Is he is or is he ain’t a Kaiser Wilhelm II?
meSpeak.js (modulary enhanced speak.js) is a 100% client-side JavaScript text-to-speech library based on the speak.js project, a port of the eSpeak speech synthesizer from C++ to JavaScript using Emscripten.
“widely supported” as in “supported by the latest browsers”.
The CSS feature for truncating multi-line text is now widely supported.
The Mutable Web.
What if Developer Tools, or a subset of them, was labeled Page Editor, or something similar? I bet people would figure out pretty quickly that when you're on a recipe blog and can't even see the content because of all the sticky ads and modals, you can just get rid of them. Fixing things we don't like about the websites we visit every day is a great way to start recapturing some of the autonomy, creativity, and active participation of the early web.
The birth of Inter.
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be.
Hitchcock on the Filmmaker’s Essential Tool: The Kuleshov Effect.
In the early 20th century, Russian filmmaker and theorist Lev Kuleshov discovered that a single shot of an actor with an ambiguous expression on his face could convey a multitude of very distinct meanings in the mind of the viewer, depending on the nature of the shot immediately preceding it.
Geek Feminism – A resource for and about women in geek communities.
On my vacation I finished the first book of “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin. I am rocking back and forth between being entertained by its novel ideas and concepts and being bored by its all too obvious imitation of the storytelling in Gödel, Escher, Bach.
I don’t know if it really wants to be a “hard” science fiction novel or just a fairytale teaching some concepts of astrophysics, spatial dimensions and such.
And now I don’t know either, whether I should continue with the trilogy…
Anyway, at least I learnt about Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”, an environmental science book from 1962, documenting the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
TIL there is such a thing as a phonon.