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Keith Peters.
Same bit, different day.
I watched this last night A super slow burn, and I had no idea where it was going until the very end, but I was riveted. The acting and cinematography was amazing. Very dark subject matter and some disturbing audio.
To celebrate a successful first week of sales of my new self-published book, Coding Curves, here's a 50% off code for my other self-published book, Playing with Chaos: XE3M0JS
Find both here: https://bit101.gumroad.com/
My graphics lib is backed by cairographics, which is very centered on PNG images. (it also supports SVG and PDF as vector formats). You can create a surface with a PNG with NewSurfaceFromPNG(path).
I just created a new method, NewSurfaceFromImage(path). Behind the scenes it runs imagemagick to convert any image to a temp PNG, creates the surface and deletes the temp file.
A bit of a hack, but I can now create a surface from virtually any image type. This is nice.
This is a lie. It's a jpg.
from https://citizenside.com/technology/what-is-a-webp-file/
A while back I created a simple bitmap encoder. This morning I spent a bunch of time more deeply integrating it into my library, so I could load and save bitmaps. The saving is fine. But once I tried loading some bitmaps that I had not created, I discovered all the different flavors of bitmaps. Backing away slowly. Writing will be fine.
I've had a 2TB M2 SSD sitting in a drawer for the past year and a half. Just got an external USB-connected enclosure for it and now I have a pretty fast 2TB external disk. I think these can suffer from heat build up if overused, but I think my use will be OK. Been ripping some bluray disks from the library. I don't want to keep these 30GB files around in my library, but want to watch them when its convenient. I can fit a bunch on this drive and delete them when I'm done. This is workable.
After nearly 13 years, I self-published a new book! (blog post)
https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2026-02-23/coding-curves-is-live/
Adding to the list... https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/six-math-essentials/
I'm coming down the final stretch on my Coding Curves book. Here's a post about the process.
https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2026-02-16/coding-curves-the-book/
OKLch people, what color do you consider oklch(1, 0.3, 100) should be?
This says it should be white: https://oklch.com/#1,0.3,100,100
So does this: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl
But the css function makes it yellow.
I'm not sure how to interpret this from https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#ok-lab
"Oklab assumes adaptation to the color being defined"
I'm 99% sure CSS got it wrong technically, but implemented it in a way designers would expect it to work.
40 years ago, in 1986, the place where I worked got a Commodore 128 (a souped up kind of Commodore 64). Nobody knew how to use it or what to do with it, so I adopted it and put it to work doing all kinds of stuff. That was when I did my very first programming. I got Commodore magazines and typed in the programs after hours. I clearly remember the light coming on in my brain when I realized you could type in a bunch of numbers and have a picture appear on the screen. Haven't looked back since.
President's Day in the US, when we pay honor to... oh screw it. At least I have a day off work.
I just visited a site. I was looking for a link that I thought might be in the footer. I scrolled to the bottom and saw the footer. But then more content loaded in, pushing the footer down off the page. I scrolled down again and more content loaded in. Kept repeating. I could only get brief glimpses of the footer. It took 23 pages worth of content before the footer was finally readable. Ouch.
