The AI now watches Youtube videos and gives you a summarized text with relevant images. Just to counteract the AI that takes a text and generates a video from it:

https://toolong.link/v?w=dQw4w9WgXcQ&l=en

Summary:

This video is the official 4K remastered music video for Rick Astley's iconic 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". Key details include:

• The song was a massive international hit, topping charts in 25 countries.
• It won a Brit Award for Best Single in 1988.
• The track was written and produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman.
• The video was directed by Simon West.
• The video famously surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube in July 2021.

The AI also links to the sections of the verse and chorus.

https://toolong.link/v?w=FJtF3wzPSrY&l=en

This video presents a technological showcase of The Witcher 4 running on a PlayStation 5 at 60fps with raytracing, built with Unreal Engine 5.6. Key highlights include:

• Advanced Character & Mount Interaction: Featuring Siri and her horse Kelpy, showcasing seamless multi-character motion matching and realistic muscle deformations using ML Deformer. * Dense, Dynamic Open World: The game explores the region of Kovier, emphasizing highly detailed and memory-efficient Nanite Foliage with adaptive voxel representation.
• Vibrant and Responsive Towns: The port town of Vest is demonstrated with busy marketplaces, hundreds of animated NPCs, and responsive character actions powered by MetaHuman tools, Smart Objects, and a new animation framework.
• Significant Performance Gains: Unreal Engine 5.6 boasts over 2x faster raytracing and Lumen, an asynchronous rendering pipeline, improved Chaos Physics for cloth and flesh, and a new Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin for quicker open-world loading, ensuring high fidelity and smooth gameplay.

I stitched this for a friend who used to play the wizard in Gauntlet.

I'm happy how the wizard turned out, with the black t-shirt also contributing shadows to the hands:

Also, the logo and the gradient worked well, Inkscape has some convenient features here:

I'm not so happy with the distance I put between logo and wizard, but it's not too bad either.

RSS.Style: Better UX for your RSS and Atom feeds!

In true old-skool fashion, even my RSS feeds are now also viewable in the browser, thanks to the XSLT stylesheets from rss.style. They rewrite the XML into something a browser can render. Obviously using a proper RSS reader, like Thunderbird is better, but hey!

This is already a bit older, but I'm still amazed of how much is possible when using one of the state of the art engines (and lots of custom code, I suppose). But this is certainly nice eye-candy. Hopefully, the story and writing of the game will hold up the mark set by The Witcher 3.

The Witcher 4 - Gameplay UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025 - YouTube

I'm doing more stuff with HTMX.

HTMX allows for almost-convenient polling by adding hx-trigger="every 1s" to an attribute. This allows you to kick off some processing on your server after having served a page and automagically update the page with the status and a download link when processing completes.

<div class="preview-card" id="preview-div"
    hx-trigger="every 1s"
    hx-get="/preview"
    hx-swap="outerHTML"
>
Please stand by while we prepare your content
</div>

The polling only works if the element has a hx-get or hx-post attribute. It does not work on <form> elements with action="..." , surprisingly.

The workaround is to add an explicit hx-get or hx-post="..." attribute to the element:

<form method="POST" action="/submit"
    hx-trigger="every 1s"
    hx-post="/preview"
    hx-swap="none"
>
<input name="message" type="text" />
...
</form>