15 Wonderfully Repurposed Places.

One person's ruins are another's dream construction project.

Typesetting Latin-based languages.

Perhaps the most famous example of local typographic differences are quotation marks. In most languages, the initial and final marks differ from each other and the marks are written without spaces. In addition to basic quotes, there are also secondary quotes that are used as nested ones. Many languages also have an alternative form which is formally equivalent but less frequently used.

tmpmail is a command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address.

Math keeps changing.

So what I noticed over the years was that tests kept breaking when I updated Node. I’d have a test like: t.equal(ss.gamma(11.54), 13098426.039156161); That would work in Node v10 and break in Node v12. And this is not some complex method: gamma is implemented with arithmetic, Math.pow, Math.sqrt, and Math.sin.

Australia's biodiversity just got a lot richer: Two new mammals discovered (via nitter.net).

About The SCP Foundation.

While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world.

Why use Nitter?

Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in some cases serves pages faster.

Un jeune Genevois crée une typo inclusive.

Étudiant à la HEAD, Tristan Bartolini a inventé plus de 40 caractères typographiques non genrés. Il vient de recevoir le Prix Art Humanité 2020 de la Croix-Rouge.

Responsible Disclosure Is Wrong.

As a security researcher my responsibility is to make the world a safer place, to protect the users, not to protect the name of a vendor.