What we need is a web made in a similar way to the wicker-bodied cars of yesteryear

I wonder what aspect ratio we'll settle on for little corner of our eye viewing on AR gear?

Inline Python where all you have to do is put in <python></python>

You can do that today with PyScript:

  <script type="module" src="https://pyscript.net/releases/2025.8.1/core.js"></script>
  <py-script>
  import sys
  from pyscript import display
  display(sys.version)
  </py-script>

Demo: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/pyscript-demo.h...

Or you can use MicroPython which is much smaller:

    <mpy-script>
      import sys
      from pyscript import display
      display(sys.version)
    </mpy-script>

Demo: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/pyscript-microp...

Since they compiled the python interpreter to webassembly, yes you can now totally do a <python></python> webcomponent if you like. Of course it requires the extra work of importing this interpreter. Web browsers aren't going to come with multiple interpreters built-in, it would be too heavy.

I would be interested to see how short the time to run "Hello World" can be with python in a webpage, counting the time to load the whole page without cache.

Try benchmarking https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/pyscript-microp... and see. It's pretty minimal.

What kind of safeguards would we need in place with this sort of feature in html? What are the security implications?

I'd encourage you to get his email newsletter as well! He puts out really interesting and thoughtful content in my experience.

Do everything in serverside cgi programs, at least until WebAssembly disposes of the currently necessary JS wrappers to access the DOM.

Note for anyone trying to receive lower frequency signals (below 10MHz): The supplied coaxial cable is really really lossy at those frequencies, a change of cable ought to make a big difference in what you receive.

This is a really beautiful bit of kit, really like the case and the thought given to signing, but the analog side is really impressive too. Would it be viable to use the same hardware as a base for an NTP server?

You could build an NTP server with much less horsepower (and of course without all of the high speed I/O etc).

The ones from Leo Bodnar are decent.

Wayne Green [0] is responsible for that. Responsible for some publishing innovation in the electronics world, he started with writing about radioteletypes for hams in the 50s, and moved up to Peterborough after starting 73 magazine

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Green

Love this! Part of why I went into electronics is reading archives of Byte and Popular Electronics

I think an easy win for tram/tramtrain systems would be to have capacity to move cargo, either in rollcages like grocery shops use, or on pallets with dollies from a peripheral location, to city center locations and eliminate at least some light goods vehicles. The problem is, it would probably be a very inefficient use of labour to have humans do all the last few hundred yards pushing.