Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.
I guess we're bound to switch between polytheism and monotheism as technology advances. Some could say, all of this has happened before.
> (...) The man smiled at Bobby. "Count Zero," he said, "they tell us that’s your handle."
> "That’s right," Bobby managed, though it came out as a kind of croak.
> "We need to know about the Virgin, Count." The man waited.
> Bobby blinked at him.
> "Vyéj Mirak" — and the glasses went back on — ‘Our Lady, Virgin of Miracles. We know her’ — and he made a sign with his left hand— ‘as Ezili Freda."
> Bobby became aware of the fact that his mouth was open, so he closed it. The three dark faces waited. Jackie and Rhea were gone, but he hadn’t seen them leave. A kind of panic took him then, and he glanced frantically around at the strange forest of stunted trees that surrounded them. The gro-light tubes slanted at every angle, in any direction, pink-purple jackstraws suspended in a green space of leaves. No walls You couldn’t see a wall at all. The couch and the battered table sat in a sort of clearing, with a floor of raw concrete.
> "We know she came to you," the big man said, crossing his legs carefully. He adjusted a perfect trouser-crease, and a gold cufflink winked at Bobby. "We know, you understand?"
> "Two-a-Day tells me it was your first run," the other man said. "That the truth?"
> Bobby nodded.
> "Then you are chosen of Legba," the man said, again removing the empty frames," to have met Vyéj Mirak." He smiled.
> Bobby’s mouth was open again.
> "Legba," the man said, "master of roads and pathways, the loa of communication . . ."
> Two-a-Day ground his cigarette out on the scarred wood, and Bobby saw that his hand was shaking
I love reading paper (and eink) but I hate losing notes, and I don’t have a good process for importing those notes to my Logseq database.
Sounds like image maps: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images_imagemap.asp
Love the butterfly!!!
Kudos for experimenting not just with AI but with webdesign. The hover preview is really neat too.
keep it up!
For an (old!) example that doesn't use glasses, I'm reminded of https://www.topobox.co/
[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
Perhaps zombie butterfly fly differently, but otherwise it's doubly dead.
This isn't a real nit, but I figured I throw it out there anyway.
Seeing those slow mo videos and some of the images in the edamstra link I think it's a bit unfair to criticise some of the things like earrings etc, because with many of those it's very plausible they could be mid-flight moments (especially earrings as they are literally in the air).
And the "dead butterfly" shirt seems to be very aware and all of those could be same butterfly during its flight representing all the possible positions.
I don't see a way to make it go away
Not having looping/procedural animations in your articles is an accessibility feature. People with ADHD simply can't read blocks of text if there's visual noise flitting about everywhere.
Your connection is working correctly.
Vercel is working correctly.
I wonder it those those are connected somehow.
So much this. Our hands have such a disproportionate concentration of nerves compared to the rest of our body, it's a shame current tech is soley focused on visual and audio interaction (with some very minor haptics).
A piece of paper or book has texture, heft, temperature, and stiffness which our hands pick up on and interpret so effortlessly we don't even consciously notice most of the time. I want those information channels in my user experience. Leafing through paper and books has so many nice features: the weight distribution tells you about how far along you are; fingers can flip pages or between chapters with high fidelity and high feedback for tracking the context switch; earmarking or sticky notes encode metadata that's immediately available when needed and hidden otherwise, without having to navigate layers of organization; the mechanics of splaying out multiple pages on a table is effortless compared to manipulating desktop windows; we even subconsciously pick up on non-uniformities in physical layout, which helps with disambiguation---i.e. noise is information.
Don't get me wrong, the interactivity of screens is wonderful, and e-ink dose bring one tiny nicety of paper to them, but I think we've barely even begun to tap into the possibilities of computer user interfaces.
FWIW, very terse languages like APL have the very nice property that programming with pen and paper actually feels natural, and you actually see it happen organically during discussions amongst array programmers. I think our current programming paradigms may be more constrained by HCI limitations than we realize.
https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1829487148078412019 https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1838207092471050645 https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1847299759603699906
If you are hosting a lot of video files, I would recommend using Vercel Blob (object storage). This is a better fit for larger volume assets like images or videos, versus "fast data transfer" as you mentioned in another comment for critical assets like stylesheets or scripts.
Happy to help out if you have questions, email is lee at vercel dot com.
> openssl version
OpenSSL 3.4.0 22 Oct 2024 (Library: OpenSSL 3.4.0 22 Oct 2024)
> openssl s_client -connect www.lukasmoro.com:443
Connecting to 2a06:98c1:3120::b
CONNECTED(00000005)
00E167F201000000:error:0A000410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ssl/tls alert handshake failure:ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:908:SSL alert number 40If you feel differently, and think it's acceptable to do so, why not instead say that on the error page? "Customer has exceeded their budget. Please add additional funds."
If you don't think such messaging is appropriate, then I'm curious why you think doing it here would be?
If you want to be truly helpful to your customer, you would consider raising or temporarily uncapping their traffic as a gesture of good will.
Spend controls aren’t necessarily about affordability, it’s often for peace of mind (similar to a fixed price server, or a disposal card with a limit).
I also don’t view them as being negative on Vercel (we likely could have alerted them better, as it seems this caught them off guard).
Their traffic isn’t capped and they can change this if they prefer. But I’m guessing there’s some large asset causing unexpected usage, which is why I offered my email. Happy to walk through it with them and figure out a path to optimize.
fwiw, i read your comment as just trying to be helpful. but sometimes there is an assumption that if you're publicly representing your company, then you're also enabled to make reasonable ad-hoc overrides as an outreach opportunity.
As William Wallace once said “ they may take our servers, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!”
Not trying to attack anyone for their tech choices, just a little reminder that the simple solutions are still there and they are cheap and work really well :p
This site can’t provide a secure connection www.lukasmoro.com uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
It is a cloudflare site but the SSL is Google Trust Services (https://pki.goog/).
It is likely cloudflare SSL mode (full/strict/flexible) might be screwing up the site SSL. It usually happens to me when I launch a brand new site with freshly migrated DNS. I won't waste more time, also www version of the site points at somewhere else. Well...