Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
Author Robin Sloan tells the story of the app he wrote just for his family, and Dan reflects on his own experience of making apps for audiences of few (or one!).
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Jokes I've Told That My Male Colleagues Didn't Like
Humour tells you where the trouble is. Don't be offended! It's only a joke! ;-)
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Where Do New Viruses Come From?
Watch a 10-minute primer on where "new viruses" come from; see if you know the basics.
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Big Mandalorian Iron
The story of the first two episodes of The Mandalorian, told to the tune of Big Iron.
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The Neighbors' Window
Dan raves about The Neighbor's Window, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film last month.
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The Happy Song
The most delightful, joyous, carefree song you'll hear all week, plus a music video that's equal parts stop-motion and saccharine.
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Dating App Writers Room
A new video from BriTANick! Now there's a rare treat.
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Nicholas Carlo describes the situation where people have risky, hard-to-refactor code and reimplement the entire system instead. Now those people have two problems.
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Who finished second?
Nick Berry shares an amazing maths/logic puzzle, and Dan encourages you to give it a go for yourself.
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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Boneworks
Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Boneworks and considers how VR is getting along.
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Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Robert Heaton reverse-engineers what data his Wacom tablet is stealing from him, and Dan expresses a growing concern about surveillance capitalism.
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Honk More, Wait More
Mumbai police are experimenting with a machine that makes the lights stay red for longer while people are honking their horns.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.