Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

It’ll stop OpenAI’s  bot from crawling your site, and so should keep your content out of its system.

• Jeff Geerling soundproofs his walls
• Zaum aimed to prove that language is just sound, I guess
• Time, Frequency, Phase and Delay – some definitions
• Scientists reconstructed a Pink Floyd song from brain activity
• X.com might – might – do music
• Female musicians in Spain are going topless as a gesture in support of women’s rights

I check HN daily, often hourly, for new articles to read and love it when music or sound-related content appears. I think I’ll keep up posts like this.

• Path Finder – I tried it out! It was great.
• iTerm – Once you set it to open new sessions in the previous working directory, this beats Terminal.app. To do this, open Settings, go to Profiles and in the General tab for the profile you want to set this for (I just use one Default profile at the moment), change the Working Directory setting to ‘Reuse previous session’s directory’.
• Apple Mail – it’s private, OK?
• Apple Music.The best value for lossless audio, in my opinion, and integrated with my Apple stuff.
• Traktor – This is open all the time but I didn’t practice my DJing today.
• Font Book – I was looking for some default-installed fonts to use on my blog. I settled on Hoefler Text for the main typeface.
• UTM – I then went looking around Ubuntu and Windows 11 for some fonts to use on the blog there.
• BBEdit – I started with BBEdit when I started learning programming (or at least how to write HTML) and I swear it’s still the best editor for the Mac if you value things feeling like they belong on your system.
• TextMate – I’m sorry, mate, but I found rmate too limiting in that it wouldn’t open folders. After trying you out again – after a long affair with VSCode – I went back to BBEdit. I learned a lot of programming with TextMate (and VSCode); enough to not need either of them any more, I believe.
• Transmit – It helped me upload some files to the blog and set some permissions. I still don’t understand permissions. The porblem I have is how to set the right permissions on my theme files so that I can edit them in the WordPress admin. I’ll get there.
• WhatsApp – The beta is pretty good you know!
• Transmission – I’ve been collecting public domain films.
• iCab – Thanks to Joe Clark for the reminder that this alternative browser still exists!
• IINA – Like VLC, this plays anything, but it feels at home on the Mac.
• Font Converter – I used this to turn some TTFs into WOFFs and WOFF2s for trying to set up @font-face custom fonts on my blog, but ran into problems with WordPress and figured I’d do this another day.

UTM uses QEMU and lets you run either virtualised or emulated OSes on your Mac. The recently released app, CrystalFetch helps you download a copy of Windows 11 legally. Put these together and a little manual reading and you’ve got yourself a running copy of Windows on your Mac.

I use mine to test this web site – mainly the fonts.

Before CrystalFetch, you had to install Homebrew and a bunch of other stuff through that and it wasn’t guaranteed to work. CrystalFetch seems to be seamless.

You just can’t. I thought at first that any article, section or in fact any container-kind-of block element – where you could have a header and footer – could have one. Nope. Upon validating my HTML, I found that it is in fact invalid HTML if you’re using more than one main on the page.

Let’s say you have a blog and you’re styling it with CSS. You want to have a line-height-high gap between your main prose block elements: p, ul, ol and blockquote. You could write your selector like:

p + p, p + ul, p + ol, p + blockquote, ul + p, ul + ol

… and so on and so forth for every combination of those elements. Or! Yes – or you could write :is(p, ul, ol, blockquote) + :is(p, ul, ol, blockquote).

Nice.

The rule ends up like this, by the way, if you have a base line-height of 1.6rem:

article :is(p, ul, ol, blockquote) + :is(p, ul, ol, blockquote) {
  margin-top: 1.6rem;
}

I’ve actually included figure and pre in my current stylesheet but that rule seems to fit quite nicely on my desktop screen as it is so I’ll leave the example alone.