A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

@oldsixie.bsky.social A very happy birthday to one Six from another!

I thought I'd ask in public because I just don't have the connections. I'd like to publish a coffee table book of full colour AI restored images of historical figures. I'd appreciate if you could share & repost to help me find a publisher. I think these images are worth it.

This is EXACTLY how I imagined Franz Liszt's smile. Like Mephisto about to offer Faust a bargain he can't refuse.

Charles Valentin Alkan is delighted to make your acquaintance ... @gibbonsofficial.bsky.social

Fabio Vitali: From Knowledge to Conjectures: A Modal Framework for Reasoning about Hypotheses https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07304 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07304 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.07304

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩 Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

The NEC Bungo Hyper 7 (1991) (Source.)

At last ... this is him!

Young Ruskin

Codex progress update: You can now create Book Documents with fixed size pages, which can store page-sized images (scans) or regular editable text blocks. I have a hunch that fixed-size Book Documents may prove more useful than free-form Documents at times.

Experimenting with a BookBlock in Codex for when you want to position two pages side by side ... More work required + page navigation controls + page turning effects (CSS) + adding new pages from templates or images + text annotation of image areas + bookmarks + create a TableOfContentsBlock

Templates in Codex ...

totally doing this

Codex progress update: Sticky tags! You can now add coloured sticky tabs to the side of Codex documents for recording brief notes about the document. E.g., you could put a checklist of work items for the document, questions to follow up, etc.

Codex progress update: + Instead of having to use modals or pop-ups you can now enter values directly into the context menu, as here where we change the name of a Page in the document ...

Moritz Moszkowski (1854 – 1925) was a German-Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and teacher. His last years were spent in poverty for he sold all his copyrights & invested the lot in German, Polish, & Russian bonds & securities, which were rendered worthless on the outbreak of WWI.

Mark Hambourg (1879 – 1960), Russian British concert pianist. According to Henry Wood, his appearance and technique were compared to that of Anton Rubinstein, and Ferruccio Busoni later told Wood that Hambourg's was then the greatest talent of the time.

Alfred Cortot (1877 – 1962), French pianist, conductor, and teacher, and one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.

Why shouldn't your documents give you the space to capture a 3D image of your topics? Aside from the text of 'The Raven' I've always wanted to collect together: + the best illustrations + further reading + LLM analyses And pull out any Page into its own Document if you wish.

Here you can see the new Pages feature of Codex in action. The text for Poe's The Raven is on the first page, while illustrations for it can be put on the second. It allows us to keep both text and images together without cluttering up the document.

Codex progress update: + finished work on the new Pages feature 📄 + add, delete, and move Pages inside a document, just like sheets in a spreadsheet + a document becomes more like a dossier 📄📂

Codex progress update: A video showing some new features. + block styling, alignment, and indentation + left and right marginalia spaces + inline tabs (for drafts, text variants, compacting information, etc.) + grid de/structuring youtu.be/2YoBhOTQ3AM?...

Codex progress update: I've always wanted to do this in Code! You can now indent and de-indent Blocks along the positive and negative X axis.

Codex progress update: + added font colour styling + added background colour styling + added option to clear Block and Standoff styles + moved window themes into the context menu

Absolutely real photographs of Franz Liszt giving a performance ...

Actual photo of Franz Liszt giving a performance ...

Try doing this in Markdown, or in a HTML editor for that matter! 😀

Codex progress update: - finally sorted out all destructuring issues for tabs and grids, which means that you can now have tabs-in-grids and grids-in-tabs and know you can destructure (flatten) both to contiguous text blocks

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), French naturalist and impressionist painter.

Codex progress update: You can now shift a block to the left or right through the context menu. Makes playing with text and image alignment much quicker.

Working with the new split-block feature in Codex ...

No one alive has seen George Bernard Shaw (GBS) like this ... till now.

No one has seen Ignacy Jan Paderewski's glorious red hair like this in over 120 years ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Charles Dickens

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

Two authentic photos of Chopin colourised and restored by FLUX.1 Kontext AI. @gibbonsofficial.bsky.social

Codex progress update: - vibe coded up a context menu with some options to add new blocks, remove blocks, etc. More work remains to make this work in different structural contexts (e.g., inside a table, grid, etc.)

Welcome to Bluesky 👋 @antidote-network.bsky.social We're excited to lead this European training network in collaboration with the University of Iceland. ANTIDOTE brings together six universities and one library to teach advanced digital methods for working with medieval texts. antidote.hi.is

The #ANTIDOTE expert workshop on 'Scale and Scalability' is now underway at @tcddublin.bsky.social. This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts. antidote.hi.is #DH #medievalsky

Chopins Shopping for Chopines

Codex progress update: - Added a basic Canvas Block. Soon, you'll be able to add text blocks, images, video, etc., into the canvas.

Some photos of the great Russian piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz belly laughing ...

#DoctorWho Season 7 Matrix Edition trailer youtu.be/2eqP5EUEnZ4?...

Mozart's Turkish March played by a real Turkish marching band... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzT...

This is the most Chaotic Evil piano recording ever. Nothing will surpass its pure chaotic evil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtSH...

Today I officially emigrated from X — and it feels good 😊

Well, I finally worked out how to seemlessly replace a background ancestor block (MP4, image, YouTube embed, or WebGL canvas) with another! A birthday present to myself! 🎂 (This video shows me cycling through all the background types listed above.)