La Basilica Di San Pietro
Photogrammetry, AI, and digital preservation combine to create a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica with thousands of images, allowing visitors to explore it in detail from anywhere in the world. Located in Vatican City, St. Peter’s Basilica is over 400 years old, and is one of the most well-known churches in the world revered […]
The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess
Malört is, in one word, unforgiving. Made from neutral spirits, wormwood and sugar, it tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires. It is also kind of good. Intensely bitter, it’s herbaceous and a touch citrusy, as if you were to bite a grapefruit like an apple. It is […]
How good are American roads?
We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a lot of energy infrastructure for decarbonization, and to enable the AI data center buildout. There’s lots of interest in building high-speed rail, mass transit infrastructure, desalination plants in arid regions, and better ports. One facet of infrastructure that doesn’t […]
GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released
GNU Artanis was born in 2013, and it’s a web application framework written in Guile Scheme. It’s designed to be simple and easy to use, and it’s suitable for small to medium web applications. It’s licensed under GPLv3+ and LGPLv3. In the beginning, Artanis was largely inspired by Ruby on Rails to generate the scaffold […]
Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool
20·11·2024 This note is #fleeting and very much a work-in-progress! In short: Kind software Less is more, more or less Longer version: One click, and you should be ready to start writing. That click should be on the app icon. Private by default (How I Use Analytics With My Indie Projects, Defaults Matter, Don’t Assume […]
Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner’s Research Page
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for beginners# For the FlashCam […]
Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints
A crate to programmatically invoke debugging breakpoints with helping macros. These macros are designed to help developers catch errors during debugging sessions that would otherwise be a panic (which may not be desirable in certain contexts) or simply a log message (which may go unnoticed). This crate’s internals are disabled by default, there are shims […]
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
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U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion
Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, dodges bullets in slow motion. Now imagine being able to witness the same effect, but instead of speeding bullets, you’re watching something that moves one million times faster: light itself. This is now possible, […]
Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
Bluesky sign-ups continue to grow Anna Barclay/Getty Images As a technology reporter, I like to think I’m an early adopter. I first signed up to the social network Bluesky around 18 months ago, when the platform saw a small surge in users disaffected by Elon Musk’s approach to what was then still called Twitter. It […]