#generativeart interlude The Alien Alchemist's Map of the Solar System #xquery #svg

#silentsunday #photography

#generativeart interlude The heat from the sun 1/4 #xquery #svg

I Get Spam: Today's prime spamslop is a note from "Mathling HR" purporting to give me a report of employee evaluations with the ones to be terminated highlighted. mathling.com having just the one employee, who is also the boss, I decided my job was pretty safe. Do better, spammers

Today's chapter in the annals of Just Keep Restarting Things Until it Starts Working Again: Somewhere in the Fedora/nordvpn update, networking with the VPN stopped working. Eventually rebooting and restarting the vpn service (for the nth time, I swear) flipped a bit somewhere. I am a highly […]

#silentsunday #photography

#caturday #photography Nyx is an excellent birder: thus we keep her on this side of the glass. The hummingbirds taunt her.

#generativeart interlude The tiling from the subway. You can hear the da-dum da-dum of the train wheels screeching in the dark. 1/n #xquery #svg

#silentsunday #photography #sfba

Halki is not impressed with the USMNT's performance #caturday #photography

"And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into […]

Cat wars Nyx is a black behemoth and she doesn't like Halki Halki is a tiny little flame point pony cat and she doesn't like Nyx "doesn't like" is understatement When Halki joined are family, one night there was a battle in which much blood and sh*t was spilled. It is not clear entirely which […]

Caulking the shower Do I know how to have fun or what?

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

#silentsunday #photography

Just fucking use HTML https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

#caturday Keep dreaming, Penny, but that hawk is way out of your league

Things that get on my wick, chapter 456 Call customer service to change a subscription (because OF COURSE you can't do this online), bounce through two levels of AI bots (because OF COURSE), tell them my name, twice, the email address on the account (mine) which is just my name (again), but the […]

#generativeart interlude So there I was, looking at lovely visualizations of LIGO data, as one does, and decided to make this

AI slop is the new "dog ate my homework" I think Plumber calls back and claims there was an AI agent behind their web form and it just went ahead and booked everyone who used it over the weekend to the same 3 time slots so no, they're not coming this morning after all. It was a pretty stupid […]

The only thing more annoying than software that nags you to update when you're just trying to get that One Thing done, is software that refuses to run until you do. Looking at you, Discord, you aggravating mofos

#silentsunday #photography

Plato's cat #caturday #photography

TFW you have been running a render for a day and a half and you make the rookie mistake of accidentally running something else memory-consuming and trigger the out-of-memory killer. Drat In case you were wondering how the generative art is going this week

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

#silentsunday #photography #mosstodon

#silentsunday #photohgraphy

#caturday #photography Diablo contemplates

#balisage HC: Sept 3rd 2024: New website! Think it looks better. Responsive sizing Static site => vastly harder to hack Built using Eleventy (https://www.11ty.dev) Sources on github repository (github as CMS) Most sources in Markdown now

#balisage (Re)building the TEI website: a bit of history and new directions—Hugh Cayless https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Cayless01/BalisageVol30-Cayless01.html

We can make our elections trustworthy in spite of the inevitable security weaknesses in equipment! How? By using an architecture that *tolerates* security flaws instead of requiring you to eliminate them. This is called "Software Independence", formalized by Ron Rivest (the R in RSA) about 15 […]

#balisage Is Invisible XML Ready for Undergraduates? Trying iXML and XProc on a Music Analysis Project in an Undergraduate Text Analysis Course—Michael Simons, Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Beshero-Bondar01/BalisageVol30-Beshero-Bondar01.html

#balisage Shiela Thomson Encore Presentation: From iXML to XSpec (originally given at Markup UK)

#balisage Steven Pemberton Direction of iXML

#balisage Open Mike Syd Bauman: Excessive Precision in XML

#balisage Writing Maintainable XSLT Conversions: From EEBO TEI to Web HTML Seven Ways —Liam Quin https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Quin01/BalisageVol30-Quin01.html

#balisage The Book of Doublends Jined: Parsing Finnegans Wake with ixml (LB)—Steven Pemberton https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Pemberton01/BalisageVol30-Pemberton01.html

#balisage Pipe cleaner: ensuring the correctness of XProc pipelines (LB)—Norm Tovey-Walsh https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/NTovey-Walsh01/BalisageVol30-NTovey-Walsh01.html

#balisage Schematron as XSLT Interface and Advanced Validation Models—Joel Kalvesmaki https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Kalvesmaki01/BalisageVol30-Kalvesmaki01.html

#balisage How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love AI (FP)—Dale Waldt https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Waldt01/BalisageVol30-Waldt01.html

#balisage Elisa Beshiro-Bondar and Alexander Fisher Digital AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance

#balisage Open Mike Andrew Sales: Schematron 4 update and implementation

#balisage Open Mike George Bina: Structured Content and XML Technologies in the Context of AI Processing

#balisage Sponsor Presentation: Saxonica - SaxonJS 3 coding improvements—Debbie Lockett

#balisage Language Identification for Program Code in Documents (LB)—Steven J. DeRose https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/DeRose02/BalisageVol30-DeRose02.html

#balisage The infospace, Foxpath, and iXML—Hans-Jürgen Rennau, Hauke Brandes https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Rennau01/BalisageVol30-Rennau01.html

#balisage Implementing Version Handling in Yet Another CMS—Ari Nordström https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Nordstrom01/BalisageVol30-Nordstrom01.html

Heard in the halls #balisage "The phrase 'break a leg' doesn't actually specify whose leg is to be broken." Puts a rather darker spin on things

#balisage I Know Why The Semantic Web Failed (FP)—Patrick Durusau https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Durusau01/BalisageVol30-Durusau01.html

#balisage Open Mike John Lumley: GT40 Macro-11 assembly code => IXML => XSLT to assemble to machine code => load it into pdp11 emulator in JavaScript => execute => maps => pdp11 emulator XSLT => SVG [head explodes]