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@algernon @WeirdWriter praised be the cache! Thank you! :blobcat:

@WeirdWriter I really wish I had a screenshot. It was art.

@RobFerrer ooh, you are correct! I have done these restaurants a disservice by not reading carefully enough. Thank you! I shall pay more attention later.

After about a year of "mulling it over". I'll soon be closing down bigl.es for a short period at the very least. Why? It costs me about £130 per year in hosting, and I'm not updating it that often. You can get the latest version from The Wayback Machine :) https://web.archive.org/web/20260710224209/https://bigl.es/
I *may* self host, just as soon as I can work out how to migrate Ghost content to a new server :)

Impressive.

Back 13-ish years ago, I wrote a browser-based puzzle game. JS was horribly slow back then but I heard that the RegEx engine was highly optimized in WebKit. So I implemented the entire games logic in RegEx. Very fun challenge to develop and it was quite fast.

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/doom-using-regular-expressions/

AI made the whole Internet a social media site.

@flwwhtrbt I'm looking forward for a job where I'll be forced to use as little AI as possible. I hate how everything turns out in this world. It feels like all these companies are literally eating into our civilization.

The newest US colony, Venezuela, pleases their new masters by leaving the International Criminal Court. This of course mainly helps Trumps administration that desperately hopes to add legitimacy to their case against Maduro in the US. https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/07/venezuela-withdraws-from-the-icc/

@alice the main difference between GTK and Qt is that, with the latter, you can pay somebody to read your bug reports; and if you have a lot of money, you could even get somebody to fix them at some point in the future. Maybe.

@hbons @cassidy fwiw this was part of some of the initial overview designs https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/blob/master/overview/spatial-overview.png

@dubiousblur I already have a positive affirmation on all my blog pages, based on @aimeecozza proposal at https://www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/ :)