Why did Usenet fail? - It's articles like this that make blogging such a wonderful medium. Well written with nice pacing whithin a story arc that flows, some useful links and good comments. Really like the site design too. And totally relatable content, I too tried usenet a bit back in the day and eventually moved to centralised websites for basically the same reasons. shkspr.mobi #
2023/06/07 #
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Vision Pro: Apple's new augmented reality headset unveiled - They sure do look like snowboard goggles, and quite the price tag at $3499. I'm curious how they will do zoom-like conferences, could be very cool, but won't it be strange to look at several other people also wearing goggles? Or will they GPT generate fake faces? www.bbc.com #
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Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer - The official press release from Apple, worth reading to get a sense of how they envison this new world of spatial computing. There's a new operating system called visionOS, with a new interface, lots of AR features, and they appear to have seriously thought on data privacy and security. Overall it's very intriguing and compelling. It's their first new hardware product line in a decade, so quite a big moment. www.apple.com #
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The Open Graph protocol - I'm trying to add the right meta tags to the site
<head>so that pages appear nicely on various social media platforms. There are a lot of possibilities but it's not so obvious how to engineer a way to add more than just the basics. The only two ways I can think of are hard code into the site templates or by using markdown frontmatter, or a combinatiom of both. ogp.me #