🥳 Kitten API version 1 is now live!

https://kitten.small-web.org

This has been the culmination of seven years of work and a “two-week” breaking change branch that turned into seven-months.

There’s too much to list in a single post but Kitten today is a very different beast to Kitten in April.

Highlights:

• Automatic updates with rollback even across API versions (breaking changes)
• New stateful Kitten Components API
• TypeScript support (and Kitten is now itself written in TypeScript)
• Improved cryptographic properties with the use of non-extractable keys via the Web Crypto API and XChaCha20-Poly1305 instead of AES-GCM for encryption
• Consistent event handling and emitting methods across the page, session, and global scopes
• Considerably increased test coverage across the unit, regression, and end-to-end tests
• Lots of hardening and security fixes

For full details, please see the change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-11-07

This is the first of the triplets to be born. Hopefully Catalyst and Meow and will be following soon. Kitten is the foundation so the better it gets, the better anything built with it gets.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev

Right. I feel like Matrix is overkill for my use case, and my friends’. We just want to game and talk with low resources. That’s it.

I remember when I used to use Mumble, it was pretty great. Although I had to host my own server for that, unfortunately. Is that still the case?

@fesshole come get your man

@ai6yr

lmao as an adult i have decided i can have all the fun, cute, snarky, playful socks i want. i will be frugal when it comes to many, many things but i've let that go with socks. now i have all kinds of fun socks that are enjoyable to wear. i get sockologie socks bc they are pretty good... IMO better than smartwool on quality, and they have lots of fun prints.
i just got my ex a custom pair with his dog's face on them. they're pretty great,

@Rob_T_Firefly attention @mathew

@thesolidpixel I very much approve of this optimization streak!

I'm sad that Polestar is leaving the US, but at least it seems like whenever I do need to replace my Polestar 2, hopefully many years from now, Volvo is going to have really some good options to choose from.

#Volvo #Polestar

Well, it was about time this was revealed about me, so here it is:

I really don't like when I ask for a latte and they go all in and put a lot of foam on it.

I don't like the foam.

It just makes everything more complicated.

Just a tiny bit almost barely one is good enough.

I don't understand the foam fetiche.

I'm sorry.

:blobcatcoffee:

Excited to share that in December I'm joining the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer! 🎉 I can't wait to start building a research group in Glasgow.

I'll keep using machine learning to build computational theories of how people learn, with a growing focus on collective learning: how we learn from and with each other, in science and beyond.

I'm so grateful to Chris Summerfield, the Human Information Processing Lab, and everyone I've worked with at Oxford. I've learned so much and met amazing people, many of whom I'll keep working with.

If anything on my website resonates with you, I'd be glad to hear from you. I'm keen to connect with prospective PhD students, postdocs, visitors, and collaborators in or outside academia.

https://thompsonj.github.io/

📸 Photo by Christoph Daube on a rainy day in Glasgow, shortly before I accepted the offer

#CognitiveScience #MachineLearning #CollectiveIntelligence

@MargaretSefton
Hmm. Well, I hope we find a way. Miller has to go. And the whole Trump regime.

Asexual means that you do not experience sexual attraction.

That's it. That's the definition.

It does not say anything about your relationship to the act of sex itself.

It does not say anything about where your boundaries are.

It only says that you do not experience sexual attraction.

I find that a lot of people struggle with this. Some of whom are asexual themselves. They think saying "I am asexual" is enough communication, or try to deny the asexuality of people who have—or enjoy—sex but don't experience sexual attraction.

On the flip side, I think a lot of allosexuals (non-asexuals), struggle with this even in relationships where the asexual partner is willing to have sex. Because part of what they want and feel validated by is _their partner finding them sexually attractive_. The actual sex is not as important to them as that feeling that their _partner_ finds them sexually attractive.

寝るかオナるかのベッドインする

@Harrison good work!

寝るかオナるかのベッドインする

https://kestrelcasey.com/2026/11/03/the-history-and-current-state-of-nanowrimo/
A brief history of NaNoWriMo.
#NaNoWriMo

Our neighborhood near Redmond is just inside the wind advisory area. This is not a major wind event however there still are lots of leaves on trees so that might increase the yield of down branches. I plan to roll our generator from the garage to it’s ‘in use’ position under our deck just in case we need it.For details from NOAA - including timing - open the map, click colored area, follow the link. Since the spot you clicked might have more than one type of watch/warning, scroll down in the popup since each type of watch or warning has its own link for the details.

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=47.859316,-122.915039&zoom=8&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=State_boundary,Weather_watch_warning&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_weather.txt
#Wawx #WindAdvisory #Seattle #PNW

@ai6yr @pmonks @patmikemid
local search and rescue groups are volunteer here

the only pros are the national/regional urban search and rescue teams.

https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/response-operations/fire-rescue/special-operations/state-national-urban-search-rescue-task-forces/

@venya Between Sufjan Stevens struggling to recall the lyrics to Christmas Unicorn and Eric Whitacre struggling to conduct the time signature changes in Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine, I have learned that musicians really don't know their own work. 😂

video games are cool because if something goes wrong you can pray to god by submitting a support ticket and it actually works sometimes

no response yet but I don't see why they can't give me the unique weapon that spawned while I was teleporting away