Vale is a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose (via smashingmagazine.com).
Vale differs from most writing-related software in a significant way: it doesn't attempt to teach you how to write; it's a tool for writers. In other words, Vale focuses on allowing its users to create their own collections of rules (known as styles) rather providing its own advice.
You’ll need a Tor browser for this verrry important announcement.
Just noticed I totally missed there are different versions of Onion addresses, and that older and shorter ones (v2) – like p3korg7lctmlnfrj.onion – are becoming inaccessible in October and need to be replaced with longer ones (v3, see above).
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid.
(…) stupidity is perfectly compatible with intelligence: (…) Indeed, in at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation: when Harry Houdini, the great illusionist, took Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, through the tricks underlying the seances in which Conan Doyle devoutly believed, the author’s reaction was to concoct a ludicrously elaborate counter-explanation as to why it was precisely the true mediums who would appear to be frauds.
A biography of the pixel, the elementary particle of pictures.
Americans are usually taught that Claude Shannon first proved the sampling theorem, but he never even claimed it. It was ‘common knowledge’, he said. Several countries have claimants to the title, but Kotelnikov was the first to prove the entire theorem as it’s used today. Russians certainly believe so. In 2003 in the Kremlin, on the 70th anniversary of Kotelnikov’s proof, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin awarded him with the Order of Merit to the Fatherland.
“Breaking changes happen often on the web, and as a developer it’s good practice to test against early release channels of major browsers to learn about any compatibility issues upfront.”
Yikes! To me, this appears wrong on almost every level.
To me, too.
Remember back on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood when he would take you to a factory and show you how pencils or umbrellas are made? I love that stuff, so I thought maybe you might like to see what I spent the past year on. You can read this as a peek behind the curtain, or maybe a long apology for why it took so long.
The Manifest Destiny of Computing.
Never being able to pin down exactly what whiteness or AI is gives each a flexibility that is useful for wielding imperial power.
TLDs – Putting the '.fun' in the top of the DNS.
.eh has been reserved (but not been assigned yet) as the ccTLD for the disputed "Western Sahara" territory; in 2013, on April 1st, CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (responsible for .ca), announced that it would offer .eh names, because, you know, Canadians would like that, eh?
Beyond Coupling and Cohesion: Strategies For Un-F*cking Yourself.
This post belongs in the ‘highly speculative’ category. It contains ideas that I’ve yet to flesh out and properly pin down. Reader beware!
Sechs Mythen über Merkel.
Angela Merkel tritt nach der Bundestagswahl als Kanzlerin ab. Doch vieles, was wir über sie zu wissen glaubten, stimmt nicht.