The Problem With AMP.
AMP is Google’s Last Hope for Relevance in Mobile Search.
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. Track and control all devices at home and automate control.
I ♥ heartificial intelligence.
If “Prägnanz” begets “prague nons” in auto-generated subtitles, “pithiness” of course begets…
(Btw. this is an excerpt of John Rauser’s excellent presentation about “How Humans See Data”.)
The beautiful AMA of Sindre Sorhus.
The Line of Death.
When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application itself. He can then induce the user to undertake an unsafe action, and a user will be none the wiser.
How to procrastinate by logging your work.
Quantifying and Visualizing “Deep Work”.
One of the best books I read in 2016 is Cal Newport’s “Deep Work”. In his book Cal explains that technology and various social practices have eroded our capacity to work without distractions and that we need to find ways to spend more time doing what he calls “Deep Work”: long stretches of time of uninterrupted full-focus work.
74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza.
We crunched prices from thousands of pizza places around the country. The results convinced us we should never buy a small pizza again.
It’s time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak.
I am truly amazed of Discord, a free voice and text chat for gamers. Well, actually, it is also perfect for non-gamers, e.g. for any group of people holding a virtual meeting.
Works in your browser (apps are available of course) without cumbersome registration, easy to use, with crystal-clear audio and many awesome features.
It’s hard to believe this is a free service, but it really is – and I hope it remains available in the future in the one way or another…
Update: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages.