Stripe’s homepage has 637 KB of HTML for 539 words.
Humans read it for free, but a bot needs $0.26 to read the same words, because it wades 87,400 tokens of markup, if it even gets there.
With this in mind, I built a lens that shows you any webpage the way machines see them
got an external monitor and have now discovered the incredible utility of turning off font smoothing on both the internal and external display! try it, restart, and thank me later
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
My friend @theo2000 just told me about this new Arc Browser, as a replacement for Google Chrome!
After trying it for a day, I gotta say this feels like the future! I'm making the change from Chrome (never thought I would!)
Wish me luck!
cloudflare connect was wildly inspiring as a whole; i left more optimistic there about technology and where the world’s headed than i have in a while.
a few highlights, in text, that are still marinating:
I’ve also been trying to make an encoder and decoder that implement av2 to similar standards to standards of the jpegxl decoder that made this happen, stay tuned for that!