Monday, 4. November 12019
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When your scripting language hits a Wall.

The Fall Of Perl, The Web’s Most Promising Language.

Disclaimer: my first web scripts were writting in Perl, kudos to Henso for the CGI book (I think it was this one).

Cell are the others.

Scientists worried that [human brains](futurism.com Future Is&utm_campaign=94b34d27dd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_21_05_20) grown in lab may be sentient.

"We're already seeing activity in organoids that is reminiscent of biological activity in developing animals."

Science and Tech Ads.

This is a random assortment of science ads collected from various science and tech magazines of the 50s and 60s.

„Schwarz. Rot. Müll.“

Die Deals der Müllmafia.

Die Deutschen trennen pflichtbewusst ihren Müll. Dabei landet oftmals alles im gleichen Verbrennungsofen. Wenn es richtig schlecht läuft, werden Plastik, Pappe, Hausmüll und Industrieabfälle einfach verscharrt, in illegalen Deponien.

The Moomins, by Graeme Miller & Steve Shill.

Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds!

Location, Privilege and Performant Websites.

Unconscious privilege hides in delivering so much unused code to customers. In not taking the time to understand what the implications are of using the code you choose to use and how large those files are, we assume that all of our customers are in the same situation with the same access to resources.

The state of cdnjs used by almost everyone on the web.

Founder restricted access heavily so we (core maintainers) cannot do much at all Founder disappeared off the face of the earth and we heard nothing.

Thursday, 31. October 12019
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Ukrainer – Експедиції Україною.

Суспільно-культурне мультимедійне видання. Популярна антропологія та етнографія.

Minimal Wim.

An experiment in minimal typography.

Why Are Accessible Websites so Hard to Build?

So, here’s an idea: what if our text editors caught accessibility issues and showed them to us during development?