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chiply's series of posts on the site about VOMPECCCC is a really interesting look into:

  - A fantastic UI pattern and it's wide applicability
  - Building in a modular way
  - How emacs provides a fantastic substrate for packages to fit together

(VOMPECCC => Vertico, Orderless, Marginalia, Prescient, Embark, Consult, Corfu, Cape)

I'm a big fan of his work. The VOMPECCC fruit picker[0] article, was what finally got me to understand (and start using) the power of the stack in my own programs. The whole "propertized string" as "unit of currency" concept I found extremely useful, and now I use a custom consult document picker (with rich annotations) to perform actions on different kinds of XML documents that live in my BaseX database, it's super cool.

[0]: https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-fruits


I can't more highly recommend this book for getting into the headspace of the era a lot of these recordings.

11 chapters about DIY / Punk / Hardcore bands of the 1980s underground scene.

(The audiobook in particular is fun as it's read by musicians influenced by the artists in their respective chapters)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life


Seconded. This was a great read, and led me to a lot of great listening. And some wondering about how far Minutemen would've went if D. Boon hadn't passed so early.

I also think there's a lot to learn from the book about DIY for any startup or community organizer.

Lastly, if you read and you want to learn more about 'The Replacements', 'Trouble Boys', Bob Mehr, is a terrific read.


> I also think there's a lot to learn from the book about DIY for any startup or community organizer.

The parallels with being in a band and a startup are real. Azerrad says many times in the book that what these bands were doing was entrepreneurial.



Sort of... the SVG is referencing `svgscript.js` which is being fetched from the server (https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/svgscript.js)


Actually - BOTH videos in the screenshot are ads - so there are zero videos on the homescreen already


I don't think so? The "I Skied Down Mount Everest" is from the Red Bull channel. It may be a commercial channel, but it's not an ad, i.e. they didn't pay for placement (doesn't say "Sponsored" like the other one).


and they are often good videos (if you like watching extreme sports related things), given the partial second video this seems likely for the account who made the screenshot

but given that half a video is not a full video this still means we are at one single full video

and an AD which is deceptively pretending to be a video

I still think regulators should ban deceptive ads and require ads to to clearly different from the main content _on the first take/glance_. They way YT, Google and co handle ads is IMHO deceptive to a point its reasonable to say they try to deceive the user into clicking on the ad when they wouldn't have done so if they new it was an ad.

And "systematically deceiving a user/customer to their detriment (wasting time) and your profit" isn't just shitty but on a gray line to outright fraud.


I dont particularly enjoy red bulls drinks, but their ads are often cool enough to be considered content.

It's probably the only company with ads that are more enjoyable than their product.


I used to think they were a foundation dedicated to funding extreme sports who also happened to sell an energy drink as well.

Their business is basically selling poison but creating such absurd quantities of great free entertainment that everyone forgives them.


I mean, in terms of getting your caffeine, Redbull is basically the least poison in the game. It's not even a lot of caffeine and doesn't contain a lot of the other shit that stuff like Monsters contain.

Like really, checkout the redbull ingredient list sometime. There's not much to it.

Not saying it's healthy at all. Nobody should really be drinking energy drinks, but Redbull is probably the least awful of the bunch.


I wouldn't say "least".

technical there are many "non energy drinks" which have no less caffeine or other wake-up effects as energy drinks.

But funnily one of the ways Red Bull works is by giving you Vitamin B12 and Magnesium,

which are commonly on a slight deficit in, case where people take energy drinks. They can lead to a noticeable feeling of boosted energy in a similar time as caffeine takes effect (ironically Caffeine takes 15-30min to take effect, anything before is either something else or a placebo effect...). In general if you have problems with low energy in the morning taking B12+Magnesium alongside the breakfast is a things worth trying out (just maybe not by drinking a Red Bull :=) ).


Technically correct, the best kind of correct


The artist who is playing at the in person celebration event this week (Sam Reider) is great! That's exciting


Just chiming in to say that akkartik is doing really interesting stuff and it’s worth diving deep on this site.

<3


Wow, thank you! <3


Oooh!! I've played a bunch of glicol.org - but had no idea about the js bindings!

Might I recommend you put a link to `glicol.js.org` from your main site. I might have given this a go instead of tone.js on a recent project.


Thanks for your suggestion, I will add it to the next version. I am currently rebuilding the homepage with solidjs.


Author here --

I wish I could say I was that clever. It's absolutely an accident lol -- gonna file it under "DO NOT FIX"


Does anyone else find it to be odd that in all of the bedroom diagrams, they include an animal skin rug?


an animal rug is a very visualizable unit of measurement

it's like the architect's version of 'banana for scale'


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