Hi! Nice work congratulations !

I have a question on how you generated the 2D line arts. You wrote that you used Google Gemini. I’m Interested to have more details on the prompt or the process you side it have quality line arts.

Thank you very much!

Thanks! I use Gemini's Imagen 3 API with specific prompts emphasizing "black and white line art, coloring book style, simple clean outlines, no shading".

Key is being very explicit about:

- Line art only, no shading/gradients - Age-appropriate complexity - Theme-specific keywords

Biggest challenge was consistency - took many iterations to dial in the prompts. I also manually filter out images with unwanted shading (working on automating this).

Happy to discuss more if you're exploring similar ideas!

I have a French website of place cards https://marqueplace.com that is up for more than 4 years but that I barely updated. I’m investigating an easy and cheap way to create alternative designs. It’s all about creating simple designs that can be print in a flat card design. It’s very close to what you did. Obviously the immediate focus is Christmas and New Year’s Eve

PMS as Property Management System

I’m very interested on if you managed to make it works?

Yes and no. Had some initial prototype but had issues with all of the edge cases related to document formatting and detail and eventually abandoned it.

Who is owning the WebRing brand now? I would be happy to discuss ways to bring it back in the modern web!

All of the servers (co-located: so old school amiright!?) are gone and domain names have been relinquished.

I'm honestly not sure why the current webring.com has a history section on it since the site doesn't appear to anything else useful.

Just occurred to me that, if you were designing this today, you wouldn't choose "webring.com" ...

It would be Ringz.io, or wbr.ng or Loop.ly or somesuch :)

Real time operating systems or a bit less niche all around embedded systems: memory management, safety, etc..

Thanks to this article I discovered scroll-snap-type and scroll-snap-align CSS properties. Both supported by > 94% of browsers according to caniuse.

Soroush Bateni (Software Engineer at Apple's Special Projects Group) presents the advantages of Lingua Franca, a polyglot coordination language.

A paper on how to defend vehicle CAN buses against malicious attacks; C++17 features good for embedded systems; What it means to have good taste in code;..

A method to update only the changing parts of an embedded system firmware; A low level UDP traffic analysis; and much more

The video / virtual env seems very well integrated. I have to admit the demo video made me smile