The XSLT Betrayal is enraging forever because the non-technical anti-engineering decision to remove it arbitrarily violates their own deprecation threshold www.pcjs.org/blog/2026/03...
Goodbye XSLT
Or, as Google would say, "Aw, Snap!"
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AI HATER & Real Front-End Engineer™ who cared about Quality, TDD, Vanilla JS, SAM pattern, Client-Side XSLT "C'etait une belle âme, comme on ne fait plus à Londres."
“The black pill offers relief in the same way that submission offers peace. To take the black pill is to relinquish the magic of computers, and surrender to their oppression.”—Andrew Kelley, “Don’t Take The Black Pill” https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html
Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
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`Andrés Segovia "Prelude For Lute In C Minor, BWV 999 - Arr. For Guitar" on The Ed Sullivan Show ` www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQP0... #Bach #Segovia #guitar #EdSullivanShow #classical
Andrés Segovia "Prelude For Lute In C Minor, BWV 999 - Arr. For Guitar" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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There problems go away if you stick with XML and treat data as documents with metadata and not as “code”. blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-0...
Your JSON Is Lying to You
JSON looks like a faithful representation of JavaScript data, but JSON.stringify and JSON.parse can silently alter or discard information at system boundaries.
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this is also a part of it - thenewstack.io/xslt-debate-... google has been seemingly going after the w3c standards / getting together with other big tech companies to do workarounds, and browser companies and other users of these technologies have not supported the building out of xml 3.0 standards
XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance
Security issues and web compatibility are pulling in different directions, as Google and Firefox discuss dropping XSLT support from browsers.
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Spent my whole damn’d career not realizing I shared nothing in common with the web developer kids “you ever get to your mid fourties and have your eyesight drop off a friggin cliff” “we all remember how reasonable the 37 Signals guys sounded before they decided that fascism was a better strategy”
The great Venezuelan guitarist Alirio Diaz never fails to give an impressive performance. Here is his version of Preludio no. 1 op. 5 by Barrios. This is certainly the fastest tempo I’ve heard anyone play this piece, and the clarity is a tribute to Diaz’s virtuosity. Beautifully done!
Alirio Diaz plays Barrios - Preludio No.1 Op.5 (rec. 1966)
YouTube video by Stu Blag
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Isaac Albeniz 🇨🇦@pardosa.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’ve been working on this piece for awhile. It’s very easy for the right hand, but a real workout for the left; many awkward slurs, large stretches, some challenging shifts. It has really helped my left hand in flexibility, reach and security. 😁
Strong stance by an author on not using LLMs www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
On the non-use of AI in my writing process - Charlie's Diary
This isn't a blog entry I wanted to write, but it's a necessary one: a statement about the use of generative large language models (colloquially "AI") in my work.
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I knew Pendegrass only a little, but I was better friends with Piero. We booked the Freaky Executives at Bison Brewing for lots of shows and I played some sets at a few of Piero's shows at Blake's and Bottom of the Hill. Fun times. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Bailey Pendergrass, one of Berkeley's last eccentrics, dies at 74
"He has had a generational impact on the music here. He's Keyser Soze legendary."
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This is Ignite, the first track from an album I will be releasing in the fall called FIRE ICE, based on my recent solo performance at the Sound Symposium in St. John’s Newfoundland. #electronicmusic #synthesizer #improvisation #canadianmusic #somalabs youtu.be/zpiWwR0TAGk
Ignite from the forthcoming album FIRE ICE by John Oliver featuring touch-plate synthesizers by SOMA
YouTube video by John Oliver
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Plant it and they will come. You don’t even need a garden, just a pot will do #invertebrates #BugSky 🌿 #NativePlants
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation@xercessociety.bsky.social · 6d agoWelcome to our new #PlantsForMonarchs tool! Browse native plants by location, filter by plant type, growing conditions, & more, and find local or online suppliers that have those plants for sale! 🦋🌼👀 ➡️ plantsformonarchs.org
Welcome to our new #PlantsForMonarchs tool! Browse native plants by location, filter by plant type, growing conditions, & more, and find local or online suppliers that have those plants for sale! 🦋🌼👀 ➡️ plantsformonarchs.org
I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago“There is also a moral and political judgment that is coming along with AI usage…Especially in creative industries where the stigma is the strongest.”
Eliot Fisk performs his arrangement of Aldo by Luciano Berio (1925-2003). Aldo is Duet No.24 from his collection of 34 Duetti per due violini (1979-83) via the Omni Foundation. www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/eliot-fisk-a...
Eliot Fisk Performs Duetti No.24, Aldo by Berio
Eliot Fisk performs his arrangement of Aldo by Luciano Berio (1925-2003). Aldo is Duet No.24 from his collection of 34 Duetti per due violini, via the Omni Foundation.
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“It doesn’t matter whether ‘Matz is nice’” po-ru.com/2026/07/29/i...
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak...
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I got sick of my console complaining I don’t have a favicon when I'm testing stuff locally, so now I just put an empty SVG in there. `<link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg></svg>" />`
There’s a GitHub security team? orchidfiles.com/github-secur...
What does GitHub’s security team even do?
Right now, there are thousands of repositories on GitHub distributing malware. Any of you can find these repositories, and you don’t need any special knowledge to do so. All you have to do is use the ...
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Absolutely amazing performances. This is Classical Guitar presents guest artist Simon Farintosh performing his arrangements of Preludes by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/simon-farint...
Simon Farintosh Performs Scriabin Preludes
This is Classical Guitar presents guest artist Simon Farintosh performing his arrangements of Preludes by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915).
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Social media’s impact on the world is like a long journey to Madagascar, an island nation that once wore a toaster to a basketball game
Crockford used to say any current generation has to die out before its best practices can be corrected.
AI slaves led by the nose suddenly can’t read or reason. “How could anyone have predicted this?” they ask who don’t test or review code either. “AI was supposed to *increase happiness* or whatever.” futurism.com/future-socie...
Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible
A professor used white font to hide instructions to throw off students using an AI chatbot to cheat on their midterm.
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Programming was invented by people who could read and write, usually well, not to replace reading but to address different needs. Today’s vacuous fashionable “modern” idiot who neither reads nor writes now uses AI to *replace* programming *and* reading and writing.
AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/a...
AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…
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The Bulwarks' @monacharen.bsky.social has a column out criticizing Democratic voters who chose democratic socialists in primaries. Charen cheered my home state's Charlie Sykes for helping 2010 GOP wave. Republicans then gerrymandered Wisconsin and passed voter suppression laws targeting minorities.
This essay is stimulating as hell. *Whose freedom is it anyway?* DAMN’D RIGHT collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
Whose freedom is it anyway?
Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.
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They're home to incredible communities of plants, birds, & of course, invertebrates. But native grasslands are now the most threatened ecosystem in the USA; closer to disappearing than even the Amazon rainforest. The good news is that we CAN protect them! Learn how ⤵️
Why North America’s Grasslands Need Saving
Native grasslands are now the most imperiled ecosystem in the United States and among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth. Yet grasslands are worth saving. They are rich in biodiversity, store…
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