What Big History misses.
It may make for a popular just-so story that appeals to billionaires looking to empty history of politics and divisions, but it offers little for those hoping to understand how we go about thinking through the problems and possibilities of writing history in the age of the Anthropocene.
Es bleibt mühsam.
Ein Google-Smartphone für eine googlefreies Leben.
Thoughts On Markdown.
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. I suspect that plain text files will always have a place in developers’ note apps, blogs, docs, and digital gardens. As a writer who has used markdown for almost two decades, I’ve become accustomed to “markdown shortcuts” that are available in many rich text editors and am frequently stumped from Google Docs’ lack of markdownisms. But I’m not sure if the next generation of content creators and even developers will be as bought in on markdown, and nor should they have to be.
A-Z List of Monoecious and Dioecious Trees.
The majority of plants shrubs and trees 43% are in fact Monoecious (translated as single house), meaning that they are able to complete the entire reproductive process from within a single plant and do not require any form of pollination from another plant.
Subresource Integrity (SRI) Hash Generator.
SRI is a new W3C specification that allows web developers to ensure that resources hosted on third-party servers have not been tampered with. Use of SRI is recommended as a best-practice, whenever libraries are loaded from a third-party source.
Barbi Marković präsentiert ihre Lieblingssongs.
»Die verschissene Zeit« habe ich Gerlinde noch vorgelesen als sie zuletzt auf der Palliativstation lag. Es ist so lustig und so schön, Barbi Marković schreibt so wie sie sich in dem (leider nicht mehr verfügbaren) Beitrag anhört. Sehr sympathisch. Wir haben viel gelacht, und wollten auch noch das Rollenspiel ausprobieren. Das wurde dann ja nichts mehr. Wir atmen ein, wir atmen aus.
Web3 Is Going Just Great.
...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet.
Relevant: “Cryptocurrencies' roots lie deep in the libertarian culture of Silicon Valley and the cypherpunks. Libertarianism's attraction is based on ignoring externalities, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.”
So. Much. Good. Reads.
The Digital Antiquarian.
natto.dev – write JavaScript on a 2D canvas.
code runs as you type
connect panes like spreadsheet cells
visualize program state