Links #144

Chris Ferdinandi on the weird web (via Wm Morris). “I’m so sick of hyper-specialized, narrowly focused web presence. Give me weird. Give me personal. Talk about more than just ‘your focus.’ I want to hear about music and art and what you’re reading and your hobbies and travels.” This, along with Wm’s commentary, was the nudge that got me writing weeknotes again.

Andrew Kelley on renting and the economics of LLMs. “My monthly costs as a programmer are $0. I use free software to create free software. I can program on the train, I can program on a plane, I can program when my ISP goes down. I never have to trust any third party with my private information, nor trust them to run arbitrary commands on my computer.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot ever since reading this post. Another compelling reason — in my mind, anyway — to steer clear of a dependency on LLMs.

Further Light, a new magazine founded by my friend Liz Busby. It will be collecting “both original fiction and commentary on speculative fiction from an LDS perspective.” Looking forward to it!

Kelmscott Mono, a monospace blackletter font for code editing. As is probably not surprising, I love these types of experiments. (Analog + digital, old + new, etc.)

The W3C’s Incremental Font Transfer proposal, which would make web fonts less bandwidth-heavy on load (especially for CJK fonts). Exciting!