Year: 2019
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Blowout
I spent a delightful couple-of-seconds between reading and "getting" this comic.
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JavaScript and the mobile-only user
Chris Ferdinandi provides further arguments about why Javascript must be considered a progressive enhancement.
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Review of The Rusty Bicycle
This review of The Rusty Bicycle originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Rusty Bicycle, 28 Magdalen Rd, Oxford OX4 1RB, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Visited today for the first time. Discovered when I came to order that special offers (e.g. £5 lunchtime pizzas) on the menu aren't actually honoured when …
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Permission to Write Stuff
Brendan Dawes grants bloggers permission to write... whatever they like: perhaps necessary in an age in which it can feel like you have to have a REASON to be a blogger (hint: you don't).
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The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?
Kurzgesagt tells it like it is, with a fun clickbaity title to try to ensure that antivaxxers are more-likely to see this video than they might otherwise have.
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css-only-chat/README.md at master · kkuchta/css-only-chat · GitHub
Of all the things I've seen hacked-together with just HTML and CSS on the client-side, I never thought I'd I'd see a "push"-capable live chat app...
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Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
YouTube's best comedy/musical reinterpretation of Game of Thrones (yes, that's a thing) just got better.
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What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
A chilling story about one family's struggle with the alt-right's youth recruitment strategies.
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BBC News... without the sport
A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.
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Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
Bruce speaks my mind.
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My TED Video on the Future of Work
Matt Mullenweg shares what makes Automattic's distributed workforce "work", and there are parallels to how Three Rings operates too.
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First Physical Retaliation for a Cyberattack
Bruce Schneier observes that we've probably just witnessed the first instance of a physical counter-attack in retaliation for a cyberspace attack.
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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The little-told story of how a rogue team of YouTube engineers in 2009 helped hasten IE6's downfall by adding a deprecation warning to the top of the site's homepage...
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Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame
Matt Zoller Seitz uses Avengers: Endgame and the final series of Game of Thrones to frame an examination of the vanishing distinction between film and television and what it means for audiovisual media.
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remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!