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.
Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good.
Our real problem, instead, might be called ‘the tragedy of the private’. From dust bowls in the 1930s to the escalating climate crisis today, from online misinformation to a failing public health infrastructure, it is the insatiable private that often despoils the common goods necessary for our collective survival and prosperity. Who, in this system based on the private, holds accountable the fossil fuel industry for pushing us to the brink of extinction? What happens to the land and mountaintops and oceans forever ravaged by violent extraction for private gain? What will we do when private wealth has finally destroyed our democracy?
Headings and the Seinfeld Pitch.
Oh, and also anyone using assistive technology (AT) would have a hard time. I mention them last because I want to stress that, in fact, all of these things rely on the same stuff. It's not just "people using screen readers" who need this. You too, effectively use (and will increasingly use) a kind of AT.
I am not sure I understand the whole article or its intention, resp. Partly, because I am not following the inner workings of the W3C and HTML standard formation, partly, because I consider the writing’s wittiness gets into expressiveness’ way.
Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions.
From Bifrost to Panfrost – deep dive into the first render.
Hello, World! I’m Alyssa Rosenzweig, a free software graphics hacker leading Panfrost, the free software stack for modern Mali GPUs.
Relevant: The Wikipedia entry on Women in Computing is still a joke (looking at the entries past the 1990s).
We’ve come a long way from the four nodes of ARPANet, which were managed by a government project and created in part with an eye to national security and American Department of Defense interests.
Now, data centers are private affairs, and if you don’t have a Google lanyard and your biometrics aren’t in the Facebook system, you can’t get in.
Just as social companies are black boxes for algorithms, their infrastructure is a black box for sovereign states, too. (Unless they’re peeking in through the backdoor.)