why make the important text harder to read? should be bold or h1 or something lol like this
Rethinking the human-readability infrastructure
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The Consent Layer: Using ligatures to make web text expensive to scrape without asking
ShieldFont is an open-source creative technology project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page's source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version. In testing, shielding caused over 90% of pages that would otherwise pass the quality filter to be rejected, keeping them out of the training pipeline. Of those that still passed, 19.4% of all words conveyed false meaning, adding noise to unauthorized AI training datasets. This paper's goal is to walk newcomers through the whole process, in plain language and in order: the project's rationale, how it was built, the results, how to deploy it, and where to contribute.
An open letter to Bluesky Social PBC.: Please stop posting and listen to users and devs - Multi-hyphenate
I'm going to try to be nice and professional
0.5.1: Markdown and some bug fixes
Fixed Markdown pasted into the rich text editor appearing as plain text instead of formatted content. Fixed a server-side request forgery in profile and image resolution. DID documents, PDS…
CLI quickstart – Codex Security | ChatGPT Learn
Set up Codex Security, run a local scan, and review the report, findings, and coverage.
An actually fucking good NSFW-friendly webcomics platform that isn't fucking webtoon is here - Multi-hyphenate
Y'all know I wouldn't say this shit if it wasn't true also please be normal to the dev guys
How + Why to read + Belle's Reading list: Tech, Art, Politics, Classic Literature. - Multi-hyphenate
Since a few people asked! + You can do it too.
a11y.quest - 128 questions to level up your accessibility game
128 questions to level up your web accessibility game. Practice WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard, and contrast, with plain-English answers.
Simon Willison on Twitter / X
Billing different based on text contained in the system prompt is a really bad look https://t.co/15meK1YIe2— Simon Willison (@simonw) April 5, 2026
buriy/python-readability
fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful
BLUF is a military communications acronym — it stands for “bottom line up front” — that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
Standard Reader now publishes permission scopes! In human: When you log in we better explain what we're requesting and why The first one grants access to write data for our app, the second lets up create @standard.site subscriptions and likes for you
Introducing Standard Reader: a calm, text-first home for long-form writing on the Atmosphere. Read standard.site publications, follow the writers you love, and find new voices across the network. standard-reader.app
