The 2019 Web Almanac.
The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.
Relevant: Coming soon! The 2020 state of the web report.
The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes.
Making one cake can take anywhere from four to eight hours, depending on the complexity of the design. It’s a process that could go wrong at any point in time: Bakers first must cook up cakes in deep pans, carefully adding even stripes of colorful batter with 10 minutes in the oven between each layer.
The object of the game is to accurately determine how much money you need to pay the government in the previous tax year. The government and your employer already have most of this information, but they can’t just tell you, because then this fun board game wouldn’t exist.
Nix is so oasch wie der Sommer in Wien.
Das Bild als angeblich „grünste Stadt der Welt“ grenzt an Selbstbetrug. Denn tatsächlich leidet der Großteil der Bevölkerung an einem schweren Mangel von Grünflächen in unmittelbarer Nähe ihrer Wohnung. Ja, die Wiener Stadtfläche mag auf dem Papier zu einem sehr hohen Prozentsatz aus Grünflächen bestehen. Nun umfasst aber diese Stadtfläche aber erstens einen beträchtlichen Teil des Wienerwaldes, und zweitens sind die Parks in der Stadt überaus ungleich verteilt.
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS.
@BODY fo(fa=he,si=18)
Single Page Applications using Rust.
Since Rust compiles to wasm, is it possible to build SPAs (Single Page Applications) purely in Rust and without writing a single line of JavaScript? The short answer is YES!
Australian magpies have seagull heads as beaks.
Unacceptable, where is my privacy?
«Alexa» reacts to the words "unacceptable" and "election," while «Google» often triggers to "OK, cool." «Siri» can be fooled by "a city," «Cortana» by "Montana," «Computer» by "Peter," «Amazon» by "and the zone," and «Echo» by "tobacco."
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In the Cells of the Eggplant is an introduction to meta-rationality: ways of using rational systems more effectively by examining their relationships with their surrounds.
You may care about meta-rationality if you want to level up your work in science, engineering, or other fields that make use of formal systems.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées.