1. Barnaby Walters: Anyone got scifi recommendations (any media) specifically for narratives which at no point involve sentient individual creatures moving between rooms, using doors or anything similar.

    For example, I’d love to read something like Terry Bisson’s Meat, but where the narrators are repulsed by the fact that humans have to traverse 3D space, most often between artifically constructed bounded areas, in order to achieve their goals.

  2. Evan Prodromou: Is there anything besides film, software or a rash that you "develop"? What a dumb verb.

    @evanpro in British English you can develop an idea, develop land, develop a technique or product, and now I’ve developed semantic satiation from thinking about the word “develop” too much :)

  3. Brian Suda: finds some closure on a few orphaned notebooks. They've been re-routed to the proper home. The new scholarship awardees will enjoy them now.

    @briansuda if these are the ones I think they are, props to Analog for handling them in such a human way

  4. Tantek Çelik: new home page * 100 posts via flat bim files * <64KB HTML * <1s page load no DB XHR ∞scroll needed beat that, silos :)

    @t excellent minimal Like implementation! Whilst your homepage performance is admirable, I don’t think you can meaningfully compare it to silo infinite scroll untill there’s some sort of pagination :) Currently, without rel-prev[ious] links, there’s no way for crawlers (e.g. readers like Shrewdness, semi-hypothetical “your year in indieweb”) tools to find your old posts other than fetching each one individually, which for many cases takes too long to provide a good experience — e.g. crawling your years worth of content takes ≈162s, verifiable with the following bash+PHP code:

    curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    
    ./composer.phar require taproot/subscriptions
    
    php -a  # Start an interactive shell, paste in following code (alternatively save into file):
    
    @(require 'vendor/autoload.php'); $start = microtime(1); echo "Starting crawl…\n"; Taproot\Subscriptions\crawl('http://tantek.com/2014/365/t1/indieweb-like-posts-2015-commitment-done', function ($r) { echo "."; if (substr($r['mf2']['items'][0]['properties']['published'][0], 0, 4) == '2013') { return false; } else { return true; } }); $total = microtime(1) - $start; echo "\nYear crawl for 2014 took {$total}s";