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moebrowneon JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

From the article:

> for those of you who don't have the time, here are the headlines:

> For lossy photos on the web, AVIF almost always produces smaller files than JPEG XL.

> At default effort settings, the best JPEG XL version is typically 15–25% larger than the equivalent AVIF

moebrowneon The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

> Buildings are engineered to trap heat, so the heat doesn't dissipate at night and every day the indoor temperature rises, and rises

This makes insulation sound like a bad thing. The more insulation you have the less the indoor temperature is affected by the outside temperature.

moebrowneon OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2

moebrowneon OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

The BOSL2 library makes it easy: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/shapes3d.scad#modul...

moebrowneon Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Firefox 158 will ship with it on by default: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YM...

moebrowneon Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

I think it might have something to do with a Rust based decoder becoming available. IIRC one of the reasons for not implementing it before was expanding the attack surface.

moebrowneon Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Seems Firefox will get support in version 158

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YM...

moebrowneon ESP32-C3 Adblock

Still faster than using a remote resolver: https://www.dnsperf.com/

moebrowneon Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

moebrowneon Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

You might appreciate https://kagi.com/smallweb

moebrowneon OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLbO9KeddY

moebrowneon Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

I used to do this purely so that I could attach a name, then I found out that you can add a message when stashing: `git stash push -m "trying a thing"`

moebrowneon Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

It appears that BitBucket also does not currently support SHA256 hashes.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-23729

moebrowneon I don't like passkeys

Some would consider spending over $200 on hardware keys an issue.

moebrowneon Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

> Submissions close on September 4th, 2026.

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic...

moebrowneon Htmx 4.0

Because serialisation and deserialisation have a price and you almost never need what you describe

moebrowneon Htmx 4.0

Where are you getting those numbers from? The minified code is about 40kB before compression and about 13kB with gzip.

https://bundlephobia.com/package/htmx.org@4.0.0

moebrowneon Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Not sure what you mean by "private payments" but Kagi accepts Bitcoin: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html

moebrowneon Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Nope, but there are unofficial ones:

https://github.com/taobojlen/anthropic-rss-feed/tree/main

moebrowneon Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

It depends. If you have a Claude Code subscription then it defaults to an hour, if you use Claude via an API or third party then it defaults to 5 minutes. You can opt-in to the 1 hour TTL but it obviously costs more.

> 5-minute cache write tokens are 1.25 times the base input tokens price > 1-hour cache write tokens are 2 times the base input tokens price

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-caching#on-a-claude-s...

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

moebrowneon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

That article is well over a year old. The current privacy FAQ right now explicitly states:

> We never sell your personal data. Unlike other big tech companies that collect and profit off your personal information, we’re built with privacy as the default. We don’t know your age, gender, precise location, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

moebrowneon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Not saying your wrong, but the number, and type, of sites you browse is going to be a very narrow slice of the sites that all Firefox users browse

moebrowneon HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

> HTMX only does GET

The very top of the docs (https://htmx.org/docs/) shows how HTMX sends a POST request:

    <button hx-post="/clicked"
        hx-trigger="click"
        hx-target="#parent-div"
        hx-swap="outerHTML">
        Click Me!
    </button>

moebrowneon DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

Can be seen here at 1m30s: https://youtu.be/2x2W3mwERiU?si=ySQh_-QMCetehasK&t=90

moebrowneon Local models will not win

The foundation of this article is that the frontier models are going to keep advancing at the same rate, and therefore always be ahead of local ones. I dont believe this trend will continue. I think we are reaching the top of the S-curve.

moebrowneon How Claude marks AI-generated content

There are many free lock picking tutorials, but yet locks are still effective.

moebrowneon The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

A small bolt could easily replace the pin, this would also allow a washer to be added preventing any chance that it working loose.

moebrowneon Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026

Standard NiMH AAA battery is ~1Wh so 12 Trillion (12,000,000,000,000)