Web browsers are ubiquitous, but how do they work? This book explains, building a basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a thousand lines of Python.
Prioritising the present doesn’t mean you lack willpower.
In a version of the marshmallow test led by the developmental psychologist Celeste Kidd, an experimenter broke a promise to children, aged three to five years, before the test began. Afterwards, the time that the kids were willing to wait for the second treat was slashed by around 75 per cent.
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal.
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country. As an interim solution to help people in Iran get connected again, we’ve added support in Signal for a simple TLS proxy that is easy to set up, can be used to bypass the network block, and will securely route traffic to the Signal service.
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Disqus, the dark commenting system.
Disqus is owned by data/ad company ("Data-driven marketing powered by AI"). This is a large company with more than $400 million in annual revenue. They own the "The Web's Largest First-Party Data Set".
Concrete tanks are torture for social, intelligent killer whales.
Captive orcas are tormented by boredom and family separation, but they cannot be simply released. What’s the solution?
Relevant: (…) orcas in the Pacific Northwest have suffered from fatal encounters with ships and other vessels, malnutrition, disease, and accidental stranding.
It was a CD-Rom but, yeah.
What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You.
Thomas Dolby: You have used a laserdisc as a shaving mirror.
Introducing ‘Food Grammar’, the Unspoken Rules of Every Cuisine.
Restaurants like Fazoli’s at once denature Italian food and lock it in time. In these spaces, much like on Ocracoke Island, where locals still speak a version of Elizabethan English, cuisines become divorced from the natural progression back home.
Does it?
Kinopio helps you think through your hardest problems.
Delight as the hard-edged world melts into a full-rainbow spectrum of reality | Aeon Videos.
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow: Onramp (via bizzarodevs.com).