Just deserts. A lengthy but worthwhile dialog about free will.

Can we be held morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett. No, says Gregg Caruso. Reader, you decide.*

* Given there is free will, I assume.

Coda. A doc as powerful as an app.

Documents and spreadsheets haven’t changed in over 40 years. It’s time for the next generation of makers to break the grid.

Experience the Nightwatch. An interactive masterpiece.

Another rabbit hole to go.

Just learned about Hack The Box where everyone can try out (or maybe even acquire) their hacking skills.

Found via 0xrick.github.io where an infosec enthusiast and security researcher keeps records of his 0wnz at HTB.

Relevant: How to secure a Linux server.

Lítla Dímun: The Tiny Island With Its Own Personal Cloud.

The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?

“I’m looking at you, Fortune 1000 companies (…) The ones who include OpenSSL in your products that you sell for profit. The ones who nag us for free consulting services when you can’t figure out how to use it. The ones who have never lifted a finger to contribute to the open source community that gave you this gift.”

Relevant: No, you can’t take open-source code back!

How To Architect A Complex Web Table.

Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the table anatomy and how to build a table, keeping in mind its future elaboration.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s sister-in-law and Mary Shelley’s aunt.

A Forgotten Botanist’s Stunning 19th-Century Manuscript Is Now Online (via atlasobscura.com).

Wollstonecraft wrote The Natural Rights of Women, published a year before her letters in the same magazine. She calls for improvements to the American educational system and stresses that more opportunities need to be created for young girls to study literature and sciences.

Maria Agnesi Is the Greatest Mathematician You've Probably Never Heard Of.

As a nine-year-old, Maria recited an hour-long speech in Latin from memory. The topic of the speech? The right of women to obtain an education.

HTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with that?

Nobody ever edits this and it is not meant to be readable.

Relevant: Designing for the modern web in a way that pleases users with great, fast designs needn’t be this maze of impenetrable complexity.