Tootfinder

PSA: Migrating the https://thi.ng/umbrella monorepo to Codeberg, including:
- updating thousands of links in ~970 files (readme's, media, API docs/snippets in source files, examples, wiki etc.)
- updated 215 package short links to point to new locations on Codeberg
- re-configured & re-uploaded…

thi.ng/umbrella

A once robust American anti-war movement is significantly weaker than it was in its heyday.
The immensely unpopular war on Iran offers a real opportunity to rebuild it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interact…

Last good deed of the day: Cleaning/re-organizing the darkroom, mixing/replenishing chemicals and coating papers with emulsion for tomorrow's printing session...
#AltProcess #Darkroom #Kallitype

‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/28/wife-school-christian-women-submissive

Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday

How sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple, as studios and estates of celebrities seek to monetize fan nostalgia; Michael is expected to earn more than $1B (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

Evening walk. Beautiful Wetterstein. Exceptionally clear air & light tonight... 🤩
#EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography

from my link log —
Maidenhead locator system map (with small squares).
https://dxcluster.ha8tks.hu/hamgeocoding/
saved 2022-10-18 https://

Stealthing survivors grapple with a 'gray area' of sexual violation
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-stealthing-survivors-grapple-gray-area.html

Moving beyond Strings in #SpringData
https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/27/moving-beyond-strings-in-spring-data

Universal Time Influence on Stormtime Magnetosphere Ionosphere Coupling: #GeomagneticStorms Shapes Their Impact: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/timing-of-geomagnetic-storms-shapes-their-impact - the impact of geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt satellites, GPS, and power grids, is shown to depend on their onset timing.

Trump Is Making America Stupider (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-making-america-stupider-great-brain-drain
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p144#a260129p144

Anti-war activists in the '60s and early '70s did not just organize headline-grabbing mass marches.
They patiently worked together to build a vast anti-war infrastructure
– legal groups, GI coffeehouses, alternative newspapers and national anti-war coalitions
– that could sustain a wide range of future actions.
In working towards that goal,
anti-war activists benefited from the rich social fabric of associational life in the US
– a fabric that has…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@startswithabang/116477477807345093
How can launching 1,000 satellites to geosynchronous orbit that do potentially dangerous things with unproven technology and requiring extremely expensive large expendable rockets to launch be cheaper than to idk build a few dozen wind power stations that can work at night (and day)?
What kind of four-dimensional chess is this

#LazyWeb question: Looking at the #Meshtastic world map[1], it seems Iran's internet/comms shutdown[2] is also including #LoRa bands, but it's hard to find conclusive information about it, thoug…

Interesting and probably controversial observation for many by Andrew Ng,
" I’ve stopped writing code by hand. More controversially, I’ve long stopped reading generated code. I realize I’m in the minority here, but I feel like I can get built most of what I want without having to look directly at coding syntax, and I operate at a higher level of abstraction using coding agents to manipulate code for me."

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI’s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Detailing Cowboys' scouting process to land Caleb Downs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/detailing-cowboys-scouting-process-to-land-caleb-downs

Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/voting-rights-act-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.e4RT.pc3Xh8UvjJ94&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p159#a260429p159

Just another reminder that guns are dangerous tools and should not be in the hands of idiots.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/breaking-secret-service-agent-assigned-to-jill-biden-shoots-himself-in-the-…

#DNIP Briefing #69: Risiken und Nebenwirkungen, und etwas mehr Kostenwahrheit bei KI.
https://dnip.ch/2026/04/28/dnip-briefing-69-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen/

Good concise overview of #Meshtastic vs #Meshcore and how to choose when to use which one...
https://www.

MeshCore or Meshtastic: Which one is better? - Latest News from Seeed Studio
The LoRa mesh community is buzzing right now. If you’re following this trend, you’ve likely

Block says it is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 employees; XYZ jumps 19% in extended trading (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/block-laying-off-about-4000-employees-nearly-half-of-its-workforce.html

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half
Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

"Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/21/under-water-in-denial-is-europe-drowning-out-the-climate-crisis?CMP=share_b…

Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?
Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Ohh... I see #TypeScript v6.0 has been released — always a moment which fills me with dread...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0/…

Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript
TypeScript 6.0 is now available! TypeScript 6 is a stepping-stone release, aligning with the upcoming native-speed 7.0 release.

Led by Pope Leo but extending across Christian denominations, the rise of a genuine and global theological debate
is producing the sudden recognition that a kind of progressive Christianity long given over for dead seems to be stirring.
Christ is risen, as it were
– and if people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined in powerful ways.

Detailing Cowboys' scouting process to land Caleb Downs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/detailing-cowboys-scouting-process-to-land-caleb-downs

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336
Goodbye personal computing
(Previously:

from my link log —
Making wasm a first-class language on the web.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
saved 2026-02-26

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

Dances with Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse handed life sentence for sexual assaults | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nathan-chasing-horse-life-sentence-sexual-assault-9.7179404

After The Storm
(Lone Ranch Beach, Oregon, 2019)
#MeerMittwoch #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

Todd Blanche wants to be attorney general
– and he’s going all in on Trump’s retaliation agenda to prove it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/25/todd-blanche-attorney-general?CMP=Share_iOSApp_…

Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
#FootpathFriday

"Learning from mistakes" as individuals is hard if those lessons are not (or can not be) percolated up or are even rejected by larger groups or society in general, if the behaviors one might consider a mistake on a personal/ethical level are actually rewarded and encouraged (or imposed) by those larger social structures.
So many people have tried so hard for so long to share their knowledge and tools, trying to teach & inspire others, to build communities to help make the…

The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia

Johnson calls out GOP Senate over "joke" of a DHS plan (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/27/dhs-funding-deal-ice-senate-talks-trump-thune
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p122#a260327p122

The View From The Precipice (is always the best!)
(Sonnenberggrat doing its name justice on a sunny late-summer-like day in November 2025, two days before winter arrived in full force...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Ova da Morteratsch (2024)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #River #Forest

New UV lamp, new developer handling & my largest Kallitype print so far (~10x7 inch) — a shot of the iconic Oeschinensee cirque, surrounded by 3500 meter mountains...
The new light setup is ~10x slower than my other light box, but allows me to do much larger prints in the future. The developer is chemically still the same, but now heated to 40℃. The photo is originally from an old iPhone 6.
The negative needs some more tweaking to increase contrast and maybe another minute o…

Who needs Bob the builder, if they've got Hannah the plumber? 🎉
(Re: Greens winning in UK)

By day six, CSIS put the cumulative cost to the US of the Iran War at
$12.7 billion.
Today, it is likely to have exceeded
$18 billion – and the meter is still running.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/202…

PSA: Dear readers/followers, please forgive the recent increase again of AI-related posting & boosting — I'm trying to help giving critical voices more visibility, especially those which are highlighting the impacts of these often worrisome developments on many other fields and lives...
(Doing my best to create a balance with all other topics...✌️)

RE: https://aoir.social/@aram/116136969737104017
Tip: Never start believing your own hype, especially not when it comes at the cost & well-being of countless lives!
"We remain uncertain about the moral status of Claude and other AI models. For both…

Behold, The Imposing Frieder (2053m).
(Picture from yesterday, confirming that spring is not quite evenly distributed just yet...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Abstract Ancient Oaks
(spotted during yesterday's evening hike, hoping to turn this into a series...)
#NaturePhotography #Tree #Abstract

First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

After He's Gone.
(Chosen for #TextureTuesday, but also as addendum for the recent #WorldDayOfGlaciers...)
"He" is referring here to the Gepatschferner (masculine in German), one of the once largest glaciers in the central Alps (and still Austria's 2nd …

Leading curves.
(Near/below Holzgauer Wetterspitze, Lechtal Alps, November 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Does anybody know of any reasons behind the current shortage of photo & fineart papers, at least in central Europe? Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, Bergger COT, Ilford Multigrade... all out of stock at my usual suppliers and only expected again in weeks/months. Only the more uncommon variations (super large/expensive or very small) are available immediately... 😩
#AltProcess

Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/116130845095836275
Been using waiting lists and lottery scripts for these things in the past... it's probably going to be a lot more common for more things/situations soon...

Preparing the digital negative & letting it dry before tonight's printing session...
(Already inverted the photo to better see the inverted image...)
#AltProcess #DigitalNegative #Kallitype

Monochrome Mirror Mountain Monday
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

RE: https://mstdn.social/@inecas/116125098722422939
PSA: All the thi.ng subdomains should be working again. I upgraded Caddy yesterday and together with the recent DNS handling changes on Hetzner, Let's Encrypt challenges stopped working. All fixed again n…

Kellenspitze (2025)
(latest 8x6" Kallitype print from last night)
This mountain is the tallest peak in the Tannheimer Alps, here seen from a narrow ridge path in the north east. It was a fabulous warm day with so many mountain flowers in full bloom and clouds forming/drifting between the passes and nearby peaks, later developing into a heavy thunderstorm (thankfully only when I was already descending again...)

In The Garden Of Eden.
(From one of my favorite hikes last year, October 2025... a place of absolute solitude, harmony, peace and positive vibes, a feast for the eyes)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

TIL: Just wasted 2 hours chasing a super weird ghost bug in my https://thi.ng/monopub release tool, which would suddenly silently quit, even though it's been working without any problems for years...
Turns out the issue was actually (mostly) in Git (`git log`), which now appends a warning I've never hear…

thi.ng/monopub

#ReleaseSaturday 🚀 — Just pushed the new version of https://thi.ng/hiccup-carbon-icons (now a much larger collection of 2200 icons, mentioned yesterday[1]) and some other smaller updates/additions to o…

Full set of IBM's Carbon icons in hiccup format

As is somewhat customary, spring time is maintenance time and so this past week was again "infrastructure week" in #ThingUmbrella land, updating various tool scripts, switching to Rclone for uploading/syncing API docs, updating/pinning Prettier version & config, reformatting thousands of source files, re-uploading hundreds of MB of documentation for all current 214 projects, …

In-memory column store database with indexing (WIP)

Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps:
Interactive visualization of changes in glacier length
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/113191569344705725
One of the birth …

World Day for Glaciers - 21 March
The United Nations international days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to reinforce achievements of humanity.

...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map

Spring, Life.
(Yesterday, as seen from one of my fave spots on the banks of the river Lech...)
#SilentSunday #NaturePhotography #Photography

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
"Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as coding, crystallography, and music notation. Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals …

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070
"If there’s one insight we all need to focus on most, it’s this: your job is no longer to build a destination. It’s to build a parts library. And one that’s well documented so that when…

On repeat again these days... Daniel Avery, the master of summoning a certain set of harmonies, mixed with a heaviness, intensity and production all very moving and befitting our times... play it loud!
Heavy Rain (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsrjASH5ZgU

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116120372885556232
It's already starting... @… just announced a …

Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…

A Day At The Museum (SFMOMA, 2019)
#FensterFreitag #Photography #Architecture #Abstract

Bridge(s) Over Troubled Water (2025)
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

Solarization: Most digital photographers only know the effect as Photoshop filter, but here it's happening chemically in the darkroom... Created by extreme overexposure (here ~3x longer of my usual exposure time), the darkest parts of the image have become inverted, which in Kallitype then (temporarily) turns into these amazing orange tones, whilst the mids & highlights remain normal neutral grays, depending on developer used... During fixing and (especially) toning, the orange would…

Whoop, whoop... Shapez 2, the factory game my son has been working on as part of the team for the past two years, is finally coming out of Early Access and is being released today... What a journey it's been!
https://shapez2.com/

shapez 2 | Factory & Strategy game | Available now on Steam
shapez 2: A factory building strategy game on Steam. Automate massive factories, solve intricate puzzles, and create endlessly complex shapes. Play now!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ivovanwilligen/116110881126241280
Chilling! This article is less about LinkedIn and more about Peter Thiel's Persona corp (which was also supposed to be responsible for Discord's new identification system) and th…

It's been 4.5 years since I last updated the https://thi.ng/hiccup-carbon-icons collection and synced it with the upstream repo, i.e. IBM's Carbon design system. Spent a few hours today updating the icons to the current version, filtering out a hundred unnecessary ones (e.g. obsolete brand logos, IB…

Linear Memory (2024)
A prototype version of my piece Linear Memory running inside a https://thi.ng/genart-api sandbox on a Motorola phone, connected to a custom early prototype Layer square screen...
The animation consists of dozens of layers of semi-random multi-scale pixel patterns, slowly scrolling in…

Nurse Log
(Path through beautifully lush old growth forest on the slopes of Saddle Mountain, Oregon, in the spring of 2017)
#ThickTrunkThursday #NaturePhotography #Mosstodon

#ReleaseThursday 🎉 Just pushed a new version of the https://thi.ng/column-store database and query engine which adds support for new column types (fixed-size n-dimensional int/uint/float vectors) and RLE (run-…

In-memory column store database with indexing (WIP)

In The Lechtal Alps (2024)
Previously (same valley):
#MountainMonday

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/116447762544964723
New super awesome biz model just dropped: Motivational agents (to motivate other agents to burn more tokens)

Remember that weird failed rusty red print I posted on Sunday? Seeing very early on that something went astray with the emulsion coating, I didn't fully develop the print (only dev and clearing, no fixer or toner) and just left it to dry, wanting to see what would happen to it...
Three days later, and it has turned into the strangest (but somehow exciting) result I've ever seen, burgundy with slightly blue highlights. It still seems to continue bleeding further into the paper, …

Super chill, trippy Moog improv with a monotonous backing downtempo drum loop and beautiful warm bass... One of my fave tracks by Terranova and very much reminding me of own south London pub jams with an SP808 and friends playing bass & Juno 106 on winter nights in the late 90s...
Terranova — Tokyo Tower (1998)
https://www.y…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116108709896510035
"When a whale dies in the open ocean, its carcass sinks to the abyssal floor and becomes an ecosystem. Marine biologists call this a whale fall, and the body sustains life in three overlappin…

Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩
Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption (involving 6kg of books as weight) to ensure the contact print is sharp everywhere...
As for the scene in the image: These are the highest mountains of the central eastern Alps (Piz Bernina on the right is 4048m, th…

Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

Just returned from a wonderful 11km Friday afternoon walk along the boundary between the seasons...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440570565467277
"These long-running, parallelized workflows can yield great value, but they have also challenged our infrastructure and pricing structure: it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur cos…

Some of Versalife's beautifully rich (and progressively floating, layered) sonic remedy to create a...
Suspension of Disbelief (2017)
https://conforce.bandcamp.com/track/suspension-of-disbelief
Masterpiece (to my ears!) 😍

JakoJako's artistic origin story[1]: Watching tutorials and reading books about modular synths in her downtime whilst working as a night nurse... :)
Still one of my fave tracks by her, deceptively simple layers of arpeggios, yet with the modulation and other subtle changes pressing all the right emotional buttons...
JakoJako - Amygdala (2022)

Into The Couloir...
(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite …

Ice fall
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Glacier

Somehow 2026 feels like all that mandatory cognitive bias awareness training should maybe have been kept going (with regular repeats/refreshers, much like first aid training) instead of being phased out in most places... (not just talking about tech/AI, but there it's especially dire)
#TheStateOfIt

tl;dr Using https://thi.ng/column-store to accelerate tag intersection queries by a factor of 880x...
Working on the static website generator/export plugin for my personal knowledge tool has been one of the main projects this past month. A key part of this setup is tagging, not just simple flat keywords/cate…

In-memory column store database with customizable column types, extensible query engine, bitfield indexing for query acceleration, JSON serialization with optional RLE compression

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Last Light, Last Look Back...
(Lachenspitze, April 2026)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116182975603760287
I'd actually argue it's the opposite: Claude & co are unarguably inserting subtle (and not so subtle) bugs into your code...

Historic Glacial Confluence
This is the site of confluence of the former glaciers Vernagtferner and Hintereisferner, two of the most (and longest) studied glaciers in the world. It is the site (at ~2200m) where several times over the past thousand years the ice of the Vernagtferner would pile up to form a massive dam, 150-200m tall, which caused a semi-permanent ice lake to form in the Rofen/Hintereis valley above (the one visible from ~7 seconds). Many times this lake would get up to …

RE: https://23.social/@leyrer/116102513983880273
It's cheaper to kill memories than to create & store memories...

Golden Hour Pastoral
(two minutes after sunrise)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Borderlands (2026)
Geographically, geologically, biologically, politically... The sudden onset of the northern Alps and the German-Austrian border (Bavaria/Tirol, near Füssen/Reutte) running along the wooded ridge in mid-distance...
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Random #ThingUmbrella tip & tidbit about unit conversions: I've been sourcing materials for a larger contact printing setup for my kallitype process, incl. getting a much heavier ultra-clear glass plate than what I've been using so far.
Using the https://

Extensible SI unit creation, conversions, quantities & calculations (incl. ~170 predefined units & constants)

#ReleaseThursday A historic moment in the https://thi.ng/umbrella microverse!
I just re-published all 214 projects, the first release referencing their new home at @…

thi.ng/umbrella