Upon his discovery, de Leon named the islands “Las Tortugas” (meaning “the turtles”), and is said to have subsisted off 160 of these very animals while on his journey through the high seas. (“Dry” was later added to the islands’ name as an attempt to warn mariners of the lack of freshwater in the area.)
The Pragmatic Designer: Local and Self Hosted Design Tools.
Some local/self-hosted/open source alternatives to cloud design tools for user flows, card sorting, surveys and polls, interactive prototyping, feedback sessions on mockups and documentation, collaboration with developers and handoffs, design system documentation and user data analytics.
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (via lobste.rs).
The original cookie specification did not allow third-party cookies. All the problems that we have today could be solved back then if the industry had just followed the original specification.
Every weekday, take a 2 minute, 5 minute, or 10 minute Quizbreak to to answer trivia questions and try to top our league tables.
The Devil's Bridge of Germany: Rakotzbrücke in Gablenz.
in:verse is a programming language and environment for exploring the conflux of poetry, visuals, mathematics and code.
The Lottery of Birth Place and Time.
Still, a key conclusion is that being born (…) in a prosperous place at a prosperous time is no guarantee of a wonderful future existence. Conversely, being born in desperate times does not consign one to a life of unending trials.
Not OK, zoomer.
Video conferencing company Zoom announced today its acquisition of encrypted messaging and file-sharing platform Keybase.
Relevant: keys.pub (via write.privacytools.io).
I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves. t.co
— GeePaw Hill (@GeePawHill) May 1, 2020
Relevant: Helping Geeks Produce for Over 40 Years.
(…) founded by Jessica Oreck in 2008. We make projects large and small that hope to re-inspire a sense of wonder about the world of the everyday. Our features all focus on ethnobiology – the way that cultures interact with the natural world.