From the “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you” dept.
How to Find Hidden Cameras in your AirBNB.
The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture.
Web developers are right to fear a monoculture, but they don’t seem to appreciate their agency in the solution. They have the power to protect the platform if only they take the call.
How the Escalator Forever Changed Our Sense of Space.
Sure, the 19th-century invention transformed shopping. But it also revolutionized how we think about the built environment.
Two new JavaScript engines walked into a foobar…*
TIL – Today I Learned.
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'Spaceteam' is a frantic sci-fi card game that makes dying in outer space fun!
Survive the perils of deep space by screaming at your fellow players.
I’m on team different!
“I look different. That makes me a target online.”
Scientists create an AI from a sheet of glass.
This changes almost everything about how we design machine vision.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites.
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions.