Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

TIL how to use the loading="lazy" image attribute to implement Lazy loading images in HTML for modern browsers

https://til.simonwillison.net/html/lazy-loading-images

One tiny catch: you need to let the browser know the dimensions of the image, otherwise it will still need to fetch it in order to calculate layout for the rest of the page

Guilt is the enemy of projects.

The more projects you have, the more guilty you feel about working on any one of them—because then you’re not working on the others, and those other projects haven’t yet achieved their goals.

I claim that the cure for guilt is to include comprehensive documentation and tests! Can't feel guilty if it's got those.

(That's what I tell myself anyway!)

PSA: People on #mastodon love to boost/reblog. This is great because it gives people a wider audience and let's you see new stuff. But, if someone is boosting too much or boosting content you don't want to see, you don't have to unfollow them. Instead go to their profile, hit three dots menu and choose "hide reblogs". It's a lifesaver! #psa

EMERGING FROM TUNNELS 🚇

I love the juxtaposition of this image taken at Leicester Square Station. A commuter and a train come out of their respective tunnels.

#leicestersquare #blackandwhite #london #underground #londonunderground #tunnels #monochrome #streetphotography #railway #photography #photographer #photo #potd

Surreal. You’ve well and truly lost the debate once you start praising Neville Chamberlain’s shameful appeasement

RT @derJamesJackson@twitter.com

You couldn't make it up.

Angela Merkel praises Neville Chamberlain(!) in a Spiegel interview, saying that she bought time for Ukraine by rejecting them for NATO membership at Bucharest 08 like Chamberlain bought time at Munich.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1596111875162443777

Your TypeScript errors are the compiler saying your code will crash. My TypeScript errors are my code crashing the compiler. We are not the same.

So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.

But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

Hey girl are you single cause you look like a point of failure to me

YAML is the most popular language of the ML family

This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more.

This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.

When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.

Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.

Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.

Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.

#projects #inkplate #esp32 #eink #infosec #tarpit