Monday, 29. June 12020
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Been there, still being there.

With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom.

YouTube Music charges a monthly fee to play my music on my speaker?

Vienna from above.

Source: wien.gv.at

The three traps of medical AI articles.

They either don’t understand medicine, they don’t understand AI, or they don’t actually compare doctors and machines.

ncdu, htop, tldr, jq and fd.

5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line tools.

Thursday, 25. June 12020
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson (via futurism.com).

Source: nasa.gov
Wednesday, 24. June 12020
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Being Glue.

You know that thing where everyone on a software engineering team turns up and just writes code for eight hours a day and then later the project is successful? No you don't. Projects don’t work like that!

Lateral thinking is classic pseudoscience, derivative and untested.

Given that the lateral thinking movement has had almost 50 years to put its evidential house in order, to test whether its mental tricks are any more effective than, say, a short nap or concentrated effort, it’s surely time to put it back in the box and file it under what (H.L., ed.) Mencken would have baldly called flim-flam.

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Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file.

Remember tiddlywiki.com?

Sick of the onslaught of online imagery? These websites place emphasis on typography.

It’s time to act.

The Alphabettes community is, at its heart, political. We are a global network of women, connected together by our love of letters, type, and typography. Our objective is to champion anyone who identifies as a woman in type, provide a platform for them to show and share their work, and welcome them to a community that will not ignore their voice, but amplify it.