great to see @walterra continues his excellent work of visualizing the austrian covid-19 data: t.co

— granderwasserunverträglichkeit 3000 (@p3k) April 29, 2020

Iceland's Loneliest Lighthouse.

When I was young and felt lonely I wanted to live in a lighthouse so loneliness at least was justified. Then I wanted to study library science to be justfiably lonely in a library. Finally, I found out about technical writing and made some new friends #shortbio

Linux is getting mainstream, no question.

Linux Man Pages – Dash Dash.

Dash Dash sets the linux documentation in a beautiful collection of typefaces to make the technical content more approachable.

The Eternal Jukebox.

For when your favorite song just isn't long enough.

An update on the trolley problem.

CSS for internationalisation (via lobste.rs).

We use italics to emphasise words in English, 但是中文则是用着重号.

Meet Nasa's Chief Sniffer Who Smells Everything Before It Goes Into Space.

Even the smallest smell can linger for years in space. The odor can affect not only the astronaut’s ability to complete tasks but could make them sick.

What a rare form of dementia reveals about how we construct the world outside.

This short film from the British animator Simon Ball guides viewers through the strange and unsettling experience of PCA from the perspective of six individuals with the condition. In addition to offering an empathic window on the day-to-day difficulties of living with the disorder, the film also provides insight into how we all construct our worlds from within.

Things Jaana Dogan Wished More Developers Knew About Databases.

Agile’s Early Evangelists Wouldn’t Mind Watching It Die.

If you look at agile, where do women end up? They end up being scrum masters and that kind of thing. That’s not an engineering job. That’s putting women ‘in a woman’s place,’ rather than putting women in an engineering job. And I think that’s really bad.