I wonder what Mr Langreiter is up to, nowadays…?

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden.

My small collection highlighted a number of sites that are taking a new approach to the way we publish personal knowledge on the web. They're not following the same conventions as what we've come to know as the "personal blog". Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.

“The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it.”

Nowadays front ends have become impossible to debug by outsiders and the liberties taken by JavaScript minifiers are demonstrably not portable. No one cares because it works okay on the subset of browsers they want to support, but someone bringing up the rear like we are has no chance because you can't look at the source map and no one on the dev side has interest in or time for helping out the little guy. Making test cases from minified JavaScript is an exercise in untangling spaghetti that has welded itself together with superglue all over your chest hair, worsened by the fact that stepping through JavaScript on geriatic hardware with a million event handlers like waiting mousetraps is absolute agony. With that in mind, who's surprised there are fewer and fewer minority browser engines?

Git Plan – a better workflow for git (via rory.bio).

And then it comes time to stage your changes and commit your work and the frustration begins. You've got changes in 12 files, and many of those changes aren't related to each other. What do you do?

The cosmic chasm – Physics as we know it is elegant and exquisitely accurate. It tells almost nothing about the deepest riddles of the Universe.

There’s also a limit to how big a particle accelerator we can build. To reach higher energies, we need to construct bigger tunnels but, of course, we live on a finite planet, and so there’s a limit to how long these tunnels can be. And what if, even with all these souped-up observatories and instruments, we still don’t find out what the dark matter is, what dark energy is, or how the Universe began?

Three colors, blue and white.

“I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years — shame and secrecy prevailed.” (Via wt.social).

Even as recently as the 1980’s, scientific diagrams showing how to insert tampons were blue. A Sure & Natural ad from 1983 compared the inefficient absorbency of a conventional pad with the quick dispersion of liquid in a “Maxishield” using royal blue liquids. Further graphics demonstrating layers of absorbency in pads used blue arrows and blue ink to demonstrate their effectiveness.

Schneller Konter – das ZARA Gegenrede-Tool.

Du hast Hass im Netz erlebt oder beobachtet und möchtest dagegen aktiv werden? Stelle dir hier deine kreative Gegenrede zusammen.

WebAssembly-Powered FM Synthesizer.

An 8-operator, polyphonic FM synthesizer running completely in the web browser via Rust compiled to WebAssembly with SIMD acceleration. A demo from the larger web synth platform I'm building.

esoteric.codes – Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing.

As a novice, I wanted to find out what esolangers cared about and what they saw as the stakes in their work. I reached out to esolang pioneers like Chris Pressey, who patiently explained how the culture around it developed as it did. I tried to focus the interviews on concepts, and break away from technical descriptions of the languages which dominated existing writing.

Renting Meet Love.

How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley.

(…) to become a VC intellectual, try as much as possible to be male.