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A good explainer and diagrams of how UTF-8 works with emoji

https://sethmlarson.dev/utf-8

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History, data and alcohol. Super interesting!

When did people stop being drunk all the time?

When did people stop being drunk all the time?
Trends in alcohol consumption from the middle ages to the modern world tell a story.

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AI-Generated South Park Episodes

In this work we present our approach to generating high-quality episodic content for IP's (Intellectual Property) using large language models (LLMs), custom state-of-the art diffusion models and our multi-agent simulation for contextualization, story progression and behavioral control.

SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations
South Park AI is an example of how to generate high-quality episodic content through the use of showrunner agents in the simulation. #AI #simulation #multi-agent

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This is a really nice interactive tool for learning how SVG paths are drawn

Understanding SVG Paths

If you've ever looked at the SVG code for an icon before, you might have noticed that they're usually made up of a bunch of path elements, each with a cryptic d attribute.

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Analyzing PACIFIC STATE

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🧠 Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook

GitHub - zakirullin/cognitive-load: 🧠 Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook
🧠 Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook. Contribute to zakirullin/cognitive-load development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Raspberry Pi Pico W now has Bluetooth support.

New functionality: Bluetooth for Pico W - Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Pico W, our wireless-enabled variant of our Pico platform, built around our RP2040 microcontroller, now has Bluetooth support.
Release SDK 1.5.1 · raspberrypi/pico-sdk
This release is largely a bug fix release, however it also makes Bluetooth support official and adds some new libraries and functionality. Highlights are listed below, or you can see the full list ...

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Let’s look at 5 new CSS things that really matter to real-world development.

Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier
Hey! Chris Coyier here. This is a blog-itized version of a presentation I created. It started life as a Keynote file which I presented in person at RenderATL in June of 2023. I put a lot of work into it! I’m so grateful to everyone who came and saw it. But you can’t beat the […]

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🧸 Tiny is a lightweight 2D game engine that allows developers to easily create games using the Lua programming language.

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Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser

Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
Last month I set out to create a way for my friends to make custom civilization sprites for our Age of Empires II lobbies.Below are some thoughts and process on how to create a versatile prom

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A great summary/recap of Breath of the Wild.

Should have my copy of Tears of the Kingdom before the end of the day. That's my weekend plans sorted!

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Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems

Modern CSS Solutions
A series examining modern CSS solutions to problems Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph), a seasoned frontend developer, has been solving for 15+ years.

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Science Fiction Movie Lettering

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Hacking the original xbox controller for fun and no profit

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How Video Games Lie To You

It might come as a surprise to some of you, but your favorite games [...] use some pretty clever lies to invisibly balance their gameplay experience behind the scenes.

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I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!

Though actually I'm happy to see Daft Punk come up on my New Releases playlist this week.

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Mo LaBorde is a reporter who has been collecting safety cards for almost ten years, and one day she started wondering how the modern safety card came about.

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In The Unlikely Event - 99% Invisible
Do you remember… airplane travel? Packing into a tin can with 200 other people all breathing each other’s air? These days most of us are still avoiding plane travel. But, in the Before Times, when we boarded a flight, we all received the same familiar set of instructions. If you’ve ever flown on a plane,

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Four-Byte Burger

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What Color is Player 1?

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DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter

DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
I’ve heard a lot about classic Doom’s data format and decided to write some Rust code to extract its maps and convert that to vector graphics I could laser cut.

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Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?

Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?
Most people have two eyes, allowing for a stereoscopic view of reality.[citation needed]. Nevertheless, video games are generally designed to run on monitors...

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That's pretty cool!

Normally, submitting an app to app stores requires a lot of work, including writing code in languages web developers may not necessarily be familiar with, creating app icons, configuring various settings, and testing the app across different devices and operating systems. PWABuilder takes care of many of these tasks automatically, reducing the amount of time and effort required to publish apps.

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Espresso and open source hardware?

Making an espresso machine from (almost) scratch.

Espresso and open source hardware?
Making an espresso machine from (almost) scratch.