FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Because as nice as Facebook and Twitter are, let's face it, we all kind of miss the old days of lovably terrible hand-crafted sites.
How to know who’s trustworthy.
Knotty problems call for sound advice. Use philosophy to find the intellectually dependable amid the frauds and egotists.
What Is the Hardest Language in the World to Lipread?
Lipreading might be more art than science.
Most lipreading studies don’t involve people who actually do it as part of their daily lives.
Subprime Attention Crisis.
(…) digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and (…) its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. (…) And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.
Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful.
98 % of websites are completely inaccessible. You couldn’t possibly do any worse than they are. The starting point is giving a damn.
Relevant: Atkinson Hyperlegible font.
Meltdown Flags, a climate data initiative that visualizes the effects of global glacier retreat by reducing the amount of white in the flags of countries with glaciers.
Der gemeinnützige Verein „PCs für alle” nimmt gebrauchte PCs, Laptops, Monitore und Zubehör in Form von Spenden entgegen. Die Geräte werden aufbereitet und danach kostenlos übergeben: an Schulen, karitative NGOs sowie an finanziell schlecht gestellte Menschen.
Unser Motto: Spenden statt Wegwerfen. Um unzähligen Menschen, insbesondere Kindern und Jugendlichen, den Weg in die digitale Zukunft ein wenig zu ebnen.
The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas.
How to Make curl Request a Site from a Different IP Than in DNS.
curl https://example.com/ --resolve example.com:443:2.2.2.2
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were predictable, but they were somewhat obscured by other interesting properties. Today the Mersenne Twister is the default generator in C compilers, the Python language, the Maple mathematical computation system, and in many other environments. Nonetheless, knowledge accumulated in the last 20 years suggests that the Mersenne Twister has, in fact, severe defects, and should never be used as a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator.