167 / The quiet art of attention

Hey, hope your week was good!

Toot of the Week

Grand Theft Autocomplete is my new favourite term for LLMs — @ben@m.benui.ca

Software

• The Lowest Common Denominator: www (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

  Jim Nielsen about the difference in control of native apps vs. the web.

• Using static websites for tiny archives (alexwlchan.net)

  Alex Chan hand-writes static websites to organize their media and bookmarks, and explains why and how.

• Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content (alfy.blog)

  Ahmad Alfy explains the Text fragments standard, a way to link to a text selection directly.

• Zig is everything I want C to be (mrcat.au)

  Max lists some great features of Zig. Did you know it had arbitrary-width integers?

Cutting Room Floor

• the quiet art of attention (billwear.github.io)

  Stormrider writes a beautiful post about simplicity and intention.

• Appreciate everything endlessly (video) (youtube.com)

  Cabel Sasser tells the story of Wes Cook, who he found from a McDonalds mural and encourages you to appreciate art around you and share appreciation with the artists. He even made a website highlighting Wez’ art.

• When Leica met Apple (arun.is)

  Arun about the Lica M (Typ 240), designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson and what made it special. Thanks, Jan!

• The Case Against Travel (newyorker.com)

  Agnes Callard argues that travel is often imbued “with a vast significance, an aura of virtue”, and falsely so.