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today's progress on implementing UIKit and Core Animation in touchHLE: layer delegates/views can now draw stuff

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/f6775e74627578d0db5ab38de86c2bf55ca62073

Tory MPs cheering the Online Safety Bill banning children from reading Wikipedia (2023, colourised)

today i have been writing a program that reads a midi file. as is typical for me, i decided to write my own parser.

so i've been consulting the “standard midi files specification” and “midi 1.0 detailed specification”, neither of which i had ever read before. it's been pretty fun! they're written in a refreshingly informal and thoughtful style that makes the purpose and form of everything clear. the protocol and file format are remarkably well-designed… very efficient encodings for example

it's Monopoly Mermaid Monday!

(original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8XGnKLhfU)

trance gender ♪

composers love to call a deliberate part of their score an "accidental"

IUPAC really need to be stopped. Four elements named after one Swedish village was already too many :/ :/ :/ this one doesn't even sound like a real element :/ :/ :/

A4 is the nicest note in MIDI

trying to sell an upright piano to a scotsman, but when i tell him the price he says it's grand

“inline pictures (which might be big)”

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0188.html

thirty years ago, they were discussing a new HTML tag: <img>