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danishbreadon Generating Blue Noise Sample Points with Mitchell's Best Candidate Algorithm

The server seems to be getting hammered and images are struggling to load.

danishbreadon Not Buying American Anymore

Is this 'don't buy American' or is it 'don't support economies with anti-consumer practices'?

The article title didn't express what this was about, but it seems seems to be a revival of the old, pre-WWW web, via a new protocol Gemini.

I'm not sure why it's "poor man's" web, other than being minimalistic (text and images only.) I thought the phrase meant something less desirable to use, less capable. But this could be genuinely pleasant!

danishbreadon Show HN: Electric – my custom static site generator and markup language

SSGs are almost stereotypical to write thinking 'how hard can it be', and it's impressive to see this. I didn't get from the GitHub writeup though what made it, specifically, very different - other than lightweight compared to Jekyll. Would you mind explaining a bit more? For example, what's the templating language used for, and how?

danishbreadon OceanGate: Why Isn't Titan Classed? (2019)

I didn't realise from the headline what this was referring to. The Titan, owned by OceanGate, is the submarine used to visit the Titanic that is currently missing.