The UX of banking.
Monzo, Revolut and Starling—often called the challenger banks—have built billion-dollar businesses around the belief that they offer the best overall banking experience.
But are they actually any better, or is it all clever marketing? To answer that question I opened 12 real bank accounts, and logged everything.
Emulate vision deficiencies in DevTools.
Globally, 1 billion people have a near or distant vision impairment impacting how clearly they can see objects, including web pages.
Relevant: a11yresources.
TheArt of Gertrude Kauders.
Hidden From The Nazis, Murdered Jewish Artist's Trove Of Paintings Discovered In Prague House.
Relevant: Nazi-Kunst am Maschsee? Georg Kolbe ließ Juden Modell stehen.
Manned Piloted spaceflight.
The future of space is female.
NASA is sending a woman to the moon and putting women among its highest ranks, part of a concerted push toward inclusivity in an industry long dominated by men.
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source.
In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.
Cabin – Creating simple apps for Linux.
‘I hate giving you bad news’: when a daughter with breast cancer calls her mother.
Die Calligaris-Methode ist ein fragwürdiges Diagnoseverfahren für schwere Erkrankungen wie Krebs oder Multiple Sklerose, das von dem italienischen Neurologen, Geistheiler und Parapsychologen Giuseppe Calligaris (…) erfunden wurde. Seine Methode stieß auf Grund fehlender Belege, der Widersprüchlichkeit zu etablierten Erkenntnissen und offensichtlicher Abwegigkeit nicht auf wissenschaftliches Interesse und Calligaris verlor seinen akademischen Arbeitsplatz. Auf seine Erfindungen berufen sich medizinische Außenseiterverfahren und Scharlatane zur Promotion ihrer Produkte.
The different kinds of authentication protocols.
This article might be a bit of a mess by usual standards; it's a one-session braindump. Nonetheless, here it is.
The West German government became increasingly concerned that hostile communist states may flood the country with counterfeit banknotes. This would devalue the Deutschmark and destabilize the country’s economy as a precursor to an invasion from the East.
So Bundesbank launched a cunning plan. They printed an entirely new secret currency and put them in storage. If Russia and its allies launched an economic attack, the old bills could be withdrawn and new banknotes issued within a matter of days. This would cancel out counterfeit currency.
