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Link roundup, end of summer 2024 edition

Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaiʻi
A cloudy sky over a barren landscape.
In the center is the main crater of Kilauea, the most active of Hawaii’s volcanoes.

The Humble Link, by Jim Nielsen.

The 2034 Website, by Kenny Friedman, via brianleroux@indieweb.social.

Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People, a lecture given by Rear Adm. (then Capt.) Grace Hopper to employees of the NSA in 1982.

Metaphors We Web By: A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web, by Maggie Appleton.

Some recent fiddling of mine: marking up diffs and styling the hreflang="" attribute. I like HTML.


Before lineups are announced at Raimondi Park each night, the PA announcer ritually booms, NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL US WE CAN’T HAVE BASEBALL IN OAKLAND, and it registers both as a call to arms and a reaffirmation. […] Baseball, like all sports, is most compelling—most personally transfixing and communally annealing—when it inspires a sense of co-ownership.

How to Start a Professional Sports Team, Win Games, and Save the Town, by Dan Moore.

We Are Irish, good news from the Emerald Isle.


Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font by Helena Zhang. See also her Phosphor icon family.

Sudo, a free font for coders by Jens Kutílek.


Chappell Roan Doesn't Owe You Shit, by Lauren Hough.

Shock of shocks, a new study finds that conservative opponents of DEI may not be as colorblind as they claim. Never would have seen that coming in a million years</sarcasm>.

An Automated Algorithm for Classifying Expansive Responses for Gender Identity, by Ceja et al., via iris@neuromatch.social.


A person is wearing a steel dive watch with a vibrant pink dial on their left wrist.
They’re holding up their arm in front of a pretty body of water on a sunny day.
The Erebus Origin looks great in pink.