Link dump - week 38

Here I am again with my weekly collection of links. But I forgot to bookmark the most interesting video I saw this week. Do you know how petrol pumps know how to turn themselves off? Turns out it’s caused by an engineering marvel.

Coding

Roadroller: Flattens Your JavaScript Demo

Theatre.js v0.5 is out! – Theatre.js Blog
Theatre.js 0.5 introduces 3D scene editing, complex keyframing, and a new extension API

The seventh way to call a JavaScript function without parentheses
I thought I knew all the ways to call functions without parentheses: 

JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcas…

Tech

▶️ PowerTower Pro: The Mac Clone That Almost Killed Apple
Apple’s official Mac licensing program in the mid-90s only lasted a bit over two years, but some companies came out with clones so compe…

New Block Diffusion Plugin Creates AI-Generated Images from Text Prompts
AI image generation has quickly become more accessible over the past few months and is making its way into different industries that req…

AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender
Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor – GitHub – carson-katri/dream-textures: Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender …

Welcome to Linux command line for you and me! — Linux command line for you and me 0.1 documentation

▶️ The REAL fight over AI art
Why DALLE, Midjourney, and other AI image generation tools are so controversial…

Gaming

GTA 6 leaked … but it seems like all the videos are offline already 😬

Misc

Office Today
Automatticians can work from anywhere – it can be pretty awesome.