Month: January 2020
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City Roads
City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.
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Going for a roll on a lake in Maine
A beautiful and hypotonic video of a wind-propelled frisbee going for a skate across a frozen lake, improved only by the epic subtitles.
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Joe's First Computer Encounter
Jennifer Morrow shares a story about a user testing experience during which a serendipitous encounter taught her more than she could have expected.
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What's the harm in reading?
Dan recently shared a link to a short story about gender identity, about which the Internet went nuts. The Outline takes a closer look.
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Maps that Talk
Dan's former colleague Nick Millea shows off some artefacts that didn't make it into the Bodleian's Talking Maps exhibition.
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How to explain academic publishing to a five year old
Ned Potter tweeted earlier this month about the importance of open access, using a comedic analogy about cows. Dan identifies as a goat.
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Wheelbarrow Parkour!
Wheelbarrow parkour: the sport you never knew existed! (And doesn't...)
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New browser on the block: Flow
QuirksMode reports that a new browser engine is on the horizon, and Dan is amazingly surprised.
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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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CSS4 is here!
Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.
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Reinventing Git interface
Nikita Prokopov proposes a series of changes to Git that would "fix" its warts without breaking backwards compatibility, and they're brilliant.
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I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
Not what you're expecting. An unusual but interesting short story at the intersection between science fiction and... gender identity?
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Sandwichware: Machines Talking to Machines About Humans
How are we better, Dan wonders, at making conversational interfaces than interoperable standards? Why are we inventing sandwichware?
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Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?
Dan muses on a Slate article about the challenges of being your child's playmate.
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Running Code Over Time
Eric Meyer finds a long-standing bug in his aging personal website, and Dan uses it as an excuse for yet another rant about Web standards and longevity.