It’s already come for the crochet community, and researchers have tried to teach machines to knit. But lace-making—a craft that even Renaissance artists struggled to master, and in which there are a literal infinite number of patterns to be created—is now having its AI slop moment.
Technology
On Standby
loudnumbers.netOn Standby is a piece of sound art designed to be listened to while sleeping. It’s based on data collected by seven different people in Malmö, Sweden. Each of those people used a smart plug to collect data on the energy consumption of a device in their home over the course of a single night, the night of 25th August 2024.
AI used by Tasmanian government to validate Chambroad’s Kangaroo Bay hotel job claims
abc.net.auIn response, the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s State Planning Office said in the report that it had deemed the job numbers “reasonable” after using Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant.
Jesus fucking christ.
How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
theverge.com.io is the country code domain for the Chagos Islands — or the British Indian Ocean Territory — which the UK just agreed to relinquish control of.
The iPhone Content Machine: A Visual Essay
om.co
A11Y Collective
a11y-collective.comI love how I’ve seen the term “A11y” for many years, yet I’ve only just realised it’s referring to Accessibility.
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
arstechnica.comThe music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
FixHub
hackaday.com
diyPresso
diypresso.com
Comfortable with the struggle
rachsmith.comIf I had to pick one trait, it would be the ability to be comfortable with “the struggle”. That part of the day/hour/minute where the code isn’t doing what you expected, things aren’t looking like they should, or where things are going wrong and you don’t know why. The times where you’ve planned out a system, realised you’ve screwed it up and missed something crucial, again. The times where you swear at the screen, let out a massive sigh or
hitrest your head on the desk in exasperation.
Double Cigarette HDMI Adapter
printables.com
I Made a CRT Game Boy
youtube.com
Genius, and then the hot glue and angle grinder make an appearance.
The Tulip Creative Computer
tulip.computer
An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding.
Free Faces
freefaces.galleryThis website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs.
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
jordaneldredge.comIn January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them.