Generating Blue Noise Sample Points with Mitchell's Best Candidate Algorithm 10 months ago
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Not Buying American Anymore 10 months ago
Is this 'don't buy American' or is it 'don't support economies with anti-consumer practices'?
Poor Man's Web 3 years ago
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!
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?
OceanGate: Why Isn't Titan Classed? (2019) 3 years ago
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.