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Really great and approachable tips for communicating with cartoons.

HN Thread also has some good links to books and sites

Need more content like this. “How to do sensible things with HTML” is under-explored compared to how to do stupid things with JS

Super interview. Talks about books, birds, poetry, and spies, Lots of interesting and random tidbits in there

I agree and kinda hate this boring trend

Web component library. Worth looking into at some point

Might try this out for some project organisation. Reluctant to use this for all notetaking due to editor lock-in - I can’t use VSCode on this low-RAM laptop.

Thorough and followable breakdown, with lots of code comments. Will this be what gets me to actually learn WebGL? We’ll find out!

Good write up - actually providing some counter arguments other than “your markup is ugly”. I’m still very undecided on tailwind, and comprehensive util class libs generally. Some sense, easy to go overboard with the “one rule per class” nonsense.

Love the language in this post. “Ceviche is a different matter.”

Useful clip for heavy bird-like walk animationo

Love the layered demonstration

All gold

Some good tips on ensuring things other than work happen.

Don’t be that person. Don’t jump on issues making demands. Don’t pile on forum threads that make some users’ opinions very clear as it is, and throw your bellicose howling in there too. Don’t insult the developers or their priorities, their choices. They are real people who have a finite capacity for work and for abuse. Add a thumbs up to an issue, add a heart to a forum request. Post only if you can materially add to the discussion, else use a reaction. Post in the spirit and the letter of the community guidelines.

Please be nice.

Always wonder how many of these early Amazon stories are survivorship bias, but they sure are good at going all in on plans

Great little explainers for some important concepts. Learned a lot from /proc one!

TLDR: make a study plan and crunch for a month

Some good resources for free sheet music and other resources for learning music. On the actual site I saw the ‘have Amazon print it for $9.53 paperback bound book’, which is an interesting concept.

More on chip foundries! I am still curious to see if China or the EU’s giant investments into chip manufacturing manage to catch up, or for how long Taiwan can maintain their lead.

Comments start with a neat post from JT Nimoy on designing realistic hacker interfaces for Tron Legacy

Longer growing seasons, larger areas of workable land, and parts becoming more hospitable at the same time other regions of the world become uninhabitable due to heat.

This is cooooooooool. Control tabs from the commandline! Search them like searching files! Amazing idea.

Found my first contributions to Zero-K! Was looking for commits but this predated the git repo

tldr: anything! Can use them to build up strings for other variables, combine values with calc (I want to implement color-contrast function), and clever use of content to display the current value!

A bit of history of typesetting and text rendering

Mind-boggling stats on solar and batteries. I did not know that we probably reached peak greenhouse emissions in 2019!

Good writeup of the scary phenomenon of getting people to people batshit insane conspiracy theories. “Don’t trust experts. Do your own research. Here’s some facebook posts to get you started”.

Examples of proper and appropriate use of adjectives

Auto-delete as a default is good - the permenance of random new services is always worrying.

A lot of programmers get to that second 90%, get tired and bored and frustrated, and change jobs, or lose focus, or find excuses to procrastinate. There are a million ways not to finish a project, but there’s only one way to finish: Put your head down and grind it out until it’s done. Do that, and I promise you the programming world will be yours.

More greatness from Xerox PARC in the 90s - principles around keeping technology out of the way.

I would like to learn about chip foundries. No idea how that stuff gets made.

I like the point that film music can’t be overly specific - if it’s too emotive in a particular way then it can overpower the film. The music should add something to a scene, but it shouldn’t determine how people are going to react to it.

I actually started using Anki a little after this (installed it and set up some decks at least). Haven’t stuck with it yet but we’ll see

Honest subtitle would read “International statement calling on tech companies to ensure end-to-end encryption is not implemented”.

Apparently end-to-end encryption has a “severe impact on public safety”.

Cool project, writeups and resources for a wide range of computer-related topics. Ambitious idea, and another way of illustrating how many damn things we are meant to know. Still very WIP, but structure and content is good so far.

amazement in under 1kb

More people should write these

Yet another thing that came from ancient Rome