ENHANCE! ‘Photo-Realistic’ Emojis and Emotes With Progressive Face Super-Resolution by iforcedabot (I Forced a Bot...)
Progressive Face Super-Resolution via Attention to Facial Landmark arxiv.org is a machine learning model trained to reconstruct face images from tiny 16×16 pixel input images, scaling them up …

I guess it’s time to talk about pixelated images any why that may be no longer enough: https://iforcedabot.com/photo-realistic-emojis-and-emotes-with-progressive-face-super-resolution/

Astonishing what this machine can compute from a 16×16 pile of pixels.

Das Gelbe vom Ei – Von der Verwendung gelber Farbstoffe im Mittelalter by Sorores Historiae (sororeshistoriae.com)
*Dieser Blogpost enthält unbezahlte und unverbindliche Werbung* Wie man im Mittelalter gelb färbte Gelb – wohl eine der umstrittensten Farben im Mittelalter. Die einen sagen, es war die Farbe…

All about yellow in the medieval periods one needs to know. Read up why it was not the color of the oldest kind of trade and how it was dyed:

https://sororeshistoriae.com/2019/09/03/das-gelbe-vom-ei-von-der-verwendung-gelber-farbstoffe-im-mittelalter/

Litter Box by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)
Just made my first Node-RED flow to detect whether the litter box is dirty or clean! 1: When motion in the litter box is detected, wait 5 seconds, check if the door is closed, and if so, set to "dirty" 2: When the door is opened, set to "clean" Took a bit to figure out all the Node-RED terminology...

The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) // Sebastian Greger (sebastiangreger.net)
Originally intended to showcase a privacy-centred implementation of emerging social web technologies - with the aim to present a solution not initially motivated by legal requirements, but as an example of privacy-aware interaction design - my “social backfeed” design process unveiled…

Interesting thoughts on Silo Backfeeds and GDPR.

Mittelalterlicher Kran auf der Reisestation by Carina Wagner (ArchaeoCentrum bayern-böhmen)
Das 14. Jahrhundert ist wie kein anderes eine Zeit der großen Bauwerke. Kathedralen, Burgen, Brücken, ja, komplette Städte, die bis …,Das 14. Jahrhundert ist wie kein anderes eine Zeit der großen Bauwerke. Kathedralen, Burgen, Brücken, ja, komplette Städte, die bis […]

Good read about medieval building cranes in 14C including pictures of a reconstruction and it’s schema.

An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)
This article was originally posted on the GoDaddy blog. https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader.jpg I have a new home on the internet. I don’t visit the Twitter home timeline or the Facebook news feed anymore. I don’t open the Instagram app except when I post a photo. I still have...

I feel like a child in a candystore 😀