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Turn your website’s loading process into music. Forbes sounds surprisingly good. You could loop it and work to it. A great example of a website where someone clearly thought through every detail. We need more of that in the LLM era. blog.alena.rocks/en/artifacts...

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This Friday I will speak at The Geek Gathering in Croatia, Osijek thegeekgathering.org/schedule?day=3

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The author of the “nuclear winter” model disappeared in Spain in 1985 while attending an international conference. His ultimate fate remains unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimi...

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Catalan association of men for gender equality Homes Igualitaris is screening The Silence of Men (El silencio de los hombres), directed by Lucía Lubarsky, this Wednesday in Barcelona. www.instagram.com/p/DdGiftpuXl5/ Admission is free, registration required: aaf8e.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6...

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Of course, you can see this smooth `corner-shape: squircle` effect on the icon and buttons in my Slow Reader, but only in Chrome for now dev.slowreader.app

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I made a new PostCSS plugin for the new CSS `corner-shape: squircle`. It creates smooth corners like in iOS (and nature). The plugin adjusts `border-radius` for squircle geometry and can add `corner-shape` automatically. github.com/postcss/post...

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I liked Madou’s “parody” The Crow, The Tiger and The Rabbit (MD-0240) even more. It riffs on the popular Taiwanese film The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon, which tackles the very real social issue of religious cults in Asia, with references to an actual cult.

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We’re used to every popular movie in the West, from Star Wars onward, getting a porn parody @friday.sitnik.es Taiwan has the same culture. Psychoporn TW made The Orgasm Problem, inspired by the cult sci-fi hit The Three-Body Problem. The studio actually tries to make its films well.

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 24/09/2026

After fascists won in Spain, “exilio” (“exile”) disappeared from some dictionaries. The regime avoided it publicly. “Emigración” suggested simply leaving; “exilio” implied coercion and the regime’s responsibility for forcing hundreds of thousands out. www.peterlang.com/document/119...

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Wrote a Privacy Policy for humans for my Slow Reader in short & readable way. No copy-pasted legalese that covers the company and explains nothing. Thoughts? Most privacy policies are written, so nobody reads them. Doesn't have to be that way. dev.slowreader.app/docs/privacy

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 23/09/2026

I just added to my Slow Reader a weekly check that HTTP server and DNS have right settings: I check: — Mozilla HTTP Observatory — nslookup.io DNS Health Report — HTTPS DNS record and real HTTP/3 by curl — Google Lighthouse github.com/hplush/slowr... What validators can you also recommend?

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 22/09/2026

George Stinney Jr. was 14, the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. At 155 cm, he was too small for the electric chair, so a Bible was placed under him. 70 years later, a South Carolina judge vacated his conviction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 21/09/2026

I’ll be speaking at GeeksCat Conf in Girona this Saturday. Come say hi! conf.geeks.cat

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 17/09/2026

A new way to date old books has been proposed. Analyze DNA from the parchment and see which viruses infected the animals, then compare it with other books whose parchment contains the same viruses and whose dates are known. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 16/09/2026

The prototype of my Slow Reader is ready. I’m working on the onboarding, so people can quickly get the idea. I added a demo mode so you can explore the UI right away: dev.slowreader.app Any recommendations for neutral and beautiful RSS feeds for the demo?

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 16/09/2026

The traditional vertical script makes the Mongolian passport look especially beautiful (they use Cyrillic nowadays, by the way). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoli... The inside of the passport is quite beautiful too: www.instagram.com/reel/DQc4rPW...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 15/09/2026

I’ve been diving into WAICT, a new cypherpunk spec for browsers. Even open-source local-first web apps have a chain-of-trust problem: a government could seize the domain, serve a malicious client, and steal your local database. blog.cloudflare.com/improving-th...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 12/09/2026

If you’re also fascinated by what people are doing with the fly connectome (and wondering what the fly thinks about all this) read “Lena,” by @qntm.org a very short story written like a Wikipedia article about the near future that may be waiting for us. qntm.org/mmacevedo

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 12/09/2026

There’s a lot of experimentation with fresh, polished Linux desktop design right now, in addition to Omarchy. For example, check out Dank Linux: danklinux.com

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 11/09/2026

Musk’s Twitter goes after pretty much any attempt to build an alternative UI that doesn’t fry your brain with rage bait and algorithmic feeds. But the Nitter team seems to have found a loophole and they’re still fighting Musk’s lawyers. www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/09...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 10/09/2026

And here’s the results table from the migration or, in other words, why you probably shouldn’t use Next.js or Gatsby for static sites.

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 09/09/2026

The famous 1995 Ghost in the Shell anime was very different from the manga: the manga was funnier, lighter, and much more sexual. The new 2026 series, which just wrapped up yesterday, feels like the most faithful attempt yet to capture the spirit of the original manga.

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 08/09/2026

From 1010 to 1018, Valencia was ruled by two Slavic eunuchs, Mubarak and Muzaffar. “Slave” derives from “Slav,” reflecting the enslavement of Slavs in medieval Europe. Captured as boys, castrated and sold in Spain, they eventually seized power. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubarak...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 07/09/2026

I don’t like all these laws banning kids from social media and computers. But Silicon Valley really did make the internet a worse place and locked down our operating systems. That’s why I love simple, open computers designed to spark kids’ curiosity. github.com/nurked/kiddos

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Released Nano Stores React 2.0 with support for async stores, like Nano Stores SQL (a SQLite-in-browser wrapper), Logux, and Nano Stores Async. github.com/nanostores/r...

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3. I even made a monochrome version of the logo for Android PWAs with tinted icons enabled. The OS uses the alpha channel as a mask and recolors the icon with any two colors. But although monochrome is part of the spec, Chrome on Android still doesn’t use it.

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2. On P3 displays, the SVG favicon gets an unusually vivid red. The SVG uses a media query to switch to an OKLCH color with P3-level saturation: evilmartians.com/chronicles/h... github.com/hplush/slowr...

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Cool details: 1. The fire in the fireplace starts moving when you hover over it in the menu. The chaotic feel comes from the “cicada principle”: two parallel animations with different cycle lengths. github.com/hplush/slowr...

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