System Architecture

As messy as it is, the desktop is a precious digital artefact where we can scatter our files, move things around and give them meaning just by putting them in a certain spot. The desktop is a re-assuring concept, you know that you can always save anything to the desktop, you know that below this stack of windows and files there is a space that you can always go back to. It is also the only “visual” space on your computer, forcing you to deal with what is on screen. by Paul Rony

Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

Desktop search tools search within a user's own computer files as opposed to searching the Internet. These tools are designed to find information on the user's PC, including web browser history, e-mail archives, text documents, sound files, images, and video. A variety of desktop search programs are now available; see this list for examples. Most desktop search programs are standalone applications. Desktop search products are software alternatives to the search software included in the operating system, helping users sift through desktop files, emails, attachments, and more.

An automation center of excellence brings the focus, strategy and cohesion needed to make automation really work across the organization.

I'm writing this mostly for the sake of my own mental accounting, so I can look back at this years from now and gauge whether my assumpti...

PostgreSQL offers powerful full-text search capabilities, eliminating the need for complex tools like Elasticsearch in many Rails apps. This guide walks you through building fast, efficient search features using PostgreSQL’s built-in functions, with tips on performance, ranking, and integration gems like pg_search. Simplify your stack without sacrificing search power!

There are a number of methods to input Esperanto letters and text on a computer, e.g. when using a word processor or email. Input methods depend on a computer's operating system. Specifically the characters ĵ, ĝ, ĉ, ĥ, ŭ, ŝ can be problematic.

How can I play my playlist (m3u, pls) on Firefox OS? If those formats aren't support, are there any other formats or workarounds to have your own playlists (instead of only albums and the predefined

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS. The specifics of the integration were modified considerably by W3C working groups, and eventually emerged as the W3C Note XHTML+SMIL. The submission also proposed new animation and timing features that were adopted (with revisions) in SMIL 2.0.

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia message.[1] The MMS standard extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability, allowing the exchange of text messages greater than 160 characters in length. Unlike text-only SMS, MMS can deliver a variety of media, including up to forty seconds of video, one image, a slideshow[2] of multiple images, or audio.

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language ) is a World Wide Web Consortium recommended Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup language to describe multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things. SMIL allows presenting media items such as text, images, video, audio, links to other SMIL presentations, and files from multiple web servers. SMIL markup is written in XML, and has similarities to HTML.

XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF), pronounced spiff,[1] is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

The HTML types are based on the usage of the tags and elements. There are semantic, non-semantic, and presentational HTML5 types.

Can you create your own HTML tags? The answer is..... sorta. Yes and no. Not completely, but a little. Typical, I know.

Custom tags in HTML will let you build elements that are unique to your application. It is an elegant way of extending HTML to solve many requirements.

I share all the important tricks I've learned while using custom tags, highlight some pitfalls to avoid, and show some examples from the real world.

Posted on Monday 16 Dec 2024. 229 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

A super readable paper on how to implement a bidirectional type checker

This tutorial explains the custom HTML tags or elements and how to define and use an HTML5 tag or element by Javascript or template methods.

By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be...

Deckard, Roy, Ibex and Fremont could be just the start.

The debut of 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract

A recent episode of The Talk Show showed me something about myself I don’t like.

No.336 — Rhizomatic thinking to unlock new ideas ⊗ USV built an AI brain ⊗ Trippy worm ooze ⊗ A new golden age of discovery

In this week’s edition of my newsletter, CrazyStupidTech, I posted a reported essay on the future of browsers in the age of AI, with reflections on their past, and their role in our multi-dev…

At AWS re:Invent, CTO Werner Vogels shared some fundamental lessons Amazon learned about system design.

With Markwhen, a developer or service designer can peer into the complexities of dealing with time representations.

Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s invention by the Russian [Oleg L…