Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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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.
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Giving a Damn at Scale
Bridget Stewart encourages us to look at the mess we make of Web applications, and how COVID-19 has really shone a light on that, and Dan talks about the lessons he hopes we'll learn as a result.
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Getting Hired at Automattic
Jerry Jones writes about his experience of Automattic's recruitment process, which is a more-readable summary than Dan's was!
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Dungeon Drawers
Cory Doctorow shares photos of a roleplaying game dungeon built into a chest of drawers.
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Happy Birthday, You're Fired
Robin's latest blog sort-of reads like a contemporaneously-written "what I did on my holidays" report, except that it's pretty-much about the opposite of a holiday: it chronicles Robin's adventures in the North of England during these strange times.
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How to not make a résumé in React
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé.
I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill, especially with … -
Coronavirus: what the hell do we do now?!
Andrew Steele's produced another COVID-19-related video, this time focussing on the endgame of the crisis, and you should go watch it.
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Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
In an interview with Halimah Marcus of Electric Literature, Ted Chiang shares his thoughts on how the coronavirus crisis is, and is not, like a science fiction story.