Friday, 30. July 12021
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Dark Reader, Evernote Web Clipper, many password managers.

How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance? (Via frontendfoc.us.)

This article looks at how 1000 popular Chrome extensions impact the performance of the browser.

Temporary alternative p3k logo on top because it’s sooo glittery and the colors fit so well (via wh0.github.io).

Monday, 26. July 12021
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The Public Interest Internet.

This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and useful services without requiring the scale or the business practices of the tech giants.

Saturday, 24. July 12021
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🤦‍♂️ or 💡?

Deurbanising the Web.

Computing in the 2020s is (still) a user-hostile shifting sand land. We are drowning in churn and noise. I am fighting back by switching this website from HTML to PDF.

The Framework Laptop is now shipping!

We know consumer electronics can be better for you and for the environment. Unlike most products, ours are open for you to repair and upgrade.

REBOL, too!

Riju: fast online playground for every programming language.

ΛCDM vs MOND.

We should explore alternatives to the Standard Model of cosmology.

(…) when one theory has accounted for a set of facts by parameter-adjustment, while a rival accounts for the same facts directly and without contrivance, then the rival does, but the first does not, derive support from those facts.

10 Papers Every Developer Should Read (via michaelfeathers.silvrback.com).

Sunday, 18. July 12021
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Womöglich mein erster ernsthaft gemeinter Twitterthread, zur Bundestagswahl 2021 für Auslandsdeutsche.

Update: Interessiert keinen.

Car color distribution broken down by production year (Poland) – via whyisthisinteresting.substack.com.

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