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johtsoon Beginner-friendly guide to use Tailwind CSS with Jekyll

Maybe check out the recently released Zag that uses state machines under the hood to target multiple front end frameworks: https://zagjs.com/

johtsoon Git.io deprecation

Shout out to the people over at URLTeam trying to fight the link-rot..

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/

johtsoon Git.io deprecation

If anyone is it would probably be the people over at ArchiveTeam / URLTeam: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

johtsoon DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

I'm now imagining being able to spawn 3d assets in VR games just by describing them, that would be wild.

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

The account is being reinstated! https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1511033739706478594

"Recommending to IA that they delete it was a mistake. Our problem was that the 5M book images were drowning out the rest of the Commons members. So, we are restoring the account, moving it out of the Commons, and placing the book images under CC0, with IA’s permission and support"

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

And Don MacAskill of Flickr tweets:

"To be clear, Flickr didn't delete this. Our friends at the Internet Archive did. It's their account. I don't know all the details, but I believe we've been collaborating with IA on ways to improve the Commons, and I think removing the Books account was part of that effort." https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1511018079802720256

Clearly there's some misunderstanding/communication.

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

https://twitter.com/brewster_kahle/status/151100996579578675...

"The @internetarchive did not ask to take these off of Flickr's site. We do not have any power of them-- it is up to them.

The Images are still in the books that are hosted on https://t.co/NHtWm9GEQu

But I understand Flickr is interested in putting them back up."

https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1511018079802720256

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

All the images still exist on the internet archive, just not in a format that can be explored.

What's been lost is the efforts of all the users to separate the interesting images from the chaff.. and organise them into collections. For such a large corpus that's a really valuable thing.

Also links people had to those images are just dead.

And all the images users had previously favourited have just disappeared from their collections.

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

The real issues are:

1. All the lost metadata. By making the images available on Flickr users were unearthing the interesting images from the 5 million plus collection and creating all sorts of valuable metadata.

2. There is no way to explore the images as they are stored on IA. At a certain point if the data can't be explored it may as well not be available.

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

The problem is, the internet archive is great at storing data, not not the best at making that data discoverable, viewable.

A partnership like this makes quite a bit of sense.

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

By no consultation or warning I mean that the Internet Archive did not consult users of the resource or give any warning that they would be deleting it.

https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157720510495566/#r...

"The Internet Archive Book Images recently deleted their Flickr account. >Flickr and Internet Archive were in agreement on this< because:"

https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157720510495566/#r...

"Hey, all. We're sorry for what seems like a sudden removal of the Internet Archive account. This decision came after weeks of conversation and coordination with the Internet Archive."

johtsoon The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

From what we know deletion of account was mutually agreed between Flickr and IA.. and was carried out with no consultation or prior warning, and no consideration for all the lost metadata.

Edit: To clarify, the internet archive did not consult or warn the users of the collection.

There's currently an open letter to IA and Flickr for people to sign to try and call on them to find a better resolution:

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-flickr-and-internet-...

johtsoon Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

Are you aware of the open knowledge foundation? If I remember they're involved in this kind of stuff.

johtsoon The Internet Archive book images Flickr account has been deleted

If you don't already know, there was a project to extract all the illustrations from book scans in the Internet Archive and they were uploaded to and could be explored on Flickr.

It was probably one of my favourite things on the internet, no hyperbole. You could search for words and you would get all sorts of strange illustrations/block prints/photos that may or may not have something to do with the term. The fact that the illustrations were taken out of context made them even more fascinating and mysterious.

And now it's gone..

All the time people had spent delving the depths of the archive of 5+ million images and curating the most interesting images, just gone?

I really really hope that some backup of the metadata was done before the delete button was pushed.. but I fear the worst. From the sounds of it the account was voluntarily deleted by IA. I find it hard to believe that they of all people would just nuke that information?

What makes it all the more painful is I'd actually done a full scrape of all the metadata that Flickr makes available through its API, but I can't seem to find the data from the scrape that I did that included the all important view counts..

http://web.archive.org/web/20220308103246/https://www.flickr...

johtsoon In Praise of Memorization

This resonates with me and my experience of memorisation in the context of botany. A few years back I started going on urban plant survey walks with my local natural history society. The process of learning and memorising the names of the different plants, and then feeling the patterns start to take shape and the flow of recognition on the following walks was so rewarding. It starts to change the way you see things around you. Rather than just being arbitrary bits of data that you're memorising, names become like markers that amplify the unique aspects (however minuscule) between the different living things that surround us.

johtsoon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

You said you drew inspiration from arq. What was lacking with arq that made you want to write something new?

johtsoon Tell HN: Netlify is experiencing degraded performance

Does make me think about adding some level of redundancy to my site, failover at the DNS level perhaps.

Does anyone have an approach they'd recommend? Cloundflare perhaps?

All my media is served by cloudinary, so it should be easy to have the site served in more than one place and have the only single point of failure be the DNS server.

johtsoon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

Currently exploring using arq, a successor to rq for my next project.

johtsoon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

I've been mulling over using arq for a new project, a successor to rq written by the author of Pydantic. https://arq-docs.helpmanual.io/

Does anyone have any experience with it? I like the pessimistic execution concept..

johtsoon How to design a house to last 1000 years

This is not the case when using modern wood burning stoves though right?

johtsoon LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

Seems like this was infact the case: "Our investigation has since found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users, were likely triggered in error. As a result, we have adjusted our security alert systems and this issue has since been resolved."

johtsoon Building Generative Glitch Art Tools

Reminds me of this tool that lets you corrupt jpeg files: https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/

johtsoon Show HN: Kommit – Web app to help you follow through with NY's resolutions

Acrasia. We severely discount things, positive or negative, that may happen a way off into the future. We struggle to make a "later problem" into a "now problem". The difficulty is that many of life's challenges require action over a period of time.

I also think, speaking from personal experience, our minds have an amazing ability to avoid thinking about things that are difficult or unpleasant. This can mean that we neglect to do things we should be doing (or do the things that cause us harm) not because those things are infact actually okay behaviours, but because we're not even thinking properly about the consequences. We're just doing.

johtsoon LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

It still seems that the most likely answer might be that lastpass are incorrectly alerting that someone's correct passphrase had been used, and that the email is being triggered by a bug, or something like a login attempt using the wrong password from a suspicious IP.

The fact that lastpass support says that it means that the correct password was used doesn't mean it's true, the support staff might just be mistaken.

johtsoon Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

Are we sure that same email isn't sent out if someone tries to log into your account with the wrong password?

johtsoon Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

Oh! If the messaging is the same regardless of whether the right password is used then that changes everything!

johtsoon Chess.com vs. Lichess

At one point I was planning to make something using a glass table with a camera underneath it and ArUco markers on the bottom of the chess pieces.

The problem with trying to make something that uses electronics is the number of squares on the board making it quite a big fiddly task.

johtsoon Those that game together, stay together

Makes me think of Magic the Gathering. People will tend to target the biggest threat at the table, so things end up balancing themselves out a bit.

johtsoon Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

Phone verification would be fine if discord had support for multiple accounts/identities. It's a fundamentally important feature of any online social service to be able to retain privacy and have different identities for different purposes. Discord makes this very difficult.

johtsoon Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

This reminds me of my first time using a microscope. I was on a course on mushroom identification and we were looking at spores and other microscopic features.

I was so surprised when I saw shapes in the viewfinder that didn't look organic. There were squares and pyramids, it looked like Aztec ruins. And they were growing before my eyes! I then realised it was the reagents crystallising in the heat of the lamp.

The world of microscopes is like magic, it's a shame that more people aren't exposed to it.

Even just a quality 10x hand lens opens up a whole world of detail that we don't usually see.