Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Stethoscope
My partner @scatmandan just completed his Masters degree. His sister @bornvulcan sent him a stethoscope as a congratulations gift which is one of the funniest things to happen in these parts for a while.
Ruth Trevor-Allen (@fleeblewidget)
I'm not sure my sister understands that a masters degree is not a doctorate. I don't … -
Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers
The Olognion article showing off Unreal Engine 5's blazing fast multi-polygon rendering that makes your average Web page look like shit. It's satire, but there's a real point here.
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Celebrate Seventeen
Happy birthday, WordPress!
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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
Dan comments on and summarises a news story that's got it all: screen scraping, pizza, venture capital, loophole exploitation, pizza, tech startups, and pizza.
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Scunthorpe Sans
The vole.wtf folks have made a font which uses ligatures to self-censor any naughty words you type.
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Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Saagar Jha tells the now-familiar story of how a bunch of techbros solved their scaling problems by reinventing the wheel.
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Lucky Devil Eats
Strip clubs in the US can't run during the lockdown, and aren't eligible for financial support. But one strip club found a clever workaround.
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Jay Foreman's back with a long-awaited tenth episode of Unfinished London.
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Thursday
Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.
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The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle
Sergey Radchenko shares a diplomatic report recounting the story of trying to get through the bureaucracy moving horses across the Russian border in 1992.
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Visitors, Developers, or Machines
Dan comments on Garrett Dimon's thoughts about performance bottlenecks being moved, not removed, by the adoption of client-side web frameworks.
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The Board Game Remix Kit
A free kit to help you make more of classic family boardgames like Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble.
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Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At
Joseph Herscher's latest Rube Goldberg style machine is something else.
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Fox In Sox
Here's a new trick, Mr. Knox: Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss's Fox In Sox to Dr. Dre beats.
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Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You
CGP Grey's latest video, on lockdown productivity, is great. But you probably already knew that.