Corona round-up, cont’d.
- Coron-A-Mat
- Coronavirus Poop Calculator
- COVID-19 Open-Source Helpdesk
- An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19
- walterra’s COVID-19 Austria spreadsheet
When’s the toilet paper emoji coming, Unicode consortium? Oh, we already got it… my bad 🧻
The Color Dot Font is a font composed entirely of colored circles.
In the Color Dot Font, each Latin character is replaced with a circle of a certain color. For example, an “a” character is represented by a blue circle, a “t” by a yellow circle, and so forth. Available as a TTF file, the font can be installed and used on any computer operating system.
Terminal is everything you need to build fast modern websites hosted on IPFS.
What does an IPFS hosted site look and feel like? You’re on one!
i thought twitter deserved to see this video of a chameleon washing its hands pic.twitter.com/FyDVllbToY
— keat💞 (@keatxngrant) March 23, 2020
Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of.
Do not use Facebook to sign in.
The most surprising Unix programs.
Only a couple of these programs are indispensable or much used. What singles them out is their originality. (…) Originators of nearly half the list (…) were women, well beyond women's demographic share of computer science.
Relevant:
The Wealth of Networks – How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (PDF).
“Pocari” was merely chosen for the word’s cute, peppy sound (it means nothing) and “sweat” for its purpose of replenishing the water and electrolytes lost to perspiration.
Open source alternatives to Grammarly for word processing.
Relevant: Open-source alternatives.
Umarell is a term popular in Bologna referring specifically to men of retirement age who pass the time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice. (Via reddit.com.)