73pctgeek
Templatemaker.nl — Brilliant site that generates templates for various things, like bags, envelopes, boxes, etc. (Disclaimer: A long time agao, I helped with some translations) Ink/Stitch — “An open-source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape.” I don’t have an embroidery machine,...
Adactio: Links
I really, really, really like this proposal! This would absolutely turbo-charge cross-document view transitions with nary a line of JavaScript in sight. adactio.com/links/22686
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My surfing landed me on Anna Ladd's site. The screensaver alone had me teary. My heart's a-leaping merrily. Nostalgia meter has reached the roof.
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I like word games. Tiled Words Word Tower Daily Crypticle Absurdle Extra: Murdle
Michael Hanscom
♿️ The work week was pretty standard, with the most excitement coming either from the continued work on remodeling an old meeting room into office space, which we keep peeking through the windows at, or when an unusual summer storm system came through the Seattle area, when five or six of the...
Michael Hanscom
♿️ Work has moved to our summer schedule of four ten-hour days. The days can be a little long, but it’s worth it for the three-day weekends! It’s also been a little noisy this week, as a large section of our floor of the building is being converted from an old meeting room to offices, and the work...
Michael Hanscom
It’s another two-week edition of my weekly roundup! (And even then, posted a couple days late and backdated….) 🎻 Last Saturday we went out to see Raiders of the Lost Ark with live soundtrack performed by the Seattle Symphony. It was a great concert — the combination of an all-time great film and...
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A new therapeutic approach developed by McMaster researchers could help prevent brain cancer. Targets inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase 2 (IMPDH2), one of two enzymes researchers say is “vital” to metastases. Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’. Some of the...
Adrian
Read This If You’re New and Trying to Find Your Way. “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently. I don’t think we have to live the way we currently do. I think something else is...
Adrian
These used to get scheduled to be published on the Monday after I started drafting them, and would then include whatever I’d collected over the following week. Since I migrated the blog to Jekyll I’ve lost the scheduled post option. At some point I’ll reinstate that, but for now it’s interrupted...
Adrian
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.. All this biometrics in place of passwords and the like is a terrible idea. And this is why we need the private options to be just as convenient to use as the ones harvesting our data. The unlikely story of an e-mail time...
Adam
Would you like to know an old-time apple recipe for Norfolk Biffin (or other fruit recipes, some from antiquity)? ¶ Perhaps you'd be interested in a deep dive into claims that some apples date from Roman times? ¶ How about...
Nicol Wistreich
Speaking of heroes, Ben Blaine (@ben)’s latest is about superhero culture, billionaires and Epstein – and is worth a read: “the mass public dumping of the Epstein files comes at the end of the Hero culture, where it is no longer quite enough to stick a cape on a body suit and count the dollars...
Adam
Behold: ❝A pineapple fucked a pear and somehow made a baby that looks like an apple. That is the Cox’s Orange Pippin.❞ or this: ❝ Maiden’s Blush: Wet sad sandcastle heralds the death of summer, but at least it smells nice, so stick a wick in it and use it as a...
Adrian
The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a thirty-five year mistake. When I first clicked through to this video I was somewhat put off when I spotted it was two-and-a-half hours long. However! Casey Muratori is an entertaining and engaging speaker, and it’s an excellent tour through the history of computing...
Adrian
Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? I read this with (somewhat smug, because I wasn’t just holidaying there, but I was also part of the problem) memories of life in Torino mixed with a view of the Beatles-football-stag-and-hen-dos commodification of Liverpool. It would be nice if someone other than...
Adrian
You probably shouldn’t block AI bots from your website. An excellent polemic. The Museum in a Box website has been getting hammered by bots for a while now; I should install iocaine to improve matters for the humans who visit. The American Pay Cut That Gave Us Obama and Trump, Twice. I...
0ut3r Space
Ahh, today is that glorious day when I realize that my plan to write one or even two articles a month on my wonderful blog is failing. And then I remind myself that my worth checking series is not only there to share knowledge and interesting material but also to save my ass in just such...
Ashido
Added a link to Die Anstalt Parapluesch, an old flash game about helping stuffed animals get over trauma they went through from their previous owner. It still works amazingly enough!
Adam Cooper
I used to hate public speaking; I still do but I used to too (apologies to Mitch Hedberg). But as I have spent less of my work time building and deploying software and more of it sharing why and how software is built and deployed, I've needed to get better at communicating to a room, or Zoom,...
Adam Horne
Strategy & Thinking I’m a big fan of fellow Aussie and strategy black-belt, Mark Pollard, and his work with Sweatheads. Equality & Opportunity While most articles about inclusion are woefully superficial, this one from Google’s CMO is short and smart. A bunch of interesting (American...
Adam Cooper
It used to be the case that acquiring royalty free stock images or illustrations meant paying hundreds of dollars. Fortunately, thanks to the world of open source and public domain art and design, those times are behind us and there are now hundreds of thousands of high-quality images freely...
Scott Rosenberg
DammitKarissa | Flickr From “How to Make a Bot That Isn’t Racist,” by Sarah Jeong in Motherboard (3/25/16): “Most of my bots don’t interact with humans directly,” said Kazemi. “I actually take great care to make my bots seem as inhuman and alien as possible. If a very simple bot that doesn’t seem...
Scott Rosenberg
Trump is said to be an effective campaigner because voters perceive his “I tell it like it is” persona to be real. Yet his coterie turns around and says that the shit-stirring, plainspoken, politically incorrect identity is the act, and the “real” Trump is a more thoughtful kind of guy. From “Who...
Scott Rosenberg
Sara Kelly | Flickr Nick Denton in Gawker, writing on the jury verdict in the Hulk Hogan trial: Celebrities, especially ones as public about their personal and sex life as Hulk Hogan, have a narrower zone of privacy than ordinary people. Regardless of questions about Gawker’s editorial standards...