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Hidden Levels.

(…) a six-part series about how video games left the arcade and started reshaping the real world. These stories go beyond high scores and consoles, tracing how a joystick became the bridge between people and machines, how a Chicago basketball game turned into a cultural phenomenon, and how the Army built its own first-person shooter to reach new recruits.

AI, AI, AI, mamá…

Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript

Here’s an easy way to block crawlers, which demands no JS capabilities or proof of work from visitors, and is computationally cheap for the server.

Relevant: You don’t need Anubis (via lobste.rs).

Eine Anti-Kartell-Matratze oder lieber eine von Ravensberger? 🤔

React vs Backbone in 2025.

The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.

Shielding Chart.

Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.
Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.

Keine Frau atmet so während der Geburt.

Alles zum Thema Sachverstand bei Übermedien.de.

Studio Link – Professionelle Audio-Over-IP Verbindungen.

Ob PodcasterInnen, Radio-JournalistenInnen oder MusikerInnen: Alle benötigen hochwertige Audioverbindungen über das Internet.

Front-end maximalism.

Q: I have a front end that calls into a back end. It needs to do things now, and might need to do more things later. How much filtering and preprocessing should the back-end do before it passes the data to the front end?
A: As little as possible.

Read more Kendzior!

Free copy of Sarah Kendzior’s 2006 article “Inventing Akromiya”, originally published in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.

Sarah Kendzior: Inventing Akromiya (application/pdf, 97 KB)