get very, very drunk.

To be fair to economists, network effects *are* important to the Big Tech story.

A system is said to have network effects if it gets better when more people use it. That certainly describes Facebook - you join FB because of the friends that are already there, and then someone else joins because you're there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

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