Monday, 24. May 12021
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I want to go to there!

Wilmcote Lock Flight.

This fascinating and beautiful flight of 11 locks on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is unique in the United Kingdom because of its narrowness and use of single leaf gates at both ends of the locks.

Typographic Illusions.

A collection of free tools for demonstrating typographic phenomena, for anyone teaching or studying typeface design.

How to Play Tetris in the Linux Terminal.

Tetris turns 35 on June 6, so to mark the occasion we show you how to play Tetris in the terminal on Linux desktops like Ubuntu.

mmm – Dead simple, drag & drop websites. Like a collage.

Websites don't have to be so cookie cutter.

Şenay: Doy Doy Doyamadım (via parentheses.substack.com)

Good news, boppers.

Google AMP is dead!

AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search.

When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked.

(…) pushing a button “seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button.” That resonates now, more than a century later, when technology is even more complicated and even more intimately entwined with our lives. The “black box” reigns supreme.

Relevant: Big Honking Button.

Sunday, 23. May 12021
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Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser (via javascriptweekly.com).

That’s right: the Node.js runtime itself is running natively, inside the browser, for the first time ever.

Thursday, 20. May 12021
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I Think You Should Leave.

Tuesday, 18. May 12021
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You are a network.

When people try to fix someone’s identity as one particular characteristic, it can lead to misunderstanding, stereotyping, discrimination. Our currently polarised rhetoric seems to do just that – to lock people into narrow categories: ‘white’, ‘Black’, ‘Christian’, ‘Muslim’, ‘conservative’, ‘progressive’. But selves are much more complex and rich. Seeing ourselves as a network is a fertile way to understand our complexity.