Disney's copyright on the earliest version of the cartoon characters expires in the US on 1 January.

Jake made a whole video on Steamboat Willie entering the public domain that you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2dIvUAd5QE

He's now finally come home, and we're pretty sure this is the first time a non-Disney entity has legally distributed…

2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s OK to call these AI—they’re the latest and (currently) most interesting development in the academic field of …

Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation.

A grab bag of less frequently talked about git adjacent points.

Pokemon game made with JavaScript + p5.js library. Contribute to JSLegendDev/Pokemon-p5js development by creating an account on GitHub.

Texts on this and that.

graffiti indicating open Wi-Fi

I know I'm not alone in having a relationship with the orange site that is... weird. I generally dislike the culture there, it's almost impossible to read any of the comments without being frustrated about the industry I work in or am adjacent to and some…

Use any web browser or WebView as GUI, with Zig in the backend and modern web technologies in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable library. - webui-dev/zig-webui

Versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 and 16 colors, Unicode and CP437, and customizable themes - cmang/durdraw

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We simulated 80,000 games of White Elephant gift exchanges to find it's pretty good at giving people what they want.

Notes and articles on software development. All content is original. Most of the content reflects the way that our current software team operates. - aaronjensen/software-development

Man I gotta say, I’m sure other people are getting something out of this but all my direct contact with AI has been so depressing.
For example, I used to be part of a bunch of crochet groups and boards on social media and I’ve quit them all because now they…