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Ah yes! His hamster is so cute and I think sometimes of the episode where he made him the world's tiniest hamburger and a full meal with a cocktail at the end. It's hard to get this sort of a tactile feeling when we spend most of our days staring at a bright source of light, just like the human evolution we went through had always intended for us.

Thank you! I have the order page open as I'm typing :D

Hey! If there is something to lose yourself in and it's good for you, then when else are we going to get this inspiration back?

I build all sorts of stuff at my desk, random minutes I get, or those melancholic Tuesday evenings.

There is this Japanese company I like, BGMLife[1]—local artsy craft stores carry these—where you can put tiny stickers on a canvas, creating whole scenes of a packed restaurant or a quiet library!

[1] https://www.bgmlife.jp/products/diorama-2-5d-seal-vol-3/

Oh wow! Did not know that—I went off the original post by Greg and he mentioned to me after I sent him this link that someone looked at Common Crawl as well.

Either way, I updated both the git and the webpage to shout-out the week-before-this findings! I linked directly to your website, lmk if that's how you prefer it.

Cheers!

Okay, any specific feedback, then? Not seeing it (shrug)—I like how it feels.

Someone must have their browser untouched since 2015, which has all of the li.st content stored in their cache :D

Tell me more—these colors, #2B2B2B for fg and #F7F3EE for bg pass accessibility checks. See something like coolors [1] or WebAIM [2]

You could run something like https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ but contrast doesn't mean to run with black/white, http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ is better on the eyes.

If it's bothering the eyes, like many more of other websites would, feel free to pull up your favorite browser's reader mode with your preferences. Cheers!

[1] https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/2b2b2b-f7f3ee

[2] https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

A companion to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879, we now had successfully recovered all the remaining li.st entries of Anthony Bourdain that were thought to be lost to time.

Please enjoy—there is nobody like Tony.

The best one.

I was in the same boat for many years! Having started using org-mode for my website in 2018 [1] (just add index.org to the path to see the source), it grew into this massive pile of obscure gen and with my limited comfort level with lisp, turned into a scary smelling concoction of dozens of perl/sed/sh scripts that modified the output to fit my needs and have them do something fancy.

But then, really, sat down for about 48 hours on a lonely weekend when everyone was away and wrote a simple static site generator [2] that takes exact same files and produces output that I fully understand e2e, becoming the project I'm most proud of.

There are so many other generators I tried (hugo, jekyll, rails, asciidoctor, org-publish, astro), rolling up your own gives a sense of a stable foundation. Love your website! So clean. One thing that I'm thinking of adding (though I haven't touched my generator that much, I consider it "complete") is the dynamic execution of source code blocks.

[1] https://sandyuraz.com

[2] https://github.com/thecsw/darkness

The reality is that I was browsing the annual HTML Day submissions [1] and stumbled upon this super wholesome webpage.

[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks.

It has ingrained itself so deeply into my muscle memory that I built out a whole website builder [1] and extended the language to support all kinds of nice QoL things for my website [2].

Something that as the other commenter here noted—I can rely on orgmode for many decades to come.

[1] https://github.com/thecsw/darkness [2] https://sandyuraz.com

Isn't that amazing? We have the freedom to pick and choose whatever playing (or non-playing) style fits our heart and rocks our boat!

then the dopamine starvation started

that would be great, thanks

Hi! Author here. I do agree, it does read as I'm looking for a very specific type of game, which sentiment many others would not share (totally expected and should be that way)

I hoped to put the focus more on the repetitiveness of innovation within many genres of games. That is somewhat of a product of my own subjective observation.

Let all people find what they truly enjoy!

author here. I agree! The best part of games is the social aspect, which if we have been losing (in the West, at least) since the deindustrilization times, games should be able to connect people more, rather than forcing them to the manual labor of grinding and gacha (there are players that seem to enjoy that though)

I agree with you, it might not have chosen the best example pictures to use. Something with an alpha channel png->webp could be a better showcase. Thanks

True, jpegs would have achieved similar. I liked PNGs over the years because of the alpha channel, which was super useful. WebP is the only format I know that is both lossy and has an alpha channel.

thank you! Yeah, I looked at those as well, but as a safari user, AVIF was just a no go and JPEG XL, looking cool though, is not adequately supported by anything (maybe just yet?)

Hi! This is the author of the post here. Thank you all for your input and discussion of the term "goated" and different photo formats! I'm not super into photography, I focused mainly on what looks good from a casual browsing experince and also saves space for me.

I want to note that there are formats that are meant to supersede WebP, such as AVIF and JPEG XL, however, AVIF (69.25%, I also mainly use Safari) [1] and JPEG XL (0%) [2] are not as nearly adopted as WebP is (91.38%) [3]. Usage taken on April 13th, 2022. Also, get a browser released after 2013.

[1] https://caniuse.com/avif [2] https://caniuse.com/jpegxl [3] https://caniuse.com/webp

That's such a cool website! Definitely, if someone focuses on photography, I am not fully into the field to know the best practices, simply trying out new and small things that I find around.