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Vision The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more. Supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. The format is detected from the actual file content, not from the file name or the declared MIME type. Sending Images There are three ways to provide an image to the mode…

Some notes cover limited or experimental features. Check the support label, keep a fallback, and test with real browsers and assistive technology. Welcome to HTMLcat: small, native web tricks worth remembering. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can do more than we remember. Each post-it pairs one useful platform feature with a small example and the caveat that matters.

One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or encompassing. This is the wrong question to ask. The right one is: Python is always brought up as example of leaky batteries exploding in slow motion, but this has nothing to do with size. The problem with Python’s stdlib is its, ahem, uneven quality. Some standard library modules d…

When Microprose greenlit Sid Meier's Pirates! in 1986, the company—which Meier founded along with Bill Stealey back in 1982—was mostly known for vehicle sims (Gunship, Spitfire Ace, F-15 Strike Eagle) and dry strategic wargames like Crusade in Europe. Pirates was something different. It's hard to pin it down to a genre even today, but it certainly wasn't like previous Meier titles—even though it'…

Encore builds and deploys backend applications, and since mid-2022 every one of those builds has run inside a Firecracker microVM. Firecracker strips the emulated hardware down to what a Linux kernel needs, giving each build the isolation of a virtual machine with startup close to the cost of a container. Firecracker drives KVM, so it needs a Linux host with /dev/kvm, which no Mac has, and most e…

The internet's first machine-native toll booth. AI agents pay in Bitcoin Lightning to access the open web. No accounts. No API keys. No friction. Just sats and passage — at the speed of light. # Agent requests access response = requests.get("https://argentic.network/?url=https://target-site.com") # Returns 402 with invoice data = response.json() invoice = data["invoice"] # lnbc... pay this…

Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final desti…

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue. For decades a small team with 5 or 10 people writing code at the same time didn’t even need to consider doin…

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Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour Ever since I first read "Burstiness and Memory in Complex Systems" by Kwang-Il Goh, I have been obsessed with the two formulas showcased in the paper. Burstiness (B), and its just-as-important counterpart Memory (M), let us understand the dynamics of event-based systems. We can use them to analyse the behaviour of sent emails, texts or even heartbea…

Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the map or combine it with t…

You may not have heard the term citizen developer yet, but they exist, and they've been here for a long time. In the nineties, it was the person in accounts payable who bought accounting software off a sales call and, whoops, now there's a Dell server plugged into an ethernet port. Or the early 2000s when the marketing team Dreamweaver'd up some site you have to figure out how to get on IIS 5. To…