Links and notes from may 2023

webdev links, local "AI", paper food for though and music

09/05/2023

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frontend
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svelte
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Je vis pour la rouille au dessus du béton. Je vis pour le copeau au dessus du métal. Je vis pour les champignons au dessus du bois.

source: la-grange.net

Frontend / webdev
AI / computer science
Music

Frontend / webdev

What Is a URL - Dangers of inconsistent parsing of URLs

https://azeemba.com/posts/what-is-a-url.html

The Svelte summit spring was the may 6th:

https://www.sveltesummit.com/

CSS : text-wrap: balance

“Have you ever wished there is a native way in CSS to make two lines headlines consistent in the number of words per line?”
https://ishadeed.com/article/css-text-wrap-balance/
(shamelessly stolen from https://ehret.me/news-from-last-month-202305-edition)

Setting `<html>` attributes with Sveltekit:

https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3091 It’s not that easy depending on the use case.

Specs and references:

Current solution I used for this website: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3091#issuecomment-1541880297

Firefox-based alernative browsers

I recently tried ArcBrowser (which has a lot of hype and promises), but it seems that I’m not receptive to its features and UX/UI. It’s also based on chromium/webkit, which is a bit sad.

The chromium/webkit monoculture is a problem, and is bad for the web (remember IE6/IE monoculture ?).

Here some gecko/firefox-based alternatives. (Caution, no guarantee of quality or privacy):

https://pulsebrowser.app/ (quite recent and minimal)
https://librewolf.net/
https://www.waterfox.net/
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
https://www.palemoon.org/

AI / computer science

LocalAI - Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API

via @Fil

https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI

Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. LocalAI is a RESTful API to run ggml compatible models: llama.cpp, alpaca.cpp, gpt4all.cpp, rwkv.cpp, whisper.cpp, vicuna, koala, gpt4all-j, cerebras and many others!