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But why?

Nate Silver has some pretty good commentary on it all on his X account (https://x.com/NateSilver538).

A link for those of us without twitter accounts.

https://xcancel.com/NateSilver538


No idea. ABC bought it and slowly has been shutting down the parts of it. They got rid of the projects page, then laid off all the folks working on it after the election, and now have gotten rid of all of the articles.

Fortunately the Github is still up: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight


> Fortunately the Github is still up

I need to mirror everything to keep it accessible when they decide to shut this down, too?

I loved that site, and referred people to it frequently.


It turns out "liberal main stream media" was always controlled by capitalists. It was never "left leaning" unless your mind was entirely warped by right wing propaganda.

I'm surprised this is news - or perhaps just surprised that there was still some of 538 around ...?

ABC officially sunset 538 over a year ago (and laid off most/all of the staff).


The new development is that the old articles from when the site was active have been taken offline. Normally you would leave old content online even if you're no longer making more.


Gemini is cool for many reasons, but it fails in being able to encode complex documents, or use semantically or visually useful structures common to many documents.

There is:

- No metadata.

- No emphasis.

- No citations.

- No way to mark up nouns like a person, or a company.

- No way to present documents with a complex heading hierarchy past level 3 (for those who argue that more is not necessary, please consider that headings are basically cognitive sub-directories. Do you want to work on a file system that only lets you go two levels below "/"?).

I'd personally favour (but not advocate for) something like a super-lightweight Docbook grammar which is standardised, and already has great tooling available for it.


It succeeds in being so simple that it's useless to 99% of people, which limits its growth and eventual co-opting by capitalism and mainstream culture, and Eternal September.

Not everything has to be for everyone. Gemini is only for a very specific kind of deeply aescetic technological misanthrope that wants basic plaintext with links (basically Gopher++) and finds little else to be useful.


Love this, but I need it to allow me to break the frame. I found some neat sites, but I need a button to open them in a new tab, frame-free, if I want to.


Thank you for taking a look at this project. I'm glad you liked it.

You make a fair point. I put this together in about 1.5 hours in the early hours of the morning while taking a break from other academic work, so it is not as polished as it could be. Adding an 'Open' button to launch a link in a new tab sounds like a useful feature. I will consider this for the next update. Thank you for the feedback!


Firefox has a neat feature for this; if you right click an iframe, it'll have a "This Frame" menu with options including "Open Frame in New Tab".


Hello @deanebarker, This was implemented in <https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/commit/f952fe4>. If you visit <https://susam.net/wander/> now, you should see an 'Open' button that opens the recommended website in a new tab. Thank you for the great suggestion!


Related to this, I spent three years looking up 1,000 things and writing about them.

https://deanebarker.net/huh/


Neat. You're a very curious person (in the best sense).



Call me simple or provincial, but I really enjoyed "Good Hang" from Amy Poehler. It's a breezy interview with interesting people (doesn't hurt that I'm a long-time SNL fan).


In this vein, conan's podcast is also surprisingly good. It doesn't feel like a phoned-in retirement gig.


Take a look at these posts --

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know/

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/notify-one-time/

I'm glad someone finally did something here. I wish you every success.


Thanks! Had pretty much the same thought process as you, so I made this little tool (yesnotice) to do pretty much that. Its not perfect, but I've been using it a lot and its working great for me (mostly to get notified when certain new packages are updated and TV shows come out...then I don't have to remember so many things!)


There are two types of "solo":

* No co-workers working on the same thing

* No users using the thing

Both are hard.


I visited a food service company a couple years ago. They had phone reps taking orders from customers (restaurants ordering produce and such). They used a TUI (a "green screen" essentially).

I have never seen people move through a GUI that fast. They were lightning quick with it. They were like an veteran accountant with a ten-key adding machine. It was amazing, and pretty damn sobering when you think how much work we spend on GUIs.


"Lessons Learned from Vibe-Coding a Configuration Parser"

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/vibe-lessons/

Here's the spec I discuss in the post:

https://deanebarker.net/tech/code/config-lang/spec/


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