As heard at Al Zaytouna.
The story behind Fairuz’s song “Kanou Ya Habibi” and the Soviet army “Polyushka Polye”.
This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
All you never wanted to know about JSON.
JSON is a simple technology but has a lot of underlying topics to think about. This guide can help uncover those topics.
Jujutsu (jj) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google.
Jujutsu is two things:
- It is a new front-end to Git.
- It is a new design for distributed version control.
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany.
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
Software Is Beating The World (via densediscovery.com).
Whatever Andreessen and his ilk are, they are not “optimists.” These are not people fighting to make the world better, or smaller, or more connected. Their war is one where software poisons and monetizes every corner of society, with the costs flowing back to rich and powerful people that can, in turn, add even more tolls to your everyday life. Their influence has turned the tech industry away from making software that deepens the human experience; that empowers us and enriches us through streamlining annoyances, forges connections and makes our lives fundamentally better.
Those that fight for the growth-at-all-costs cause are anti-innovation, anti-labor and anti-creativity. They see ChatGPT and Midjourney as ample replacements for writers and artists because they fundamentally lack any creative energy, existing as joyless vessels hoarding more capital and attention in the hopes it makes them forget that they’ve fundamentally created nothing.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of other people’s ideas. It’s how they built billion-dollar empires without ever having any ideas of their own.
This week I played Canadian Fruit Salad, a card game that resembles Black Lady and similar games with names like Slippery Anne, Hearts, Schwarze Katze, schleichende Johanna or Emma treiben.
Queries all the way down.
Building data-centric apps with a reactive relational database.
We’re exploring a new way to manage data in apps by storing all app state—including the state of the UI—in a single reactive database. Instead of imperatively fetching data from the database, the user writes reactive queries that update with fresh results whenever their dependencies change.
Relevant:
(Three) Good News, Everyone!
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Blogging Revolution Redux – We've been waiting 20 years for this.
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect.
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024.
The Interop project aims to improve interoperability by encouraging browser engine teams to look deeper into specific focus areas. Now, for a third year, Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla pooled our collective expertise and selected a specific subset of automated tests for 2024.
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The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities!
(…) the final text of the CRA mitigated pretty much all the risks we had identified to individual developers and to Open Source foundations.