davep

Recently I found - 5

2026-08-05T20:46:28+01:00

Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Airwave - an ATC Sim-Game

Flight sims have been my thing for decades. It might be fun to play at being the voice on the other end at some point.

CrashAtlas - Aviation Accident Database & Crash Map

I didn't know I needed an atlas of aircraft accidents. I'm not sure I do, but now I know there is one.

Snowflow

Someone's vibe-coded gaming experiment which, weirdly, is kind of satisfying to mess with.

Terminal graphics protocol

I should really get this into my Textual applications; there's a couple where this could work well.

Losing my heart to the rogallo smolnet browser

Someone had nice things to say about Rogallo.

A good take on something I've thought for a long time, and which is more important now than ever. The idea that a team of people is an unfortunate requirement to get stuff done is wild and short-sighted.

Whitby's Whale Bone Arch to be replaced by bronze replica

It turns out that I've walked through two different sets of whale bones at Whitby, and some time soon I'll encounter my third (albeit replicas this time).

Apple brings AppleCare One to the UK

I'm going to have to look into this, this might save me a couple of quid.

Don't be a meat proxy

I'm going to remember the phrase "meat proxy". In fact, I'm tempted to ask the question "Are you being a meat proxy?" the next time someone sends me something, a question or a reply, that is so obviously just a copy/paste from their chatbot.

LLMs reward expertise

Too many people who are pushing for LLMs and agents in a business environment seem to fail to understand that you can't replace expertise with them.

I feel many organisations will find this out too late.

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com

I do believe that AI is a bubble. I guess the question is: is it a crypto/NFT kind of bubble, or a dot-com kind of bubble?

Grid Bike

The first game I ever wrote, and the first bit of code I ever got paid for, listed on some random Vic20-oriented website!

Recently I found - 4

2026-07-19T09:43:29+01:00

Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

This blog is written in English

Yeah, it's okay to write in your own voice, and for yourself. Weird, huh?

GitFut

Got to love a stupid GitHub-based profile rating tool.

Lisp hax

Lots of really useful Lisp code. Hours of great reading.

Very Average Prototypes

Interesting article about some of the downsides of working with AI to create code. Says a few things I've also been saying about my journey with BlogMore.

GTA2js

GTA2. On the web.

Half-Life 2 on the web

Half-Life 2. With follow-ups. On the web.

The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us

Good article about the gulf that does seem to exist between the hype around AI in business, and the actual benefits.

Mastodon, The Only Good Choice

Good article about what Mastodon delivers if you enjoy social media.

Please delete your repository

If you had never opened this repository, there is a 21% chance that we would have already cured cancer. Let that sink in.

I don't care if it's totally made up, it made me chuckle.

CSS-DOS

An entire PC built in CSS.

Human Emacs

I feel like this project is jumping the gun quite a bit, but I also appreciate that it exists. I did also see someone say the other day that it was worth running with anyway to "get away from RMS". Which is fair I guess.

Mastodon Most Followed

Because it's all about being popular...

Web Flight

A flight simulator, on the web. What's not to like?

Perfect to mess with during those boring Teams calls...

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Good review of all the Lisp options you have available to you today.

Backrooms copyright strikes

A24 got embroiled in copyright strikes against online creations related to the Backrooms. People, unsurprisingly, got very angry. The issue seems solved, for the moment, but it says a lot about capitalist appropriation of mass-created popular culture.

ZeroVer

Fantastic list of well-known and popular applications that seem too afraid to ever evolve beyond v0.x.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

I feel this so much. I wish the people who need to read this would read this.

Recently I found - 3

2026-07-01T10:18:29+02:00

Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites

Handy guide to how JSON-LD can be useful for personal websites.

TownSquare

On the one hand, this looks like a fun idea: sort of a Second Life for websites. On the other hand, it's the worst of the Internet, which is no surprise.

The AI Resist List

Does what it says in the title, pretty much.

Rest of the World

A good reminder that tech stories come from places other than the "western" world.

smolweb

A handy guide to all things relating to the small web, and related concepts.

Gemtext Is Not Accessible

A good reminder that, as fun and neat as Gemtext is, it's not terribly accessible.

Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected

The FSF, in effect, does what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs (among other projects). Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.

The UnOfficial History of Second Life!

A pretty fun Reddit post that contains a potted history of the evolution of Second Life. I've had an account for a good chunk of that time, and it all reads about right to me.

Radial

I've long been a fan of pie menus. I wish macOS had adopted and used pie menus. This looks like something I need to try out at some point.

The AI Compass

It's one of those "compass" type quizzes that works out where you stand on the whole issue of AI. I landed on "The Skeptic".

Recently I found - 2

2026-06-21T17:10:55+01:00

Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Gemini hypertext format specification

The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also known as "gemtext". Currently I'm developing my own terminal-based Gemini client so this comes in very handy.

The press release from the UK government, covering the intended ban on social media for under-16s. Even if we were to assume this is a good thing (and I'm far from convinced it is), the proposal as it looks right now is hilariously bad and appears to be as ill-informed as any attempt to control the Internet that has gone before.

How to be mean to IIS-based servers

A funny, and kind of informative, post about how you can be mean to IIS servers. Not that I'd ever do that (no, really, I wouldn't, that's not my sort of thing), but it's fun to know that some folk actually do that.

NetNewsWire Status

I was very late coming to NetNewsWire, only discovering it in the last year; it's been one of my go-to RSS tools (along with OldNews, of course) on macOS and iOS ever since. Here the author talks about the progress made in the last year.

The LLMentalist Effect

An article in which the author talks about the con played by psychics, and how large language models pretty much do exactly the same thing.

Dialog attendance list

Does what it says on the tin: shows the list of people who were "leaked" on the Dialog website.

The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community

An article on how community is one of the important properties of where tech has taken us, and the threat that AI poses to this. As of the time of writing, this is still on my to-read list, but I strongly suspect it's going to be a good and useful read.

Recently I found - 1

2026-06-15T09:35:19+01:00

Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Tutti Space Program

Described as "A playful 2D space sandbox with flowing materials, heat, and gravity", it's exactly that. One of those things to mess with in the browser when you're either waiting for a boring meeting, or in a boring meeting, or just have time to kill. Or just because.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

The Jqwik author's perspective on their Markdown-based "malware".

Finalist

Saw this go past in my Mastodon feed, although I lost track of who mentioned it. This app falls under the heading of "apps I really want to like because it seems to solve a problem I want solved but I don't like how it solves it". Mostly I do like how it solves it, but something is off about it; also it's laggy as hell on my iPhone 16 Pro, for some reason.

As such, I didn't stick with it for long, but I might revisit it at some point to see if the performance improves; hence saving it.

Modus Themes

In the past few days I've been toying with changing the look of my Emacs. This is where I landed. The documentation is excellent. I don't know why it took me so long to discover it.

LisaOS Emulator

An Apple Lisa. In the browser! I've never used a Lisa. I've never seen one in person. It's sort of wild to me that I now live at a moment in time where we can emulate, right in the browser, machines that date from my younger days.

Vintage Macworld Magazine Library

Never read it myself; I'm a late arrival to the world of the Mac (I've been a user just over a decade now). Should be fun reading some of the older copies.

Project Gemini

This is a new one on me; I just stumbled on it over the weekend. It is a now well-established protocol for a simple web of documents. I'm very tempted to have a play with this. I'm ever so slightly tempted to see if I can do something with BlogMore, such that I could target this approach in some way too.

Gemcities

Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.

flounder

Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.