Thursday, 26. October 12017
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Among physicians, the opioid and overdose epidemics have transformed the treatment of pain into a moral and clinical cage fight.

As a doctor, did I just feed an addiction? Or ease a man's pain?

Relevant: The Secretive Family Making Billions From The Opioid Crisis.

The bad science of medical cannabis.

A cannabis plant is a pot-pourri of more than 500 chemicals whose abundance varies greatly across different genetic strains and according to growth conditions – they’re not cultivars so much as chemovars.

Lighthouses!

The Strange Disappearance of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse Keepers.

Relevant: The Buried Secrets of the World’s Very First Lighthouse.

The Anatomy Of a Thousand Typefaces (via medium.com).

Accessibility FTW!

Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide.

This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life.

telnet mapscii.me

MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII map renderer for your console.

Tuesday, 24. October 12017
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Look, @ORF!

100 Women (via t3n.de).

Sunday, 22. October 12017
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Inclusive Components.

A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.

How Social Media Endangers Knowledge.

Wikipedia, one of the last remaining pillars of the open and decentralized web, is in existential crisis.

Digging Through the Archives of 'PURRRRR!,' the Premier Cat Newsletter of the 1980s.

Before the internet, people got their feline fix in analog form.