3D Book Image CSS Generator.
Generate an animated 3D image from a book cover and export to HTML/CSS to embed on your website.
This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.
Inside a Collaborative Text Editor.
The process of re-writing your edits to account for the work of others is called Operational Transformation. It's the most popular way to implement a collaborative editor and is used by Etherpad and Google Docs.
“How I coined the term 'open source'.”
Christine Peterson finally publishes her account of the day "open source" software was coined, 20 years ago.
Degoogle.
Search and Proxy for Google web fonts.
Meet Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Chief of Disguise (a real job!).
During her tenure, Mendez oversaw the equipment used by spies to conceal their identities, including a five-second mask, which had been inspired by Hollywood.
The trouble with mailto email links and what to do instead.
Mailto links are everywhere and yet browsers and operating systems don’t make them easy to use.
Relevant: mailgo.dev.
Awesome Cold Showers.
For when people get too hyped up about things.
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do. (Via Normcore Tech.)
This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence — to the spirit as well as to the body.
User Frustrations in 2020.
Relevant: 4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong.