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Public Sans is a free, open-source typeface designed for use in US federal government websites and digital products. It is highly legible and optimized for screen display, providing a clean and modern aesthetic for government communications.

This article explores the concept of 'Everything as Code' and how it can be implemented in a monorepo structure. It discusses the benefits of this approach, including improved collaboration, reduced complexity, and better version control, and provides guidance on setting up and managing a monorepo for 'Everything as Code'.

ToroKernel is an open-source microkernel designed for embedded systems and real-time applications. It offers a lightweight and modular architecture, as well as support for various hardware platforms and programming languages.

The article describes zpdf, an open-source PDF rendering library written in Rust that aims to provide fast and accurate PDF rendering capabilities. It highlights the library's performance, accuracy, and cross-platform support, making it a promising solution for integrating PDF functionality into applications.

This article provides a curated list of programming project ideas for aspiring developers, covering a range of topics and skill levels to help individuals enhance their coding abilities and build a strong portfolio.

The article discusses the rise and fall of the Abit motherboard brand, once a popular and innovative player in the computer hardware market. It explores the various factors that led to Abit's decline, including increased competition, financial difficulties, and the changing landscape of the industry.

Japanese researchers have successfully grown and implanted new teeth in human patients, potentially offering a groundbreaking alternative to traditional dental implants. The study demonstrates the feasibility of regenerative dentistry, which could revolutionize how missing teeth are replaced in the future.

The article discusses the potential for sabotaging the Bitcoin network by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system's design and execution. It explores various attack vectors that could undermine the cryptocurrency's stability and functionality.

Two U.S. cybersecurity experts have pleaded guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks, facing up to 20 years in prison each. The group they were part of demanded up to $10 million from each victim company.

The article examines the security of FreeBSD jails, a containerization technology, and presents several vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to escape the jail's confinement and gain access to the host system. The researchers demonstrate practical attacks and discuss the implications for the security of container-based systems.

The article discusses how foreign tech workers are increasingly avoiding travel to the U.S. due to concerns over the country's immigration policies and the political climate, which has led to a decline in the number of skilled workers applying for U.S. jobs.

The article discusses Mitt Romney's op-ed in the New York Times, in which he argues for raising taxes on the wealthy to address inequality and fund social programs. It examines Romney's shift from his previous Republican positions and analyzes the potential political implications of his proposal.

The article explores the historical and technological significance of undersea cables, tracing their evolution from early telegraph networks to modern high-speed internet infrastructure. It examines how these cables have shaped global communication and connectivity over the past two centuries.

I used the time over Christmas and in between the years to redesign my website.

This time I decided to make it in the theme of an evil Sith Lord that commands the Galactic Cookie Empire, because I found my previous cookie consent game a bit boring after a while.

Here's the website's welcome page and the cookie consent game: https://cookie.engineer/index.html

(the cookie consent game isn't started on any other page of my website, only on the welcome page)

I also made a "making of" weblog article series, in case you're interested in the development process and how I implemented it and what kind of troubles I went through already:

- Making of the Game: https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/making-of-my-website...

- Making of the Avatar: https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/making-of-my-website...

- Debuggers to toy around with: https://cookie.engineer/design/consent/index.html

It "should" work on modern browsers. I tested it on Firefox on Linuxes, Chrome/Chromium on Linuxes, and Safari on Macbook. Don't have an iPhone so I can't test that, but my two old Android phones were also working fine with the meta viewport hack (I can't believe this is still the "modern" way to do things after 15 years. Wtf).

Best experience is of course with a bigger display. On smaller screen sizes, the game will use a camera to zoom around the game world and follow the player's spaceship. Minimum window width is 1280 pixels for no camera, and I think 800 pixels to be playable (otherwise the avatar gets in the way too much in the boss fights).

Oh, there's also a secret boss fight that you can unlock when you toy around with the Dev Tools :)

What's left to do on the avatar animation side:

- I have to backport CMUdict to JavaScript / ECMAScript. That's what I'm working on right now, as I'm not yet satisfied with the timings of the phonemes. Existing tools and pipelines that do this in python aren't realtime, which leads to my next point.

- I want to switch to using the "waveform energy detection" and a zero cross rate detector to time phonemes more correctly. I believe that changes in waveforms and their structures can detect differences in phonemes, but it's a gut feeling and not a scientific fact. Existing phoneme animation papers were kind of shit and broken (see my making of article 2). The phoneme boundary detector is highly experimental though and is gonna need a couple weeks more time until it's finished.

That's it for now, hope you gonna enjoy your stay on my website and I hope you gonna have fun playing the Cookie Consent Game :)

Oh, also, because it might not be obvious: No LLMs were used in the making of this website. Pretty much everything is hand-coded, and unbundled and unminified on purpose so visitors can learn from the code if they want to.

~Cookie

The article debunks the myth that AI can boost productivity by 70% or more, citing examples of disappointing results from AI implementations and highlighting the challenges of integrating AI into complex business processes and workflows.

Hey HN, I built this because the generational gap online is getting wider (and weirder). It’s an LLM-wrapper that translates "Boomer" (normal/corporate English) into "Brainrot" (Gen Alpha slang) and vice versa. It also has an "Image-to-Rot" feature that uses vision to describe uploaded images in slang. It’s mostly for fun, but actually kind of useful for deciphering what your younger cousins are saying. Would love to hear what you think!

The article discusses the debate around the use of CSS-in-JS, highlighting the challenges it poses to the traditional separation of concerns in web development and the potential impact on frontend sanity and maintainability.

The article discusses the 'marvelization' of cinema, where blockbuster superhero movies have come to dominate the film industry, leading to a decline in diverse and innovative filmmaking. It argues that this trend reduces creative risks and undermines the art of filmmaking.

The article discusses the creation of the BrainKernel project, which aims to develop an open-source, cross-platform, deep learning framework for brain-computer interface applications. The project focuses on building a modular and scalable system to facilitate research and development in the field of brain-computer interfaces.

The year 2025 is projected to be the second-hottest year on record globally, continuing the trend of rising temperatures due to climate change. This finding is based on a new analysis that examines the impact of various climate change scenarios on global temperatures.