Hey all, sorry we missed last week. We’d just launched the brand new redesign of Piccalilli and frankly, my brain was porridge afterwords 😅
I stumbled across Can you convert a video to pure css? and it turns out you can do exactly that, but be warned, your device will get warm. Very cool and smart stuff, regardless.
I’ll quote the folks behind the folks behind the most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art:
This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size.
The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell.
The team used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS-camera to make 8439 individual photos measuring 5.5cm x 4.1cm. Artificial intelligence was used to stitch these smaller photographs together to form the final large image, with a total file size of 5.6 terabytes.
My favourite part is the site loads faster than your favourite React framework’s site.
Another cool thing on the internet is You can only visit this site once. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
The Onion have made a front page archive that runs all the way back to the 1900s. It’s great to see that publication doing great again since the takeover.
Lastly, I’m not obsessed with “AI”, I promise. I’m just seething about the y’know, stealing people’s content. Looks like the EU are on it, though.
P.S. This is a cool demo.
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Andy
